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youtube 1024x759 Important Notice BBTV Creators   Avoid Tag Spam!

BBTV Creators listen up! Tag Spam, i.e. unnecessary and excessive tags in your video descriptions is against YouTube’s policy. We want all of you to make sure you keep this in mind when posting.

How-To Avoid Violating YouTube’s Policy

First off, don’t stuff your video descriptions with extra keywords. You might think that this will help you in YouTube’s search ranking – it won’t. Extra, unrelated tags will not only hurt your search ranking but it can also lead to YouTube issuing a strike against your account. YouTube has terminated channels – no matter how big – for violating this policy, and there’s been a number of suspensions issued for it.

Be Smart & Admit Your Mistakes
Let’s say you’ve perhaps engaged in over-tagging on your channel in the past. Even if you haven’t had any kind of suspension or warning it’s time to start removing those extra tags. Go back into your video descriptions and take them out – it’s better to be safe than sorry here! Old videos are actually just as prone to suspension as new ones, but if you follow through with cleaning out unnecessary tags now you should be fine.

If you want to learn more on how to properly use your metadata, check out our posts on tagsdescriptions and titles. And remember creators, there are several ways to properly tag and optimize your content, and VISO Catalyst is designed to ensure you cover each one!

Please contact support if you have any further questions.


Important Notice BBTV Creators – Avoid Tag Spam!

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  • Is the VISO Catalyst Beta designed with tag abuse and limitations in mind?

    And is there an info graphic or a resource that YouTube/Google has provided to avoid these issues in the future? Thank you for the warning post about this!

    • Hi Thomas,

      And thank you for taking the time to read through and comment. For this inquiry, please direct to support@bbtv.com who will be able to assist you more fully.

      Hope this was helpful!

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