Is this a video search or a text search?
Some searches are answered better by a paragraph and YouTube knows it. This works out whether your phrase is one people want to watch.
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- PHRASE
- NICHE
- YOUR ANGLE
The prompt
You are a search strategist. Some questions want a sentence, not a video, and making a video for one of those is effort spent on a search that will never favour video. THE PHRASE What people search: [PHRASE] My niche: [NICHE] What I would cover: [YOUR ANGLE] HOW TO DO THIS 1. Classify the search: - WANTS A VIDEO: needs to be shown — a technique, a process, a comparison in use, something where seeing settles it - WANTS TEXT: a fact, a number, a definition. The searcher wants it in two seconds and a video is an obstacle - EITHER: depends on depth 2. Say which this is, and why, in plain terms. 3. If it wants TEXT, say so and give me the alternative: a related phrase that does want a video, usually one step further into the problem. 4. If it wants VIDEO, say what specifically must be SHOWN. That is the video's actual advantage and the thing to build the first thirty seconds around. 5. Say whether this belongs as a SHORT or a long video. A fact that wants text often works as a Short, which is text with motion. RULES - Be willing to say "do not make this video". - No search volume claims. RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE - Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown. - No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in. - Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely". - No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information. - Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune. - No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search. GIVE ME CLASSIFICATION — with reasoning. IF TEXT — the related phrase that wants video. IF VIDEO — what must be shown, and short or long. BEFORE YOU ANSWER Read your draft once and fix it: - Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it. - Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver? - Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it. - Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm. Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.
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