YouTube SEO Auditor

Managing a YouTube back catalog is a maintenance nightmare. Old videos often have stale years in titles, missing timestamps, or broken links that kill search rankings. This skill audits your entire channel metadata to identify SEO gaps and generates a prioritized fix list based on view counts. ## What it does - **Metadata Analysis** audits titles, descriptions, hashtags, and tags against SEO best practices. - **Stale Content Detection** flags outdated years like "2023" in evergreen video titles for immediate updates. - **Engagement Check** verifies the presence of chapters, social links, disclosures, and captions. - **Duplicate Detection** identifies near-duplicate titles that cause keyword cannibalization. - **Priority Ranking** sorts all suggested fixes by video traffic so you focus on high-impact assets first. ## How it works 1. **Data Ingest** provides a CSV export of your video data or connects via YouTube Data API v3 using a channel ID. 2. **Keyword Targeting** optionally maps specific target keywords to individual video rows for precise optimization checking. 3. **Audit Execution** runs the analysis script to evaluate length, keyword placement, and structural elements. 4. **Report Generation** outputs a Markdown audit file with categorized issues and a ranked action plan. ## Frameworks & tools The skill utilizes Python for data processing and integrates with the YouTube Data API v3 for live channel scanning. ## Why this beats prompting it yourself Standard prompts cannot process hundreds of videos at once or cross-reference metadata against view counts to determine priority. This tool automates the logic of a professional YouTube SEO audit across your entire library in seconds. ## Use cases - Auditing a legacy channel back catalog to refresh SEO for evergreen content. - Identifying high-traffic videos that are missing monetization links or chapters. - Preparing a bulk update sheet for a channel manager to execute. - Cleaning up hashtag and tag stuffing that violates current platform guidelines. ## Known limitations Requires a Google Cloud API key for direct channel fetching. Audit is limited to public metadata and does not analyze video frames or audio content.