Here’s how you can help your videos earn views with TubeBuddy’s recommended Tags!
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Hello TubeBuddies!
We’ve refreshed our Suggested Tags tool to make it easier to use, and help you see
how tags are helping your videos earn views!
This feature used to show in it’s own pop-up window, but when we introduced our recommended
tags tool, we realized they work better together.
Let’s head over to an older videos, video edit page.
Once on the video edit page, you’ll see some of the changes we made if you scroll
down to Tag Tools.
The first thing we have added is an icon next to each of the tag tool options, so it’s
more clear what each function does.
In those options you’ll notice we removed the “suggested tags” button.
That’s because we now show you all tag suggestions in our recommended tags section here.
You used to have to click multiple times to get the options from suggested tags, and if
you didn’t know where to look it could be confusing.
Now all of the options are on screen.
You can now sort in new ways to give you more from our recommended tags.
First, we recommend telling us if you haven’t already, the keyword you’re targeting.
To tell us the keyword you’re targeting and to get more specific tags for YOUR video,
you can click here, and enter in the keyword up top.
Once you’ve done this you’ll be able to sort your tags with more accuracy.
If you’re on the free version and want to see more recommended tags.
Check out that card on Screen to learn how to get a TubeBuddy Free trial.
Let’s check out those sorting options!
The three options to sort by are: Relevance, Keyword Score or Search Traffic.
If you want to learn more information about any of these three, you can hover over this
question mark here to get a detailed explanation of what each sorting option does.
Let’s start with the newest option first Search Traffic.
When you select this option, we pull from YouTube Analytics all of the search terms
that have earned you views from search traffic of the video and put them in the list along
with exactly how many views the video has gained from the search.
Videos less than 2 days old will have no data for this option because analytics isn't available
yet.
This Update works REALLY well with older videos.
We get asked “can we optimize older videos with TubeBuddy?”
Search Traffic data can show you tag suggestions and help you replace tags that are no longer
ranking with tags that have driven traffic to your video.
You can tell how many views it’s driven with this eyeball icon here.
Again this let’s you know that this tag has driven views already and potentially can
drive more.
HOWEVER, make sure you add RELEVANT tags, just because it leads to views doesn’t mean
it’s relevant and irrelevant metadata is against YouTube’s TOS.
Let’s head back to the tags!
The next option we’ll look at is sorting the Tags by relevance!
This option will sort tags based on how relevant they are to your existings tags, title and
Target Keyword, while making sure they are things people are looking for on YouTube.
This is the default option, and the more information you give the more accurate they can be.
This is a great choice if you need help finding tags.
The final option is sorting by TubeBuddy’s Keyword Score.
This option sorts the tags by the score we give them at TubeBuddy.
If you don’t see a score next to the tag, you can click on the magnify glass icon to
load it.
The tag scores read like a Traffic light.
Green scores like a green light mean you’re good to go.
Yellow/ orange means to be cautious or slow down and consider another keyword.
HOWEVER, going back to driving, everyone drives differently if you normally run yellows maybe
you go after that keyword, but just like in driving a cop could give you a ticket for
that, so in keyword terms if you use a tag with a yellow to orange score you’re assuming
the risk.
Red means to STOP and consider another keyword.
This tool helps you see how YouTube tags can easily lead to views.
help you add tags that could earn you more views, and tags that have earned you views.
Which sort option is your favorite let us know in the comments down below?
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I’m Andrew Kan from TubeBuddy, let’s go sort some tags!