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 […]

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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