YouTube SEO for Beginners - How to Rank YouTube Videos in 2022

Hello all my readers, I hope you will enjoy today's interesting and informative article. In today's article, I will talk to you in detail about YouTube SEO, in this article After choosing the words and working hard, I am writing this article. I hope that after reading this article in its entirety, you will be able to make your YouTube channel videos viral and make your channel famous very soon. If this is what you want, then today's article is for you. Read it in its entirety and then I must give my feedback. How much have you benefited after reading this article and following it?

The world has changed completely. At the moment, almost all businesses have gone digital. Businesses use digital marketing to grow them. YouTube is also a digital marketing platform. But there is a huge competition on this social media platform so new businesses do not grow in this competition. YouTube SEO is one way to grow your YouTube channel and business. So I wrote this article to help new YouTubers and businesses grow faster. I hope they gain a great deal of knowledge and experience on YouTube SEO from this article.

When you create a YouTube channel, you want your videos to be found by your viewers. Therefore, SEO is so important to YouTube. You want people to easily find your YouTube channel and your videos. You also want them to find your YouTube Channel so they can subscribe. This is where YouTube SEO comes into your boring life. YouTube SEO can help your videos rank higher in the search results and increase your channel views.

Most people stay on the YouTube homepage to find content. This makes it a great opportunity to rank your YouTube channel higher in search results. This blog will give you a great idea of how to rank your YouTube channel higher on search results and why having a great video thumbnail is so important for your channel.

So now, without wasting time, we are going to talk about this interesting topic today, so you have to read each point carefully and it has to sit in your mind. Can go viral YouTube videos on YouTube's first page as soon as possible.

Table of Contents

1. What is YouTube SEO?
2. What is a Keyword?
3. Keyword Research
4. YouTube SEO
5. Extra Tips and Tricks
6. Gain more subscribers with YouTube Shorts
7. How to get traffic from social media?
8. Some Misconceptions about YouTube SEO
9. Conclusion

1. What is YouTube SEO?

SEO means (Search Engine Optimization)

It is the process of optimizing your videos, playlists, and channel to rank high in YouTube organic search results for a given query.

YouTube SEO is one of the most important things to do if you want to grow your YouTube channel and business. It's all about getting more views, subscribers, and likes. So, how do you get more viewers, subscribers, and likes on YouTube? Well, there are many ways to do this, but this article will focus on the most important YouTube SEO techniques that actually work.

2. What is a Keyword?

Keywords are one of the most important factors for YouTube SEO. The keywords you use are the ones that your audience will use to search for. When someone is searching for your keywords on YouTube, your video will appear in their search results. A keyword is also a word or phrase that your video is about. When you use the correct keyword, you will get more views, more subscribers, and more traffic. Keywords are very important for YouTube SEO. If you use the correct keyword, you will get more views, more subscribers, and more traffic.

A keyword is a word that we search on YouTube Search Bar for certain purposes. For example, I want to gain information about editing, so I search "Editing" in the YouTube Search bar. Here Editing the keyword.

There are two types of keywords:

1. Long Tail Keyword (Having Low Competition)
2. Short Tail Keyword (Having High Competition)

• A long tail keyword consists of 3 or more words. For example, "How to Create a YouTube channel in 2022" is a long-tail keyword.
• A short tail keyword consists of 1 to 2 words. For example, "Photoshop Editing" is a short tail keyword.

So here you must know what the user search in the search bar. Keyword research can only do it, which we discuss in upcoming pages.

3. Keyword Research

Keyword research is one of the most important stages of YouTube SEO. Keywords are the main tool through which you can increase the number of views and subscribers to your YouTube channel. For example, we have a YouTube channel about blogging, called Blogging Production. If you are interested in blogging, you can find the channel when you search for "blogging" on YouTube. If you want to create a YouTube channel about your business, you need to do keyword research. If you do not know how to find the right keywords.

There are many websites to search for keywords and there are many apps that can help you search your keywords, so I am going to share with you some good research keywords apps and websites.

1. Google Ads Keyword Planner
2. Ahrefs.com
3. Keywordtool.io
4. TubeBuddy (App)
5. VidIq (App)

Let's start keyword research because keyword research is everything. I use Google Ads' keyword planner and YouTube for it. For example, I want to make a video on the topic "best Mic for YouTube Videos" So I first open the keyword planner and click on "discover new keywords" and then type "best Mic for YouTube Videos" here select my targeted location "Pakistan" and press "get results". You can add the location which you want.

Then the results are shown on the screen. Select "Google and search partners" as the search network. Then the keyword planner gives you the results as many keywords. You should write the keywords having high average monthly searches in the notepad. You should also use "ahrefs.com" and "keyword tool. lo" in the same way as the keyword planner. You can also take keyword ideas from the videos of your competitors on YouTube.

