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Whether you're an aspiring youtuber, a micro-influencer, or you want to get the word out about your company through video on Youtube, you inevitably need to gain views. The competition is tough! You need to boost your SEO to make sure you're at the top of the results people get when they search for the topics you cover.
This is where TubeBuddy comes in. This Youtube extension is an analytical tool combined with a publishing management tool. Considered indispensable by many users, is it really as effective as it is said to be? What are the advantages of TubeBuddy? I give you my opinion on this extension in this complete test.
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Summary
This is without a doubt the best analysis and management tool for Youtube. There is a free version that allows you to discover some of the tools and that already allows you to progress. Of course, it is the paid packages that give you access to the most powerful and effective tools to boost SEO. If you have quality content that's struggling to break through, then TubeBuddy is an extension you should consider!
TubeBuddy: Overview
As explained in the introduction, TubeBuddy is a Youtube extension, which you can download for free. It works on Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Certified by Youtube, it integrates perfectly with all the features of the video sharing platform.
Once you've downloaded and activated it, you'll notice that the extension gives you lots of information about the Youtube videos you're watching and the channel that produces them. In particular, we have the number of shares or likes, the SEO score calculated by TubeBuddy, the number of subscribers, and especially the tags that are associated.
There is also a dashboard, directly integrated to Youtube, with a lot of tools that allow us to :
- Launch keyword searches
- Find ideas for videos related to the content you want to propose
- Design professional titles and tags that will attract clicks
- Facilitate and schedule your publications
- Boost your search engine optimization to appear at the top of searches
- Perform A/B testing of your thumbnails and videos
TubeBuddy is an analytical tool, with publishing management options, to help you better understand the Youtube game and boost your channel's performance as much as possible. It's a tool used by more than 3 million videographers and there's no good reason to do without the free version.
What are the advantages of TubeBuddy?
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The first advantage of TubeBuddy is its simplicity. There are a lot of tools (especially with paid subscriptions), but it's easy to find them. It's very clear and therefore also allows those who are just starting out to better understand how to boost their referencing or how to find out about their competitors.
Analyze the competition
Of course, we should not copy anything and create unique and relevant content to seduce our potential subscribers. That said, TubeBuddy's analytics tools give us the ability to analyze the competition and understand why certain videos, even though they're not as good as ours, are coming up ahead of us in searches.
We can even run comparisons between videos to see what elements allow one of them to position itself much more effectively than another. This analysis also includes keyword research, which will help us find video topics that have an impact on SEO.
Just type in a keyword, and you will have a whole list of words, topics, tags, which will be useful both to boost the direct referencing of a publication, but also to think about other videos that have chances to attract a maximum of views.
Publish faster
When you post a video, if you do it right, you'll think about a description and tags that can boost SEO. TubeBuddy allows you to automate this process, to find the keywords and tags that fit your video and that will help you rank better in searches.
You will just have to take some time at the beginning, in order to create typical profiles for your videos. Then, you just have to select the right profile and the tags and keywords of the description will be found automatically.
This tool is especially interesting for those who have a niche channel. If you talk about different topics in each video, then it won't be effective. 90% of Youtubers have channels that deal with a specific topic (video games, beauty, fitness, science, etc.). In these cases, TubeBuddy is a partner that will help us gain time and subscribers.
Update existing videos
We can add inserts, links, a logo, make changes in the descriptions, promote new videos, in just a few clicks and on all the videos of the channel. It's very simple and it really allows you to optimize your whole channel very easily.
If you already have dozens or even hundreds of videos, and you want a user who sees one of them to be directed to the latest video on your channel, then it's possible. You can also add a subscription button, ask to link at the end of the video, etc. There are many possibilities and we can set up everything on our entire channel in a few seconds.
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Create effective thumbnails
TubeBuddy has a powerful thumbnail generator, which allows you to waste no time in designing an effective thumbnail, which brings clicks. You'll also be able to run A/B tests to see which thumbnails work and which don't.
Once again, during my TubeBuddy test, I loved the ease with which the thumbnail creation and testing are done. You don't waste time but you work efficiently!
Easier comment management
Another interesting tool in TubeBuddy is the message manager, which once again saves time, while not forgetting to reply to our subscribers. As we all know, especially when you start to have a community, you have to take care of it and create a link.
TubeBuddy gives you the ability to create many pre-recorded phrases to respond quickly, without it being too robotic. The extension can also notify you if you haven't responded to certain comments that have a lot of likes or you haven't responded to any comments on a specific video.
Many tools to make your life easier and gain views
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I'm not going to list all the tools offered by TubeBuddy, there are too many and some are interesting for me, but not necessarily for you and vice versa. Anyway, even the free version already offers many tools that help us to progress.
This is the best advertisement they can do. Since you can start with a free package, which will still be limiting, but effective enough to move on to higher versions. There are 3 paid packages, which are :
Then there are 3 additional formulas:
Pro, at $3.00 / month: With all the necessary tools to analyze the competition, search for keywords without limitation, add maps or end screens to your videos, audit your videos, filter comments, etc.
Star, at $07.59 / month: All the tools of the Pro version, with additional monetization tools, a complete publication management calendar, unlimited scheduling to add and remove elements to videos, adding polls, etc.
Legend, at $19.60/month: You'll find all the tools of the previous packages, much more complete analytical tools, A/B testing of videos to understand why some publications are successful while others stagnate, an automatic translator to post easily in several languages, and also access to some paying sites, to have royalty-free music or images, as well as other very advanced analytical tools. (Find out more about each package here).
You should also know that you can get discounts for each package depending on the number of subscribers or the type of page you want to promote.
TubeBuddy Opinion: My conclusion!
Is this TubeBuddy test positive? Of course it is! There is no other analytical tool as powerful for Youtube. It is very complete and above all very easy to use. The only regret is that the whole interface is only in English for now. We can hope for a translation in the coming months, I read here and there that it was planned.
Anyway, even if you don't speak English perfectly, you can understand very quickly how to use most of the tools and especially how to read the information they give you. We will create videos with quality thumbnails, optimized descriptions and titles, which will inevitably boost our referencing.
So yes, the free features are limited. So you have to take at least the pro subscription to have a very efficient tool that gives you all the keys to progress. However, it's a small investment that can pay for itself very quickly. TubeBuddy gives you an edge over your competitors.
Of course, this is not a guarantee of success. You need to offer quality content and if your videos attract views but are not watched to the end, then the Youtube robot will make you lose in referencing. TubeBuddy is therefore ideal for those who are convinced that they have interesting content, capable of competing with the big rival channels. If that's the case, then go for it, TubeBuddy will become your best ally.
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