There’s a ton of fancy and expensive keyword research tools on offer these days but the truth is you can do some basic research with just three free tools: Google Suggest, Google AdWords Keyword Planner, and Google Trends. Even if you have and use paid keyword research tools you can use these as a starting…
How to write naturally beyond exact keyword matching
Exact keyword matching used to be an important SEO tactic, but those days are long gone. Now search engines can understand when similar phrases and related terms mean the same thing. Adding too many exact match keywords might make Google think your post is just another piece of spam. We’ll explain how to write naturally…
How to use the Google snippet preview in Yoast SEO
You need to have nice-looking snippets to get more clicks. One way to ensure your site looks good when it appears in the search results is to use Yoast SEO’s Google snippet preview. It simulates what a search result for your page would look like and allows you to edit the tile, slug, and description!…
How to adapt your content SEO strategy
If you’re serious about your SEO, you’ve probably set (implicit) goals on what you want to achieve. Perhaps you want to rank in the top ten search results for a specific keyword. Maybe you want your organic traffic to rise with a certain number. But what do you do if you are unable to meet…
Keyword research for your Shopify or WooCommerce store
When you start an ecommerce site with WooCommerce or Shopify, having a keyword strategy might seem less important. You’re selling products, so the product names are your keywords. While that might be true in a few cases, in most cases, you need to focus on the keywords that describe the problem you or your products…
Rank tracking: why you should monitor your keywords
Keywords. Optimization. Google rankings. Choose your goal, do the work, hope you win those top SERP positions. That’s why we do SEO in the first place, right? Of course, there’s a lot more to think about than just rankings and optimization. And if you’re getting enough visitors, and those visitors seem happy with your site…
What is search intent and why is it important for SEO?
SEO is a way to get more traffic to your website. By ranking high on Google, you attract more people to your site which leads to more sales and returning visitors. To get people to your site, you need to optimize your content for the right words. However, to increase your chances of ranking, convincing…
How to do keyword research for YouTube
Keyword research for YouTube SEO is a very different process than keyword research for Google and Bing. However, too often marketers take the research they’ve done for Google and apply the learnings directly to YouTube. This never quite works, because the things people search for on YouTube differs greatly from the kind of things they…