YouTube tag generator
YouTube tag generator
Build a comma-separated tag list from a topic and your own keywords, with the field length counted so it can be cut to fit the limit you enter.
How this is calculated
The topic and each keyword you supply are the base tags. For the fixed modifier words, both the topic and each of the first six keywords are combined with the modifier. Single topic words longer than two letters are added last. Duplicates are removed case-insensitively, the order is shuffled from the seed, and the length is the characters of the resulting list joined with a comma and a space.
- No search volume, competition or trend figure is attached to any tag. Those numbers belong to a keyword tool, and attaching an invented one to a combination of strings would be worse than leaving it blank.
- The length shown includes the commas and the spaces between tags because that is how the field is counted when it is pasted. If the list is over the limit, cut from the end rather than dropping the words in the middle — the first tags are the ones a viewer is most likely to have typed.
A tag field is a comma-separated list with a length, and the arithmetic in building one is knowing what fits. This page combines your topic and keywords into tags and counts the list exactly as it would be pasted.
Tags are combinations, not discoveries
The topic and every keyword you type are the base tags. Each of six fixed modifiers — explained, guide, tutorial, for beginners, tips and review — is then combined with the topic and with each of your first six keywords, and single topic words longer than two letters are added last. The modifiers are ordinary English words chosen to make a phrase a viewer might type; they are not read from any list of popular searches.
Duplicates are removed without regard to case, so “Railway Exam” and “railway exam” count as one tag. The length line counts the tags joined with a comma and a space, because that is how the field is measured when a list is pasted into it. If the list is over the limit, cut from the end rather than from the middle: the first tags are the ones a viewer is most likely to have typed, and the ones a platform is most likely to read closely.
Questions readers ask
Do tags still affect what gets shown?
That is a question about what the platform does with the field, and the answer changes and comes from the platform’s own documentation. What this page can say with confidence is what the field contains and how long it is. It has no data on searches, competition or reach, and it will not pretend otherwise.
Why are some of my keywords left out?
Two reasons. Only the first six keywords are combined with the modifiers, because the list would otherwise grow to the length of the keyword list times the modifier list, and a tag field filled with permutations is worse than a short one. Duplicates are also removed, so a keyword that repeats the topic disappears into it.
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