What should I put in my YouTube description (+template)
The best kept YouTube SEO SECRET: using the YouTube video description PROPERLY!
What to put in your video description? the best description ideas WITH FREE TEMPLATE.
When you start with YouTube, you need every YouTube SEO advantage you can get.
In this video I'll give you the best YouTube video description tutorial with tips that nobody talks about:
What do you write in the video description box on YouTube?
How to write a YouTube video description?
For YouTube SEO: video descriptions explained in this video.
A video description is text under a YouTube video.
The trick is to optimize your YouTube SEO for the best results.
The YouTube video description can describe the contents of the video, but is also used by the algorithm.
The creator can also share relevant information like links to other videos or websites, timestamps of chapters in a video or mention other YouTube channels with the @-sign.
The YouTube algorithm determines the topic of the video by looking at the video title, description, thumbnail and speech in the YouTube video.
Optimize your YouTube video description for your YouTube SEO!
You have 5000 characters to tell the YouTube algorithm exactly what your video is about!
If you are clear about the content of your video, you improve your chances of being found by YouTube search (or Google search for that matter), suggested by the suggested algorithm or suggested by YouTube home algorithm.
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★ TABLE OF CONTENTS ★
• 0:00 Intro: YouTube video description
• 0:42 Video description and the YouTube algorithm
• 1:47 What to write in the video description? Above the fold
• 2:55 What to write in the video description? Below the fold
• 3:41 Use video script/outline
• 4:02 Refer to other videos
• 5:04 Table of contents with timestamps
• 5:22 Disclaimer
• 5:45 YouTube Channel description
• 6:01 About the author + call to action
• 6:27 Links
• 6:35 Frequently Asked Questions
• 6:55 Hashtags
• 7:18 Use markup
• 7:45 Free template
• 7:59 Upload defaults
💡 TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO 💡
• YouTube video description template
• YouTube description tips
• video description length
• YouTube video description example
• what to write in video description
• what to put in video description youtube
• video description box on YouTube
• YouTube video SEO descriptions explained
• video optimization
• YouTube SEO tips
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