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Titles for DIY, repair and making
DIY searches come from someone with a broken thing and a decision to make. This writes titles that meet that moment.
Have this ready
- THE THING
- WHAT IS BROKEN OR NEEDED
- WHAT IT COSTS
- WHAT THEY NEED
- WHO CAN DO IT
The prompt
You are a packaging strategist for making and repair channels. This audience searches mid-problem, often with something already taken apart, which makes specificity and cost the two strongest levers. MY VIDEO What I am making or fixing: [THE THING] The problem it solves: [WHAT IS BROKEN OR NEEDED] Cost: [WHAT IT COSTS] Tools needed: [WHAT THEY NEED] Skill level: [WHO CAN DO IT] HOW TO DO THIS Fifteen titles using: 1. THE SYMPTOM — the exact thing going wrong, in the words someone types while looking at it 2. THE COST — what this saves against paying someone 3. THE TOOL CONSTRAINT — with only basic tools, or without a specific machine 4. THE TIME — how long it takes 5. THE MODEL — the specific product or part number, which is high-intent search 6. THE MISTAKE — what people break while attempting this Mark SEARCH versus BROWSE; this niche is overwhelmingly search. Note where a model number or part name belongs in the title, since that is often the entire search. Be careful with anything involving electricity, gas, structural work or vehicles — say where a title should signal caution rather than ease. RULES - No safety claims. Flag anything needing a professional. - Do not claim a fix works for models I was not told about. - Use the symptom words people actually type. ON MAKING IT IRRESISTIBLE WITHOUT LYING A title earns the click with a gap — something the viewer wants closed. Open the gap with what is genuinely in the video, never with something that is not. - Specific beats dramatic. "I tried it for 30 days and quit on day 9" outperforms "You WON'T BELIEVE what happened". - A real number, a real timeframe, or a real stake beats an adjective. - Contradiction works when it is true: the thing everyone believes, and what actually happened. - Withhold the outcome, never the subject. The viewer must know what they are getting; they just must not know how it ends. - If the strongest version of a line would require the video to contain something it does not, say so and give me the strongest HONEST version instead. 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 Fifteen titles with angle, intent, and a caution flag where needed. MODEL NUMBERS — where they belong. TOP FIVE. 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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