Oh that's the one you already posted about in a different thread. I watched the whole thing then and it's what I summarized in this thread. There's nothing about word repetition in there.
Tags experiment
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Oh okay, I thought there was another video. I'm glad that's cleared up now. Thanks for letting us know about the video in the first place!! It's the most in-depth tagging information I've heard so far.
macintoshhelper
Active Member
It's likely that tags wouldn't make this much difference, but tags are very low priority for usage in YouTube algorithms. This is partly because they are abused for blackhat/spam purposes. I've heard that having over 10 tags can actually reduce your SEO performance, since it makes something look more spammy. Personally, I'd have maybe 5 tags, which reflect the title and keywords in the description, but while I doubt it's the case for this, but I wouldn't be surprised to see many tags reduce a video's SEO performance. However, having subtitles in a video is a great alternative, since all the words you say in the video will be taken in account for searches, and is likely why YouTube have been promoting the use of subtitles and subtitle translation recently.
Where does it say that YouTube has been promoting the use of subtitles and subtitle translation recently?
Also, does anyone know how to get the subtitle translation link thing to work? I think you need to pass a certain subscriber amount? It says like this creator has not enabled translation subtitle submissions. I'm talking about where the audience/subscribers can translate a video for a creator and wait for the creator to have it approved for Spanish, etc, other languages.
macintoshhelper
Active Member
YouTube uses subtitles for SEO purposes, since it's the one of the best ways to get relevant searches to have the video appear in the search results, with no need to have accurate descriptions.
YouTube has been encouraging the use of subtitles by releasing tools such as "fan-made" subtitles. Source | theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/27/youtube-crowdfunding-subtitles-60fps-video . Also, YouTube have been working to improve and prioritise their speech to text subtitles. Source | bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/31004497/youtube-we-know-automatic-subtitles-arent-good-enough . These are clear signs that YouTube wants people to use subtitles. Also, maybe a little further in the past, but YouTube have features to allow community made subtitle translations. Source | newmediarockstars.com/2012/09/youtube-feature-lets-you-translate-captions-in-300-languages/
ChristmasEveryDay
I've Got It
Everyone say diffrent things...
"Use as many tags as necessary. Use the amount of tags needed to convey your major keywords without becoming spammy. If this is 8 tags, fine. If you fill up the box, so be it."[DOUBLEPOST=1440316022,1440315963][/DOUBLEPOST]After my test I have discovered that tags don't affect my views at all! Long term tags didn't changed anything. I post on many Google+ pages, twitter, Instagram, Reddit...
I have been reading and testing many things the past months but now I´m lost.
Can it have something to do with my retention of viewers? I only have 40% Average percentage viewed? Is that low or is it common to have so low retention?
JB Clem
Posting Mad!
I use VidIQ to find out what tags the bigger Youtubers are making. And here's one I found for Buzzfeed.
The key is not posting too many tags. But posting too many tags saying the exact same keyword rather than using a related word to the topic of the video. Like what Buzzfeed is doing.
The key is not posting too many tags. But posting too many tags saying the exact same keyword rather than using a related word to the topic of the video. Like what Buzzfeed is doing.
ChristmasEveryDay
I've Got It
I use VidIQ to find out what tags the bigger Youtubers are making. And here's one I found for Buzzfeed.
The key is not posting too many tags. But posting too many tags saying the exact same keyword rather than using a related word to the topic of the video. Like what Buzzfeed is doing.
I'm using Heartbeat and it is similar. I have looking on what big channels use and used the exact same tags if it is a similar video and it doesn't help me anything. It must have something to do with that viewers does not stay long enough and watch my videos?