When doing keyword research for YouTube knowing the # of searches a month is important, in
this video we’ll show you how to see the estimated number of searches a month in TubeBuddy!
[Tips & Tricks]
Hello TubeBuddies! since YouTube doesn't publicly give out # of search volume numbers.
We originally had The “Search Volume” shown as a red/yellow/green bar.
This is a score relative to other search terms that people have searched in the TubeBuddy
system.
It’s to give people a sense of how often a keyword is searched compared to other keywords
on YouTube.
Our calculation in keyword explorer (previously tag explorer) has been around for years, and
has helped MILLIONS of creators.
I’ll type in TubeBuddy, the calculation here is available in the free unweighted version,
but the estimated # searches per month does require the paid versions of TubeBuddy.
If you’d like a TubeBuddy free trial to experience the weighted score, there will
be a link in the description down below!
That said, we’ll select the weighted version now.
TubeBuddy is able to come up with red/yellow/green value without using # of searches using our
own calculations!
We can't give out exact calculations (We have competitors watching), but basically we look
at how many videos are created around a topic, to help us determine how popular it is.
We use that info with our calculation to show our red/yellow/green value graph
The “# of Monthly Searches (estimate) is an actual number that we get from KeywordTool.io.
Instead of a relative (red/yellow/green) value, it gives you an actual number.
As we said earlier, the # of searches is ONLY an estimate from KeywordTool.io, but it gives
an actual value, which was requested by our users.
Understanding that the # of searches per month is an ESTIMATE.
We then run our calculation first, and cross reference with a third party SEO tracking
site we trust.
This is how we can have a score WITHOUT the # of searches per month estimate.
Let’s say you’re new to YouTube and you see a “# of Monthly Searches (estimate)”
that is equal to 50,000.
You might be wondering: Is that good?
Is that bad?
Well 50,000 searches sounds like a lot, but some terms can get millions of searches a
month, so it’s actually quite small.
That’s where that red/yellow/green bar is helpful because you just need to look at a
color to know if a term is searched often or not.
But for people who dive into the details, they might want to actually track the number
of searches month after month.
When looking at the data you want it to be in the yellow to green ranges for all of these,
especially search results.
Now speaking of search results let’s go ahead and look at it here.
When using keywordtool.io, we can only get keyword numbers once per day from them.
So basically all day long, when people search Keywords in TubeBuddy’s Keyword Explorer,
we track brand new keywords that have never been searched before in our Keyword Explorer
and at the end of the day, we send a huge list of keywords to keywords.io and get a
huge response and update our database with the new values.
From that point forward, we have data for those new keywords and the data will be available.
It’s just brand new keywords that have never been searched for within TubeBuddy that take
24 hours before we get results (assuming there are at least 50+ searches per month for a
term).
Due to the trillions of keyword combinations people search for, and that includes one word
keywords, multi word keywords, and all the different combinations of words.
We can't get the estimate for every term right away.
What we do have is our calculation beforehand.
We run that, and if enough interest in the term (meaning that there are 50 or more searches
and/or we can pull the estimate) we show the estimated number of searches in the Keyword
Explorer results.
What WE at TubeBuddy hope is that one day, YouTube will release the YouTube Search Volume
via their API just like they did for Google AdWords.
If they do, we will have exact/accurate numbers and will include them in the Keyword Explorer!
In the meantime, we are just giving the best results we can for our users.
We do our best to make sure they're clearly labeled Estimates within our Keyword Explorer.
Whether it's from us or another company, none of us have exact number of search results
so we do our best to give clear information and label on our part when it's just an estimate.
If you want more information on this score, we’ll have a support article linked down
below!
Do you want to learn how to use keyword explorer?
Then check out that playlist that’s been on screen!
I’m Andrew Kan from TubeBuddy, and thank you so much for trusting and believing in
TubeBuddy and our Keyword Research tools.