Description Template
Below is the template I follow for all YouTube Video. Use this as a guide and replace all guides with the relevant information for your video based on the guidance above.
(KEYWORD/TITLE) (AFFILIATE LINK)
(A GOOD CALL TO ACTION)
(WELCOME MESSAGE - Introduction to this video, yourself or the channel)
(500 WORD ARTICLE – KEYWORD RELATED) Include long tail keyword 5-8 times
(CALL TO ACTION) (AFFILIATE LINK)
Feel free to share this video:
(VIDEO LINK -This actual video)
Check Out Our Channel: (CHANNEL LINK)
Learn more about subject: (AUTHORITY WEBSITE LINK) (Further website links) (Further website links)
Check out our related videos: (Title) (Link)
(Title) (Link)
(Title) (Link)
Check out other related videos: (Title) (Link)
(Title) (Link)
(Title) (Link)
KEYWORDS
Long tail keywords Long tail keywords Long tail keywords
Tags
Tags are an extension of the title and therefore are very important. Whilst they are important do not go overkill here. You want to be sensible. Put 5-8 tag in here only. Make sure they are all long tail keywords. Put your number 1 keyword as the first tag. If you use the VidIQ chrome extension you can look back later and see whether you are ranking for the tag and what tags have sent you traffic. You can also you it to see the same stats for your competitors and use those keyword tags!
Additional Features
At this stage YouTube allows you to add a few minor features to your video before uploading. First we can choose to post the video on our google+ account and our twitter account. This will give you some additional linking juice to this video, so do it. By joining Youtube you automatically have a google+ account, but make a twitter specially for this YouTube account and link it. Secondly we can add the video to a playlist. Playlists are collections of videos. The ideas is that the playlist will contain a range of similar videos. What i like to do is to create a playlist with the same title as my chosen keyword or video title. I add my video as the first video and then populate the playlist with a range of similar videos. Again this is all done to help us get found rather than helping others as this put in the system that this video is in a playlist so it must be adding value.