YouTube Video Tag Optimization

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Feb. 20, 2007 at 9:19am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

YouTube Video Tag Optimization

Jonathan Mendez's 7 Ways to Optimize Your YouTube Tags has a more detailed look at optimizing your YouTube videos. Here are some of the tips in summary.

Use relevant tags to describe the video
Use as many relevant tags as possible
Think long tail searches when it comes to tags also
Use adjectives
Add category descriptive tags
Most important tags should also match title and description of movie
Don't use "and" "or" etc. words as tags

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Reader Comments

Good advice. If you think about it, it isn't that much different from SEO.

Comment by John Boyle

| February 20, 2007 5:38 PM

It also helps to already have views... it seems like the top videos on ViewTubeTrain.com get several hundred plays a day just from the site.

Comment by bbush

| July 28, 2007 2:52 PM

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