Tubics — YouTube SEO tool for any active YouTuber
By: Tomasz Iadb Guy
Tags: SEO, Deal, YouTube, Analytics, YouTuber

Tubics… I guess it stands for youTUBe analytICS — which works for me. Their website claims to be the #1 SEO tool for YouTube, which, in all honesty, I don’t know if I’ve seen anyone else doing what they do, so it might very well be the case. It’s like the MOZ of YouTube.

The tool is intended to lift organic YouTube traffic through SEO optimization by making your videos rank better on… not just YouTube, but also on Google (duh, they’re connected), ergo giving your channel more traffic.

My Asana To-do list.

As you see above, I’ve had a task for tagging YouTube videos in my Asana list for the longest and tagged the task as “assist” because I was hoping that maybe some day an assistant can help me manage these. Well, today is only day one of me using Tubics, but I think I can finally mark this task as done. After one day of using this tool, this is what I’ve found:

Pros:

Nicely integrated with the YouTube API. Allows you to view and improve your channel to get more eyes on your videos. Sweet!

Kudos:

Design is clean, minimal, and easy on the eyes. Dashboard page is nicely balanced and shows the channel score, suggestions and ranking changes.

Tubics Dashboard

It would be nice to see the total number of non-optimized videos on the dashboard, but all in all, I can’t complain.

The videos list allows you to filter your videos so it shows only the ones you haven’t optimized yet, which always makes me feel warm inside when I can see that number decreasing and I know that my task is finite. It’s a shame that the filter resets after you navigate away from the page and come back.

Support team is on fleek. Shoot. I’m old, I don’t know if I use that term correctly. No matter, Matthias Funk responded to my question almost instantly and provided with the answers I was looking for. Nothing beats a team that cares about their product. And hey, they all wear matching t-shirts. If that’s not worth a grade bump, then I don’t know what does… :)

Tubics Team

Pet peeves:

Doesn’t keep you logged in… or actually… it does, but when you go back to the landing page at www.tubics.com it gives you an option to “login”. How about a quick link to the dashboard? I know, I know, I don’t really have to go back to www. subdomain, but if I do, it feels like I have to log in each and every time.

When editing videos, the first page that loads asks you for “Tags”, but the page doesn’t even show the title… what am I tagging exactly? In their defense, they made the bullets up top clickable so you can navigate to the description, but how hard would it be to show the title of the video I’m editing right now?

What does the save button do? It doesn’t publish anything, right? If I click next does it also save my changes? I’ve lost my edits plenty of times in my lifetime, which makes me want to click that save button every 10 words.

Cons:

Information in the audit doesn’t update nor does it provide me with instructions on how to fix the problem. It literally took me 20 minutes to figure out how to add tags to my channel since the top 5 tutorials on how to do so on Google provide you with outdated instructions. I had to do a lot of clicking around just to change that, and once I did… well, nothing. The score didn’t change, nor did I have an option to reload the score. Do I wait until the next rescan? I’m pretty sure that is the case. When will the next rescan be? Is it daily? Can I rescan it somehow myself?

Recommendations:

What I’d love to have in the future is a place where I can save some macros or templates that I can reuse for all the videos. An ability to reuse common tags, or ability to auto add hashtags at the end of each video could really go a long way for me.

The videos page shows number of views per each video, but you know what would be a nice addition to that? The number of comments. It seems obvious to me, but hey, who knows, maybe it’s a pain with the API so they skipped it on purpose.

Verdict:

All in all, I’m really happy with my purchase and am looking forward to optimizing each and every video I upload to YouTube. I give it a 4.5 out of 5 Samurai Swords, but I’m sure they’ll still keep on tweaking this tool and it’s going to be a 5 out of 5 before I even finish optimizing all my videos, but hey, I call it as I see it.

If you’d like to check them out, they DO have a lifetime access to this tool on Appsumo right now for just $39 — it’s not gonna last long, I’ll remove the link once it’s gone:

or get a free audit here:

And of course, since we’re on topic, here’s my YouTube channel: