I think you will agree with me that ranking a Video in YouTube search for the targeted keywords is the holy grail of YouTube.
But there are so many opinions on how to best optimizing a video title, description, tags, video script, thumbnail to make it rank.
I bet every time you upload a video, you question yourself if you’re doing everything right, despite all that you’ve learned so far…
Well, in this post you will know how to do it 100% perfect score.
How am I so sure?
Because I will test every type of variation I came about in my 10 years of experience.
This is how the test will be performed:
- I will get 10 keywords I know will rank on the first page of Google and YouTube.
- I will make 10 good quality videos between 5 and 10 minutes each and target those keywords.
- I will then upload all of them testing all the different variations below:
- I will also take into account this article to perform the tests: https://www.briggsby.com/reverse-engineering-youtube-search.
Title:
- Keyword in beginning Vs keyword in Middle/Last
- All caps Vs Title Caps
- Short title Vs long title
- Emojis Vs No emojis
- Present year in the title Vs no year
- Keyword twice in title Vs just once
- No title (but description & tags) Vs title (and description & tags)
Description:
- Short description Vs long descriptions
- Links to social networks Vs no links to social networks
- With hashtags Vs no hashtags
- LSI keyword Vs no LSI keywords
- Main keyword in first-line Vs no keyword in the first line
- No description Vs description
- Timestamps YouTube Vs no timestamps
- Links to other relevant sources Vs no links to other resources
- Links to other related videos Vs no links to other related videos
- Dummy Description Vs Description using SuferSEO
Tags:
- 1 tag Vs 3 tags Vs full tags
- Long tags Vs short tags (very closely related)
- Main keyword in tags Vs no main keyword
- Tags Vs no Tags
- LSI keywords Vs no LSI keywords – https://ultimatekeywordhunter.com/
- Google related Vs no google related
- Adwords keywords Vs no Adwords keywords
- Video Marketing Blaster Vs no Video Marketing Blaster tags
- VidIQ tags Vs no Vidiq tags
- Tube Buddy tags Vs no Tube Buddy tags
- Rapid Tags Vs No Rapid Tags
Translations:
- Translations vs no translations – 5 Languages
Video File:
- Name in the video file Vs no name in the video file
- Additional meta-information on the video file Vs no meta
Thumbnails:
- https://cloud.google.com/vision/ – Check if different results influence rankings
- Images indexed in Google with closed matched entities Vs no closed matched entities
- Symbols related to the title & Content Vs no symbols
- Check is Keyword in Thumbnail influence Rankings Vs no Keyword in Thumbnails
- Test if Keyword in Thumbnail Filename Influence Rankings Vs no Keyword in File
- Test if meta Information besides Filename Influence Rankings Vs no meta
Script/Subtitles:
- Main Keyword present 2% Vs 5% vs 10% vs 20%
- LSI Keywords Present Vs no keyword present – https://ultimatekeywordhunter.com/
- Insert Other related keywords and if they influence rankings for those same keywords – Ranking for multiple keywords
Once I have the Keywords and Videos are created, I will start doing the tests.
At every test, i will post the results in the following section. Available to Subscribers Only: