The Key to Keyword Research
So Many Topic Titles, So Little Time
Domain Overview? Never Heard of Her
Groovin' With Groove
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This core metric tells you the average number of times a specific term is Googled per month.

What is Search Volume, or Monthly Search Volume?

100

Instead of writing a whole new post, this tactic involves taking a decaying blog post from 2021, updating its facts, and republishing it for a quick traffic win.

What is Historical Optimization?

100

Representing your site's non-paid visitors, this metric is the holy grail of a successful SEO content strategy.

What is organic traffic?

100

If you need the client to reply by Friday, using this feature temporarily hides the email and brings it back to your inbox at a set time as a reminder to follow up.

What is Snooze?

100

Unlike its predecessor which focused on sessions, this updated Google platform uses a fundamentally different data model where every single user interaction is tracked as an "event."

What is GA4? (Or Google Analytics)

200

Because they are highly specific, these "extended" phrases have lower search volume but usually boast a much higher conversion rate.

What are long-tail keywords?

200

"7 Ways to Improve Your Workflow" is a classic example of this format, which blends an article with a numbered inventory.

What is a listicle?

200

Though it goes by different names based on the tool you use, this metric, scored from 0 to 100, estimates website strength.

What is Domain Authority? (Or Domain Rating)

200

Because your whole team works out of a shared inbox, taking this action on the email thread ensures your coworkers know you are the one handling the client's revisions.

What is assigning the conversation to yourself?

200

This popular WordPress SEO plugin uses a traffic light system—Red, Orange, Green—to grade your content's readability and keyword optimization.

What is Yoast?

300

"Informational" and "transactional" are two main types of this concept, which represents the true "why" behind a user's query.

What is Search Intent?

300

This 3-letter metric is exactly what you are trying to increase when you write a highly compelling headline.

What is Click-Through-Rate?

300

Checking this specific report in a domain overview reveals which of your site's individual URLs are doing the heavy lifting and driving the most clicks.

What are Top Pages?

300

If the client replies with confusing feedback, you can use this symbol to leave a private, internal note for a coworker without the client ever seeing it.

What is the @ (at) symbol?

300

This helpful tool gives you just about the closest data relating to organic searches, if you can understand what they mean by intent.

What is Google Search Console?

400

You're not ranking for these quite yet, but they're the perfect things to look at when deciding which keywords you're going to go after for the quarter.

What are competitor's keywords?

400

A headline that over-promises and under-delivers to manipulate users into clicking is known by this term.

What is clickbait?

400

While a site overview might show 10,000 total backlinks, this metric tells you the actual number of unique websites providing those links.

What are Referring Domains?

400

To keep the inbox organized, you can apply these custom, color-coded markers to the email thread, such as "Pending Approval" or "Strategy Sent."

What are tags?

400

It’s no surprise this SEO platform is famous for its massive backlink index; its very name comes from the specific HTML attribute used to create a hyperlink.

What is ahrefs?
500

If two different pages on your own website are competing for the exact same keyword, you're suffering from this gruesome-sounding SEO problem.

What is Keyword Cannibalization?

500

This structural strategy links several specific blog posts back to one comprehensive, centralized "hub" page.

What is a Topic Cluster?

500

A domain overview often highlights if your site has won these non-standard search results.

What are SERP Features?

500

It's not that we don't trust you, but we can't have you just snooping around everywhere you want. You need these before you can get full access to other departments' messages.

What are inbox permissions?

500

Rather than just giving you a spreadsheet of clicks, this platform visualizes user behavior using its trademarked, colorful "temperature-related" reports.

What is Crazy Egg?