There are a lot of very helpful people in the YouTube community who have tonnes of sound advice gained from years of experience.
And there are also people who (purposefully or not) give out bad advice, false information and help to spread rumours.
In this article I’ll be cutting through some of these less-than-helpful myths surrounding SEO on YouTube:
1) Trick X will help you rank higher.
Firstly let me break the bad news.
There are no tricks. There are no shortcuts.
And you certainly won’t hear me promising anything of the sort.
Instead create and release content consistently and make sure the fundamentals of your Tags, Titles, and Thumbnails are rock solid and you’ll see great improvement in the rankings.
The second flaw in these theories is that the concept of ranking on YouTube is very different from Google. Google rankings are personalised but nowhere near as much as they are on YouTube. Because of this it is much harder to get an objective idea of rank for your videos.
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