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YouTube’s new ‘Search Insights’ feature is already creating waves
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ouTube is a marketer’s dream. With so many potential viewers, your target audience is bound to be looking for ‘how to’ videos and other content. To ensure that your ads reach your target audience, you’ll need video SEO and keyword research on your side. YouTube provides creators with more information about the queries people are searching for as well as their estimated search volume.
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Why is keyword research necessary for YouTube? It’s simple: video marketing is too expensive to not be as strategic as possible with what you create and how you distribute it. Your audience will be able to find you more easily if you conduct keyword research. And getting them to find you means more chances for your content to be shared. Even if it’s a branded video, 76 per cent of users say they’ll share it as long as it’s entertaining. Search Insights for YouTube YouTube introduced a new feature designed to make keyword research easier, allowing you to create more
content around topics that people are interested in. Search Insights is a beta feature that is being tested within YouTube Studio. You can use Search Insights to collect information about: • What your target audience is looking for • What the average YouTube viewer is looking for • Each query’s estimated search volume • Whether or not there is a “content gap” for a specific search term. • Search Insights can help with content planning because the data shows what types of videos people want to watch This information can aid in the creation of more relevant content that is tailored to the interests of your target audience. How to use Search Insights Log in to YouTube Studio and select Analytics to access Search Insights. Navigate to the Research section and look for a tab titled “Your viewers’ searches”. Here you’ll find the most popular searches made by your viewers or viewers of channels similar to yours.
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