Related Article: What is SEO? How to create a channel and what are its Important settings? - What should we do before creating a channel?

4. YouTube SEO

There are two types of YouTube SEO. You remember that you have to follow these two types because these are the basic types. If you do not follow them, your YouTube channel's SEO is complete. If not, then your channel will not show on the first page of YouTube, then you will comment to me we do not benefit from the YouTube SEO you mentioned, and then I will say the same sentence that you Follow every point of my YouTube SEO. As I have worked hard in writing, you must follow it.

1. Channel SEO
2. Video SEO

I am going to describe these two types. Read them carefully and keep these things in your mind.

1. Channel SEO

• If you are a beginner on YouTube, then you should choose a channel name in which the main topic of your content is written. For example, I want to teach Blogging on YouTube, I choose my channel name "How to Blogging" "Blogging Factory" "Blogging Mentor" or "Your Blogging Teacher", etc.
• Open "YouTube Studio" and go to " Customization Tab". Then go to "Branding" and upload an attractive profile and cover photo here. Upload the subscribe button photo in the "Video Watermark".
• Now go to "Basic info" write the description and include all such keywords and topics in the description on which you want to make videos in the future. For example, for my Blogging channel, I write a description as follows "Welcome to our YouTube Channel. I am your blogging teacher. I am teaching you "Blogging Course Beginners to Intermediate. I also provide information about Competitive Blogging like "How to make your own Blog", "Blogging SEO" and "How to Rank your Blog on Google's first page", etc. They are the keywords I used in the description. You should also use the keywords according to your topic as they help you to grow. Don't make grammatical mistakes in your description.

• To solve grammar mistakes problem, use "Grammarly" chrome extension.
• Customize your channel URL by selecting "Custom URL".
• Give your social media links to YouTube. Also, give your YouTube Channel link to other Social Media Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Now Publish by clicking on the "Publish" button. 
• Now go to "Settings" go to "Channel" and write the keywords on which you want to make videos in the future. For example, I want to teach Blogging. I write the keywords as follows. "Blogging" Blogging SEO, How to start a blog, and then, etc.

Write these keywords in the keyword section, and write the keyword according to your topic. Don't do spamming. Only use the keywords which are related to your topic.

2. Video SEO

There are 5 parts to video SEO. And I will discuss these five parts with all of you, and if you remember, I have already explained all these parts in many of my YouTube related articles, but today I have some different discussions. I will not discuss it from the previous class. So you have to read them carefully.

1. Title SEO
2. Description SEO
3. Tags SEO
4. Video internal SEO
5. Thumbnail SEO

1. Title SEO

There are many ways to boost your YouTube channel, and not all of them require money. One of the best ways to grow your channel is to optimize the title of your videos so that they appear higher in YouTube search results. This will help your channel get more views and subscribers. You can optimize the title of your video by using the following tips.

• As we have already learned how to do keyword research. So include the most searched keywords in your title (Get the keywords from Keyword Planner).
• You can copy the title of your competitor's video or get the title idea from it. If you are a beginner, you should try to use long-tail keywords.
• For example, I am a beginner and I want to upload a video on the topic How to create Blog in 2022 write the title as follows "How to Create Blog In 2022 | How to rank Blog | Blogging SEO For Beginners - 60 to 80 words title is the best title for SEO.
• Try to use the name of your channel in the title. If you are not popular, then don't use the name of the channel in the title.
• Copying the title of your competitor's popular video is also a super best option, but cut the name of the competitors from the title.

2. Description SEO

Having an optimized description for your channels and videos will help you rank higher in search engines for the keywords you want to rank for. Most YouTubers just post whatever is on their mind and don’t think about optimizing their description for search engines. By optimizing your description for search engines, you will see a lot of your views coming from search engines.

There is a lot of competition on YouTube and if you have a well-optimized description, you will rank higher on search engines. For example, if you are a small content creator and you are trying to rank for the keyword “how to make a cake,” there is a lot of competition. But, if you have a well-optimized description with the keyword “make a cake” in your description, you will most likely rank higher on the search engine results page (SERP).

• Copy your title and paste it at the start of the description.
• Use all the keywords related to the topic of your video in the first 200-300 words of the description.
• Don't use all the keywords together, but spread them in the whole description.
• Give link-related videos and playlists in the description.
• Also, give your social media links in the description.
• 200-300 words description is best for SEO.
• Don't make grammatical mistakes in the description. (Use Grammarly).
• Also, use Hashtags (#) in a description related to your video topic (3 to 4). Use hashtags (#) of words that you have used in the title.

3. Tags SEO

1. Go to “rapidtags.io" and write your video's main topic. Many tags appear there. Copy all these tags and paste them into the tags sections. Also, use the name of your channel for tags.
2. Use the "VidIq" Chrome extension and copy the tags of your competitor's videos and paste them into the tags section. 400-500 word tags are best for SEO.
3. Use a maximum of 10-15 tags and each tag must contain 3-4 words.

