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Ok, so a lot of people will just tell you to write down a bunch of "related" keywords in your tags, but they don't tell you how to find those related keywords.
If you do some digging you'll find out about the Adwords Keyword tool that Google has which you can put some search terms into, and it will give you some related keywords for your tags. Problem is that it takes a long time and you have to keep adding and changing the search keywords to really find the best matches.
I have a different method though. Recently YouTube made Tags invisible on the video page so viewers can't see them. Or can they?
One of the best ways of utilizing tags is to steal them. Do a search for the main keyword or two of your video. This will bring up a whole bunch of videos, some of which may have very high views. These high view videos are the ones you want.
When you view a video, it has it's own webpage. And it's own webpage has programming code. Luckily for us, the Tags are hidden in the code. Right click on the video page and choose "view source". This will give you a big page of what looks like gibberish. It's not, I promise. CTRL+F to search for terms and type in "keyword". This should give you 1 of 3 results. You want to click next to get to result 3.
Beside result 3 encased in "quotation" marks and separated by,commas are all of the tags that video uses. You can copy and paste them to a notepad document. Then just go about removing the ones that don't apply such as the youtubers name which most of us tag every video with.
Repeat this for 3-4 videos while removing all duplicate tags. And once you're done, you'll have a nice diverse tag cloud that took far less time than using the Google keyword tool.
If you do some digging you'll find out about the Adwords Keyword tool that Google has which you can put some search terms into, and it will give you some related keywords for your tags. Problem is that it takes a long time and you have to keep adding and changing the search keywords to really find the best matches.
I have a different method though. Recently YouTube made Tags invisible on the video page so viewers can't see them. Or can they?
One of the best ways of utilizing tags is to steal them. Do a search for the main keyword or two of your video. This will bring up a whole bunch of videos, some of which may have very high views. These high view videos are the ones you want.
When you view a video, it has it's own webpage. And it's own webpage has programming code. Luckily for us, the Tags are hidden in the code. Right click on the video page and choose "view source". This will give you a big page of what looks like gibberish. It's not, I promise. CTRL+F to search for terms and type in "keyword". This should give you 1 of 3 results. You want to click next to get to result 3.
Beside result 3 encased in "quotation" marks and separated by,commas are all of the tags that video uses. You can copy and paste them to a notepad document. Then just go about removing the ones that don't apply such as the youtubers name which most of us tag every video with.
Repeat this for 3-4 videos while removing all duplicate tags. And once you're done, you'll have a nice diverse tag cloud that took far less time than using the Google keyword tool.
