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YouTube SEO: How to Boost Your Channel’s Visibility
Yannick Weiler
Jan 12, 202413 min readContributor: Christine Skopec

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YouTube presents a huge opportunity for marketers looking to connect with new audiences.
So, it makes sense that you would want to ensure as much visibility there as possible.
And YouTube search engine optimization (SEO) isn’t as complicated as you might think. In fact, if you already optimize your website for Google and other search engines, the building blocks of YouTube SEO will be very familiar.
Let’s go over the basics of YouTube SEO and then dig into what you can do to start attracting more audiences on the platform.
What Is YouTube SEO?
YouTube SEO is the process of optimizing videos to generate more views that can help you gain channel subscribers and drive traffic to your website.
The goal is to ensure users can easily find your content. Like this:

YouTube SEO is a subset of SEO, which aims to generate organic traffic from search engines. And SEO is mostly associated with optimizing for Google.
Here are the results for the same search as the one in the image above performed on Google:

Optimizing videos for YouTube and optimizing websites for Google are both considered SEO. Because YouTube acts as a search engine, just like Google.
And SEO consists of two main steps:
Doing keyword research to find popular search queries (or keywords) that people use to find information on a particular topic
Optimizing a web property for those keywords to help it appear higher on search engine results pages (SERPs)
YouTube SEO involves these two steps, too. But instead of optimizing webpages, you optimize videos.
How Does YouTube SEO Work?
YouTube's algorithm takes into account several factors when ranking videos in search and displaying them elsewhere on the platform, including:
Relevance: YouTube uses keywords found in a video’s title, description and tags to understa