Local SEO

The difference between getting discovered on YouTube search and being invisible? Strategic keyword research. By optimizing videos with the right terms, you can dramatically increase your organic traffic. Take YouTuber Caren Magill’s ADHD coaching channel, for example. With 4.95M lifetime views and 116K subscribers, it’s safe to say Caren has found a successful niche. But this wasn’t luck. Caren optimizes her video’s titles, descriptions, and tags with terms that attract her target audience. The good news? You can do it, too—all you need is a reliable keyword research tool. To help you with this task, I evaluated five of the most popular YouTube keyword tools. …

Pageviews are a web analytics metric that counts each time a visitor loads or reloads a page on your website. Each instance of a user viewing a page is one pageview, regardless of whether the same user views the same page multiple times. Tracking pageviews helps you measure traffic volume and understand which content attracts the most attention. But: Pageviews are not the most important metric you should track. I’ll explain why below, but first let’s clarify what they are in the context of a few other metrics. Pageviews vs. Users vs. Sessions Pageviews represent the total number of times people view your pages. If someone visits your homepage, clicks to your blog, t…

JavaScript has enabled highly interactive and dynamic websites. But it also presents a challenge: ensuring your site is crawlable, indexable, and fast. That’s why JavaScript SEO is essential. When applied correctly, these strategies can significantly boost organic search performance. For instance, book retailer Follet saw a remarkable recovery after fixing JavaScript issues: That’s the impact of effective JavaScript SEO. In this guide, you’ll: Get an introduction to JavaScript SEO Understand the challenges with using JavaScript for search Learn best practices to optimize your JavaScript site for organic search What Is JavaScript SEO? JavaScript SEO is the process…

WordPress redirects ensure your users (and Google) can find your content when you: Change the URL Combine two pieces of content Move your entire site to a new domain Using redirects avoids creating broken links (bad for user experience), or losing the authority of your backlinks (bad for your SEO). In this guide, I’ll show you how to redirect your WordPress URLs with and without plugins. When Should You Use WordPress Redirects? You typically set up WordPress redirects any time you want visitors (and search engines) to end up at a different URL than the one they originally tried to access. That might be because you changed an old link, or because you’re testing a new…