Hashtagging The Share Comment

Michael

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I have wondered this for a while, is there any point in hashtagging the comment which gets shared across Google+ and Twitter etc I am referring to when you set the video as public and you add your comment. I see many videos hashtagged with related terms but what is the point in doing this. Does it have any effect on the on page SEO of the video at all with it having the text on the watch page?

I have noticed that the hashtags simply link to the search results query for example if I was to hashtag the word "CallOfDuty" that would link to the results for Call of Duty, is this even useful in any way to those reading the comment or is it sending your audience away to the search results for which your video might not even show for and sending the person who clicked through away from your channel.

I would love to understand the uses of it, is there any reason to bother or not to bother using them is the most important question I would love to know the answer to and how does it benefit your channel and those clicking through.
 
Honestly, I am not too sure whether it helps with SEO or anything like that. But the reason why I use hashtags on Twitter, for example, is to help new viewers find my content. There are people who will maybe search #outfits or something like that to get ideas, and sometimes they find my channel through it. I also had companies find me through these tags and contact me for a sponsoring opportunity. So I don't know whether it helps a video rank higher, but sometimes it can be helpful in these other matters. Of course, it's not a huge amount of traffic that comes form this, but I think every little thing helps. :)
 
On twitter it can be quite effective since there are people who's accounts dedicatedly re-tweet certain hash-tags, like I usually get 3-5 retweets if I put in #IndieGame or #IndieHorror in my tweet about a new video.
 
Madeline said:
Honestly, I am not too sure whether it helps with SEO or anything like that. But the reason why I use hashtags on Twitter, for example, is to help new viewers find my content. There are people who will maybe search #outfits or something like that to get ideas, and sometimes they find my channel through it. I also had companies find me through these tags and contact me for a sponsoring opportunity. So I don't know whether it helps a video rank higher, but sometimes it can be helpful in these other matters. Of course, it's not a huge amount of traffic that comes form this, but I think every little thing helps. :)
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Pentra said:
On twitter it can be quite effective since there are people who's accounts dedicatedly re-tweet certain hash-tags, like I usually get 3-5 retweets if I put in #IndieGame or #IndieHorror in my tweet about a new video.
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Interesting, perhaps the hashtags are only useful for really niche tags say #callofdutyelephantride so if someone searches it you have a chance of showing up for it. Thats where Twitter is different with results not ordered in any particular order and with YouTube videos having a ranking system/algorithm.

Tag your Call of Duty video with #CallOfDuty seems to only send people away from your channel unless you rank exceptionally high for the query which for most people here that wont be the case. Perhaps to make it fair YouTube should remove the ordering on searches via hashtags bringing a list of everything tagged as such but then that would mess with their normal search results most likely.
 
Michael said:
I have wondered this for a while, is there any point in hashtagging the comment which gets shared across Google+ and Twitter etc I am referring to when you set the video as public and you add your comment. I see many videos hashtagged with related terms but what is the point in doing this. Does it have any effect on the on page SEO of the video at all with it having the text on the watch page?

I have noticed that the hashtags simply link to the search results query for example if I was to hashtag the word "CallOfDuty" that would link to the results for Call of Duty, is this even useful in any way to those reading the comment or is it sending your audience away to the search results for which your video might not even show for and sending the person who clicked through away from your channel.

I would love to understand the uses of it, is there any reason to bother or not to bother using them is the most important question I would love to know the answer to and how does it benefit your channel and those clicking through.
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This is the exact things I was searching to know about it. :D
Thanks @Michael for this thread, hope good results come out of it. :thumbsup2:
 
I think you're seeing hashtags in the comments because when posting on multiple Google+ pages you hashtag each time. Other than that I don't see how it could really help. To be honest I'm not even sure if hashtagging is enough to get your content seen...there's so much.
 
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