So let’s jump on into how to use to TubeBuddy to get more views on your channel faster.
You want to go to the TubeBuddy website and sign up.
Click Here to Register Your Tube Buddy Account
So step number two is to actually set up TubeBuddy. So after you have signed up with Tub Buddy, go to the Google Chrome Chrome store, then go to the search bar and search up TubeBuddy. And it is the first option that comes up then in the corner, it is going to say, add extension to Chrome. And I basically just adds the extension to your extension bar. Then once you have it installed into Chrome, then ys.
So once you’re on a two buddies website, you have to sign up. So to sign up, you basically have to connect your Gmail or Google account that is linked to your YouTube channel because obviously this extension is to work on your YouTube channel. So it has to be connected to your YouTube channel in order to use it. So you sign up with the Gmail can actually your channel, and that is how you sign up.
Now, one concern I’ve been thrown out by many, many, many people is the concern of just how much control and access TubeBuddy has to your account. So the reason why it has so much access is because to be able to use TubeBuddy’s tools. It has to have certain access to different parts of your channel in different settings. So if you are afraid of the fact that TubeBuddy can delete videos or this, that, and the other thing, then rest 100% assured that TubeBuddy is 100% verified and certified by YouTube.
So YouTube itself says to buddy is safe to use. So yeah, once again, all you do is just connect your Google account. And that is how you make a free TubeBuddy account.
So that is step two is pricing and picking your plan. So there are different levels of TubeBuddy that offer you different tools and different access and levels to the tools. So the first level is the free version. With the free version, you still have access to things like the keyword Explorer, the upload checklist and stuff like this, but they will be limited. For example, when you have the little recommended tag section in your uploads, you are only going to have access to the first three or four tags, and then you have to unlock one of the paid or premium licenses to be able to access further other tags, to suggest.
And also in the keyword Explorer, I think you are limited to how many videos or keywords you can search per day. And there are certain analytics within the Explorer that are blocked to you until you upgrade. So definitely the free version is a good way to sort of like dip your toe in the water, test the waters, see if you like TubeBuddy before deciding whether or not to upgrade. But I do think long-term to use too buddy to its full potential. Definitely, definitely getting one of the paid subscriptions is the best way to go.
So in the paid versions, you have three different levels. You have pro star and legend. So these plans are either $9 a month USD, $19 a month USD or $49 USD. So then you also have some little discounts off to the side. So if you take the box that says you have under 1000 subscribers, then you automatically get a 50% discount because as TubeBuddy says themselves, they want to help the little guy in the smaller channels who can’t necessarily afford TubeBuddy.
So if you have less than 1000 subscribers that automatically decreases 50% of the price, then the second discount, if you are like me and you plan to pay for TubeBuddy annually instead of per month, then it drops another 20%. So instead of paying $9 a month, I’m technically paying $7 a month. And that adds up over time for the year to cost a lot less.
So these are the plans you can choose from. And I get asked all the time, which plan I currently use, and I’m using the pro version, the one that is usually $9 a month. But again, because I pay monthly, it is $7 a month. So that is the plan I use. And haven’t using since I first got to buddy. So once you have major account, you’ve linked it to your channel and you’ve picked your plan. Then you can start using the tools.
So the first tool I used all the time is the keyword Explorer. And for the most part, I use this to number one, see how highly searched my video ideas are. And number two, also to build my video titles.
So titles are super, super important to getting views because besides your thumbnails, your title is the first thing somebody sees when deciding whether or not to click onto your video. And also your video title is what has your keywords in it and your keywords and your title play a very big role in whether or not your videos rank in search.
So to build my titles, I pull up the keyword Explorer and type in the loose idea for my video. So let’s say, for example, my idea is “what’s on my iPhone?”. So once you search it up, it brings up three different sections. So it has the score analysis, the related and the commonly used tags or something like that.
So over on the score analysis, you have the weighted and the unweighted score, which basically tells you on a score from zero to 100, how likely you are to rank or not rank for that title. So weighted, it means specific to your channel and unweighted means in general. So when I’m trying to build my titles, I tend to look more on the weighted because that tells me specifically for my channel, whether or not I have a chance to rank.
So for example, for me, it says, I have about a 50% chance of ranking for what’s on my iPhone. And that is a pretty good score because it is right in the middle. So that tells me that what’s on my phone is possibly a good title for me to use on my video.
So then underneath that is the broken down score analysis, broken down into search and competition. So the search tells you from zero to 100, how popular that video is. If it’s closer to zero, it’s not very popular. If it’s closer to 100, it’s very popular that underneath that is the competition, which tells you from zero to 100, how many other YouTubers are making that same video and competing against your video?
So if the competition is closer to the red, that means that video has a lot of competition and closer to green, it means a lot less competition. So for my titles and keywords, I for to have a combination of as green as possible for search and as green as possible for competition.
So now over to the related section, this gives you other related tags. So if, for example, you search up what’s on my iPhone and find out it’s not the best keyword or title for you to use then in the related is basically other words of wording, that same title to see if they do better.
So if, for example, I started out with “what’s on my iPhone?” and change it to “what’s on my iPhone 2020?”, then that might have a better or a not so better title for me to use. So I will often just look through all of the related tags and titles until I find the one that gives me the best score possible. And that is usually what I use.
