Tags experiment

[Sabrina]

I will try long term tags now for a couple of weeks and see what happens.

Long tags are only any good if they get searched and also if there are related videos with the same tag that your video could appear as a suggested video on.

I've been wondering about the " " things

I'm not sure what you mean. You don't have to use quotation marks in tags.

you put it in each of your videos which makes more of your vids pop up on the right hand side

You don't have to make up a tag, just use your channel name (as one of the channel-related tags) on every video.

 

[ChristmasEveryDay]

I've been wondering about the " " things and weather or not to use them. I will have to give it a go.

Do people here use a 'secret tag' in all their videos. That is, a tag that you make up that brings up nothing in youtube search and you put it in each of your videos which makes more of your vids pop up on the right hand side when someone is watching one. All you need to make a secret tag is a simple word with some numbers i.e. yttalk69392

Secret tag? Do you have any source on that? It sounds to good to be true don't you think?

I have been watching what kind of tags big channels use and it's not long term tags. But they rank high anyway because they are big channels?

 

[just Moto]

Secret tag? Do you have any source on that? It sounds to good to be true don't you think?

I have been watching what kind of tags big channels use and it's not long term tags. But they rank high anyway because they are big channels?

Sorry, I'm talking about the "phrase " marks around a word in a tag. I have seen a few people recommend doing it.

Yes the long tail tags are for small timers to get more search traffic.

The reason why a secret tag works and not just a username is because many username tags will bring up other other search results. I can't guarantee it works but I use it. Seen it in a Jerry Banfield video.

If there was another user who's channel was called pewdiepie... I don't think just using pewdipie would tie all his videos together.

 

[TheSuperFunArt]

that's actually a cool experiment. it could be because your subscribers check you out a lot. most of the traffic is probably coming from paces you share your videos, have you shared it on other sites like reddit, yttalk and such?
this experiment means that you are getting your views through share traffiic, people checking your channel out, subscribers, the video title and description count as tags too, suggested video from other videos you have.

 

[lossehelin]

Latest tagging info from a YT guy, I believe partner manager (warning: translated and paraphrased )
- Choose phrases that viewers will actually type into search
- If the phrase is too specific to be searched ("sunrise in cologne"), split it ("sunrise", "cologne")
- More tags means less weight on each tag
- But too few tags means missed opportunities for people to find the video
- Use about 20 tags, 10 of them relating to the video, 10 of them relating to the channel (used in every video's tags)

According to Tim Schmoyer (YT certified), half of the video-related tags should be specific and the other half generic.

@SabrinaKom: has this strategy worked well for you?

I personally don't think you should split the phrase. On your example, sunrise will be harder to rank than sunrise in cologne, and the same goes to cologne. Tags are useful on the first week and you want to drive the most traffic possible from them on that period and that is achieved using long tail keywords due to less competition. After that initial week, tags loose power in terms of driving traffic.

I still recommend quality over quantity, although youtube allows you up to 500 characters (if im not mistaken) on the tags field which means a lot of space for keywords.


Anyone here wanting to share their experiments with tags?

Btw, there is no point in looking for the big youtuber tags because they wont be focusing much on them simply because they don't need to. Big youtubers will have one of the most important ranking factors on their side (view time) and a big subscriber base and loyal returning viewers.

 

[just Moto]

@SabrinaKom


Anyone here wanting to share their experiments with tags?

Been targeting low competition/high searched long tail keywords the last couple of months, and getting good results. Got 130k views this month from long tails tags and just did a further overhaul this week

 

[Sabrina]

I personally don't think you should split the phrase. On your example, sunrise will be harder to rank than sunrise in cologne,

It wasn't my example, it was made by a YouTube employee! What he meant was that it doesn't make sense to use certain phrases that no one will search for. It doesn't matter that you're the only result for "sunrise in cologne" if no one searches for it.

 

[lossehelin]

A youtube employee? i see.
True if no one searches for that long tail keyword then there is no point, fact. That is why we need to do some research

 

[Sabrina]

A youtube employee? i see.

Yes, everything in that list was said by a guy who works for YT (as a partner manager I believe), so I wouldn't ignore it.

True if no one searches for that long tail keyword then there is no point, fact. That is why we need to do some research

Yes, if you find long tail keywords that are actually searched for, then that's ideal.

Got 130k views this month from long tails tags

That's amazing, congrats!

 

[ChristmasEveryDay]

that's actually a cool experiment. it could be because your subscribers check you out a lot. most of the traffic is probably coming from paces you share your videos, have you shared it on other sites like reddit, yttalk and such?
this experiment means that you are getting your views through share traffiic, people checking your channel out, subscribers, the video title and description count as tags too, suggested video from other videos you have.

I have shared on twitter and Pinterest but I do not seem to get any views from none of them. I have been thinking about reddit but don´t think it´s something for a toy channel?