This page is going to show you how to properly take advantage of YouTube tags and how to use them for best results.
The YouTube tags section in the Video Details section of your video upload is NOT the only place you should be utilizing tags on YouTube.com
🧾 YouTube.com Tags to Get More Views
When you post a video on YouTube there are several aspects of the video you have control of such as:
- Title of the video which is a short descriptive sentence of what the video is about.
- A description for the video which can be a paragraph or more that goes into greater detail about the video and the subject of the video.
- Video tags which are words and phrases that are representative of what the video is about. Tags are also a factor that YouTube uses when deciding which related videos to show in the column next to the video someone is currently viewing.
While most people know about tags they don't know the correct way to use tags to increase the search position and visibility of your video on YouTube.
Using YouTube Tags to Get More Views on your YouTube Videos
When you upload a video to YouTube you should have, in mind, a single 3- 8 word phrase in mind as the core word or phrase to describe the videos content. This 3 - 8 word phrase is known as a keyword phrase.
A simple and fast way to brainstorm this keyword phrase is to:
- Head to Google and do a search for what your video is about.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see other keyword phrases related to your search phrase.
These related keyword phrases can serve as ideas for what you core keyword phrase can be for your YouTube video.
Break Up Core Keyword Phrase into Pieces which Become Video Tags
For your video tags you should use the main core keyword phrase you decide on and also your should break of this core keyword phrase into pieces and use these pieces as video tags.
For example lets pretend we are uploading a video to YouTube.com and we have decide on the core keyword phrase youtube tags to get more views. Here are the tags to use:
- youtube tags to get more views.
- tags to get more views.
- youtube tags.
- youtube views.
- tags views.
- tags.
- views.
- youtube.
- get more views.
You see how we start with the main full keyword phrase for the first, main tag, and then we break apart and used pieces of the main tag to create more tags?
Put Your Video Tags at the Bottom of the YouTube Videos Description
When uploading your YouTube video, for your video details, make sure you leave the Video Location blank or set to None.
At the very END of your videos description, have the last text entered be your YouTube video tags, no spaces between words of the tag, with a hashtag in front of each tag, with a space between each hashtag/tag. For example, if your videos tags are going to be ...
- get more video views
- increase youtube video views
- increase youtube video traffic
... the very LAST thing in your YouTube video description, on a line all by itself, will be ...
#getmorevideoviews#increaseyoutubevideoviews#increaseyoutubevideotraffic
The net result will be each of these hashtags being hyperlinked to other similar videos on YouTube, in small text, immediately under your video. This has an SEO boosting effect. You can see an Image of this.
Use Video Tags of Other Related Popular Videos
Another thing you should do is perform a search on YouTube using your core keyword phrase. Find the videos that are getting the most average daily views. You can do this manually or use a program like ViralYouTubeSoft. Find the YouTube video tags for these videos and use them for your video as well.
Use Related Videos Urls as Tags
For the two or three videos that you are 'stealing' tags from on YouTube, you should also copy and paste the urls/web address of these videos so they are part of your video tags as well.
Depending upon the number of video tags you want to put into your YouTube video details section, you might want to use the free Easy YouTube Tagger Extension which allows you to put a large, line by line list of tags into the YouTube tags section with a simple double click of the mouse.
