How to Properly Tag your YouTube Videos
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How to Properly Tag your YouTube Videos
How to Properly Tag your YouTube Videos -- Derral Eves explains the four different kinds of tags, how to properly create tags, and how YouTube uses tags to rank videos online.Share this Video:
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How to Properly Tag your YouTube Videos
0:00 Hey Derral here. Now recently I've been asked by a lot of my subscribers on how I properly tag my YouTube videos for my channel. This video is to give you all the in's and out's on tagging to help your YouTube videos get noticed. Now in this video I'm going to show you four tags that I always use in my videos plus at the end of the video I will explain when YouTube doesn't really care what tags you use to rank your videos in search.
0:36 Now there's two ways to do this. The first way is to come up to this arrow here, mouse down to video manager. Once we do this we can go ahead and edit an existing video. All we've got to do is click edit. And it's going to look exactly like the upload, so for this example, since we always upload a video let's go ahead and hit the upload button. But let's say this video is about the Google Penguin 2.1 update, a lot of interest in that, especially with those people that actually work in Internet Marketing or Online Marketing. Now the first type of tag I always do is what I call the "specific tag". Specific tags are basically one word. Ok so for this example, since it's about the Penguin update, we'll go ahead and type in "Google". "Google" would be a specific keyword.
2:06 Ok, now the second type of tag I always do is what they call "compound tags". What a compound tag is is several words in a tag so the first compound tag I always do would be the title. Ok, my title would be the "Google Punguin 2.1 Update" we'll just say that that's that. All I would do is just copy the title and put it in here. Ok that's a compound tag, so it would have several words in there. Now keep in mind if you are doing a compound tag that is in the title go ahead and put your conjunctions and prepositions that's there. If you're just doing compound tags just in the tag section just leave them out.
3:02 Let's go ahead and go on to the third type of tag "generic tags". Ok, generic tag is like "how to" and that's a generic tag. Also "tutorial" would be a generic tag, "vlog", "marketing" here are some generic tags that we're able to do. Why don't we put "search engine" in there so there's another tag that would be more generic, ok "search engine", "search engine optimization".
3:53 Now the fourth type of tag I always do is misspelling, ok. Make sure you misspell a few words, see what's more frequently misspelled, and you will notice that your video will show up because it's in the tags. You need to remember that in this tag section right here you can only do 500 characters.
4:26 Now I want to caution you not to mislead your tags or titles in your YouTube videos because this really effects the performance of your video ranking. Now what happens is that YouTube uses the meta information on your video to do a quick assessment or evaluation. Once it collects enough data of it's own, ei watch time, and user engagement. Then it disregards all the meta information and just uses the information that it's collected. Now think about that. You really want to be careful. Now I told my two youngest sons that I was making this video on tags today so I think I need to keep up with my father's promise.
Special Thanks for My Sons Bridger and Thatcher for allowing me to play tag with them!
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How to Properly Tag your YouTube Videos
52 Replies to “How to Properly Tag your YouTube Videos”
what about putting compound tags in quotation marks like “how to build something”
Johnny_ Remade yup done
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Great video!! Your videos have really helped me boost up views on my channel!
Thanks +George Doumanian Jr … That means a lot! It motivates me to make more videos for you to watch!
hey +Derral Eves do you know how to make my video appear on suggestion list? I wold be very pleasant if you help me 🙂
+TechKid! I believe you tag your channel name. I’ve started doing it and noticed more of my videos show up in the suggestions
+SilentOblivion903 thx i will try that!
+Techkid! no problem. That’s what I got told so started doing it. I think it works, my own videos seem to show up more. Worth a shot
There are no longer suggested tags, huge shame because it helped me out so much 🙁
+Rikarwb I’m not really sure, but it should show up after it’s done processing, so 20 minutes?
+KeyWar That’s not very long 🙂 Thx
I miss them too!
They only come up after the video is done processing.
Negative.
Does it affect anything if i put a ‘#’ in front of my tags? like #Earth instead of Earth?
I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t
when I use YouTube mobile do i put commas after my tags or just a space?
comma
I’m working on a new tool called TubeKAT that will show you the keywords to use that will be most easy to rank for.
James Winsoar
pleeeze do that!
http://www.tubekat.com its now available
thanks so much! will check it! must be useful!
Nice scam.
Finally I can actually understand what a tag is thx so much I subbed
Very nice information.
i learnt alot. Btw as a small youtuber, in the tags, should you tag your own channel name?
Gentleman Dan yes so when your channel is searched it will show up
at first i never did that with my videos, and they i did that and i noticed that i actually show up now when you search my youtube name
Gentleman Dan yup
I’m a silly gooseeeeee. But hey, at least i like doors so thats something
How did you get your video to upload so quickly. My video is 2:17 minutes and it took 20 minutes to upload. Thank you!
I struggle with my tags
how do you copy tags onto other videos of yours??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
you mean from one of your videos to another?
+someone you don’t know yeah
+Suralus what do you mean.
You can just make a list and separate each word by commas and copy/paste it in
Like,This,You,just add,things
link tag ?
my vedieo is already uploaded..How can I do that..I tried
+kelia the millionare just go into video manager, select edit on the video you want and should take you to the page where you can add tags
+RandomSuzy Thank you ?
question what if I have giant miniature hamster verses Spider Pig monkeys. could you give me an example of Satan good keywords for those? I’m thinking spider, pigs, monkeys, hamsters, Armageddon, and how to bake pecan pies the right way. Am I close?
do your really need to tag?
THANK YOU!!
oh god, that old layout XD
it’s all completely different from uploading from your phone. can’t hardly do any type of editing.
I can’t be the only one who uses only “albert einstein”, “flying pig” and “mashup” … It works for me