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YouTube tags: The complete guide for marketers

Sprout Social

YouTube tags are an important part of YouTube SEO. They help YouTube understand the content of your video and help your video show up in search results. If you’re looking to promote your content to new audiences or show up in more relevant search results, then you need to be using YouTube tags.

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What Are YouTube Tags and How to Optimize Them for SEO

Conductor

In March 2021, Search Engine Journal named Google-owned YouTube as the second-most powerful search engine globally — after Google, of course. YouTube tags are critical for optimizing a video for YouTube and search engines overall. What are YouTube tags? What are tags on YouTube content ?

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YouTube SEO: How to boost your videos’ rankings

Sprout Social

Trying to wrap your head around YouTube SEO? Recent YouTube statistics tell us that more and more viewers are discovering content via search. Read on for our step-by-step guide to YouTube SEO that you can easily apply to all of your videos. By default, YouTube does a pretty solid job of cluing creators into what viewers want.

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How to post a video on YouTube: The complete guide

Sprout Social

found that YouTube is the second-most popular social platform (behind Facebook). This makes YouTube a powerful search engine that can help brands increase their reach and realize significant business value. Even as TikTok continues to grow in popularity, brands should still invest in the original social video platform, YouTube.

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How to conduct a YouTube audit in 5 steps

Sprout Social

Part search engine, part streaming service and part social network, YouTube has a little bit of everything. A healthy channel can have major implications for your video discoverability—on YouTube and beyond. That’s why it pays to conduct a thorough YouTube audit. YouTube isn’t just surviving—it’s thriving.

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How to get subscribers on YouTube: tips, inspiration and tools to help

Sprout Social

Trying to figure out how to get more subscribers on YouTube? That said, competition on YouTube is fierce and building a community of dedicated viewers doesn’t happen by accident. The good news is that there are actionable steps you can take to boost your YouTube subscriber count. Fair question! Think about it.

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YouTube Hashtags: The Secret to Video Marketing Success

Martech Advisor

YouTube hashtags were introduced in 2016 to support hashtag-based searching. Hashtags on YouTube have evolved since then to provide a better video search experience for viewers and to help content creators make their videos discoverable. Let’s explore how you can use hashtags on YouTube for video marketing success.

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