Free YouTube Monetization Course – Lesson 13
vidIQ is an SEO and analytics tool designed for YouTube channel owners. With the vidIQ SEO tool, you can optimize your YouTube videos for search engines, and you can analyze your competitors. In addition, with this tool you can do the following.
- Keyword research,
- Competitor research,
- vidIQ SEO evaluation
Thanks to these three features, you can increase your video and channel performance by optimizing both your YouTube videos and your YouTube channel. It can be used on phones and computers. It has a user-friendly interface and its installation is very easy. In the video below, you can learn how to install the vidIQ SEO tool to your web browser.
Attention: The YouTube video is used in 4 languages. If the video does not open in a language suitable for you, you can change the video language by clicking the Audio Track option in the settings section of the video.
Main features of vidIQ
Above, I mentioned the 3 main features of vidIQ. I would like to note that precisely these features are the most important basics for the development of a YouTube channel. However, vidIQ is not limited only to these possibilities and offers its users broader functionality than this. In our next lessons, you will learn step by step how you can use vidIQ more effectively and professionally. Now, let us separately look at those same 3 main features that I mentioned at the beginning of the lesson and explain in more detail how they contribute to the channel.
Keyword research
With the vidIQ SEO tool, by conducting keyword research, you can obtain the chance to appear in top positions in searches. When writing titles, descriptions, and tags for your YouTube videos, keyword research must definitely be done. vidIQ will assist you in this task. In our lesson called Keyword research for YouTube videos, you will learn how keywords are researched with the vidIQ SEO tool and what you should pay attention to when researching keywords.
Competitor research
To grow your YouTube channel, you should research other YouTube channels that have the same concept as you, that is, your competitors. By conducting competitor research, you can learn
- The tags,
- The hashtags
- The changed cover images
- Video SEO performance
- Their strongest keywords
Based on the information you obtain, you can improve your YouTube videos and directly your channel. Competitor analysis will play the role of a beacon for you on your journey of growing your YouTube channel. Since competitor research is a broad topic, I recommend that you read the lesson titled Conducting YouTube competitor research with vidIQ with special attention.
vidIQ SEO evaluation
You shared a video on your YouTube channel and think that you did SEO work for that video. Would you like to know at what level the SEO work you did is? The vidIQ SEO tool, just as it helps you in YouTube SEO work, will also perform your SEO evaluation. The tool will perform both the SEO evaluation of your video and the performance evaluation of the video. Those evaluation scores will ensure that you see the strengths and weaknesses of the SEO in your video. Since this lesson provides general information about the vidIQ SEO tool, you will be able to obtain the information about SEO evaluation and performance evaluation in the next lessons.
If you want to increase the views of your YouTube videos and improve their performance, you must definitely use the vidIQ SEO tool. By moving on to the next lesson, you can obtain more detailed information about vidIQ SEO.
