YouTube Video Tag Optimization

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

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http://www.socialnext.com/ John Boyle

Good advice. If you think about it, it isn’t that much different from SEO.
http://www.viewtubetrain.com bbush

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.
http://myfbfans.com/get-youtube-views/ Deny Aminarti

Thanks for your great advice!
Often seen, that people are forgot about your last tips: using “and” “or”words on tag
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Excellent advice! Thank you!
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