Decent Tags for Educational Videos?

[TheBardKen]

The Bard Ken here. I make various types of educational videos, although always on liberal arts subject matter.
I recently recorded and am in the process of uploading a video giving three English words and their definition and etymology.
Most of my videos are short, and I am for less than 5 minutes. My problem is difficulty in finding decent tags. I've placed some of the obvious ones such as "English" "Educational" "Linguistics" "Vocabulary" and of course my channel name.
What are some other possible Tags?

 

[CramBoom]

I would also like to know, since I make educational videos related to science.

 

[Philip Zeplin]

Rubbish tags, far to general.
Instead, take a look at what that specific video is about. Like, really about. Think to yourself: "If I wanted to find information on this, what would I type into Google? What would I type in YouTube?" and base your tags around that.

Lets say I make a video about golden bananas, in that case, my tags should look like this:
golden bananas, golden, bananas, yellow bananas, gold bananas, where to get golden bananas, how to get golden bananas, where to, how to, grow golden bananas, growing golden bananas, importing golden bananas,

And so forth. Focus on your keyword, not everything else.
Example of bad tags:
golden bananas, agriculture, canon 550d, vlog, youtube, educational, Danish, male vlogger, fruit,

Do you see the difference?
The first one is centred around your keyword ("Golden Bananas"), and variations of that. The second one is actually showing tags for, what could be, widely different videos.

 

[TheBardKen]

I would also like to know, since I make educational videos related to science.

It odd trying to think of tags for educational videos isn't it? I try to be a little silly, but I'm too focused on teaching that I can't really add the tag "funny" "silly" or anything comical...[DOUBLEPOST=1376867231,1376867170][/DOUBLEPOST]

Rubbish tags, far to general.
Instead, take a look at what that specific video is about. Like, really about. Think to yourself: "If I wanted to find information on this, what would I type into Google? What would I type in YouTube?" and base your tags around that.

Lets say I make a video about golden bananas, in that case, my tags should look like this:
golden bananas, golden, bananas, yellow bananas, gold bananas, where to get golden bananas, how to get golden bananas, where to, how to, grow golden bananas, growing golden bananas, importing golden bananas,

And so forth. Focus on your keyword, not everything else.
Example of bad tags:
golden bananas, agriculture, canon 550d, vlog, youtube, educational, Danish, male vlogger, fruit,

Do you see the difference?
The first one is centred around your keyword ("Golden Bananas"), and variations of that. The second one is actually showing tags for, what could be, widely different videos.

I understand. Work on specifics and all of the variations, ignore general. Good marketing technique.

 

[Philip Zeplin]

I understand. Work on specifics and all of the variations, ignore general. Good marketing technique.

Tags aren't for marketing - the vast majority of platforms won't even show the tags to the user anymore. Tags is about making it clear to YouTube, what your video is about, and more importantly, what your video should rank in the searches for. Think about how your tags relate to what people search for (when trying to find content like yours), perhaps do keyword research with the YouTube Keyword Tool, and focus on that - it doesn't matter, really, if it looks rubbish to the human eye. Humans aren't reading it, the search algorithm is.

 

[CramBoom]

Rubbish tags, far to general.


Lets say I make a video about golden bananas, in that case, my tags should look like this:
golden bananas, golden, bananas, yellow bananas, gold bananas, where to get golden bananas, how to get golden bananas, where to, how to, grow golden bananas, growing golden bananas, importing golden bananas,

And so forth. Focus on your keyword, not everything else.

Thanks! I guess it would make sense to focus on a few keywords as opposed to many or one, right?

 

[Philip Zeplin]

Thanks! I guess it would make sense to focus on a few keywords as opposed to many or one, right?

I say be as focused as you can be. In rare cases, you might want to optimize your video for 2 (3 would be pushing it, but maybe) keywords, and their variations. In that case, of course, you would want to include those keywords too, of course. But generally, I would recommend finding your "golden" keyword, and just focusing straight on that, and it's variations, and only add tags not directly relevant to that, if you (for some weird reason) have space left for more tags.

I go into more about tags, in lesson 11, in the course here:
/threads/rankify-youtube-get-more-views-by-using-seo.81180/

 

[CramBoom]

I say be as focused as you can be. In rare cases, you might want to optimize your video for 2 (3 would be pushing it, but maybe) keywords, and their variations. In that case, of course, you would want to include those keywords too, of course. But generally, I would recommend finding your "golden" keyword, and just focusing straight on that, and it's variations, and only add tags not directly relevant to that, if you (for some weird reason) have space left for more tags.

I go into more about tags, in lesson 11, in the course here:
/threads/rankify-youtube-get-more-views-by-using-seo.81180/

Alright thanks!