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 video SEO checker. Check YouTube SEO, get a ranking score, and fix the video before you rely on the next upload.
Paste a YouTube video link or a draft title and description, and the YouTube SEO Checker scores how well that video is packaged for search: the query it is trying to match, the title, the description, the tags, and the thumbnail. It works as a video SEO checker for one video at a time - a published video 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 creators at every stage reach for when a video is not showing up in search.
Every check ends in a YouTube ranking score. Think of it as a YouTube video SEO score for packaging: does the title contain the words people actually type, does the description repeat and expand that query in its first lines, do the tags support it, and does the thumbnail give the click a reason. 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 views - nothing does - but it removes the reasons a video gets skipped in search results, which is the part you control before you publish.
Run it as a YouTube video SEO audit: check the video, read the list of passes, weak points, and missing items, then fix YouTube SEO issues in the order shown - title first, then description, tags, and thumbnail. It is built to seo check YouTube videos you already published, too: older videos that still get impressions are usually the fastest place to win views back, because the audience is already searching and the packaging is the only thing in the way.
A video-level audit is not the same as a channel audit. This page scores one video. 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 SEO checker online - nothing to install, no browser extension. Use it as a quick YouTube SEO test before you hit publish, or as a video ranking checker when a video is stuck. It is the same YouTube video SEO tool and YouTube optimization checker workflow for any niche and any language your titles are written in. Some creators look for it as a “seo check youtube” tool, others search “check seo youtube” - either way, this is where you run a YouTube SEO analysis and get the fixes.
This checker scores long-form videos. Shorts are packaged and discovered differently, so they get their own tool: the YouTube Shorts SEO Checker.
Yes. You can run a check on this YouTube 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 video URL, run the check, and read the score and the fix list. Start with the title, then the description, tags, and thumbnail, and re-run the check after you edit.
It measures how well one video is packaged for search: query match, title, description, tags, and thumbnail. The score is out of 100: Excellent is 80 or above, Average is 40–79, and Poor is below 40. It does not measure watch time or audience retention, which is why a strong score should be paired with a video people actually finish.
A video SEO audit scores one video 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 video 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 tags built around the exact words your real audience is typing into YouTube - ready to paste into YouTube Studio. Instead of guessing which word to change, you get the fixed version of every element, so the video is packaged for the people already searching for it. Videos you published months 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 describes the topic but not the words people type, the thumbnail gets shown but not clicked, or the video is too new for its position to settle. Run the check to see which one it is - a low score points to the first, 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 video. Fixing the title and description before you publish is easier than rescuing a video after it has been ignored in search.
For the fundamentals - what YouTube SEO is and how the pieces fit together - read the YouTube SEO guide.