How Do You TAG Sketch Comedy?

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So I've always just posted gaming videos on my channel, mainly Tutorial videos. These have been extremely easy to tag, title, and in general metadata related things have had it good. eg a how to video on making something in minecrafts title is as simple as what it is, it's description just talks about it with heaps of key words, and tags are generally about it or about related how to videos for the game.

Anyway, we've started doing comedy and now I'm just thinking, how the hell does one tag comedy vids?

The title is the name of the series and then the topic of the video, eg: Jomie: Internet Slang
So that's easy enough, but the only tags I can think of include all your generic tags like "Comedy" "Sketch" "Humor" etc. then a few tags about the actual video like "Internet" "Slang" etc. however how do most of you comedy guys generally tag your videos?

Some thoughts I was thinking included just simply tagging the title of other related comedy videos, although I don't know how effective it is.

I even read an article about a form of tagging where you choose a few abstract tags no one else on YouTube uses, and use them for all your videos so that when someone watches one of your vids, the only related vids will be yours so that you won't "lose" your potential audience.

Idk though, what do most people out there do to get their comedy vids turning up on searches and alongside other videos? :confused:
 
I just tag the things that are in with the video, mainly starting with things like'comedy sketch' but further on i'll mention things like 'clones', 'vfx', or 'comedy vfx' so it makes it under different types of comedy if you get what I mean :P Just make sure that they are things that are searchable otherwise it'll be harder to get discovered.
 
brodielawrence said:
I just tag the things that are in with the video, mainly starting with things like'comedy sketch' but further on i'll mention things like 'clones', 'vfx', or 'comedy vfx' so it makes it under different types of comedy if you get what I mean :p Just make sure that they are things that are searchable otherwise it'll be harder to get discovered.
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So more categories and related sub generes huh? makes sense! :P
 
I don't have a solution but I always wonder about this because no one actually searches for comedy via the search, do they? And if they do type in generic words like comedy, humor etc. your video is probably going to appear on page 3759 of the search results. :( I'm not sure you can even rank with these words if they're not also in your title.
 
Sabrina Dot Kom said:
I don't have a solution but I always wonder about this because no one actually searches for comedy via the search, do they? And if they do type in generic words like comedy, humor etc. your video is probably going to appear on page 3759 of the search results. :( I'm not sure you can even rank with these words if they're not also in your title.
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I know right?
I think a solution might just be to simply tag other popular videos related to yours. It might sound a tad cheaty but I honestly can't think of how your comedy vid can be ranked in results especially for smaller channels
 
All the standard ones .. lol funny etc etc etc

after that just start listing things specific to your sketch
we have a power rangers sketch so we did a lot of ranger tags.

If your sketch is about a cats ... lots of cat tags.
Pretty much anything you can think of related to your video , tag it
 
I guess your best bet is to use popular titles (and corresponding tags), so that your video will appear in search results or as a suggested video. The people stumbling upon it may not expect a comedy sketch but they may like what they see.
 
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