Paste any YouTube video or Shorts link to get an instant SEO score with actionable fixes - boost your organic reach, rankings, and views.
Keyword placement, character length, click-worthiness, and search intent alignment of your video title.
Keyword density, structure, presence of timestamps, CTAs, and character length to maximise SEO value.
Relevance and coverage of your video tags, including keyword overlap and topic-to-tag alignment score.
Visual clarity, contrast, text legibility, and predicted click-through rate based on proven thumbnail patterns.
Like ratio, comments, and watch time indicators that signal content quality and rank strength to YouTube's algorithm.
A composite 0-100 score combining all parameters with a prioritised action list to fix what matters most first.
Copy any YouTube video or Shorts URL and paste it into the field above. Works with any public video - yours or a competitor's.
Our AI scans 12 SEO parameters in seconds - title, description, tags, thumbnail strength, engagement signals, and more.
Get your SEO score with a prioritised action list. Fix the highest-impact issues first and watch your organic reach climb.
Free YouTube Shorts SEO checker. Check Shorts SEO, get a feed-ready score, and fix the packaging before your next upload.
Paste a YouTube Shorts link or a draft title and description, and the YouTube Shorts SEO Checker scores how well that Short is packaged for the Shorts feed: the hook in the title, the description and hashtags, duration signals, and the metadata YouTube uses to recommend it. It works as a Shorts SEO checker for one Short at a time - a published Short you want to rescue, or a draft you want to check before you upload. YouSEO is an AI-powered YouTube growth toolkit that helps creators plan, create, optimize, analyze, and grow a YouTube channel - all in one app, and this is the tool Shorts creators reach for when a clip stalls in the feed.
Every check ends in a YouTube Shorts SEO score. Think of it as a Shorts ranking score for packaging: does the title stop the scroll in the first words, does the description and hashtags match what viewers search, is the length in the range Shorts favors, and does the metadata support replays and engagement. The score is out of 100: Excellent is 80 or above, Average is 40-79, and Poor is below 40. A strong score does not guarantee virality - nothing does - but it removes the metadata mistakes that keep a Short from getting pushed in the Shorts feed, which is the part you control before you publish.
Run it as a YouTube Shorts SEO audit: check the Short, read the list of passes, weak points, and missing items, then fix Shorts SEO issues in the order shown - title first, then description, hashtags, and tags. It is built to seo check YouTube Shorts you already published, too: older Shorts that still get impressions are often the fastest place to win views back, because the audience is already swiping and the packaging is the only thing in the way.
A Short-level audit is not the same as a channel audit. This page scores one Short. To see your whole channel - upload pattern, topic consistency, watch time, and which videos need fixing first - use the Channel Report.
It runs as a YouTube Shorts SEO checker online - nothing to install, no browser extension. Use it as a quick Shorts SEO test before you hit publish, or as a Shorts ranking checker when a clip is stuck. Some creators search "check shorts seo" or "youtube short seo checker" - either way, this is where you run a Shorts SEO analysis and get the fixes.
This checker scores YouTube Shorts. Long-form videos are discovered and packaged differently, so they get their own tool: the YouTube SEO Checker for full-length videos.
Yes. You can run a check on this YouTube Shorts SEO checker free of charge, on the web, Android, or iOS, with no extension to install. YouSEO never asks for your YouTube password.
Paste the Shorts URL, run the check, and read the score and the fix list. Start with the title, then the description, hashtags, and tags, and re-run the check after you edit in YouTube Studio.
It measures how well one Short is packaged for the Shorts feed: title, description, hashtags, tags, duration, and engagement-oriented metadata. The score is out of 100: Excellent is 80 or above, Average is 40-79, and Poor is below 40. It does not measure retention inside the video itself, which is why a strong score should be paired with a Short people actually watch to the end.
Shorts are ranked for the swipe feed, not traditional search results. The title hook, hashtags, length, and replay behavior matter more than chapters or long descriptions. For a full-length upload, use the YouTube SEO Checker instead.
A Shorts SEO audit scores one Short and tells you what to fix on it. A channel audit looks at the whole channel - how often you upload, whether the topic is consistent, watch time, and which videos to fix first. For your own channel, use the Channel Report.
Check the Short on YouSEO, then fix it in the same place. YouSEO's AI takes what the check found and gives you a corrected title, description, and hashtags built around how Shorts are discovered - ready to paste into YouTube Studio. Instead of guessing which line to change, you get the fixed version of each element, so the Short is packaged for the feed. Shorts you published weeks ago count too: if they still get impressions, fixing their SEO is often the fastest way to win views back.
Usually one of three things: the title does not hook in the first second of reading, the hashtags and description do not match what the feed tests against, or the Short is too new for its placement to settle. Run the check to see which one it is - a low score points to metadata, and the fix list tells you what to change.
Yes. Type the draft title and description into the checker and run it the same way you would for a published Short. Fixing the title, description, and hashtags before you publish is easier than rescuing a Short after it has been ignored in the feed.
For how Shorts grow in the feed - hooks, loops, and watch rate - read the YouTube Shorts growth guide.