Optimizing Your YouTube Video's Tags [Explained]

[Juicey]

#1 - What is your video about?

So what is your video about?
Is it about football, soccer, body building or perhaps programming?

In this case, let's say it is about programming. Open up any word editing program for example; notepad, word, open office writer and so on (or you can use a paper). Start by thinking about some common things in programming or whatever niche you have. Write them down.

For programming it could look like this:
vb c# coding programming program visual studio lines code

Or for soccer it could look like this:
ball player goal field fans running kick foot


#2 - Adding your video title to your tags

To some of you this may seem weird but it's actually working.

Let's say our tags are; vb visual basic c# coding programming program visual studio lines code.

And our video title is; How to make a web browser in Visual Basic.

Now copy your youtube video's title and paste it in front of your tags in your word editing program.

Our tags should now look something like this:
How to make a web browser in Visual Basic vb c# coding programming program visual studio lines code

#3 - Expect misspellings from your viewers

As you should know. Everybody can't spell everything right.

For an example:
If your title would be "How to make a web browser in Visual Basic" a lot of people would search "How to make a webbrowser in Vissual Basic."

Now you might think. "Why does that matter?"
Well. It's simple. A little misspelling from the viewers side could result in - not finding your video. You don't want to give your competitors your viewers right?

Now, over how to fix this easy problem.

Let's take a look at our tags at the moment:
How to make a web browser in Visual Basic vb c# coding programming program visual studio lines code

To fix this problem you have to add possible misspellings to your tags (I have marked the new words by bolding them):
How to make a web browser webbrowser in Visual Basic vissual vb visuall c# coding programming programing program visual studio lines code


#4 - Optimizing your tags with the help of quotation marks

On YouTube, quotation marks is a must. Quotation marks are used in your tags for more exact searches. Let's say there are only two videos on YouTube and they are both named the same "How to dig."

The first video's tags contains this: how to dig
The second video's tags contains (the same but with quotation marks around it): "how to dig"

When somebody searched "to how dig" (notice the order of the words) the first video would be on top because it didn't have any quotation marks around it, so the words can be placed in any order.
But if somebody would search "how to dig" then the second video would be on top because it had quotation marks around it which means that the words have to be placed in that order, but it would take it straight to the top.

So let's take advantage of these little marks ""

At the moment the tags look like this:
How to make a web browser webbrowser in Visual Basic vissual vb visuall c# coding programming programing program visual studio lines code

What we have to do is put quotation marks around words like web browser, visual basic, visual studio and words like that.

It should now look like this (marked the changes with bold):
How to make a "web browser" webbrowser in "Visual Basic" vissual vb visuall c# coding programming programing program "visual studio" lines code

We did that ^ because we want our video more near the top if their search contains one of these words.


Now copy the quoted words and just paste them again in tags but without quotes (bolded the changes):
How to make a "web browser" web browser webbrowser in "Visual Basic" Visual Basic vissual vb visuall c# coding programming programing program "visual studio" visual studio lines code


Credits to Svarteman

[vishenda]

Thanks for sharing this! Very helpful post :)

[Nordmeyerl]

Thanks this should get me alot more views

[oneilboy]

verry verry interesting, nice to learn that