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

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

About The Author: Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio over here. See more articles by Barry Schwartz

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2 Comments on YouTube Video Tag Optimization

John Boyle, February 20th, 2007 at 5:38 pm ET:

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

bbush, July 28th, 2007 at 2:52 pm ET:

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.

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