Youtube Keywords: to stack, or not to stack.

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I've seen instances where highly ranked youtube videos have one or two keywords in the tags, title and description.. and other cases where highly ranked vids are the total opposite - spammed in the description and tags with so many keywords and phrases.

My mind is boggled by this. Which method will get you more hits?

Side question - when puttings tags in your videos, should i be putting the keywords or phrases in quotes or leave out the quotes?
#search engine optimization #keywords #stack #youtube
  • I think the best solution for getting your videos highly ranked is to have good content. As they say content is king.

    are your tags in the videos actually in the video? ex: the thought bubbles that you put in the video

    What kind of videos are you making?
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    • Only one Main keyword max. in the tittle. (also start the tittle with the keyword)

      Two Main keyword max. in the description. (Mix this up with around 30 words)

      For tags:
      Let's say your main keywords is "lose weight fast"

      lose,weight,fast,lose weight fast.

      My videos rank highly on Youtube for very competitive keywords.
      Send me a pm, if you want to find out more.
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    • The only text bubbles I have are for marketing purposes - IE, my twitter / Facebook and a 'subscribe now!' bubble. Would it help if I put the keywords in these bubbles?

      Also, the videos I'm making are covers of song and also original songs that I write and record.
  • Let me make a suggestion.

    I am going to go against the grain on how most people think YouTube works.

    As with any search engine, the algorithm determines how something ranks.

    Within YouTube, there are more important things than keywords.

    Channel subscribers and views is the #1. Keywords are secondary.
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    • Those most definitely are important. In order to get those views and subs, don't you need the right keywords so your video will get ranked highly?
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      My brothers Youtube total video view count was 15K+ yesterday (that's a single day of traffic/video-views), he has less than 300 subscribers.

      He has 250+ high quality videos on his channel. When I say high quality I'm not just BSing because he is my brother. Chances are very high that If you've ever seen a Lowes tv commercial in the last couple of years, you've seen his work. His off-line job is creating professional tv commercials.

      BTW, he does zero SEO, it's all Youtube video refferal traffic. He doesn't even care If he ranks on Youtube search, why should he care considering his current traffic numbers, & growing daily.

      I totally agree with you on the point that traffic is so massive on Youtube, SEO is not even needed to get HUGE amounts of targeted traffic.

      People get so hooked on SEO, they automatically assume it's the easiest way to get traffic. Trust me folks, the easy money/video-views is all in the video referrals.
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    • Thanks, Game Player. I used to have, for example, "Drake - Take Care (Acoustic Cover)" in the title. Now it's, "Drake - Take Care".

      Same for descriptions and the tags. I've shortened them up a lot.
  • YouTube = 2nd largest search engine on the planet.
  • Put your primary keyword on the Title then put a keyword in the tag and description also.
    This works great for me.
  • Does anyone have a clue as to what factors youtube takes into accout with the RELATED videos in the "sidebar".

    I have seen a strange (maybe glitch) with some of my videos, where I had 5 videos with "Barbara _________ XYZ" in the related videos sidebar...a bunch of Barbaras...I had no Barbara in the title, nor description , nor keywords and no usernames as well as no links.

    Then I realized the FILE NAME was "barbara blablabla" ... explain that

    Any ideas on this subject? The related clips part that is...
  • okay so I just uploaded another video last night.

    took your guys advice, did the seo for my video, and did a video response to the #1 ranked video (which is still needing to be approved)

    how long does it usually take for videos to show up in the rankings? mine doesn't even show up. my mind is boggled.
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      IMO your doing the video response wrong.

      Don't go after anything that needs approved, chances are they will ignore your request. They set those to manually approve because their most likely not interested in promoting anyones video besides their own.

      There are millions of videos with massive traffic that have auto approve video responses.

      , otherwise your going to be waiting forever for something that will never get approved.
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    Try this Google search technique.

    On each Google search page open all 10 search results in a new browser tab. Then you can quickly see how many video responses exist per each "drake" video.

    Might speed up the task of finding new videos to post a response on?

    Only use the videos with low video responses, this way your video will last longer.

    Also create a Youtube video playlist that only includes the best videos to post a response on, this way you'll always have a video ready to post a new response in case you get bumped off the list
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    • Thanks for the Google tip, Yukon. There was one video that came up in the search that was decent. Jamie Fox's 'blame it'. Has over 12 million views. Only 44 video responses. The others had well over a 1000 or more.

      Man this is tough. How does your brother find videos all the time that have millions of hits, related to his niche, that barely have any video responses?
  • Making video responses to your own videos and using annotations to link to previous videos is also a good way to generate more traffic and not having to rely on third parties.

    Btw, there are some very good microphones and even HD cameras available for a couple hundred dollars that you can save for if you want to. The Zoom H4n is ~300 I think and has received tons of positive feedback, and that's a full on audio recording device. There are some decent microphones for even cheaper. Just saying, doesn't have to cost thousands of dollars for YouTube gear .

    If you're looking at YouTube for audio/video production then I would advise you to save up for something like that. But if your webcam quality is good enough then I wouldn't worry about it too much for now, maybe later when you have heaps and heaps of followers

    Another thing that helps with YouTube is networking. If you come across other people doing covers and have similar followers/views like you, message them and try to box for box with them (adding each other to your recommended channels, quite some people subscribe to these channels when subscribing to the main one).
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    • I used to make video responses to my own videos. But since I don't have a ton of traffic, I only saw minimal results.

      Thanks for the other tips by the way. I'll look into the Zoom.
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    Yukon, is there a fast technique to find YouTube videos that have the autoapprove video response option?

    I know some idiots don't appreciate you here, but I do.
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    I just checked & don't see any type of footprint for auto-approve video responses.

    I do have another tip that might help.

    When doing the video response footprint search on Google search go deeper into the SERP pages, something like page #15 in the SERPs. Most of those videos have very few other people trying to get video responses.

    Do this search then go to page #15 & you'll see what I'm talking about (very few existing video responses per video).
    I still don't know If their auto-approve, but most already have at least one existing video response, like this here http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=omM_cJX3tsw
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      Ah ha, Yukon.

      I'm starting to get this now.

      And I contacted YouTube's API team... they do not have a way to let us know if the autoapprove is set to on. And they said they had no plans to offer this in the future.

      With that said, do you have a sort of "feel" if a video is likely to get approved?

      I ask because you only get one shot per video... and if a video doesn't get approved, it's wasted.

      I'm new at this... and my gut tells me to look for a popular video that has at least one approved video response. If a video has zero approved, I'm guessing odds are poor that I'm going to get mine approved, right?

      I'm also trying to get in the mind of the recipient of an approval request (I'm guessing they're emailed about it)... is there a competitive reason why my video won't get approved. And if that's the case, what would you recommend I do to tweak my video response to indeed get approved? Is it even worth worrying about tweaking my video at all?

      I appreciate you. I bookmarked your post pages and rush to my computer each day to see what post you've made. You deliver gold at insanely free prices.
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    In order for your Youtube video to get high number of views, you should have done some keyword research using the Youtube keyword tool and to put the main keyword in your title, description (up to 2) and tags (up to 10). But the most important thing of all is your video should have good content and value to the viewers.
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    Youtube Keywords: to stack, or not to stack.

    I've seen instances where highly ranked youtube videos have one or two keywords in the tags, title and description.. and other cases where highly ranked vids are the total opposite - spammed in the description and tags with so many keywords and phrases. My mind is boggled by this. Which method will get you more hits?