How to write a YouTube description with this tool
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Paste your outline or key points
The more of the real content you give (the steps, the results, the tools you mention), the more specific the description. A bare topic gives a generic one.
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Add the keywords people search for
Optional, but useful for tutorials and reviews: the two or three phrases a viewer would type to find this video. The tool works them in naturally rather than listing them.
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Finish it in YouTube Studio
Pick the better of the two descriptions, add your real timestamps and links, check the first two lines read well on their own, and paste it in.
The first two lines do most of the work
YouTube shows only the first couple of lines of a description before “…more”, and many viewers never expand the rest. So the opening has to say, plainly, what the video delivers and who it is for, ideally in a way that adds to the title rather than repeating it.
A weak opening: “Hey guys, welcome back to my channel!” A strong one: “A one-hour Sunday meal prep routine that gives you four days of lunches, with five recipes that actually keep.” Put links, credits and social handles further down, not in the space that sells the video.
Keywords, without keyword stuffing
The description helps YouTube and viewers understand what the video covers, so use the phrase people search for once in the first sentence or two, and related wording naturally in the summary. Write it the way you would explain the video to a friend.
Do not paste long lists of tags or repeat the same phrase over and over. YouTube’s spam policy covers descriptions written to mislead, its hashtag rules say a video with more than 60 hashtags has all of them ignored, and a wall of keywords makes the description useless to the people reading it.
How to add chapters (timestamps)
Chapters split your video into labelled sections on the progress bar and make long videos much easier to navigate. To add them, list timestamps with a short title each in the description. According to YouTube Help, the first timestamp must be 00:00, you need at least three timestamps in ascending order, and each chapter must be at least 10 seconds long.
Name chapters for what the viewer gets (“5 recipes that keep”) rather than “Part 2”. Clear chapter titles also double as a quick table of contents for anyone deciding whether to watch.
What to put in the rest of the description
- A short summary: three to five sentences on what the video covers and what the viewer will be able to do after watching.
- Chapters, formatted as above, if the video is longer than a few minutes.
- One main call to action: subscribe, get the free guide, watch the next video in the series. List other links below it, not all at the same weight.
- Resources and links you mention in the video: tools, products, sources. Label affiliate links clearly.
- Hashtags at the end, and only a few. YouTube shows up to three hashtags from the description above the title, so keep them few and relevant.
- Stay under the 5,000-character limit. Most good descriptions are much shorter; length only helps when it is useful.
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