What is a description of a video?

A video description is a piece of metadata that helps YouTube understand the content of a video. Along with your video title and tags, YouTube uses your description to understand the content (and context) of your video content.

What do I put in the title of a YouTube video and description?

Aim to use two or three related keywords in each channel and video description. For videos, the main keyword should also appear in the title. Repeat each keyword two to three times in the description to make them stand out to YouTube’s algorithm.

How do you write a good title tag for a YouTube video?

Possible actions you can take:

1. Give an overview of your video using natural language — not just a stream of keywords.
2. Put the most important keywords toward the beginning of your description.
3. Identify 1-2 main words that describe your video and feature them prominently in both your description and title.

How do I title my YouTube video?

5 Tips on How to Title YouTube Videos

1. Keep your titles within 70 characters (including spaces)
2. Mention the search term you’d like to rank for naturally in the video title.
3. Promise value to the user with the title.
4. Sparkle interest by using words like Without, Although and To.
5. Do A/B tests.

How do you add a title to your YouTube video?

If you want to set the game title when you are uploading a video, in the new YouTube upload workflow, you will find YouTube categories on page two in the Advanced settings and it works in exactly the same way. Choose Gaming as your category and search for your video game.

Where is YouTube video description?

On YouTube, the description box is underneath the video and below the line where you see the title, the number of views, likes, shares, etc. On mobile devices, the description text is hidden by default.