Taja AI Review: YouTube SEO for Shorts in Seconds

Posting two YouTube Shorts every day means doing YouTube SEO twice every day, and that process was stealing hours from my weeks before I found Taja AI.

I use Taja AI to auto-generate titles, tags, and descriptions for every video I post. Upload the file, and within seconds you have SEO-optimized metadata ranked by algorithm score, no keyword research, no manual drafting.

The actual problem with high-frequency posting#

"You already put the work into making the video, but now it's extra work to get the video published."

That's the friction nobody talks about when they tell you to post consistently. The video is done. Then you still have to write a title that ranks, find the right tags, and put together a description with enough keyword density to matter. At one video a week, that's manageable. At two per day, it compounds fast.

I used to handle this manually, VidIQ for keyword research, a custom ChatGPT prompt to pull it all together. If you want to understand that process, I walked through how to do YouTube SEO manually with ChatGPT and VidIQ. It works. It just takes 15–20 minutes per video, which adds up to hours per week when you're posting at volume.

Taja cuts that to seconds.

How the workflow actually runs#

You sign up via Google, and the interface is straightforward. Upload your video file directly to Taja. It transcribes the footage, runs SEO research against that transcript, and returns three things: a ranked list of tags, a keyword-rich description, and multiple title options, each scored from 0 to 100 based on its algorithm.

The scoring is worth understanding. In practice, I've never seen a default score above 70 or 80. Anything in the 60–70 range is solid. Around 50 is acceptable. Below 40, don't use it. The scores aren't arbitrary, they reflect how competitive and discoverable each option is likely to be.

For a recent short I was posting, Taja's first title suggestion was "Hollywood shots without a camera, this AI tool changes filmmaking forever." Good title. But the video was specifically about a tool called HeyGen, and I wanted that name in the title, description, and tags for discoverability.

Where the "Customize" feature earns its place#

This is the part that separates Taja from a generic AI writer. Hit the Customize button, type in exactly what the video is about, in this case, "This video is about HeyGen AI, please include that in the title, description, and tags", pick a tone (I went with "uplifting"), and click Reoptimize.

The reoptimized title scored 100 out of 100. Tags came back with machine learning, artificial intelligence, and HeyGen-specific terms. The description was rewritten around those keywords.

The default output gives you a strong starting point, but it won't always surface the specific product name or topic your video is actually about. The Customize step is where you close that gap, and it takes about 30 seconds.

Publishing without touching YouTube, TikTok, or Twitter separately#

Once the metadata looks right, you can publish directly from Taja. Connect your accounts, select which platforms you want, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, set the privacy status, and hit Publish All. The video shows up on your channel within seconds, metadata already applied.

For a creator posting across multiple platforms daily, this alone removes a meaningful chunk of friction. You're not logging into three apps, copy-pasting titles, reformatting descriptions. One click handles it.

Who this actually makes sense for#

If you're posting once a week and have 20 minutes to spare, the manual process I outlined with ChatGPT and VidIQ is completely viable. You'll learn more about how the keywords work, and the control is worth it at low volume.

But if you're running a daily Shorts operation, or building toward one, the metadata work becomes a real bottleneck. Taja removes it. The quality of the output is high enough that I'm not sacrificing discoverability to save time. That's the combination that makes it worth the subscription.

The free trial is at taja.ai/?via=moe.

If you found this useful, this video goes deeper on the manual side of this workflow: How I do YouTube SEO manually with ChatGPT prompts

Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wMMCdthCi1M

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