

Using the YouTube Tag Extractor, we can easily reveal these hidden meta tags with the click of a button: Altogether these Tags only take up 164 characters of the 500 limit, so there’s room for many more. Once this is clicked, it expands further options including “Tags”:Ī YouTube video can have up to 500 characters worth of Tags - which is a lot! In the example above, we can see the SEOptimer video has 11 Tags. In YouTube Studio, at the bottom of the “Video details” page is a hyperlink “Show More”: Since these Tags are invisible on the actual video page, our friends at SEOptimer generously shared some screenshots with us so we can peek behind the scenes at how they tagged their videos. Best practice is to use all lowercase Tags with alpha-numeric characters. Unlike HashTags, they do not have pound (#) signs in front of them and they can also contain spaces to encompass a string of multiple words. Tags are added to a video when it is uploaded on YouTube. See more information about YouTube HashTags. HashTags: which are the visible tags shown above a video title.Tags: which are the invisible “meta” Tags associated with a video.


The confusing thing about YouTube is there are two types of tags: Tags are not to be confused with HashTags which are displayed in the video description and above the video title. Extracting YouTube Tags can be very insightful to understand how competitor videos and other high-performing videos are using these tags to boost their performance. The Tag Extractor tool is a handy way of extracting and revealing these meta tags associated with any public video. Not all videos have these tags as it’s up to the video publisher to add them when they upload the video. YouTube tags are the hidden metatags associated with videos on YouTube.
