⭐️ hey hi Mubs! ... excellent question! ---

... there's some relation to SEO as some would attest, however, our Kyle asserts 'no' as a short answer -- Content remains King!

... here's his take on it in a very interesting & comprehensive blog written by him for your reference/info.

..... --hope it helps you --

... enjoy the read & here it is: Are Backlinks Good for Rankings? Nope.

thanks for sharing this article

it's my pleasure .... 😊

Mubs, I'll send you a definitive article that'll explain all of this.

Sounds great. Could you post the link or PM it to me, please?
Thank you,
Ian

Done!

Thank you kindly.

Hey Vitaliy, can you send me that definitive article too please?

Sent.

VitaliyG Can you also send me definitive article please. Thank you

I'd go with something like "what is the best keyword tool" instead Monica, it sounds better, it is better and I actually wrote an article on that on my site.

Hey Vitaliy,

Ooohh... nice I just looked that one up in Jaaxy. I agree it's waaayyyy better than the two I was thinking of. It does sound better and it's better. Really makes sense.

Thank you. I think I'm ALMOST understanding keywords. I know it should be easy but it sure takes me a long time to 'get' it.

Thank you a billion times over Vitaliy!

Kind Regards,
Monica

Thanks Derek! To be honest, if Google and SEO is smart (which they appear to be so far), then we can expect more of an evolution to the existing system in that content will continue to be the biggest factor in a site's success, that has been the working formula for both sites and search engines, so I only see them using this same formula and advancing it further.

As for YMYL sites, I would narrow it down into something like working from home, blogging topics, seo topics, and sticking to one of these sorts of things.

Hi Cynthia, you are referring to the tags and boxes underneath your posts. You need not fill them in, as the title you put in your blog/page and the first paragraph will be what shows up there after you publish it (it'll take time but it'll do it).

You only need to focus on the keyword being in your title and first paragraph.

Really?! I thought the search engines got keywords from that box as well as your actual post.

What about the Description box? Doesn't that need something that will make the viewer want to go see more on your site? I understand that if you don't put anything there yourself, Google will just grab the first couple of lines from your post, and could cut a sentence off, making it look strange.

I think the SEO aspect to this is really interesting in general and of course I want to use it well for my site, so I have been reading things both here on WA and elsewhere on the internet trying to learn all I can. It has all seemed pretty complicated. Maybe I am just reading TOO much and making it too complicated in my head.

Hi Monica, I'm not exactly a major expert on this, but my guess is that your images have dashes between them or no titles.

Meaning:

When you upload an image, it shows the title of it which you upload with dashes between the words.

But then in the alt text, you just write the name of it without the dashes. I believe this is why you're getting that message.

It's not a big deal though in my opinion, it won't destroy the rankings or anything. I would take Google webmaster tools far more seriously than Bing.

Hi Vitaliy,

Thanks for responding back.

Ok so I have been describing what the image is without hyphens.

What about the Image title? I put that in with hyphens like in my screenshot...

Monica

Meta title = title of the blog or page post.

Meta description = the first paragraph of your blog or page, this is what gets ranked on Google as the snippet when people see the results.

Hi Vitaliy,

Oh I see...

So on the Meta description (re: first paragraph of my blog or page) if I can keep the number of characters down to 150 or 160 characters, and have my keyword in it... the first paragraph will appear as my snippet in Google? I hope I'm getting this right.

Thank you again.

Monica

Yeah, I don't really know about the "limit" of characters, that certainly plays a role in your meta title (blog title), but I'd keep the first paragraph short and I would also include the keyword there too.

Ok, so the meta title is my blog title and the meta description is my first paragraph.

I'll make sure my first paragraph (meta description) is short with my keyword in it.

Regarding the meta description... Say my actual keyword is 'scuba diving in Australia' and my blog title is '10 best places to scuba diving in Australia'. Do I have to use this full blog title in my first paragraph or is it just the actual keyword 'scuba diving in Australia' that must be placed in the first paragraph?

Meta title is my blog title that has the keyword. It's also the url correct?

Yarrggg... I hope I'm getting closer to understanding this..

Thank you again Vitality!

Monica

Hi Monica, the URL is known as the permalink so whatever title you put in, will automatically generate a permalink. As long as it's under 60 characters (the title), you're fine.

And for the first paragraph, yeah the keyword is what you want to be in there, but you can spice it up by adding 10 places to scuba dive in. The thing is, people will click on the link expecting to see 10 places, so I would def include that in the first paragraph (in addition to the keyword of course).

Ahhh, I see, okay Vitaliy! I will definitely keep that in mind and great point. I'll make sure to add my spicy words that I used in my title.

In fact, I am now going to copy ALL our conversations and make sure I follow them.

I should have asked these questions earlier way-way back. I knew I had doubts on how I was doing all this ... and of course, I was doing it wrong (misinterpreted) lol!

But, that's okay... I'm learning and I won't forget.

Thank you Vitaliy for all your help and patience in getting me to 'finally' understand everything you explained. I'm a 'happy camper'!!

Have a wonderful week.

Monica

not a problem Monica, happy to help!

Hi Monica, you can leave those boxes blank (I always do), that's just an "ID tag" of your content to Google, but they don't really care about that, they will look at your meta title and and description in the actual content, not those boxes, I'd just leave them blank.

Hi Vitaliy,

Thank you for your reply.

Ok, sounds good. Finally, I feel like I'm doing this right. This has been bothering for a while...

I'll remove what I have in my Meta Title and Meta Description as I go into each post to change my affiliate link.

I'm sure I'll have other questions on SEO... you will be successful in your new site. How exciting! Wishing you all the best on it!!

Have a great weekend Vitaliy!

Monica

Thank you!

I thought the meta title here was quite important as its this title that ends up showing in the serps. You can have a different title here say to your main title on the page.

Its a good idea to have the more catchy longer title here..As long as it has your keyword in.

Lets say you have a best of post with year like 2018, rather than put it in the URL title you can have it show in the serps here, so next year when you want to change the article 2019 you will not have to change the URL, just the meta title.

Hey Jake,

Thank you for the additional information and I'm sorry to take so long to respond.

So you mean I can change the Meta Title? It doesn't have to be the same as the title of my post which has the keyword in it?

Monica

Yeah you are referring to the header image being too big, I'd either maintain your title (no image) or have the image compressed as much as possible to improve load time. This will improve SEO results.

Nope, no backlinks in that manner, I honestly follow Jay's tips to the T to be honest, he is a far better expert than I in SEO so naturally, imitation is the best form of flattery :)

Thanks for confirming :)