One of the easiest ways to get more exposure and views to your YouTube videos is by properly tagging them. Tagging is an easy thing to do but can be tricky to learn. There is a lot of playing around involved, a lot of trial and error. I will lay down the basics in this blog for you to start taking a stab at your own videos.
Step 1 Figuring out your Audience
Before you can even begin tagging you need some keywords, and before you can pick out keywords you need to figure out your audience. Who is going to be viewing this video? Who is this video meant for? What type of people are going to find your video and how are they going to find it? Placing yourself in your viewer's shoes is the best way to start figuring out who is going to view your video.
Step 2 Choosing Your Keywords
When it comes to actually choosing them being succinct is key. Don't beat around the bush and don't try to throw in keywords for the sake of getting extra traffic. Pick your keywords and stick with them, optimize in and around them. Let's take a look at this iPod example again.
The Title: The most important keywords and phrases should go here. Focus exactly on what the viewer will be inquiring about and throw them in here. So for example we may have this same title "How to Make Money Buying and Selling Ipods on eBay" right in there.
The Tags: In this section we are going to re-emphasize the important key terms and throw in some additional ones to help scoop relevant traffic. A couple things to remember here is that you do not need to re-emphasize your entire title, some people like to do this to ensure to themselves they are tagging but in reality it doesn't do anything as YouTube will pick up on your keywords from the title first.
The Description: In this section I usually post a link to my blog post I am embedding the video in or to an affiliate product that the video is for. Obviously you should put a relevant link in here if it is needed. As for actual SEO, I usually throw in an excerpt from the blog post and or a short paragraph explaining what the video is about. You don't need to go overboard here but it is smart to include a paragraph or two containing sentences with your keywords and alternative forms of them.
Step 3 Not Making Things Over Complicated
It can be easy to drown yourself in unnecessary sorrow trying to optimize your videos. Remember to just pick some keywords based on what your viewer is going to enter. Optimize these keywords in you title, tags and description. Keep it simple, there is no need to throw in everything but the kitchen sink here; succinct tagging is the way to go!
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