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How To Do YouTube Video SEO - Duration: 16:20.

Alright, so, you saw the title of this video. We're talking keyword research and

S-E-O for YouTube videos. How do you do it? We're going to demonstrate. Well, he will.

Yeah, I'll demonstrate. We're going to get down and dirty today. We're

going to get right in, hands-on. Well, not dirty. It's just a saying. Relax.

Talking about how to do S-E-O for YouTube videos. And I mean I just said that and

it sounded like I knew what I was even talking about. But honestly, I mean, I know

S-E-O stands for Search Engine Optimization. But tell me what it is

you're going to do for us. Okay, YouTube allows us to do search engine

optimization in a much easier way. So, let me just preface it by that. It's a

lot easier than the the S-E-O of the past. And it works way better, it gets way

better results. So, I want to explain S-E-O and kind of take you through the YouTube

S-E-O process that I do. And kind of explain the end goal of what you're

trying to do with it. And then I'm going to demonstrate. So, I'm going to grab my laptop

here and demonstrate how to do it. But I'm confident that if I explain this

first then when you do it, it'll make a lot more sense and you'll

actually get the results. I've taught this for years and hundreds of

times. So, I've got to teach it first. So, let me share kind of a little visual or

maybe an analogy, okay? So, picture a tree. You've got a trunk, you've got branches,

(Okay) branches that gets thinner and then at

the end, you've got leaves. The leaves are what we want, okay? And we're talking... When

we do keyword research to find topics, we want to find the leaves. We don't

want to make videos that are on the trunk or on the branches. We want to go

out to the leaves, okay? So, an example would be, we're going to use the push up

example, okay? If the push ups... That category... You mean, that literal? Physical

Push-ups? Okay. You're a push up expert, obviously. Well, clearly. And if we're going to make

a video on our videos on push-ups, we don't just want to say push-ups by Scott

Christopher. Right. Okay, that would be the trunk. That's the trunk. That's the trunk.

A branch might be, "How to do push-ups well." Okay. That might be a branch.

It's getting more specific. Right, yes. But a leaf might be... And I've got some examples

here, okay? Okay. So, these this is going to be a very specific term? Yes. And I've got

a list of several of them. Let me explain this part. You want to create videos on

several different types of leaves because one branch will have a variety

of leaves. And if you rank each video, each leaf topic video, eventually your

branch will rank. And you will compete on YouTube. Maybe even the trunk.

Like for one of my channels, we do rank for real estate investing. That would be

a trunk. And that's a very trunk term.

Because there's going to... But we do that in the

beginning. Yeah. I've created hundreds of leaf videos. So, here's some examples on. So, work

backwards almost, really? Right. That's what you want to do. You want to work backwards.

Okay, so that's the goal. Here are some examples of push-ups. "How to do a perfect

push-up for beginners." Nice. The next video would be, "Does the perfect push-up really

work?" That could be a whole separate video talking about the results you get

from it. The third one, "What muscles does the perfect push-up work?" And these are

leaf. Leaf, leaves. Each of these will be the leaf in topic video. Because they're drilled down.

Did a little more specific than just how to do a good push-up? Yeah. Yeah. Okay,

another example. The perfect push-up 30-day challenge. So, you can have a video

about that. It talks about... For Filipinos? That would be even more specific? That would be like a way

way down. But what Filipinos do it differently than Utahns? So, let's ask this

Filipinos watching right now. Yeah. My team are Filipinos. See, that's what I'm saying. Hi!

So, another one. How to do the perfect diamond push-up? In Manila. I'm just messing. No,

you're good, I'm just going this is all the entertainment value. That's why he's

here. How to do the perfect one-arm push-up? Okay.

Wow, that might... Well, I was because I was automatically thinking of just one-armed

people. But you're right. Two aren't people still do want to push-ups like

rocky. Not me. But, yeah. Oh, gosh, no. I mean... One day. Just a visual quick, quick visual.

We've got 2 more push-up videos that I could create here. Leaves, okay?

The perfect push-up routine or how do the perfect push-up routine. That

starts to feel a little branchy to me. Maybe. I don't know.

See, it's all... Here's a way to tell it. If you go to YouTube and you

type it and see how many other videos have that phrase in their title, and

keep going until... Yeah, there's none there. You want to find these leaf long phrase

topics that other people aren't using or that are being very rarely used. Now, you

may be answering this, I'm not sure coming up or whatever. Because I can't

read your mind. But if you do a long leaf type title or whatever. If you get really,

really specific and you get an exact match, you're the only video out there

for sure. But does it also capture less? You know what I'm saying? Like, if you say

"How to do the perfect diamond push-up in Milan or in wherever in Manila." Will you

at least still get some hits on how to do the perfect diamond push-up?

But if something happens to say in Manila, you're definitely getting that.

The answer is yes, eventually. If you make several videos like this. So, the whole

reason I'm having a list... So, I've got 8 here. The 8Th one was how not to

do push-ups or something. You know, (Yeah) "How not to do push-ups

perfectly." Maybe but I don't know. I did search for that. How not to do push-ups.

Well, you don't want to get injured. Yeah. Okay, there we go. So, if

you're going to make 8 videos that are all leaf topics but they all say, you

know, "How to do the perfect push-up?" Then eventually, a rank for that or the phrase

perfect push-up. You'll be known as the perfect push-up man. That's your channel.

Yeah, perfect push-ups channel. So, you do want... It's not that you don't want to

rank for the trunk or for these branches but by targeting the trunks of

the branches, you're not going get there. But by targeting the leaves, you'll rank

for the leave topics immediately. And then over time, you'll rank for the small

branches. Then eventually the big branches, the trunk. Okay, now do you

believe that you've laid down enough theory for us that we can start building for execution?

I think so. Let's jump in and show you how to find the branches that lead

to the leaves. Beautiful. Alright. So, we're going to demonstrate it for you now.

And Scott here suggested that we do motorcycle repair. So, let's say Scott

wants to make motorcycle repair videos. I think this will be an easy one to really

demonstrate how to get to the branches and the leaves. There's a lot a

lot of places you can go. And if you were to make a video on, you know, motorcycle

repair video 1. And then motorcycle repair video 2. Pretty, pretty trunky.

Yeah. Pretty Trunky. I like that. I'm going to show you 3 different tools. This

one here is called the "Keyword researcher." It's a tool that you pay once

for it. I believe it's 50 bucks from a company called Clever Gizmos. And then

you download it. There's another tool that is free. This one is called the

Keyword Planner. It's a Google AdWords tool. You do have to have a Google

AdWords account. But then the tool is free. And we'll start here. But I want to

show you what the other tool, is the third one. It's by Moz and we'll come

here. You come here to free S-E-O tools. And you start here. We'll just type in

motorcycle repair. Let me just demonstrate this and while we're here.

It's actually a pretty simple tool.

Take off the space there. Alright. So, once you bring this up, it's actually

good to come to keyword suggestions. And then, in this drop-down menu, I like going

to our questions. So, it's giving you keyword suggestions that aren't

questions. Yeah. So, what's great about this is it's how

to service a motorcycle? How to fix motorcycles? How to service motorcycle

Forks. That's that's getting more leafy. That's more leafy or branchy. Yeah. How

does service motorcycle rear shock. So, these are getting more specific. And this

will give you ideas of different branches for sure. And sometimes even

some leaves. I mean, what is a fender eliminator kit on a motorcycle? That is

definitely a leaf. Right. It does say here "no data" meaning, we might want to tweak

that. But that... Because we want to make sure that it is searchable. We want to

use a phrase that people are searching for. So, we want to find really specific

titles. But we can't forget search. Even if it's just, you know, 50 searches per

month. That means that people are actually typing in this exact phrase. And

we don't know about this one. So, let me use this as an example. I'll copy that.

Let's take it over to the keyword planner. I can paste it right here and

hit get search volume. And it tells us, you know what? It actually does get

searched 10 times a month. Now, that doesn't sound too impressive. And when I

teach people about keyword research, they always want to go after

the phrases that have a thousand or 10,000 Yeah. Greedy. "Ooh, this one

has a hundred thousand." Yeah. But guess what? I don't know. You're not going to get

ranked for those ones. Because the more competitive ones, there the more branch

phrase topics anyway and they're more competitive. And if you're brand new to

motorcycle repair, you create a video on on that topic. It's not going to rank day

one. This one right here. And it's a bridge. So, I can't see what was it. "What

is a fender eliminator kit on a motorcycle?" would be a fantastic video if

if that would be a video that matches what you want to teach. So, if this

content, that would be a fantastic video. You know why? Because you're going to rank

number one, day one. It's a perfect leaf. And

it's an easy specific one to make. I mean you're just making a video that's

answering that question. Maybe you have one, you can show them. You can

demonstrate, you know, how to put it on. That would become the title of my video?

Absolutely. Okay. And what I also put that in the

description of the video or what I want to save that space for something that

might double up my chances. In the first couple lines of the description, you want

to include this. It doesn't have to be worded the exact same way. But I mean the

way this is worded is pretty natural. Yes. But in your description, it's like, "In

this video, I show you what a Fender elimination kit for a motorcycle is. I

show you how to install it." So, you actually, you know, write a real

description. Got you. But, yeah,include those words

in it. This exact phrase not only is it your title but you also want to put

it in as a key word that just helps them to know know. And you're going to want

to say this in your video. You know, the answer while you're talking. That's

really important. So, in the video, you're going to be saying, "So what is a fender

eliminator kit on a motorcycle? Well, here's one right here.

This is how you install it. Alright, I'm going to grab my motorcycle. Let me grab the

fender eliminator kit. Now, why is it important that you actually say it?

YouTube will transcribe your videos and will find the words and make sure it

matches your title. Make sure it matches your key word and the description. No way. They do that?

Serious business. Wow. So, anything you put out there, they're

transcribing? Oh, yeah. Aren't you glad that YouTube does this? Very glad. The

reason that I am glad is well... Is because I know that when I find a video... If

YouTube's going to recommend a video to me, I know what it's going to be about because

YouTube verifies it from all different angles and they're suggesting it to me

because they know the types of videos that I like. Isn't that interesting.

You can't cheat YouTube. Don't try and cheat YouTube. There's probably ways you

can but why would you want? Yeah, exactly. They're giving you, I mean, all these

tools that are available out there. And this one now. This one was the free one

or was this one with... This one... You can Do the others work about basically the

same way as this one does? Each tool is this is unique. This one is simple. And it's

easy to use. But if you use it more than a few times a month, you do have to pay.

So and it's a monthly subscription and it's not cheap. The keyword planner from

the Google AdWords account, this is free and I use this one all

the time. Let me show you another way that you can

use this tool. I'm going to come up here to modify search. And instead of get

search volume, I'm going to go to find new keywords or search for new keyword. So,

I'll type in motorcycle repair. So, what I'm going to look for first and then I'll

demonstrate how to use that first tool I have showed you the keyword. Keyword

researcher. What I'm looking for now is actually branches that I haven't thought

of. Okay, so motorcycle repair shops. Maybe

not applicable to my YouTube channel. Motorcycle service, repair near, mechanic

near, motorcycle parts, cheap motorcycle parts. So, these are just broken into

different categories. Let's just try. We'll do Harley. I didn't think of that.

Maybe we could make video specific to Harley. How are they mechanics. Hmm. Makes

me at least gives me the idea of... Oh there's Harley repair right there. So,

if we come in here, Harley-Davidson motorcycle repair. We're going to take that

phrase over to the keyword researcher. And I can put in an asterisk before it.

And I'll add it again... And I'm also just going to add in a couple other versions. I'm

going to just get rid of the word motorcycle. So, watch what this tool does.

Alright. So, I've got in those that look criteria. They're what I want it to look

for. And I hit play and now it starts searching all of the search queries that

people use on Google and other search engines. And it just finds lots and lots

of examples. It pauses sometimes, so that it doesn't offend the search engines. And

these are all the things that people have typed in, searching. Alright. So, we

finished there. If I hit this button here ad to master list, we see there's 470.

I'm going to hit cleanup because there might be some duplicates.

Okay. And that that took us down to 267, okay? If I hit select all and then I hit

the keys, Ctrl copy or command C for copy. So, now I've got that in my clipboard. And

if I come back here to the keyword planner, go to modify search and go down

to the second one. Get search volume data. Okay, so I can paste in up to a thousand

different phrases here. And then if I hit get search volume. It does its thinking.

And we need to go to the keyword ideas tab. Alright. So, these are all the

phrases that we typed in. It says, "Here all 265 are here." And we can sort it by... I

think it already was but average monthly searches. And you can check the phrases.

Harley-Davidson repair shops near me. I don't know if

that's a video that I want to check. But you know what? The easier way, I'm going to

come here to download, save to Google Drive, hit download, wait a moment and

then open file. Now, this is a lot more user-friendly. It gives me a whole bunch

of data. I only need 2 columns. Let me grab that one and move it. The 2

columns I want are the columns with the key words in it. And the column with the

average monthly search volume. And I want to look at any phrase starting here and

above. Any phrase that has ten searches or more above. So, I can just go through

this list now and a lot of these are going to be great leaf topics. Interesting.

Harley-Davidson odometer repair. Yeah. Those are very leafy. Yeah. "Are they Davidson Golf

Cart repair?" Yeah, even though... Golf cart, that's interesting. Even though

those are shorter, meaning, this one's only 4 words long.

Hardly-Davidson odometer repair. That's pretty specific. It's a specific type of

Motorcycle. Odometer repair. So, that's something going to be a leaf topic. Most of my

clients have the same type of reaction. It's like, the steps are kind of simple

once you know the end goal. You want to find the leaf topics. Here's all the

tools you can use. But then you're like, "Ah, but this sounds boring." And I agree. I

don't necessarily enjoy this. That's why I have employees that do a

fantastic job. Oh good for you. And we do this for my clients. So, my clients help

me with the topic brainstorm but then we'll go and we'll do all the keyword

research for them. So, can I just have you come over to my house and do this for me?

Or can you do it here? I'll let my team. I'll let my team. Maybe we can do a topic

brainstorm over the phone. Okay. Easy. So, I could do this

with you for distance? I never have to leave... We just chat or you can... We can share...

Anyway, it means that you can, too. That's the connection there. See.

But now that this video is over and you watch this far, you might as well

subscribe. Might as well. And see you in the next video. Good

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Are Video Games Too Violent? - Duration: 9:01.

[Penn Jillette] Call of Duty is the most popular game there is.

Everyone's playing it, so of course bad people are going to play it, too.

To try to blame Shakespeare, and the violence in Shakespeare, and the violence in art, for

violence that happens in the real world is something that's been tried for years, and

is always wrong.

People must take responsibility.

We must stop blaming society and actually blame the perpetrator.

[Moriarty] Violent Video Games.

It almost rolls off the tongue.

They fit together so well, violence and video games.

The question I pose to you today is, Is Violence in Video Games Making Us Violent?

Obviously, the answer is Yes/No/Maybe.

This is not a new debate.

It's not even a debate started by this generation.

This is a controversy we've seen again and again since the '80s.

1982's Texas Chainsaw Massacre saw controversy when video game stores refused to carry it

due to its violent nature.

1976's Death Race was pulled from store shelves because, according to Video Game Historian

Steve Kent, "what got everyone upset about Death Race was that you heard this little

'ahhhk' when the person got hit, and a little gravestone came up."

In 1993, Mortal Kombat and Night Trap are pulled in front of the United States Congress

and asked to defend their sick, shameful, ultra-violent and disgusting content--mostly

due to the lifelike and realistic violence in Mortal Kombat and the shocking state of

undress Night Trap's characters are shown in during the attacks.

1988's Splatterhouse, 1983's Halloween, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3, Grand

Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, the Manhunt series, even God of War in 2005, and Call of Duty:

Modern Warfare 2, most notably the mission No Russian.

[Call Of Duty Character] Remember, No Russian.

[Moriarty] All of these games have been protested, carted

out in front of the public, and shown to be THE glaringly obvious tell that Violence in

Video Games is unacceptable.

You see, gamers are anti-social.

They are young children whose brains are moving into the most important developmental stage

since infancy.

Those same children whose brains are trained to react aggressively, almost automatically.

[Hillary Clinton] These games train children's brains to react

aggressively, almost automatically.

[Moriarty] Video games are an isolated experience, carried

out by loners and separating them from other human beings.

They teach nothing but violence, and that violence has absolutely no repercussions.

We know these arguments, because they've been told to us again and again, for decades.

Whether it be during the Congressional Hearings in 1993, or Jack Thompson's Lawsuit against

Violent Video Games in 1997, these claims get repeated again and again.

It doesn't seem to matter if the Surgeon General puts out a report that says "media

violence has a relatively small impact on violence," or if the UK Communications Research

Group says "the real puzzle is that anyone looking at the research evidence in this field

could draw any conclusions," we know as consumers, as parents, as individuals, as

gamers--we know that violence in video games is bad, and causes us to be violent.

Even when Jack Thompson's lawsuits are thrown out because the judge says "there is no

content in [games] that was not already on late-night television," or when the co-founders

of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media write a book called Grand

Theft Childhood, and state unequivocally "After all, millions of children and adults play

these games, yet the world has not been reduced to chaos and anarchy," well we know, as

gamers, this simply isn't true.

We're all very violent.

The fact is that 160 kids have been killed between 2008 and 2017 because of video game

related violence.

That number, is of course, actually the number of students who have died while playing Football,

but the number is still quite close, I'm sure.

You see, the problem is that while I've included my sources in the description, how

likely is it that you're going to spend the time to learn about it?

Are you going to click and download these reports, and pour through dozens of pages

of content just to find out if I've lied to you?

I would imagine not.

And this same lack of self research is exactly why we're in the position where you can,

as a politician, more easily blame a video game for murder than you can absentee parents,

poverty, or mental illness.

This is not a problem that's going to go away for a lot of years.

Our current crop of politicians did not grow up in the Post Doom Era, the Post Mortal Kombat

Era, in the period of time where games were considered to be pretty realistic.

