![]() This is why you see that in your Dashboard when you log in (stats for latest video vs last 10, stats for last 48 hours.)Ī few things the YouTube algorithm is looking for: YouTube seems to base a portion of how hard they will “push” a video based on it’s first 48 hours after publishing. According to the video below, they say that tags are used mostly for disambiguation, such as when two phrases that are close in spelling or phonetics have two different meanings. The YouTube Creators channel says that tags are “not very important” when it comes to surfacing videos on the platform. How Important are YouTube Tags for the Algorithm? By having a unique common tag ( your brand name), you improve your odds of having more of your own videos in that column of suggested videos. When people watch a YouTube video, it gives them a column of more suggested videos to watch. Here’s one more tip: Be sure to use your brand name as a tag in every single video you publish. If all the top-ranked YouTube videos have specific tags that are used by each of them, it might be a good idea for you to use those in the video you are trying to rank. What you should be looking for is patterns between the top ranking videos for a given search phrase. Remember, the idea isn’t to plagiarize your competitor’s title, description, and tags word for word. So now that you can see your competitor’s YouTube video tags, how do you put that information to good use? Analyze, Don’t Straight Up Copy The video tags and channel tags for the YouTube video show up above the Suggested Videos column on the right hand side of the page. Here’s what it looks like when you are watching a video with this extension enabled. You can sign up for a free account, though the Pro and Boost plans will give you some more perks. You need a vidIQ account to activate the extension. ![]() The vidIQ Vision extention will let you see the channel tags, video tags, and other information about a YouTube video. Recently, I discovered the vidIQ Vision Chrome extension. This list will look like this in the source code: This should take you to a list of the tags the Creator Studio used on that video. Hit Ctrl + F and search for keywords in the source code.Ĥ. Right-click the page, and select View Source.ģ. Go to the video page using Chrome or Firefox.Ģ. The descriptive tags are hidden from the viewers, but here’s how you can see what tags any YouTube video is using. Tags will help viewers discover your video, and help surface it in search in YouTube. But the one thing you can’t easily see are what tags other people are using on their high ranking YouTube videos. I’m sure you are analyzing what your competitors are doing with their YouTube videos. It also helps to get your videos transcribed, and upload that text file for closed captioning. Hopefully, you’ve been renaming your video files from MOV001.mp4 to more descriptive titles like insert-your-keyword-phrase-here.mp4 before you upload them.Īlso, you should be optimizing the video title and video description. Since YouTube is the second largest search engine (right behind Google), getting every advantage possible can make a difference. If you’re reading this, your company probably has a YouTube channel, and you’re trying to figure out how to make those videos rank higher. Website Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
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