youtube tag question

ZwebackHD

ZwebackHD

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Hey guys,

So there's this constant debate it seems on a specific way of tagging your videos on youtube. Some say that if you want to tag a phrase that it needs to be "word word word" and others say that word word word is fine. If you just type, for example, the world is round, does youtube understand that as a phrase or four individual tags? Curious to know what the deal is on this. Cheers guys.
 
ZwebackHD said:
Hey guys,

So there's this constant debate it seems on a specific way of tagging your videos on youtube. Some say that if you want to tag a phrase that it needs to be "word word word" and others say that word word word is fine. If you just type, for example, the world is round, does youtube understand that as a phrase or four individual tags? Curious to know what the deal is on this. Cheers guys.
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to be answer your question i would say individual tags are more reconized by youtube and make sure when you use tags they are relevant to your video:)
 
Do tags actually matter?, from everything I've seen its all about the title, no amount of tags actually helps, anyone correct me on this but that's been my experience
 
Ukraine Arsenal said:
Do tags actually matter?, from everything I've seen its all about the title, no amount of tags actually helps, anyone correct me on this but that's been my experience
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Truthfully that's not the case good metadata will help title,tags and even w good description and producing good high quality content is a boost. I would have to say tags are extremely critical and I would advise using them whatever is relevant to your video content:)
 
Ukraine Arsenal said:
Do tags actually matter?, from everything I've seen its all about the title, no amount of tags actually helps, anyone correct me on this but that's been my experience
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Tags are important in terms of getting your video higher on search results. There are other factors too though. Someone else can probably explain it way better than I can.

This article isn't the greatest, but it kind of explains what makes a video searchable and get a higher search ranking. http://www.reelseo.com/youtube-ranking/
 
We run a gaming channel, we posted a sort of a how-to about are recording methods, but still among us tags an searching is a big debate since nobody knows for real what goes on within youtube search itself.

Our closest bet is the following :

By Search : Title comes first, then likes are taken into account, then tags are probably scanned and based on these the list is ordered, more likes ranking higher, view count seems to be secondary.

By Relevancy : Same thing goes on, but tags play a bigger part, as we tested adding game names and or activities ( such as 'lets play coop' ) and youtube started to suggesting similar videos, without those tags it seemed to be more generic on what is suggested. Personally we thing they use a sort of a matching system so some tags may be used as a stream of phrases where a match can happen in any way. So "mine craft" and "minecraft" would be the same, well a similar tag, just like "co-op" or "co op".
We think the best is to use both ways where we are unsure which is the best, so we use an 'allwritteninone-phrase' tag and 'a separately written parse' tag, without quotes since we don't think quotes matter at all.

P.S. : Lately it seems that youtube also adds your own history into the search results and relevant videos, probably based on tags, so if you don't some kind of videos and you suddenly start to watch say like 'cute cat videos', over a few days it'll start suggesting videos with similar tags regardless of what you're watching at the moment.
 
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