About a month ago, Youtube released its YouTube Suggest enhanced search functionality which doubles as an excellent video marketing keyword suggestion tool for doing keyword research on Youtube. Essentially, this feature uses predictive text to display popular query suggestions (in order of search volume) in the Youtube search box.
The functionality is turned on by default but you can enable it and disable it via the Youtube advanced search settings link:
Here is a screenshot of the suggestion functionality in action:
By using Youtube Suggest, you can gain insight into how users are searching on Youtube and which queries are most often performed. These keyword suggestions can then be used to add to your video in order to increase the chances of targeting the largest possible relevant audience.
You will notice that this feature is very much the same thing that you see when using Google Suggest, which has been available on Google Labs for some time. In fact, Youtube is using the Google Suggest functionality to power the Youtube Suggestions. Because this is the case, you can also get these same suggestions by using the following JSON call, where q=the term being searched:
http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search? hl=en&ds=yt&json=t&jsonp=callbackfunction&q=orange+county+ca
So, go for now and try the youtube keywords suggestions tool in order to determine the top query categories in youtube.
