Help – Published Videos Overview
The purpose of the Published Videos space is to allow you to continue to optimize videos that have already been released on YouTube. It can be used for videos that were published before you joined TubeItUp and videos that you optimized within TubeItUp and marked as published. If you promoted a video to the published status within TubeItUp, mush of the legwork has already been accomplished, and, the use of TubeItUp for published videos is nearly identical to the process of optimizing a video in the Project space.
| “In an ideal world, TubeItUp believes that you should start planning your keywords, title, description and thumbnail near the beginning of the video creation process, not the end.” |
Managing Published Videos is a premium feature. If you have a free account, you will need to manage your published videos as a Project.
Importing a Video from YouTube
Importing your videos from YouTube is a simple process.
- Open your Account Settings by clicking on your channel icon.
- Make sure you are on the channel for which you wish to import videos.
- Click the Gear icon.
- Select the Import from YouTube option on the left.
- Select the videos you wish to import by selecting the checkbox next to the video.
- Select Import videos
Notes about Importing Videos:
- If the video exists on your Project list (determined by matching the Titles), TubeItUp will automatically match the video and mark the Project as Published. This will overwrite your Project Description and Project Keywords. Links associated with the project will remain unchanged, however, you will need to re-add the Links (and other) shortcodes to the Description Builder.
- If you believe that you already have the video in TubeItUp and it does not automatically match, it’s most likely due to differing titles. You can either: 1) change the title in TubeItUp to match the YouTube video and try again; or 2) Import the video and delete the old Project. This will largely depend on if you have affiliate links associated with the project.
- If the URL of the video is already associated with a Published Video in TubeItUp, it will not be available for import from YouTube.
- You can only import 20 videos at one time. If you have a Silver account, your overall limit is 20 videos. Gold and above can import an unlimited amount in blocks of 20 videos.
To Learn More About Importing YouTube Videos – Click Here
Importing Your Closed Captions
Currently Video Closed Captions can only be imported manually. It’s a painless process. Here are two methods.
Method 1 – From Your YouTube Video Page
- Navigate to your video on YouTube (not in Creator Studio).
- Directly below your video you will see three dots (…) next to the Share button.
- Click the dots. You should see an Open transcript option.
- Scroll back up to the top of the video.
- At the top, on the right, you will see the video transcript.
- Copy the entirety of the transcript to your computer clipboard.
- Navigate back to the published video on TubeItUp.
- Paste the transcript into the Script / Closed Caption box.
- Press Save.
Your captions are now a part of your video optimization.
Method 2 – From a Captions Service
If you use a captions service, upload the .SRT file that was provided to you by the captions service.
Optimize Your Video
There are other help articles that will guide you along your optimization journey. Please check out one of these.
- YouTube Algorithm Overview
- How to Rank Your YouTube Videos
- Six Ways to Quickly Add Keywords
- How to Title Your YouTube Video
Post the Results to YouTube
While your video is uploading to YouTube, you will have the opportunity to add your Title, Description and Tags. These are easily copied from TubeItUp to YouTube using the Copy to Clipboard function.
Title Copy
Copies the entire Title to your computer clipboard so you can paste it into YouTube.
Description Copy
Copies the fully merged contents of the Description to your computer clipboard so you can paste it into YouTube.
Keywords (Tags) Copy
Copies all of the Selected keywords on the Keywords Table to your computer clipboard so you can paste them into YouTube. If you have keywords that are not selected (on a white row), they will not be copied to the clipboard.