YouTube SEO
How discovery actually works on YouTube, and which parts of the metadata are worth your time versus which ones creators over-invest in.
- YouTube SEO · 8 min read
How to tear down a competitor channel
On 19 August 2026, a direct HTTP pull of one competitor's homepage returned an 11-word server-side body while its sitemap listed roughly 60,521 URLs and its
- YouTube SEO · 6 min read
What keyword difficulty means on YouTube
On 23 August 2026 we measured 60 YouTube niches with a keyword engine set to estimated=false, meaning every number below is a reading, not a guess.
- YouTube SEO · 7 min read
Translating titles for other markets
On 22 August 2026, ViewMade's product documentation listed seven interface languages and five voiceover languages for its short-video output.
- YouTube SEO · 7 min read
Channel audit: what actually to look at
On 22 August 2026, the homepage of one tool in this category returned 1274 words of server-rendered body text without JavaScript running.
- YouTube SEO · 6 min read
YouTube keyword research without guessing
On 2026-08-23 we ran a keyword measurement across 60 YouTube niches and returned a single number for each: an opportunity score from 0 to 100, marked
- YouTube SEO · 7 min read
Thumbnail A/B testing and what it really shows
On 19 August 2026 we pulled the server-side HTML of four pages on storyshort.ai without executing JavaScript and found the same result on every page: 11 words
- YouTube SEO · 7 min read
YouTube search vs Google video results
14 of 15 commercial queries we tested on 19 August 2026 put the same site outside the top 12 on Google, while that site's own brand query still surfaced it
- YouTube SEO · 6 min read
YouTube outlier finders in 2026, and what an outlier actually is
Every tool in this category reports a different number for the same video, because "outlier" is a formula with two choices in it. Here is ours, written out, and what to ask any tool that will not show you theirs.
Other subjects
- Faceless channels
Starting and running a channel that never shows a face: picking the subject, judging whether a niche is really saturated, and what the format costs to sustain.
- Shorts
The vertical format on its own terms: cut rhythm, the first two seconds, and why a Short that holds attention looks nothing like a trimmed long-form video.
- Scripts
Writing the thing before filming it: hooks that are not clickbait, structure that survives the middle, and how much of a script is worth writing at all.
- Tools and costs
What the software stack around a channel really costs, what each tool is for, and where the categories overlap enough that you are paying twice.
- Growth and money
Subscribers, watch time and revenue: reading your own analytics without flattering yourself, and what changes between the first hundred and the first thousand.