Using The Youtube Keyword Tool To Improve Your Video Ranking

"How Do I Find Keywords For My Youtube Video Tags ?" This is a great question, because as we know having relevant, targetable tags on your videos, increases the chance of your video being listed higher in the rankings and more importantly being watched.

Most of you will be familiar with the keyword tool from Google and what a great point of reference it can be when looking for the most popular search words, to add to your blog or website content. But not many people are aware that there is a similar tool available, tailored specifically for Youtube. And this is a valuable source to tap into, when searching for keywords that you can use as tags or in the titles and descriptions of your videos. And if you haven't already now guessed, it is the Youtube Keyword Tool

The advantage of the keyword tool for Youtube, is the fact you can rank relatively higher with a specific tag or search keyword, than you would with a Google search. The reason for this being, there is far more competition on Google, than there is on Youtube. This could be a result of less people fighting for ranking space on Youtube, because they don't like seeing themselves on video or don't like the sound of their voice. This is a great opportunity for you to fill that void, upload a video and start ranking for the related search words.

Ok, so how does it work and how is it going to help my Youtube channel rank higher and increase video views and subscribers ?

Well, there are 2 different ways you can carry out a search for relevant keywords and the first one is simply a case of typing in a keyword or phrase into the search box and hitting "Get Keyword Ideas" This will display a list of suggested keywords in order of relevance, along with the number of times that particular word has been searched for on a monthly basis.

You can then select the keywords, you feel will suit your video content, by clicking "Add" to the right of each result. You can also select "Add All..." at the foot of the page of results, which will add all of the keywords into the blue "Selected Keywords" box. You can add or remove as many keywords as you like until you are happy with your list of selected keywords. There is then an option to export that list to an excel file, which makes it easier to transfer to your Youtube video tagging section, at a later date.

The second method of finding new keywords is great if you have already uploaded a video some time ago, but never really populated the tag section. It is of course of equal benefit if you are just uploading your video and are not sure what tags to use or keywords to include in your video title and description. For this particular search we need to select the "Youtube video ID or URL" radio button, then paste this information into the appropriate search box. You need to make sure you copy and the paste the URL of the actual video (Appears in the navigation bar above your video when you open it up), rather than the "Share URL" The keyword tool will then look at the URL info you have submitted and return a list of relevant keywords or phrases for your actual video. Then if any keywords are listed that you haven't already used, get them added in your tag section or in the title and description of your video.

Now you may have noticed from this particular snapshot that the search I carried out, for one of my bushcraft videos, was tailored to the United States and it produced a list of 4 suggested keyword phrases, that I could now use in my Youtube campaign. At this point you should "Add" them to your "Selected Keywords" box, then change your country selection to another location that potentially will view your video, like the United Kingdom and retry the search.

This will then produce another list of keyword suggestions, some of which you already produced in the previous search and added to your "Selected Keywords" box, but a handful of additional phrases that you can now "Add" to your current list. You can continue to carry out similar searches for as many different countries as you like. As long as they are relevant to your channel audience. There wouldn't much benefit from adding countries that will not understand a word you are saying etc.

Having access to the Youtube Keyword Tool takes the guess work out of searching for relevant and targetable keywords or phrases for your Youtube Tags, Titles and Video Descriptions.