4. Video Internal SEO

1. Write the title, description, and tags in a notepad before uploading the video.
2. Use this title, description, and tags in the details of your video file. Rename your video file to the same as the title of your video. Open your video file "properties" and then " detail" and then paste the description and tags, which you have copied from a notepad in their place. Rate the video 5 stars and leave a comment in which the main keyword of your video is included.

5. Thumbnail SEO

Make an attractive thumbnail and the text on your thumbnail is the same as your title. Follow the same steps with a thumbnail file as mentioned in Video Internal SEO.

Use canva.com for designing beautiful thumbnails.

5. Extra Tips and Tricks

1. Use YouTube cards and end screens to increase views. If you don't know about YouTube cards and end screens, you can take information about them from YouTube.
2. Make a playlist and optimize it by title, description, and tags. We have explained the method in the above pages.
3. Say the people in the video to subscribe to your channel.
4. Grow your channel with Google ads.
5. Copy the title and tags of your competitor's video.
6. Write ?sub_confirmation=1 with your channel URL and then share it with social media plate forms and other sources.

If any person clicks on the link above, he sees the interface given below and there are 50-60% chance that he will click the subscribe button.

• You should make chapters of your video.
• Make the video as long as required, otherwise your video's "average view duration" and "CTR" will decrease and your video cannot be ranked.
• Request big YouTubers to discuss your channel in their video and give a link to your channel in the description of their video.
• The time when you upload the video, try to get comments and like artificially and then reply to these comments. It will increase comments and YouTube realizes people are more engaged in this video. So there are great chances for your video to rank.
• Always reply to the comments. Also, pin a single comment.

6. Gain more subscribers with YouTube Shorts

Many of the new YouTubers and businesses are not making a lot of money on YouTube because they are not getting a lot of views from their videos. So is there any way to get more views on their YouTube channel? The answer is yes. All they have to do is to make "YouTube Shorts" and upload them on their YouTube channel. YouTube shorts are short videos (15 Seconds to 20 seconds) on your channel.

The idea behind making YouTube shorts is to grow your channel and get more subscribers. This is the easiest way to get more subscribers on YouTube. When you make YouTube shorts, you are actually helping the YouTube community. So you are doing a good deed by helping other YouTubers and businesses. It is a win situation. The best Topics for YouTube shorts are:

1. Funny Videos
2. Informative Videos
3. Gaming Videos
4. Trending Topics
5. Entertainment

• Title

Your title + #Shorts #YouTubeshorts #trending

• Description

Paste your title on the first line. Then write the best description as we learned in the above pages and then add #Youtubeshorts #shorts #trending.

• Tags

Shorts, Youtubeshorts, trending, #shorts, #Youtubeshorts, #trending

• Thumbnail

Your thumbnail must be attractive so that more people click on your video.

• Your short video must be 15-20 seconds long.
• Upload at least 5 videos daily and upload consistently.

7. How to get traffic from social media?

1. Make a strong profile on social media to share your video links.
2. Don't share the link directly in your social media post, but upload the thumbnail picture and write the caption that "video link in first comment" or upload a small part of a," video full link in the first comment".
3. If you share the link directly on your Facebook, etc., Facebook will minimize its reach because Facebook and YouTube are opposite video-sharing platforms.
4. Share your content in different WhatsApp groups to gain maximum views and subscribers.

8. Some Misconceptions about YouTube SEO

1. People thought they would do the SEO of their video and that their video will be popular overnight. This concept is wrong. SEO takes time of about 3-4 weeks and its results are long-lasting.
2. People also thought to optimize will rank. This concept is also wrong. There are also some factors other than SEO that YouTube consider like "CTR", "Average View Duration", etc.

Some misconceptions about YouTube SEO are that you need to optimize your videos before publishing them. You can optimize your videos at any point in time. The earlier you optimize, the faster your videos will grow and the better your rankings will be.

Another misconception about YouTube SEO is that you need to purchase a bunch of views and subscribers in order to rank high and attract views. This is completely untrue. The only way you can rank high on YouTube is by having high-quality content and optimization.

You shouldn’t be worried about your views and subscribers. These will grow naturally if you have quality content.

Conclusion:

YouTube SEO is one of the best ways to grow your YouTube Channel out there and connect with people. It's a lot of fun and can be very rewarding. I hope this article has been helpful to you and that you get more successful on your YouTube channel. If you have any other questions or concerns about growing your channel, please contact us anytime at. Thank you for reading, they always excited us when one of our posts can provide useful information on a topic like this! If you liked this article, share it on Facebook or Twitter so that your friends can learn how to grow their YouTube channel and business.