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S1 · Episode 33

YouTube title SEO written from your transcript

filmed 9 October 2026 · 5:17

I added YouTube video title SEO and auto-generated thumbnails to Underway, along with an intro buildup that pulls a segment from the episode to the front as a teaser. The titles are pulled from the transcript and shaped for search on each platform, and for high level members the thumbnails are generated from frames of my face. The context tab is now pulling in Google Search Console data on how people are finding episodes, with YouTube analytics still to come. The Vault took a while to load and there's a bug in the buildup I still need to look into, and I'm building all this while waiting for customers to pay.

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Ladies and gents, we're back and we've added more features 'cause we're addicted to features, and building an app is about forget customers, let's just build features. I know that's the wrong way to be, but whilst I'm waiting for customers to pay, and we'll, we'll talk about that on another episode. But let's get into it. I wanna show you my screen, guys, because... Let's go here. Keep audio on. We've made some changes, okay? And you're gonna see them, you're gonna see them straight away. So if I click on Vault, what are you noticing, guys? What are you noticing? See, that, that, that took quite a while, so we'll look into that. But thumbnails, obviously one thing that occurred to me is, you know, let's be honest, when you start documenting like this and you put stuff out there and it's on the directories, on YouTube, right? You, you want people to find it, you want people to pick up. So there's a few things that I implemented here to really help with that, right? And number one is the titles, like, not the titles that you can see here, right? But, like, I can click on it and then I can show you. So listen to me, guys. The titles that it picks up, right? So it goes through the transcript and everything like that, and then when it uploads to, like, YouTube or, you know, TikTok and stuff, the titles and the, the keyword SEO is based on that platform, you know? So instead of it just having a random title like episode 65, I did this, I did that, like, no one's searching that Let's be honest, right? And you want people to find you. So it's gonna look through your transcript to pull out some reality of what it's about and how we can kind of cha- change that into a title that someone would maybe search. Okay? That's the first thing. The second thing is, I was thinking, how does YouTube or how do people distinguish themselves on YouTube to make people click through and watch? And again, thumbnails are a massive part of that, right? So I added for high-level members, it will create your thumbnails for you, right? So basically, 'cause it's already got your image of your face, you're talking, it will pull out those and you can basically pick different faces within your settings, and it will give you different options, which I'm gonna show you. So that's another. So not only can I see all these thumbnails here, but on YouTube now, all my thumbnails are done. Um, same when it goes to Instagram and so on. So you've got titles now being searched or more likely to be searched, thumbnails that have a higher chance of clicking through. So we'll... And, and we can... The cool thing about all this, guys, is like we have a context tab, right? So we're pulling through, um, Underway's brain is pulling through data, right? Um, search console. So like the Google Search Console, what people, how people are finding it, keywords. Um, we're also gonna soon have a YouTube, it's gonna pull in YouTube analytics, so it can see are we being picked up more, so on and so forth. Now, the other thing I, I thought about is we want people to maintain attention. We want people to watch the content. So Hopefully. You can see that's a bit of me AI, but it's, it's pretty good. It's pretty realistic. Um, so if I play it, you'll now see something I've added to hold people's attention. This is... Let's pause it. This is the only thing. Like, it, it does buffer and you need to let it load and stuff 'cause it's a bit like YouTube, but... See? I think how it gives you... Basically what it does, it, it's called a buildup, an intro and a buildup. So if you're on the high level membership, you can choose different kind of bits of artwork on how that will look. Okay? And then it will also find out a segment from within your episode, so probably like the most entertaining part of it, and it'll put that at the front as to people, give people a bit of a teaser, right? But I'm noticing one bug on that that's really annoying me, and I wanted to show you guys. But let's just show you here, just so you all know, so you can see what this hap- how this happened. So within settings, there's a lot of settings going on and you, you know I would advise you if you're using this is more so just get using the app first and then have a look around later once you've started getting going with some episodes. So you've got polish. So you've got the grade, how it comes out. Do you want to be more tanned? You've got open with previously. So it opens with a section from the previous episode or it just starts with a title screen. You've got music under the intro and choosing that. Like if I just turn that off, it goes up. You've got the music library. So there's so many options, guys. You've got title and outro. So you can see how I like, you see how they're all a bit different, but they're all pulling through my colors, right? My branded colors, my logo, et cetera. And this is kind of how it looks. Title, the outro. Outro at the end, you can turn that on and off. And so on. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's it, guys, for now. Bye.

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