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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Tips for partners: Betty's recipe for metadata

Our partners teach us something new everyday, whether it’s about science, art or cooking. Sometimes they even teach our team YouTube optimization tips and how to better promote a channel. In a series of monthly videos, we’re asking partners to talk about their top optimization tips for channels and are kicking this off with Betty from bettyskitchen. Betty joined the partner program last year and makes cooking videos with simple recipes ranging from cheddar jack whipped potatoes to healthy and natural granola bars, which all have one thing in common: they are incredibly delicious.

We asked Betty to show us how she uses metadata to increase her discoverability, choose her tags wisely, and come up with the perfect title. We hope you’ll find her recipe for metadata just as enjoyable as her steps to make buttercream frosting.


Let us know in the comments section of Betty’s video if you have great tips to share on using metadata or any other questions for Betty. We’d also love to hear how your videos have been impacted once you have used some of these tips to optimize your metadata.

Julie Kikla and Mahin Ibrahim, Account Managers, YouTube Partnerships recently watched “Baby Eating Watermelon.”



4 comments:

JoshRimer said...

Some great tips there from Betty! And definitely something that many (or really "most" I'm sure) YouTube Partners overlook. Once you're Shane Dawson you can just fill your description with generic links to your other social media, but until then concentrating on meta data will really help you to get found!

James Lawson-Smith said...

Aren't Closed Captions also used as meta data for search engines?

christrek2 said...

I think partners get enough attention already, even without these tips, all I see half the time, in featured videos are partners, never the average user, and that's not all.

VideoLeadsOnline said...

When you want to get focused attention on a Tag... try putting 2 or more words in quotes. White Lab has more competition than "White Lab" - so if you know you want folks that are looking for a White Lab video, then use the quotes!

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