
This gives you a really great insight about what the author thinks is (a) the most important topics in the video and (b) the highest priority tags for video SEO. You’ll notice, the Tags are importantly extracted in exactly the same order that the author has used.

Using the YouTube Tag Extractor, we can easily reveal these hidden meta tags with the click of a button: Altogether these Tags only take up 164 characters of the 500 limit, so there’s room for many more. Once this is clicked, it expands further options including “Tags”:Ī YouTube video can have up to 500 characters worth of Tags - which is a lot! In the example above, we can see the SEOptimer video has 11 Tags. In YouTube Studio, at the bottom of the “Video details” page is a hyperlink “Show More”: Since these Tags are invisible on the actual video page, our friends at SEOptimer generously shared some screenshots with us so we can peek behind the scenes at how they tagged their videos. Best practice is to use all lowercase Tags with alpha-numeric characters. Unlike HashTags, they do not have pound (#) signs in front of them and they can also contain spaces to encompass a string of multiple words. Tags are added to a video when it is uploaded on YouTube. See more information about YouTube HashTags.
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If you’re interested, here’s how to achieve the opposite effect (pulling in link text without the URL attached). And there you go–you get just the link URL from the cell! (You can also use this with a range of cells if you have more than one hyperlink that you want to retrieve.).Go to any cell and type =linkURL(A1), and then hit Enter. Let’s say cell A1 has the hyperlink in it.This will create a new function in Sheets. Throw new Error(args + ' is not a valid range') įor (var i = 0 i linkURL to run the script. Var formula = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange().getFormula() Var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet() * Returns the URL of a hyperlinked cell, if it's entered with hyperlink command. Copy the following script (courtesy of Stack Exchange), and then hit File > Save.If you’re not familiar with the script editor in Google Sheets, don’t be intimidated by it–it’s pretty easy. Yes, you could go into the formula bar and manually and copy and paste the information, but an easy trick is to use a Google Apps script to do it. For example, let’s say you have a cell like this in Sheets with a hyperlink:Īnd let’s say you want to extract just the URL, or just the link text–not both. If you have a hyperlink in a cell, there’s an easy way to extract the link text and the URL separately. Here’s an advanced trick for Google Sheets.
