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
When you post a video on YouTube there are several aspects of the video you have control of such as:
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.
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:
These related keyword phrases can serve as ideas for what you core keyword phrase can be for your YouTube video.
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:
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?
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 ...
... the very LAST thing in your YouTube video description, on a line all by itself, will be ...
#getmorevideoviews#increaseyoutubevideoviews#increaseyoutubevideotrafficThe 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.
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.
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.