Audit Your YouTube Channel
SEO in Seconds

How to use this tool

1. 1

   Connect your channel

   Authorise access so the tool can read your public video metadata.

2. 2

   Run the full scan

   Every video is graded on its SEO signals and given a score from A+ to F.

3. 3

   Review the recommendations

   The audit surfaces your weakest videos and the specific fixes that will move them most.

4. 4

   Apply and re-scan

   Fix titles, descriptions and tags, then re-run the audit to confirm the improvement.

How the result is calculated

Each video is scored independently by accumulating points across metadata checks, and the channel figure aggregates those. Title length bands contribute up to 10 points, with smaller awards for containing a number and for a bracketed qualifier. Description length contributes up to 10, with points for at least one link. Tag count and category assignment add further points.

Where you have connected your channel, click-through rate and average view duration are scored in bands rather than as raw values, so one unusually strong week does not distort a channel-level view.

Issues are reported at three severities. Critical means a signal is absent rather than weak — no custom thumbnail, no description, no tags. Warning means present but outside the useful range. Info is an optional improvement.

The scoring is deterministic metadata analysis. No model decides whether a video is good; the checks look at what is filled in and how long it is.

How to read the result

Sort by severity, not by score. Ten videos with a critical issue are worth more of your time than thirty sitting at 68 instead of 75.

A low score on an old video that still draws traffic is usually worth fixing. A low score on a video nobody finds usually is not, and the audit cannot make that distinction for you.

Channel averages move slowly. Fixing a back catalogue changes the average long before it changes your views.

What this tool cannot tell you

• —It scores metadata, not content. A thoroughly optimised video that answers the wrong question still scores well.
• —It cannot see why a video underperformed — competing uploads, seasonality, or a thumbnail that did not suit the feed it landed in.
• —Without a connected channel the analytics components are skipped, and the score reflects metadata alone.

Tips & best practices

• ✓Prioritise videos that already get impressions but low clicks — small SEO fixes there produce the fastest gains.
• ✓Fix your best-performing back-catalogue first; those videos have momentum worth compounding.
• ✓Consistent keyword themes across a channel help YouTube understand your niche and recommend you more.
• ✓Descriptions are the most commonly neglected signal — improving them channel-wide is often the biggest single win.
• ✓Re-audit quarterly; search behaviour and your own content focus shift over time.

Frequently asked questions

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