# Your YouTube channel, discoverable beyond YouTube. > PodHood turns a YouTube talk channel into a searchable library on your own domain — episode pages Google can rank, sources AI engines cite, an email list you own, and your comments analyzed. One read-only connection. ## The four surfaces YouTube never gives you. Inside YouTube you compete on titles and thumbnails. Everything actually said in your videos — the reason people subscribe — is invisible to Google, unquotable by AI answers, and unsearchable even for your own audience. PodHood publishes that missing half. - **Every word, searchable** — Your whole channel becomes a searchable archive: hybrid semantic + keyword search across every video's transcript, with results that jump to the exact second. The follow-up to “where did she say that?” stops being scrubbing through hours of video. - **Pages Google can rank** — A watch page ranks for its title and description; the ten thousand words inside it rank for nothing. Each video becomes a server-rendered page — transcript, chapters, key moments, Schema.org markup — on your own domain, eligible for every long-tail question the conversation answers. - **Citations in AI answers** — ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI cite readable, structured sources — never a video frame. Your episodes become exactly that, plus a live MCP endpoint agents query directly, with every citation deep-linking back to the moment. - **An audience you own** — Viewers subscribe on your library in one click, and every new upload automatically emails them its brief — an email list YouTube will never give you. Your comments come along too: mirrored read-only, labeled, and clustered into what to make next. ## Why is my YouTube content invisible to Google? Because Google indexes what it can read, and for a video that's essentially the title, the description, and some metadata — not the hour of conversation inside. A watch page can rank for its own name; it can't rank for the hundreds of specific questions the conversation actually answers. That's why a thin blog post routinely outranks the definitive video treatment of the same topic: the post is crawlable text. PodHood publishes each video's conversation as a real text page — structured, marked up, on your domain — so the substance finally competes. ## Which YouTube channels does this work for? Talk content: podcasts on YouTube, interviews, educational channels, commentary, video essays — anywhere the value is in what's said. PodHood decomposes speech into transcripts, chapters, key moments, and entities; a montage or music channel has little for it to work with. If that's your channel, the fit is deep: long conversations are exactly the content most underserved by metadata-only discovery, and the most valuable once every moment becomes findable and citable. ## Do I have to change how I publish on YouTube? No. The connection is read-only: PodHood mirrors your channel, checks it hourly, and indexes new uploads on its own. You keep publishing, curating, and moderating on YouTube — the source always wins — and the library keeps itself in sync. Nothing is re-uploaded and nothing touches your channel. Comments are mirrored read-only for analysis with deep links back into each thread; replying, pinning, and moderating stay on YouTube where your audience lives. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is this a YouTube SEO tool? No — it's the complement. YouTube SEO tools optimize how a video ranks inside YouTube: titles, tags, thumbnails. PodHood makes the conversation itself visible outside YouTube — on Google, in AI answers, and in a searchable archive — surfaces metadata optimization can't reach. ### Can viewers subscribe to my channel by email? Yes. Your library has Subscribe built in: one click signs a viewer in with Google or an email code, and every new upload automatically emails them its brief — summary, chapters, key moments deep-linked to the second. The roster of names and addresses is yours in the Studio, on every plan. ### What happens with my YouTube comments? On Pro and Studio they're mirrored read-only and analyzed — sentiment and intent in any language, recurring asks clustered into content ideas, every number one click from the comments behind it. PodHood never writes anything back to YouTube. ### Does PodHood work for RSS podcasts too? Yes — a channel connects from a YouTube channel or a podcast RSS feed, one source of truth per channel. Either way, every episode becomes the same structured Brief and the same published surfaces. ### Can this run on my own domain? Yes — custom domains are included on every plan, so the pages, search, email links, and MCP endpoint all live at an address you own. Studio white-label removes PodHood branding from the library on that domain entirely. ### What does it cost to try? Nothing to start: the Free tier includes enough indexing for about 10 hours of video, lifetime, with the library, search, email list, and analytics all included. Paid plans add capacity and automation for full back catalogs. ## Related - [Podcast SEO](https://podhood.com/solutions/podcast-seo) - [Get cited by AI](https://podhood.com/solutions/ai-citations) - [Podcast email list](https://podhood.com/solutions/podcast-email-list) - [Podcast comments](https://podhood.com/solutions/podcast-comments) - [How PodHood works](https://podhood.com/product) - [See pricing](https://podhood.com/pricing)