Then under that, the third section is the commonly used tags, which means that these are all tagged, that people who’ve made this video typically use. So if a lot of people making this video have done a what’s on my iPhone video, then these are the commonly used tags. And majority of them have in their tags section. So that is more inspiration. You can pull for your own tag section to have some of the same keywords that help them to do well with their videos.
So that is pretty much how I use the keyword Explorer for my tags, my keywords and my titles. So then another super, super useful tool I use quite often when picking my tags is that too buddy has a tool that allows you to go onto people’s channels and see some of their analytics and what tags they have used. So let’s look up what’s on my iPhone, since that is the video I am targeting. And then just pick the first video that is ranked in search. Once you’re on their page, there is a box off the side of their video that gives you their channel analytics like how many total views their channel has, how many total subscribers that channel has, how many of their keywords are in their title, description and tags. And then also if you scroll down further, it shows you all of their tags.
So if you want to see what tags, some YouTubers have tried to target for their video, then you can easily see that and then see if those tags work for you. So just like you were able to in the keyword Explorer, you can go through the tags in this tag box and click onto them. And that is going to give you the unweighted and weighted score.
Once again, to see if any of the tags, these YouTubers have used, can potentially work for you as well. So that is another super helpful tool you get from TubeBuddy that I use quite often. So now onto the mother of all tools, that to buddy offers you the upload settings, which is where basically all the magic happens for me when I’m optimizing my videos and setting up my SEO.
So this is what the upload page looks like with two buddies. So off to the side here, we have a little checklist which basically gives you all of the best practices and things to do to your video when you’re uploading in order to have the best SEO score possible and the highest optimization possible.
So things like add your video to a playlist, put your keywords in your title, put your keywords and description, blah, blah, blah, basically a checklist of things to do to give you the best score possible.
So then we get into the juicy stuff. So as you scroll down, there is a little box titled recommended tags in here, you have a two different options relevant and score. So relevant is going to give you tags relevant to your video, whether or not you have a chance to rank, it’s going to give you the best tags that are the most relevant to your video idea.
And then in the score section, these are the tags that are kind of relevant and most irrelevant, but you actually have a chance to rank for. So if what’s on my iPhone is a relevant tag, but you don’t have a chance to rank for it. Then the score section gives you more specific, more broken down tags that you have a much better chance of ranking for.
In both of these sections, beside every one of the keywords, there is a number again that is either a yellow, red, dark green or light green. So this is your personalized weighted score for each one of these tags based on the search, the competition and your unique chance of ranking for each tag. So if the tags you see and maybe want to use are more of like a red number or an orange number, then you can use it and you may have a chance to rank for it, but it’s not that good of a chance.
Or as we go into the score section and all the tags that give you are light green or darker green, that means that you have a much, much better chance to rank for those tags. So when I upload my videos, I go through both of these sections, figure out what tags to use in my video. And then I add them to the tag section.
And then it usually when I’m forming my title, I usually take one or two of the highest score tags. And those are the words I use in titles. So then the next tool I use quite often is the SEO studio. So in your upload settings, go to the little like TubeBuddy red box at the top of the upload settings, and then click on that and go to SEO studio. So in there now type in the tag that you want to basically optimize your videos for.
So for example, if this video is “how I plan my videos?”, I want to type in as my main targeted keyword, how I plan my videos. So it is not going to give you a checklist of things to do in order to set up your videos with the best SEO possible, to rank for that specific targeted keyword.
So you basically want to apply every single thing in this list, like adding your keyword three times in your description box, or one time in your title or stuff like this in order to give your video the best possible optimization for that keyword. So if you have a specific keyword, like a try-on hall or a what’s on my iPhone, and you really, really want to rank for that one specific keyword, then the SEO studio is your best friend for that.
So then last but not least a very, very crucial step is your description box. I have seen so many description boxes on YouTube, where all people say is, hope you enjoy the video and then just move on and leave a blank after that. No, no, no. That is the worst thing possible to do for SEO.
If you look up anything on YouTube, what’s on my iPhone, try on hall, literally anything, and look at the top ranked videos. They all have tags and keywords in their description box because they have all optimized and done SEO on their videos. Just like I said, in my other video where I mentioned TubeBuddy, I’m pretty sure that because TubeBuddy has over 900,000 users, that some of your favorite YouTubers are also using TubeBuddy and just don’t mention it.
When you are optimizing your videos and uploading your videos to YouTube, you need to take your tags and your keywords and put them in your description box so that when somebody is searching up something on YouTube, YouTube algorithm registers the keywords and your tags, titles and description box and gives you a better chance to rank in search.
So all of these steps together and doing each of these things is going to give your videos the best chance possible to be optimized, to rank and search and get a lot more views a lot faster, and also get more views over time. As I said before, one of my most popular videos that has over like 70,000 views got 300 views in the first day, about a thousand views in the first two weeks, and then got no views for six months up until February 2020, 6 months later, when a lot of people started searching up the water gallon challenge and found my video in search. And that is what made my video take off.
So getting your videos in search is not going to get you all the views right away, but it will ensure that your video doesn’t die down. It continuously gets views over time, days, weeks, and months after it’s uploaded. So this whole TubeBuddy process is a very, very crucial step to ranking your videos and getting more views faster. So that you guys is for this video.
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