Tags in your description?

Wreckless Eating I see what you mean, I believe that once you have an audience, tags don't matter as much but on your last video, I see that you almost maxed out your tags. So I guess it's both having an audience and tagging your video the right way.
 
GDG said:
KGATV The only reason I think it could help is because YouTube takes into consideration the title, description, and tags when it is listing a video,
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Yes, and that is actually why you should NOT do it. YouTube recognizes tags in descriptions and rates you DOWN for it.
 
GDG said:
Wreckless Eating I see what you mean, I believe that once you have an audience, tags don't matter as much but on your last video, I see that you almost maxed out your tags. So I guess it's both having an audience and tagging your video the right way.
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Most of the time, what we write in the title and description is sufficient to get our videos on the first page of search results, but we always try to max out the tags now in case youtube decides to change its SEO practices. Better safe than sorry.
 
Wreckless Eating said:
Tagging doesn't seem to do a thing for us. We often max out the tagging section with relevant tags, but in going through our old material, there were plenty of videos with over 100k views that had only a single tag. The lack of tagging did not affect the view count or prevent it from being on the first page of a search. Once you get to a certain level, the sharing of your videos by your subscribers is going to drive discovery of your material more than proper tagging.
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really? thats surprising...
 
Ooooh I've heard stuff about this

Lots of seo's will tell you not to put tags in the description, apparently the youtube algorithm is cutting down on spam by searching for key words strung together not forming a sentence for no apparent reason in descriptions and will actually lower those videos ranking in search. Once a keyword is index'd be it on the description, tags, captions or title. The number of times the keyword pops up in your metadata is irrelevant.

What effects your ranking more strongly is the watch time associated with that keyword, this shows youtube how relevant your video is to the keyword and it will rank you up or down.

Youtube itself recommends you use keywords in the description but not blindly as tags and incorporate them into descriptive sentences.

All that being said, if I have a keyword I'm not sure if I've worked into my metadata I'll tag it at the end of my description, but this definitely isn't the right thing to do
 
GDG said:
What are your opinions on adding extra tags in the description of your videos?
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Tags are very important! However, only use tags that are related to the video. Otherwise, you can be found in violation of Community Standards for Keyword Spamming.
 
I'm with KGATV here. I've seen it done before, it just doesn't look very nice. Plus I want my descriptions to look very user friendly. Putting extra tags would make it seem more.... Robotic, to me. XD
 
Orbit Thank you! That's what I was looking for! Now, do you have any pro advice like that for normal tagging videos? Phrases? Single words?
 
GDG said:
Orbit Thank you! That's what I was looking for! Now, do you have any pro advice like that for normal tagging videos? Phrases? Single words?
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Sure :p

Check out the youtube . com / keyword_tool if you haven't already it'll help you find some keywords related to the words you want to tag.

Another thing you can do is use youtube itself, the serach box has an auto fill feature with the most popular search terms, so if I wanted an idea for a video personally I might type in 'planetside 2 m' and it might auto fill with a couple of phrases like 'planetisde 2 medic' 'planetside 2 multiplayer game', it's easier to target a keyword if you know what it is when you make the video and you can exactly tag those phrases then.

For tagging itself you should use a mixture of general and particular phrases, a general phrase could be cooking, while a particular phrase could be something like apple pie recipes.

Now you can work that into the description but for the tags if you want to really target it (bearing in mind tags at the first are the most strongly weighted) you could write:
apple, pie, recipes, apple pie, apple pie recipes

I use both phrases and single words if I'm really going after a keyword, my niche doesn't have massive competition and with a couple i've managed to top the search pages XD

Hope something there is helpful to you[DOUBLEPOST=1372600772,1372598756][/DOUBLEPOST]Also be sure to include wrong spellings of your keywords, forgot that one, like if i was to tag apples i might also tag aples applse
 
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