Doing YouTube Keyword Research Using Common Sense
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:27 am
Check out Ahrefs data on the keywords 'Social media marketing strategy' for YouTube:
Ahrefs YouTube Keyword Research Tool
Ahrefs estimates that this is around 1900 searches per month.
That seems a little low to me.
Let’s see what results a different YouTube keyword research tool gives us. This time we’re using TubeBuddy, which uses data from Keywordtool.io.
TubeBuddy YouTube Keyword Research Tool
70,000!
That seems to be a little on the high side….
The cool thing about TubeBuddy is that they try to give you some guidance architects email list on how easy it would be to rank for that keyword. They look at the number of videos with that keyword and how well optimized they are.
We all know that many times… it is not very well optimized.
It is up to you whether you want to use YouTube keyword research tools or not.
We often check YouTube autocomplete to see what keywords they suggest using.
YouTube suggests keyword research
If YouTube suggests so many variations of your keyword, you can almost guarantee that the topic is popular.
You can add a space to the beginning of the search bar and get even more keyword suggestions from YouTube:
YouTube suggests keyword research tool
You can now select the keyword that best matches and try to optimize it.
We will show you how in the audits we will be doing below.
Ahrefs YouTube Keyword Research Tool
Ahrefs estimates that this is around 1900 searches per month.
That seems a little low to me.
Let’s see what results a different YouTube keyword research tool gives us. This time we’re using TubeBuddy, which uses data from Keywordtool.io.
TubeBuddy YouTube Keyword Research Tool
70,000!
That seems to be a little on the high side….
The cool thing about TubeBuddy is that they try to give you some guidance architects email list on how easy it would be to rank for that keyword. They look at the number of videos with that keyword and how well optimized they are.
We all know that many times… it is not very well optimized.
It is up to you whether you want to use YouTube keyword research tools or not.
We often check YouTube autocomplete to see what keywords they suggest using.
YouTube suggests keyword research
If YouTube suggests so many variations of your keyword, you can almost guarantee that the topic is popular.
You can add a space to the beginning of the search bar and get even more keyword suggestions from YouTube:
YouTube suggests keyword research tool
You can now select the keyword that best matches and try to optimize it.
We will show you how in the audits we will be doing below.