[0:00] If you're a complete beginner or a small
[0:02] YouTuber, one of the things that could
[0:03] be holding you back is SEO. And listen,
[0:06] if you're anything like me, SEO, tags,
[0:08] description, all of that [ __ ] is a
[0:11] snoozefest. It is the most boring parts
[0:13] about this entire process. But the worst
[0:16] part is that it's one of the most
[0:17] important. So that's why I'm going to
[0:19] try and make this as painless as
[0:20] possible for both of us. Now, if you
[0:22] don't know who I am, my name is Romero.
[0:23] I've been doing YouTube automation since
[0:24] 2018. I've made over $1.9 million across
[0:28] all of my faceless YouTube channels. And
[0:29] that's pretty much it. I don't have much
[0:31] of a personality. I need to get better
[0:33] at intros. Anyways, let's go ahead and
[0:35] get started. So, what's the truth about
[0:36] tags? Is it actually important? Is it
[0:38] something you need or are you just
[0:39] wasting your time? Well, if you've ever
[0:41] heard a YouTube coach say that you don't
[0:43] need video tags, I want you to let them
[0:45] know that I said that they can go [ __ ]
[0:47] themselves because that's exactly what I
[0:49] did. I would listen to coaches that say
[0:51] SEO doesn't matter. video tags don't
[0:53] don't have any importance with the
[0:55] algorithm and because of them I wasted
[0:57] years of my life. Listen, we're at the
[0:59] end of 2025. We're about to hit 2026.
[1:02] YouTube has changed a lot. It is not the
[1:04] same as it used to be and that's because
[1:06] they soft launched Gemini. Now, if you
[1:08] don't know what Gemini is, Gemini is
[1:10] Google's chat GBT. It's their own
[1:12] version, right? And they implemented
[1:13] Gemini into YouTube in late 2024. Point
[1:17] is, they've been training it this whole
[1:18] time. And what they've been training it
[1:20] to do is to scan videos. They're
[1:22] essentially trying to replace their
[1:24] employees, the the human reviewers. Now,
[1:26] it is very important that I say that
[1:28] YouTube did not announce this. This is
[1:30] not confirmed. This is just a theory
[1:32] that I have. I think it's a pretty good
[1:33] [ __ ] theory, right? But it's not
[1:34] confirmed. Anyways, my point is YouTube
[1:37] now uses AI to identify what your video
[1:40] is about and to send it out to the
[1:42] correct audience, right? So, now it's
[1:43] even more precise with how it's going to
[1:45] recommend your videos. So, when it comes
[1:47] to SEO, you can argue that now it's one
[1:49] of the most important parts of the
[1:51] entire process. So, do yourself a favor
[1:53] in your tags. Fill them up all the way.
[1:55] Use tools like Vid IQ, TubeBuddy, Next
[1:58] Lev, whatever it is. There's a bunch of
[2:00] free [ __ ] out there. Just please make
[2:02] sure you fill up all of your tags. Okay.
[2:03] Now, what about video descriptions? Do
[2:05] video descriptions really matter? Do you
[2:07] have to make them long? Do you have to
[2:08] make them short? Do you have to put
[2:09] hashtags? Do you have to put links?
[2:11] Easy. Use Chad GBT. So, what you want to
[2:14] do is give your entire video transcript
[2:15] to Chad GBT and you want to give it this
[2:17] prompt. Pretend you're an SEO expert who
[2:19] specializes in ranking YouTube videos in
[2:21] Google search results. I'm giving you
[2:23] the full transcript of my video. Based
[2:25] on it, write a YouTube description
[2:27] that's strategically worded to rank high
[2:29] on both YouTube and Google. Use high
[2:31] traffic keywords and make it sound
[2:33] natural and persuasive, not spammy.
[2:35] Prioritize retention, relevancy, and CTR
[2:38] keywords, and structure it like a
[2:40] professional SEO copywriter would. And
[2:43] that's pretty much it. You don't have to
[2:44] go too crazy about it. Now, remember,
[2:46] you have to make your tags and your
[2:48] description very, very specific and
[2:51] detailed. And that's because you no
[2:52] longer want to just rank high on
[2:54] YouTube. You want to rank high on
[2:56] Google. Because what I've noticed is
[2:57] that they're both kind of merging
[2:59] together. Now, what about video titles?
[3:01] Should your keywords be in the front of
[3:03] your title or in the back? That's not
[3:05] important. Matter of fact, every video
[3:07] title you create, it needs to be based
[3:09] off of a successful YouTube video,
[3:11] right? That's how you should be doing
[3:12] YouTube to begin with. If you've been
[3:13] posting original content for the last 2
[3:15] 3 years and you haven't seen any
[3:17] results, I'm going to give you a word of
[3:18] advice. Start following the trends, man.
[3:20] Go to your niche, find your competitors,
[3:22] and create video titles and get all of
[3:24] your video ideas based on what they're
[3:26] posting. Now, what about thumbnails? Do
[3:28] thumbnails have anything to do with SEO?
[3:30] Technically, no. But with the whole
[3:32] Gemini thing going on right now, and
[3:34] with my little theory, I'm pretty sure
[3:35] it does. So, I think having text on your
[3:37] thumbnails is very, very important. And
[3:39] here's more advice. Don't add more than
[3:41] four words. Make the text yellow. Add
[3:43] black drop shadow and put it on the
[3:45] bottom left of your thumbnail across the
[3:47] board for any niche you could think of.
[3:49] That's kind of how it works. Now, what
[3:50] about what you actually say in your
[3:52] video? Your actual transcript. Does that
[3:54] matter? Again, yes. Gemini analyzes the
[3:56] entire transcript of your video. That's
[3:58] how it's able to tell if it can monetize
[4:00] it or not. Like if you say anything, you
[4:02] know, for example, you know, not
[4:04] communityfriendly.
[4:06] I almost just said it for some reason.
[4:08] But if you were to say anything that was
[4:10] out of pocket, then obviously YouTube
[4:12] has to tell somehow. But yeah, I mean,
[4:14] if you're on topic with your video, then
[4:16] it kind of automatically happens. Now,
[4:18] what about audience retention? Like the
[4:20] actual time that they spend watching the
[4:21] video. So, let's talk about that. My
[4:23] advice to you is that you don't post a
[4:25] single video that is shorter than 8
[4:26] minutes. The longer you can make your
[4:28] videos, the better. And the sweet spot
[4:30] is about 13 to 14 minutes. Anything over
[4:33] 20 minutes is also pretty solid. Now,
[4:35] for a YouTube video that is 14 minutes
[4:37] long, you want to have at least a
[4:39] 5minute AVD. For anything that's over 20
[4:41] minutes, you want to have at least a
[4:43] six-minute AVD. Now, of course, this is
[4:45] just based on my experience. This is
[4:47] just based on my analytics, what I've
[4:48] seen, and that seems to be kind of the
[4:50] sauce. But here's the thing. If you have
[4:51] a high CTR, anything over a 13%, and
[4:55] your AVD is, let's say, 3 minutes, your
[4:58] chances of competing in rank is still
[4:59] relatively high because you got to have
[5:01] one of the two. It's either going to be
[5:02] high CTR or high AVD. So, try to get
[5:05] good at one. Now that we're on topic, I
[5:07] get a lot of questions from members in
[5:09] my school community, and they always
[5:10] tell me, "Hey, um, I'm trying to get the
[5:12] video tags from competitors, but they
[5:14] don't use video tags." And then I go
[5:15] ahead and check out who their competitor
[5:17] is, and it's some random YouTube channel
[5:18] with like 2 million views, and they
[5:20] average 100,000 views per video, and
[5:22] it's like, no [ __ ] You know, they have
[5:24] way too many subscribers, and they have
[5:26] reoccurring viewers. So, tags, I think
[5:29] they don't really care. They have a fan
[5:30] base that is going to watch their videos
[5:32] regardless. So, you have to find those
[5:34] competitors that kind of have a balance.
[5:36] You know, they don't have too many
[5:37] subscribers and not every video they
[5:38] post is a banger. You want to get tags
[5:40] from those guys. But anyways, what
[5:41] should be your focus? Should you focus
[5:43] on pleasing the audience or pleasing the
[5:45] algorithm? And again, from experience,
[5:47] complete honesty, you got to sell out at
[5:49] first. You have to sell out. You know,
[5:51] that's what I did. I sold out for the
[5:53] first 2 3 years. You got to get on the
[5:55] good side of the algorithm first because
[5:56] if not, it's not going to push it to an
[5:58] audience, right? Your content could be
[5:59] good. whatever structure you have for
[6:01] your videos could be great, but if
[6:02] you're not cool with the algorithm,
[6:04] you're not meeting a certain standard,
[6:05] which was the AVD and CTR. You know,
[6:07] you're never going to find that
[6:08] audience. Again, it doesn't matter what
[6:10] your content is, how great it is, how
[6:12] high your quality is, how funny you are.
[6:14] The algorithm could care less. You got
[6:16] to focus on the analytics first before,
[6:18] you know, trying to please the audience.
[6:20] Now, what about uploading times? What
[6:21] time should you upload your videos? It
[6:24] doesn't matter, right? As long as you're
[6:26] not posting at like 4:00 a.m., you
[6:28] should be fine. If you live outside of
[6:29] the US and you're targeting US-based
[6:31] viewers, try to schedule your videos to
[6:33] PST time. So, I would say anywhere
[6:36] between 8 to 9:00 a.m. PST. At least
[6:38] that's what I do. The latest I've ever
[6:40] uploaded was 9:00 p.m. PST, but I've had
[6:42] a lot of students in my school community
[6:44] get results posting at like midnight.
[6:46] Now, what about video category? Does the
[6:48] category of your videos really matter?
[6:50] Not anymore. Uh, I mean, YouTube kind of
[6:52] did it at the beginning because they had
[6:54] specific sections where it'd be like,
[6:56] "Oh, the top 10 uh videos in the sports
[6:59] category and people would care, you
[7:00] know, people would watch that." Yeah,
[7:02] nobody cares. It's kind of like
[7:03] subscribers. It's not important anymore.
[7:05] And if you're not sure what to
[7:06] categorize your your YouTube channel,
[7:08] hey, just ask Chad GBT. Now, if I was to
[7:11] give you one piece of advice, that would
[7:14] be get good at SEO. I wouldn't go too
[7:16] crazy with the content as long as it's
[7:18] not complete dog [ __ ] Get good at SEO,
[7:20] get good at tags, get good at video
[7:22] ideas, get good at marketing, and then
[7:25] you can focus on your video content. If
[7:27] you're posting every day and you're
[7:29] getting like 20, 30 views per video and
[7:31] you're like, "Oh man, I got to make
[7:32] better content." You're looking at this
[7:34] wrong. Just focus on SEO and CTR first.
[7:37] Get people to watch your videos. Make
[7:38] dog shake content at first if you have
[7:40] to. Now, with practice, you're going to
[7:41] get SEO and CTR, right? which means
[7:44] you're going to get a higher pool of
[7:45] people that watch your videos and that's
[7:47] going to lead to a more accurate AVD,
[7:49] you know, average view duration. You're
[7:51] going to know how long people watch your
[7:52] video for. So, from there, you can start
[7:54] tweaking your content. But do not go
[7:56] based off of 20, 30, even 100 views. Get
[7:59] a video that gets like 2,000 3,000
[8:01] views. See what the AVD is. Then it
[8:04] would make sense to actually start
[8:06] tweaking things. Of course, the more
[8:07] views the better. But you got to get
[8:08] good at marketing. That's what YouTube
[8:10] is. Again, I run over six faceless
[8:12] YouTube channels. I've gotten hundreds
[8:13] of millions of views. And here's the
[8:15] crazy part. I haven't watched a single
[8:16] one of my YouTube videos since like
[8:18] 2021. I have a lot of big creators, a
[8:21] lot of big YouTubers come to me for for
[8:22] assistance with their YouTube channels.
[8:24] And it's kind of like, wo. That's when
[8:25] it kind of clicked. You know, that's it
[8:27] goes to show that YouTube just isn't
[8:29] content. YouTube is marketing. So, try
[8:31] and look at it that way. Now, for those
[8:32] of you that want to take YouTube serious
[8:34] and you want to learn how I do YouTube,
[8:36] you can go ahead and click the link in
[8:37] the description of this video or in the
[8:39] pin comment and that's going to take you
[8:40] to my school community. And here in my
[8:42] school community, you get a blueprint
[8:43] step by step which shows you from A to Z
[8:46] on how to start a YouTube automation
[8:47] channel. But where all of the videos are
[8:49] are in the tutorial vault. And this is
[8:51] 70 videos plus where I go into extreme
[8:54] detail about SEO, Photoshop tutorials,
[8:56] editing tutorials, and pretty much
[8:58] everything that I've learned about
[8:59] YouTube since 2018. And matter of fact,
[9:01] there was a 2025 Vault update where, as
[9:04] you can see, [ __ ] got a little bit more
[9:05] advanced. But the best part is that I go
[9:07] live two times every single week. And
[9:09] this is where I speak with you guys
[9:10] directly, answer any questions, review
[9:12] your channels, all of that good stuff.
[9:14] But for those of you that don't give a
[9:15] [ __ ] thanks for watching. I would
[9:16] appreciate if you liked and subscribed
[9:18] to the channel. But for those of you
[9:19] that are actually going to go check it
[9:21] out, I'll see you in one of the live
[9:22] calls.