I can guarantee that almost no politician currently sitting in a lawmaking capacity

has played a game with the kind of violence we've seen in Until Dawn, and until we've

reached the point where that is likely to be true--we're going to continue to hear

people say that video games--a thing they don't understand, don't use, don't like,

and are afraid of--that these fearful creations are scary and bad and cause problems.

Yes, the US Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that games are protected by the First Amendment

of the United States Constitution.

They are a form of Free Speech, no different than a movie, a book, or this video you're

watching right now.

They are protected speech, and cannot curtailed by the Government.

However they provide a useful scapegoat.

You see, it's difficult to convince someone that the problems are varied and hard to overcome.

Nevermind that according to research done by Polygon only 4 of the 100 deadliest school

events in modern history had perpetrators who could even be identified as gamers.

This is, to me, rather surprising.

Most of these horrific events occur at schools and are done by male students, quite honestly

the exact demographic of most gamers.

Young, and in school.

I wish I could expand on that categorization, but even the FBI says that's the most connection

that can be made between most of these killers.

In fact, ironically perhaps, they noted that more of the people who commit these atrocities

are interested in poetry than gaming.

But, here's the truth: The much vaunted American Psychological Association says that

violent video game play is linked to aggression.

Oh wait, nevermind, please stop saying that we said that.

This past February, a report on Violent Video Games was put together by Patrick Markey,

professor of psychology at Villanova, and Christopher Ferguson, professor at Stetson,

in a book titled Moral Combat, breaking down the previous reports even more.

You see, it turns out that it's actually accurate that violent video games do increase

aggression.

When you play a violent video game, you are more aggressive.

You see, the study included mundane types of aggression, such as whether or not you

would expose someone to a loud noise, or feed someone food with hot sauce on it even if

you knew that person didn't like hot food.

What type of percentage would you feel is relevant here?

10% more aggressive?

25%?

Maybe 50% more aggression was seen after playing violent video games?

Now, you've seen YouTube videos.

You know those numbers aren't right, and I'm about to tell you the shocking truth.

A number so high or so low that it blows you away!

But, for a second, actually take a moment and consider what percentage would be relevant?

Would you think that violent video games would increase aggression by, say, 5%?

Or by 80%?

What's a realistic number here?

We've heard all the evidence all our lives that violence begets violence.

When we hear violent words, or see violent images, when we play violent games, we become

more competitive, and therefore more aggressive.

And that aggression was quantified, and there are studies about it.

What percentage of players, who engage in this violent activity, watching gore and participating

in violence against other people, and human-like effigies, what percentage become more aggressive?

For those of you who have been watching for a long time, we did actually cover this in

a Rapid Roundup, one of our previous styles of video, from back in February when this

report was announced, so you've already got a headstart.

For everyone else, the number has a 4 in it.

It's not 4%.

No, it's not 40%, either.

It's 0.4 percent.

Zero.

Point.

Four.

Statistically speaking, that's a number so low that it doesn't count.

In fact, all research from any sort of reputable source continues to show that violence in

video games does not lead to violence in real life.

How do you feel about violent video games?

Would you let your child play a violent video game?

Would you let them play football at school?

And if those answers are different, if you would let them do one and not the other, why?

If you enjoyed this video, please share it on your facebook, and consider giving it a

like.

If you didn't, then don't do either of those, but if you did you can watch another

in the corner right now and as always, we'll see you on the next one.

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</form> Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is a big fan of the stars and stripes

 He hates it when NFL football players 'disrespect' the flag by taking a knee during the National Anthem

 He suggested in 2016 that people who burn it as a mark of protest should lose their citizenship or spend a year in jail

 In fact, he's such a fan of the star-spangled banner, originally designed by Betsy Ross in 1777, that he's been known to hug it

 Like, actually hug it live on stage.  So when the President sat down with schoolchildren to colour in pictures of the stars and stripes, nobody thought it'd be much of an issue

 Surely such an Old Glory aficionado would know exactly which bits should be red, white and blue

 Apparently not. Pictures emerged of Trump inexplicably redesigning the iconic emblem during a visit to a Children's hospital on Friday He started off along the right lines  The President got the first of the 13 alternating red and white stripes, which represent the 13 original colonies, correct - but then he skipped a line, and for some reason picked up a blue pen and did a blue stripe

And today it somehow got worse  Newly released footage from the White House revealed not only had he coloured one stripe in blue, he coloured another one in brown

What the hell, Donald?  Of course, some suggested he might have been going for the Russian flag, which has red, white and blue stripes…but he'd have got that in the wrong order too

Read More Top Donald Trump stories While we're here, let's take a moment to appreciate this picture of Trump appearing to angrily stare down a small, sick child across a colouring table