Hows Can Descritions Be Improved To Rank Videos Higher?

SeanFace101 said:
So I have wrote this little bit of information about budgies in the description of my latest budgie video...


The budgerigar, which is informally nicknamed the budgie, is also known as the Common Pet Parakeet and/or the Shell Parakeet. It is a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot and can live in captivity for as long as 8 years if cared for correctly. Wild, they can be found throughout the drier parts of Australia where the species has survived harsh inland conditions for the last five million years. The species was first recorded in 1805, and today is the third most popular pet in the world after the domesticated dog and cat.

I just got the information from wiki and stuff. :p Do you think I should add this paragraph into the descriptions of all my budgie videos? or Should the paragraph about budgies be unique to each budgie video? or at least the same info but re-written around?
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Duplicated information is *bad*. YouTube wants videos that have unique content -- duplication can result in youtube discounting the metadata for *all* videos that share the information.

However, let's just look at this little blurb. So, in here, terms like "budgerigar" and "budgie" are only mentioned once. So, in terms of keyword density, it only appears once.

Secondly, those sorts of terms are only one word, so you might want to check to see how saturated this term is in search. I usually think that more specific terms are better than one-word terms.

For example, if I type in "budgie" in the youtube search, then I get autocomplete suggestions. These are PHRASES that people have actually searched for, so if those phrases are relevant to your video, then include them.

So for example, I see "budgie bird". If I type that, then I get more autocomplete suggestions, like "budgie bird talking" or "budgie bird care" or "budgie bird sounds". These are more specific terms -- but make sure they are relevant to your video. If they are relevant, I'd tailor your titles and descriptions to talk about these sorts of things.
 
KiddieToysReview said:
I would also add a common channel info paragraph in each video.
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What you mean? but about your other point in your message, yeah thanks for the tips. :D[DOUBLEPOST=1468191419,1468190904][/DOUBLEPOST]
subversiveasset said:
Duplicated information is *bad*. YouTube wants videos that have unique content -- duplication can result in youtube discounting the metadata for *all* videos that share the information.

However, let's just look at this little blurb. So, in here, terms like "budgerigar" and "budgie" are only mentioned once. So, in terms of keyword density, it only appears once.

Secondly, those sorts of terms are only one word, so you might want to check to see how saturated this term is in search. I usually think that more specific terms are better than one-word terms.

For example, if I type in "budgie" in the youtube search, then I get autocomplete suggestions. These are PHRASES that people have actually searched for, so if those phrases are relevant to your video, then include them.

So for example, I see "budgie bird". If I type that, then I get more autocomplete suggestions, like "budgie bird talking" or "budgie bird care" or "budgie bird sounds". These are more specific terms -- but make sure they are relevant to your video. If they are relevant, I'd tailor your titles and descriptions to talk about these sorts of things.
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That's a really good idea about using the auto suggest in the search bar to find search terms and phrases people have used. :D So how many times do you think for example "Budgie" should be used in the description of a budgie video before its too much times?
 
SeanFace101 said:
What you mean? but about your other point in your message, yeah thanks for the tips. :D[DOUBLEPOST=1468191419,1468190904][/DOUBLEPOST]

That's a really good idea about using the auto suggest in the search bar to find search terms and phrases people have used. :D So how many times do you think for example "Budgie" should be used in the description of a budgie video before its too much times?
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I don't think there's any concrete number of time. But they keyword or phrase should definitely be mentioned a few times at least
 
KiddieToysReview said:
Get a list going with all the tags relevant to your video. Generate via the search bar and feel free to copy from your fellow youtubers, in addition to using all the usual sources for research. Get down all the 1-6 keyword tags you can. Make a title from the most relevant keyword phrases, putting first the most important search term you want to rank for.
In the first paragraph, use your video title keywords as the first 2 sentences of your description. The first paragraph should also contain as many other relevant tags as possible incorporated via natural sentences.
The second paragraph incorporates some of the other tags and/or a step by step description of what happens in the video. This should be keyword rich as well. We may have paragraph 3 and 4 with actions from the video if it's a big video or has many toys with lots of keywords. These are good chances to get long tail keyword variations that there is no space for in the tags section.
The next paragraph has a CTA for sub and like. I ask viewers to give a thumbs down as well of they don;t like it, as I've read both are treated equally as interactions, which is good, unless the dislikes far outweigh the likes.
The next section is links to our videos and playlists. We have the titles and goo.gl link. since each title is keyword rich; this fills the whole description with highly relevant and targeted keywords to our genre.
I've experimented with having links to all our external social sites, but I think this will be taken out soon in preference of other things.
We also use a paragraph near the bottom, common to all videos, with a description of our channel, as a way for the algorithm to associate all our content.
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Good advice. Many channels do not use description too much, just copy and past title. You got to 6K subs in 6 moth. How did you pick your tags? I am changing tags ( looking to the VidIQ ) and have very little improvement so far. I have an education channel with cartoons.
 
I have the following paragraph and link list and the end of the description in al of my videos.. Do you think this could harm the ranking of all my videos because it could be considered duplicate / copied content?

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So, it's OK to have a blurb at the end as long as there's more information that's unique. So you'd want to make sure that there's more of a unique description before this blurb.

SeanFace101 said:
I have the following paragraph and link list and the end of the description in al of my videos.. Do you think this could harm the ranking of all my videos because it could be considered duplicate / copied content?

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Please click on either the "Like" or "Dislike" button, leave a comment, then subscribe to my channel. Also, be sure to click on the "Share" button if you think your friends or family would like to watch this video. Thanks!

Add / Follow / Connect With Me..
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Well now this is one of the most productive threads I've seen in this forum in a long time.

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet: don't keyword stuff your video descriptions. I still see that from time to time and it doesn't help at all.

As far as links that drive a viewer off the site and onto another site might not be all that useful for your channel, but if that website happens to be one for your channel and you're simply redirecting them to additional content on there it could then direct them back to your channel for you to get chain viewing sessions from that same viewer. I am not sure how that will affect your channel in YouTube, but I can't see it being that harmful. That's something I plan on doing myself.
 
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