The potential of
YouTube is really high, and SMEs can use it to communicate and make themselves
known. How to get more views? With the right topics and titles. Here's how to
do it
From a fun pastime,
YouTube quickly became an important marketing tool.
Knowing its
"secrets" means knowing how to exploit its potential, to make itself
known and to acquire new customers. To do this, however, you need to know
YouTube SEO , and therefore how keywords on YouTube work.
SEO YouTube, what it is and how it works
SEO YouTube is
the set of techniques and optimizations capable of improving the visibility of
videos on what - after Google - is the second most used search engine in the
world. It is much more than a social media, therefore: when you publish a
video, you have to think in terms of keywords. Just as if you were optimizing
your website. In fact, keywords make the difference between two substantially
identical videos, but with a huge difference in terms of views.
To explain how
its search algorithm works is YouTube itself: “Videos are classified according
to a series of elements, including the level of correspondence of the title,
description and content with the user's query . Additionally, we evaluate which
videos generated the most engagement for a particular query. Search results
aren't a list of the most viewed videos for a particular query. "
YouTube's aim is to keep users on the platform as long as possible . That's why
it attaches such importance to engagement. I like, shares, comments, CTR,
viewing time, audience retention: these are all elements that YouTube considers
to make a video "rise in the ranking".
When we talk
about YouTube
optimization we are basically talking about keywords : it is not enough to
publish a good video, but it is necessary that that video is described
correctly. However, there is no official keyword research tool: you can use
YouTube Suggest (write a starting keyword in the search bar, and display a list
of phrases that contain that keyword), or rely on other tools.
How to choose keywords for a video on YouTube
To optimize a
video on YouTube, you can first use Google Trends : a free tool for keywords
research, it allows you to find interesting ideas for the topic you want to
talk about. Alternatively, there is the Vidiq extension which, designed
specifically for YouTube, allows you to understand why certain videos have gone
viral, analyzing their engagement and discovering not only the search volume of
the keywords on the platform, but also the most used tags and titles and the
most impactful descriptions. Finally, Ahrefs Youtube Keyword Tool : for a fee,
it allows you to search in 171 languages obtaining the volumes of the
identified keyword.
Starting from
the keywords, here you can fill in all the fields of the video effectively: the
title (which must contain the main keyword), the description (which must make
it clear the exceptional nature of the content, and immediately attract the
user) and tags (key elements, which allow the user to find your video). In this
way, your content will have many more possibilities to be displayed.
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