How To Check Keyword Ranking For Your Video In YouTube and Google

In the video below, I show you 5 ways to track the rankings for your videos in both YouTube and Google.

I show the manual way which is really slow and a faster way using rank tracking tools.

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Here’s the manual way to check the keyword ranking for an individual video in both YouTube and Google.

  • Click file in your Chrome browser
  • Click new incognito window, it says, “You’ve gone incognito

Incognito means you can browse privately and other people using the device won’t see your activity. If you don’t use incognito mode, you won’t get accurate ranking results.

  • Enter the keyword phrase, you want to check the rankings for in Google, I got How To Translate YouTube Videos To English, now I can see that my video ranks on the first page of Google out of 212 million results.

Let’s check YouTube….

  • Enter YouTube in the browser bar
  • Enter my keyword phrase How To Translate YouTube Videos To English
  • Click search.
    Now I can see that my video also ranks number one on page one of YouTube.

Here’s how to quickly check the keyword ranking for an individual video using ytrank.net.

  • Insert your YouTube video URL in ytrank.net
  • Select your country, I will choose United States,
  • Add your keyword phrase…I’ve got How To Translate YouTube videos.
  • Click find rank.
    It shows the rank on page one of YouTube position four.
  • If I click on video rank page, it shows me the thumbnail and then the position on my rankings.

Here’s how to check the keyword rankings in your tags using TubeBuddy or vidIQ

  • Log into YouTube Studio
  • Click on analytics
  • Enter your keyword phrase in the search bar where it says, “Search across your channel“.
  • Enter How To Translate YouTube Videos To English.
  • Select my video
  • Click details.
  • Scroll down to the bottom
    Here you can see the rankings for all these different keyword phrases for this video. The green icons come from TubeBuddy and the blue icons come from vidIQ.

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How do you check your traffic source types in YouTube Analytics?
Instructor:

  • Log into YouTube Studio
  • Click on analytics
  • Click on the reach tab.
  • Scroll down to where it says, “Traffic source types
  • Click “see more”.
    Now you’ll be able to see where most of your traffic is coming from. In this case, most of traffic comes from external rather than YouTube search, then direct or unknown and suggestive videos.

    Unfortunately, YouTube doesn’t show the rankings for your videos in Google but I’ll show you how to do this later.
  • If I click on external, it’ll show me Google Search but no keyword rankings.
  • If I click on YouTube search, then it will show me the keyword rankings for the top keyword phrases on my channel.
  • If I click on suggested videos, it also show me the top keyword phrases that are sending me suggested views.

Here’s how to check the top search terms and the top videos for your channel in YouTube Search, Google Search and suggested videos using Morningfame.

  • Log into Morningfame.
  • Click Analytics Report
  • Click Algorithm.
  • Under YouTube Search, I can see the top search terms and the top videos.
  • On the Google search, I can see the top videos
  • On the suggested videos, I can get the top videos that are sending me suggested views. I also get the top recommending channels that are sending me suggested views.

The biggest problem is with all the methods I’ve just showed you, is that you cannot quickly and easily track the keyword rankings for your videos in both Google and YouTube.

Let me show you how to quickly track the rankings for multiple keywords in YouTube and Google using TubeBuddy.

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  • After you’ve installed TubeBuddy, you’ll see the TubeBuddy icon at the top of page.
  • Click the TubeBuddy icon
  • Click Website Tools
  • Click Search Rank Tracking
  • Click on View Report if you’re already tracking a bunch of keywords,

    As you can see, I’m tracking all these keyword phrases on the left here. On the right, you see the rank tracking for both YouTube and Google.

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TubeBuddy makes it really easy to track the rankings for mobile keywords.

If you check the rankings manually from your computer, it may differ a little bit from the rankings that you see in TubeBuddy because of the API that they’re using. YouTube rankings are pulled from the YouTube data API

  • The up and down arrows indicate if your rankings have changed over this period of time.
  • If you click on the Scheduling feature, then you can set up a keyword ranking report to be run on a regular basis. It says, “We will run the report automatically and email you a copy of the results“. It says,”This way you can keep track of keyword rankings for you and your competitors without needing to constantly log into your site”.

That’s really handy so you don’t have to waste time checking the rankings manually for individual videos

  • I can do never, I can do weekly and I can do monthly.
  • If I click on Keywords to Track and click add keywords, I can put my keyword phrases in this box.

    Keep in mind that the star version of TubeBuddy allows you five keywords to track, the legend version 50 keywords to track and the enterprise version unlimited keywords to track.

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  • I’m going to enter these keywords in the box….How To Translate YouTube Videos To English, How To Translate Videos On YouTube and tap enter. How To Translate YouTube Title and Translate Video Online
  • Tap enter
  • Click Save
    It says, “Your keyword phrases was successfully created“, so I can add more keywords if I want
  • I can click go to ranking reports.
    It says, “Looks like you need to regenerate your ranking report
  • Click regenerate ranking report, this can take several minutes, please be patient.

As you can see, the search rank tracking tool from TubeBuddy is the fastest way to track your keyword rankings in both YouTube and Google.

Let me ask you a question, would you like to know how to get your videos discovered in YouTube Search, YouTube suggested videos and Google Search so you can get more traffic leads and subscribers?

Watch my next video to discover how to rank your videos on the first page of YouTube and Google.

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