Does repeating tags in the description help?

[Philip Zeplin]

Repeating the same exact words, shouldn't make a difference in tags. So in your original example of just repeating tags, no, that won't help you. Just take a step back, and think about it: if it did, YouTube would a one-tag website, where everyone just put in a single tag, and spammed that until there was no more tag space.

Regarding making good tags, I'll just quote myself from another post:

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.

If you want to learn more about SEO (I've been telling people this here for ages, but whatever), here's more threads on SEO:
You can read my own thread on YouTube SEO to get you started, here:
/threads/seo-for-your-youtube-videos.44398/

You can read ConnorsCraft's guide to it here:
/threads/ultimate-guide-to-seo-appear-at-the-top-of-searches.80440/

Or you can step it up a notch, and get the course here:
/threads/rankify-youtube-get-more-views-its-my-birthday-50-off-all-courses.81180/

 

[Douglas MacKrell]

I think it's less about repeating exact tags over and over, and more about repeating KEYWORDS over and over.

Rather than
"Apple, Red, Fruit,"
"Apple, Red, Fruit,"
"Apple, Red, Fruit,"

try

eating apples,
golden delicious apples,
fuji apples,
apple pie,
an apple a day keeps the doctor away,
apple,
apples,
red apples,
apples in fruit salad,
people who like apples,

you can make it more specific to your video's topic than that, but the the repetition is going to make YouTube think that you're a robot and rank you terribly because of it.

You can also use YouTube's Keyword generator to help you think of keywords - but I've found that you don't want to have more than 2 per video.

youtube.com/keyword_tool

 

[Crown]

Repeating the same exact words, shouldn't make a difference in tags. So in your original example of just repeating tags, no, that won't help you. Just take a step back, and think about it: if it did, YouTube would a one-tag website, where everyone just put in a single tag, and spammed that until there was no more tag space.

Regarding making good tags, I'll just quote myself from another post:


If you want to learn more about SEO (I've been telling people this here for ages, but whatever), here's more threads on SEO:
You can read my own thread on YouTube SEO to get you started, here:
/threads/seo-for-your-youtube-videos.44398/

You can read ConnorsCraft's guide to it here:
/threads/ultimate-guide-to-seo-appear-at-the-top-of-searches.80440/

Or you can step it up a notch, and get the course here:
/threads/rankify-youtube-get-more-views-its-my-birthday-50-off-all-courses.81180/

OP's question wasn't about what tags to use. It was whether she should also be putting her tags in the description. My understanding is that by doing that, there's a risk of tripping a few spam filters and getting penalised or at best, YT just ignoring them.

 

[PublicSeaLion]

I've seen some people do like--

Games I Hope to Play:
And then list a ton of games.

That probably helps their views.

 

[Philip Zeplin]

I think it's less about repeating exact tags over and over, and more about repeating KEYWORDS over and over.

Pretty much what Douglas says here. Of course, be vary of over-optimization, but a keyword density around 3% is usually good.

OP's question wasn't about what tags to use. It was whether she should also be putting her tags in the description. My understanding is that by doing that, there's a risk of tripping a few spam filters and getting penalised or at best, YT just ignoring them.

My bad, as far as I understood it, it was repeating tags over and over again.
That said, pasting all the tags into the description won't do any good either. It pretty much yells spam, and blackhat SEO. Considering that doing the equivalent to that on Google, hasn't worked for a solid 5 or more years, it's pretty far out there to think it would work on YouTube (who is owned by Google).

 

[derraleves]

I recommend adding them into the description as part of the description. Not as a list of tags, just add those words into the paragraph.

 

[Philip Zeplin]

I recommend adding them into the description as part of the description. Not as a list of tags, just add those words into the paragraph.

Basically correct, yep.

But people seem to be confusing "tags" with "keywords".
You need to find your keywords, and then use them in all areas of the video. In the transcript, in the tags, description, title, playlist, and so forth.
So while you're correct, saying "add the tags to the description" is sort of going about it backwards.

 

[WolfWraith]

It does but counts as spam doing it like that. Most YouTubers, myself included get away with doing just 1 line. I used to do it then stopped but now I do it for 2 reasons: 1) it helps the video get found a little better, 2) it's a good way to show my viewers what tags I'm using and to also show them what brought them there.