Tags experiment

i had a quick look at your channel. Well done. Really well produced videos.
Now, for what i have found, starting with your titles. Generally speaking they are fine, but i found that some look like you are just stuffing keywords on them. That does not look natural and may have a negative effect. Take this example of one of your videos title:

5 Surprise Chocolate Eggs Unboxing Spider Man Disney Princess Natoons Frozen CARS

Too many keywords there. 5 surprise chocolate eggs unboxing would be enough.
Then i could go for your video description. Try to write a bit more than a single phrase. Take the same video example. You could take those excess words on your title and write a small text around them on the description, if it is video relevant.

Now for the tags. A quick check on the same video showed me this:

unboxing toys, unboxing, Blind Baskets, ChristmasEveryDay, christmas, every, day, Play-Doh (Consumer Product), Littlest Pet Shop (Brand)

It is easy to fall on the mistake of taking pretty much every keyword, but tagging words like every, day, unboxing, christmas won't bring any positive outcome. Try being more specific on the tags, sometimes the most obvious ones are the ones that won't help you. The tags youtube suggest are generally crap... 4-5 good tags is what you need no more than that...

Do a bit of experimentation and see for yourself what works better.
 
lossehelin said:
i had a quick look at your channel. Well done. Really well produced videos.
Now, for what i have found, starting with your titles. Generally speaking they are fine, but i found that some look like you are just stuffing keywords on them. That does not look natural and may have a negative effect. Take this example of one of your videos title:

5 Surprise Chocolate Eggs Unboxing Spider Man Disney Princess Natoons Frozen CARS

Too many keywords there. 5 surprise chocolate eggs unboxing would be enough.
Then i could go for your video description. Try to write a bit more than a single phrase. Take the same video example. You could take those excess words on your title and write a small text around them on the description, if it is video relevant.

Now for the tags. A quick check on the same video showed me this:

unboxing toys, unboxing, Blind Baskets, ChristmasEveryDay, christmas, every, day, Play-Doh (Consumer Product), Littlest Pet Shop (Brand)

It is easy to fall on the mistake of taking pretty much every keyword, but tagging words like every, day, unboxing, christmas won't bring any positive outcome. Try being more specific on the tags, sometimes the most obvious ones are the ones that won't help you. The tags youtube suggest are generally crap... 4-5 good tags is what you need no more than that...

Do a bit of experimentation and see for yourself what works better.
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Thank you so much for your help!

It's very strange because I have tried to use the same tags as bigger channels but no difference in views?
 
lossehelin said:
. 4-5 good tags is what you need no more than that...
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That's the opposite of what at least 4 people on this forum have previously said.

Guess I'll make a thread in the review section asking people to give feedback on my current tags and see what I get.
 
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Uncivilized Elk said:
That's the opposite of what at least 4 people on this forum have previously said.

Guess I'll make a thread in the review section asking people to give feedback on my current tags and see what I get.
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:) i am saying good tags.

But lets put it this way, google hates stuffing, tag and keyword stuffing specially. We can safely predict the same thing for youtube. Secret is to keep everything within reason. 4-5 good tags will most likely have a positive impact. 8 or 9 broad tags will not have a positive impact.
 
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 said:
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.
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I will try long term tags now for a couple of weeks and see what happens. Thank you for your tips!
 
SabrinaKom said:
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.
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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
 
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