How many tags do you use

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I'll use as many as I can using @TubeBuddy to target long-tail keywords. I rarely use single word keywords as they just don't work. I'll also include my best ranking tag in my title and description too. So say I rank 1st for the tag 'simple spaghetti bolognese' I'll include that in my title and put it in my description a few times too. Tags are not as important as the title and description for SEO however using tubebuddy you can target specific ones that have high search and low competion
 

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About 15 if I'm not using at least 495 characters I feel like I've failed
 
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I try to use all 500 characters in the tags section but I only use tags related to the content I'm putting up. Sometimes, the tags only go up to 200 characters when I can't find any relevant tags. I didn't know that putting too much tags can have a negative effect on the channel itself.
 

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That is mad, I did not think you could use up to 500 characters -_- I have been using 10-20 maybe in my videos for the last 3 years and thought if I put too many in, that it would hurt the search value amongst my videos or that I could get into trouble of some sort XD thank you for that piece of information actually I am gonna have a look into to see the best way I can optimise my videos actual material and how much of that material I can transfer to tags because if you can have that many characteres then I guess there is no harm in having a few extra :p
 

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That is mad, I did not think you could use up to 500 characters -_- I have been using 10-20 maybe in my videos for the last 3 years and thought if I put too many in, that it would hurt the search value amongst my videos or that I could get into trouble of some sort XD thank you for that piece of information actually I am gonna have a look into to see the best way I can optimise my videos actual material and how much of that material I can transfer to tags because if you can have that many characteres then I guess there is no harm in having a few extra :p
You can also go back and edit the old ones and get more people to find them. Just don't edit any of the succesful videos; you might end up messing them up!
 
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You can also go back and edit the old ones and get more people to find them. Just don't edit any of the succesful videos; you might end up messing them up!
Yeah I won't be touching them haha don't want to throw away the actual videos which made it to the top of results but for the minor ones and upcoming videos I will :) but thanks for letting us know!