Help – Menu Bar

Here at TubeItUp, we believe that effect YouTube Video SEO is a life-cycle and not an afterthought that must be performed seconds before or during the video publishing process. This is why we create a stand-alone tool and not a browser plugin that only works while your on the YouTube video page or within Creator Studio. We find that starting your SEO early improves your optimization, helps you stay on message with your targeted keywords, plus many other benefit that we discuss in other articles and videos. Navigating the TubeItUp Video SEO tool is pretty simple. Here is a breakdown of how the toolbar navigation works.

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Home

The Home screen provides a short summary of your latest Ideas and Projects. You have the ability to start new Ideas and Projects from the top of the table. This allows you to quickly enter ideas so you don’t lose them. At the bottom of the Idea and Project tables, you see a high-level overview of your Link Analytics. This is a sortable for quick analysis. Deep Link Analytics is available in the Links space.  

Ideas

The Idea space allows you to store and expand on your thoughts for upcoming videos. Once you decide to actually put the idea onto your production schedule, you can promote the Idea to a Project. There is a notes area, planned publish date, and you can also perform keyword research on the idea. Additionally, you can rank your idea based on five criteria to receive an overall score to help you plan which idea you may take up first. More about Ideas

Projects

The Project space is intended to help you perform all aspects of video SEO and production (except for actually filming and cutting the video). Within this space you will find the ability to build your description, upload your thumbnail, perform all of your keyword research, and take notes. There are six methods of keyword research provided (more information here). More about Projects

Published Videos

The Published Video space allows you to further optimize your video metadata. In essence this is the same space as the Projects space with two exceptions: 1) it allows you to push updates back to YouTube once your video optimization is complete (future release); and 2) it provides organizational clarity as to what is in work and what is live on YouTube. You can’t create a new Published video, however you can import published videos from YouTube (premium accounts only) and you can promote a Project to a Published status. More about Published Videos

Link Management

The Link Management space allows you to store popular links to be reused across Projects and Published Videos. There is also a feature that allows you to convert your standard URLs into TBIU links (https://tbiu.io/qjelkeu) links that will create metrics when clicked. TBIU links become unique for each video (if inserted through the links shortcode into your Description Builder). TBIU links are a premium feature. Link Management is a powerful tool that provides insights into what links are being clicked and from which video. This also is an incredible time saver when putting your videos together. They destination URL can be changed meaning that you don’t need to update your YouTube description if the destination URL changes. More about Link Management

Templates

Templates are another powerful feature within TubeItUp allowing you to put together pre-formatted content and reuse it across Projects. Template types include: a) Text Templates; b) Description Templates; c) Keyword Templates; and d) Project Templates (future release). Templates are premium features. Text and Description templates may be added to your project from the menu on the top of the Description Builder. Keyword templates can be added from menu at the top of the keyword entry box below the Keyword Table. More about Templates

Settings

To access your Settings, click on your channel icon in the upper right hand corner of the toolbar. You’ll be able to review your current active channel (you may have more than one), your account level, the Settings gear, logout button, and other channels that you may have linked to your current account.

Settings Gear

To access your Channel Settings, click the gear icon. An example of the setting page is shown in an image below.

Switching Channels

If you have more than one channel linked, you will see them in the Other Accounts tray at the bottom of the Settings card. Clicking on the icon or the text will change the TubeItUp context to that YouTube channel.

Logout

Should you desire to log out, click the arrow-right icon in the Settings card. This will log you out of your Google account session for TubeItUp. This does not log you out of other applications that may be using your Google (or YouTube) authentication. More about Settings   -end-