I haven’t heard about them.

I see. Yes most of us that is on the YouTube thread makes use of them. They are very helpful in helping you to identify relevant keywords for ranking and SEO purposes in YouTube. In fact each keyword used will have a little number above it to show what position your YouTube video ranks in YouTube for that particular keyword.

It also gives you keyword suggestions for your video and just like your SEO plugin for Wordpress e.g. Yoast will give you advice in how to improve your SEO, these plugins for YouTube will also give you advice on how to improve your YouTube video SEO. It includes things like e.g. reply to a recent comment. Pin a comment. Make sure your YouTube Title is not too short and not too long.

Share your YouTube video on FB and on Twitter. Attach a card to your video. Add an end screen to your video. Pay attention to the amount of keywords/tags you used to make sure it is fully optimised.

So it will give you an overall SEO score just like Yoast and All in one SEO plugin will do.

As a beginner or even at an intermediate level both these tools are of great help

Both these provide a total SEO score out of 100 based on :-
Tags in title
Tags in description
Title words in description etc.
They also check if you've put a high resolution thumbnail and added an end screen.
Overall these tools help you with ranking your video higher than your competitors

Thank you Aniket for explaining those free programs too me. I will have to check them out.

That’s great reference. I wish I knew about it when I first started doing videos. I will start to focus on those in the trial run. I have three videos to do and I haven’t worked out on what. 😊

Great! I was gonna say I could probs make a video for you on it but I guess it is pretty easy to just type in VidIQ in YouTube and loads of explainer videos on it will probs pop up.

I use the free version so by the way.

That sounds great. Thank you so much. I like your videos, you do a pretty good job.

Many thanks for your very kind words of encouragement. However, work got me a bit busy atm so you may be better off checking out VidiQ vs TubeBuddy videos. There are some great videos on it out there.

However, if you are looking for a website speed performance video, then I can certainly share that with you, unless your website speed is of course already awesome.

Thank you according to seo it’s pretty good.

That is great, according to site speed tests probably great too. I assume you use Generate Press which is certainly a great choice.

I use Asha which I think is a generate press theme

Generate Press is a good choice. I am struggling, as I use a wonderful theme with all the bells and whistles, but all those bells and whistles comes at a detrimental speed cost, so I am having to come up with all sorts of solutions.

In the end, it does not help to put band aids, so I am about to re-built one of my websites now on Generate Press using Gutenburg.

I think most website builders has now lost its relevance when considering speed optimisation.

So does that mean Gutenburg is a better platform?

The more lightweight it is in terms of code that needs to process, the better it is. So yes, if you can build using Gutenberg just as is, then you will certainly never run into speed issues ever if you keep your images small and optimised and lazy load your images and videos.You will be flying.

Simplicity is key. As much as I was tempted with sliders and all sorts of bells and whistles to make my web pages and articles looking great, I realised this is not worth it now that speed has become an important rank factor. It is now about still making your pages looking great with nice images etc. yet keeping it simple.

Saying that, you do get some plugins like GenerateBlocks now that has additional pre-built Gutenberg blocks that makes your life easier and integrates seemlessly e.g. with GeneratePress etc. So in a way you can maybe call GenerateBlocks some sort of a website builder but very light and based on Gutenberg.

Saying this, there are a few website builders out there that still performs well, but in general website builders are taxing and more and more I see the recommendation to now forget about website builders and to move to Gutenberg and simplicity.

Thank you for your great feedback. Site speed is not an issue with me on my laptop, but some posts are slow on my mobile. So I do need to improve my performance. But first, I'm going to have a look at why then do something about the issue.

I will seriously take a look into this. I think Ashe may not be the best for Mobile phones. According to SEO, it's too slow for other people's mobile phones. I don't have this problem with my mobile, which could be because I access it all the time.

Did you back up your website before changing over? If so, which plugin did you use?

I use UpdraftPlus to make backups. And yes always do make backups before making changes. Does depend how drastic the changes are though. If minor changes that can be undone with a click of a button then probs no need.

My suggestion is don't make drastic changes before making sure that it is not other issues causing this, as may have nothing to do with the theme.

In my case I know it is my theme that is a problem, however with some tricks I have been able to get pages to run 95 on desktop and mid to high 70's on mobile.

However I know with my current theme I will never score 99 on mobile etc. So my one website I will leave on my current theme as too many complications switching that one to Generate Press as a lot going on there in terms of design, Woocommerce etc.

My other website though I believe it to be the right thing to rebuild it now on Generate Press.

I recommend you watch the video I created on website speed performance first before considering any drastic changes.

If your theme is not as heavy as mine you may just be able with those tips and tricks to get yours to run 99 on mobile.

Thank you for your kind advice. I will take what you say on board. I appreciate your help.

You are welcome. I will pm you the video if interested if you are not sure which video I am talking about.

Thank you I appreciate your help.

You are most welcome!

You've used YouTube for watching cooking videos; this tells that you are really fond of cooking. So you can start your own channel and start making videos of your own recipe of foods. Start it as a passion and as your channel grows start making money as well.

Thank you

You're welcome

Thankyou Jeffrey :)

You're very welcome!

Hi , thanks for enlightening me. I've added a note about not buying paid plans as that will defeat the entire purpose of the free tools. They are absolutely workable and usable for even free so no need to pay for them.