SEO & Optimization
Titles, descriptions and metadata — checked before they go live rather than after.
Title Analyzer Check length, truncation and readability before the title goes live. Use tool → Timestamp Generator Build clean chapter timestamps for your description. Use tool → YouTube Tags & Keyword Generator Generate tag and keyword phrasings, counted against the real 500-character field. Use tool →
Almost everything in this group is about one thing: what survives being cut. A title is not truncated at a character count but at a pixel width, and that width is different in the feed, in search results, in the sidebar and on a phone. A title that reads perfectly in your editor can arrive at a viewer with its second half missing.
The fix is not to write short titles. It is to put the part that persuades first, then check where each surface cuts — which is what the analyzer shows you, side by side, before you publish rather than after.
Worth checking
- Put the claim first, so the visible half is the half that does the work.
- Check the mobile cut, not just the desktop one. It is the tightest and the most common.
- Write timestamps for anything over a few minutes — they become chapters, and chapters get their own entry points.
Guides for this
- Do YouTube tags still matter? What tags actually do in 2026, the three places they still have measurable effect, and why the fields that people ignore are worth more than the field they obsess over.
- Chapters and timestamps: the five-minute job most channels skip The exact format YouTube requires, why chapters fail silently when one line is wrong, and what they change about how a video is found and watched.
- Why a new faceless channel gets no views The four reasons a channel sits at double-digit views, in the order they are worth checking, and why the most common advice — post more — usually makes the problem harder to diagnose.