YOUTUBE SEO: HOW TO OPTIMIZE VIDEOS FOR YOUTUBE SEARCH

FIND PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND LONG-TAIL KEYWORDS

Keyword research is vital for YouTube SEO, like Google SEO. Your audience's most likely search phrases and words when searching for content similar to yours are represented by keywords.

USE CARDS AND END SCREENS

The small interactive boxes that appear in YouTube videos are called YouTube cards. While end screens look like cards, they only show up in the final five to twenty seconds of a video.

ADD TIMESTAMPS TO YOUR VIDEO

YouTube timestamps inform YouTube of the start and end of your video's key sections. This makes it even easier for YouTube to understand the content of your video.

INCLUDE CUSTOM THUMBNAILS

It's essential to constantly be mindful of how your content displays in search results because it will affect the probability that users will click on your video.

EMBED VIDEOS IN YOUR BLOG

Experts on YouTube have done an experiment that showed that adding YouTube videos to a blog post can improve SEO for both the blog and the YouTube channel.

POST AND EDIT VIDEOS CONSISTENTLY

One of the best ways to make sure the YouTube algorithm considers you as an active user is to post and edit videos on a regular basis.

CATEGORIZE YOUR VIDEO

A video that you upload can be categorized under "Advanced settings." Another way to put your video on YouTube with related content is by selecting a category.

OPTIMIZE YOUR VIDEO DESCRIPTION

If you do decide to write a longer description, Remember that YouTube only shows the first two or three lines of text, which equates to about 100 characters,.

ADD HASHTAGS TO INCREASE REACH

Similar to LinkedIn or Instagram, you can add related keywords to your content using hashtags, which are a feature of the YouTube user interface.

USE YOUTUBE'S AUTOCOMPLETE FEATURE

The most popular search terms for your video topic can be easily found with this feature. To see what other keywords and phrases appear, simply start typing a keyword phrase.

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