![]() When drafting tags that consist of three or more words, it’s best to drop prepositions and articles. YouTube often helps you in this endeavour by suggesting related keywords. If your video is about life insurance, for example, “insurance” would be a generic term, while “life insurance” is already a lot more specific, hence it qualifies as “specific tag.” ![]() I’d recommend not describing your video via generic tags, because these are highly competitive and untelling. They consist of keywords that provide context and help categorize your video. Specific tags describe this particular video. Including a few sets of the same generic tags matters for “suggested videos.” If someone is watching your video and another video in your channel includes the same generic tag as the video the viewer is currently watching, the chances that videos with the same tag will be included in the “suggested videos” list is higher. It is important, however, to include brand-related tags, as generic tag types and I would even recommend including them via the “upload defaults” so you can’t forget adding them. “cars”) and don’t provide much context or value to your video. Generally speaking, generic tags are highly competitive (e.g. Generic tags are made up of one word to two words phrases. YouTube tags can be placed into 2 different tag types. The length for each tag should be around 2-3 words. My recommendation is to include no more than 10 tags. Would you know what this is about? It turns out, these tags describe a parrot eating fruits. And why could blame them? Look at the following list of tags. Why? Well, if you’re including 30 tags to describe your video, YouTube will struggle to identify exactly what your video is about. This is a practice you should steer clear off at all costs, because it can impact your ranking negatively. How you distribute them depends on you, as long as you stay within the character limits.Īn “unlimited number tags” is not an invitation to engage in keyword stuffing. In other words, you could include 16 tags of 30 characters each if you wanted to, or 30 tags of 10 characters each. YouTube allows each tag to be a maximum of 30 characters long and the tags section can hold an unlimited number of tags until the 500 character-limit is reached. It’s not worth the hassle, so play by the rules and watch your channel thrive! How many video tags do you need? ![]() If YouTube determines that you tricked people into watching your video, you face consequences ranging from lower ranking to your video getting taken down. YouTube’s algorithm also understands when you’ve tricked people into watching your video because they will likely be abandoning your video shortly after arriving. So, resist the temptation to insert trending tags if your video is not actually relevant to these tags. YouTube’s algorithm can indeed identify if your tags are in alignment with your video content or not. These meta tags give YouTube additional context about your video and can therefore help your video rank better in search results and as suggested video alongside other YouTube content. In fact, it’s a rather important section for YouTube. YouTube viewers won’t see your tags but that doesn’t mean you can skip this section. YouTube tags are keywords and key phrases used to let YouTube know what your video is about.Įven though it seems that YouTube is placing less emphasis on tags these days, likely in response to YouTubers adding irrelevant keywords and engaging in keyword stuffing, however, it’s still important to add them. To continue our series on YouTube SEO, today we’ll explore YouTube tags.
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