YouTube Hashtag Generator
Describe your video or Short. Pick the three hashtags you most want shown above the title; YouTube displays the first three from your description there.
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YouTube can show the first 3 hashtags from your description above the title. Tap a tag to set it in the stick; tap again to lift it out.
How to choose hashtags for YouTube
The first three matter most
According to YouTube Help, if you add hashtags to your description and not your title, the first three appear above the video title. Put your best three first.
More than 60 and YouTube ignores all of them
YouTube Help says that if a video has more than 60 hashtags, all of its hashtags are ignored. You will never need anywhere near that many.
Tags must be relevant
YouTube’s spam and misleading-metadata policies cover hashtags that are unrelated to the video. Stick to tags a viewer would agree describe it.
Posting the same idea on Instagram? The Instagram hashtag generator fills five slots, which is Instagram’s per-post limit.
Questions people ask
Where do hashtags go on YouTube?
In the title or the description. When the title has none, YouTube can show the first three from the description above the title, and each hashtag links to a results page for that tag.
Are hashtags the same as YouTube tags?
No. Tags are a separate field in YouTube Studio, mostly useful for common misspellings, and YouTube says they play a minimal role in discovery. Hashtags are visible to viewers and clickable.
Do hashtags work on Shorts?
Yes, you add them the same way, in the title or description. Keep them descriptive; a Short about sourdough scoring is better served by #sourdough than by #shorts alone.
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