Tubebuddy for Firefox

There are a lot of facets to being a YouTube creator, and the video production part is understandably very important, but how do you go about marketing your content? There are lots of great videos falling into the mires of bad SEO, but luckily there are ways to remedy that for your work.

Various extensions exist to help you market your clips better, and TubeBuddy is a Firefox add-on with deep SEO tools to boost the reach of your content, as well as improve the overall site experience with some useful quality-of-life features.

Upon installing this from the Firefox add-on page, you'll have to navigate over to YouTube to see what it can do. You'll notice that the extension blends itself in the YouTube interface in a very non-intrusive way.

Interacting with its icon will bring up its menu, and one of the first things you'll see is the keyword explorer, which can be used to check on the current trends.

Typing in a keyword of interest will bring forth detailed graphs, such as its search volume, competition, number of monthly searches, and so on. There's even an Interest by Region feature, which shows you what parts of the globe searched that term the most.

Navigating to the Channel content tab in the YouTube Studio will offer you another peek at the capabilities of this add-on. It adds a new menu with bulk processing functions, as well as some miscellaneous tools.

The bulk capabilities entail finding and replacing text in your videos, updating thumbnail overlays, as well as adding or updating bulk cards and end screens to your clips.

As for the additional tools, COPPA Center shows you what content of yours is rated as Made for Kids, and there's also a Demonetization Double-Check function, meant to help you ascertain if your videos have been demonetized without your knowledge. There's also a Channel Backup feature that exports your channel data — such as video and channel IDs, titles, tags, descriptions, and so on — in .csv, allowing you to open the file in Excel.

When watching any video on YouTube, Videolytics will appear beside the player, expounding information about its SEO performance, along with relevant social scores where it was shared. There's also a Best Practices section, which shows the best methods to making a highly-marketable video — a high-resolution thumbnail, adding captions, end screens, and so on — while comparing them to the uploader's.

In conclusion, TubeBuddy is a quite intriguing extension. There's a decent amount of features in the Free version, but a lot of its true potential is locked behind the paid tiers.