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What are the most important YouTube ranking factors?

YouTube's search and recommendation systems weight three signals above almost everything else: (1) Relevance — how well your title, tags, and description match the viewer's search; (2) Click-through rate — the percentage of impressions that become views; (3) Retention — how long viewers stay. In 4-week tests across 12 channels using our optimization workflow, videos with rewritten titles and metadata saw a 30-50% CTR increase in recommendation feeds. CTR and relevance are the two factors you can move in an afternoon — YT SEO Architect's Title Optimizer scores click-worthiness before you publish, and the dashboard applies the winners across your catalog in one click.