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The evolution of Yoast avatars & we’re doing a redesign!
Over the years, our avatars have evolved quite a bit. Paul Madden created the first avatar, back in 2007. A few years later, I asked Erwin to improve upon it and he ran off with them. He created many,...
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Website Maintenance: clean up old posts & pages
When you maintain a blog, you write different types of posts. Of course, you try to write evergreen cornerstone content posts all the time. The reality is different. Some posts have historical value,...
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Phantom Quality Panda and Google Search Console
At Yoast, we’re all really busy in the preparation for YoastCon next Wednesday, as you will understand. When us SEO people are really busy focussing on other stuff, Google tends to ‘surprise’ the...
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We’re very excited that it’s only two days until YoastCon kicks off! So it’s high time we share the link to the free livestream that’ll also be available for this day. Tune in for free here » Or copy...
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Announcing a Yoast redesign
As I announced in our previous post on the evolution of Yoast avatars, we’re working on a redesign. In fact… The HTML and CSS are mostly done, but we’ll take quite a bit more time to work on it. Over...
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Feature highlight: WP SEO Premium redirect manager
One of the things we are understanding more and more, is that we have failed to explain why our WordPress SEO Premium plugin is awesome. Today, I’d like to tell you about the redirect manager that’s...
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Five things you are doing wrong
The more reviews we do, the more we feel there is a serious problem with the website owners’ perception of their websites and the content on these website. In this post, we will give our...
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Weekly SEO recap: Panda, Penguin, Mobilegeddon
We’ve decided that we’re going to turn my “somewhat” regular recent posts on changes in the Search and SEO world into a weekly SEO recap. It’ll run on Friday most of the time, so you know when to...
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Your website needs (better) forms
One of the things we notice are hardly ever optimized on most websites are forms. Forms are an integral part of just about every website. However, for some reason, people don’t (want to) spend much...
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WordPress SEO 2.2
Both WordPress SEO Premium and the free version of WordPress SEO have been updated to version 2.2. This new release brings quite a few changes and some nice new additions. We’ll explain the changes in...
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What type of content should a cornerstone article be?
People often ask us how to improve their rankings on specific keywords. In our site reviews, we can really analyse a site and come up with a tailor made answer to that question. But in most cases, the...
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Weekly SEO Recap: Apple & Mobilegeddon
News comes in weird bumps sometimes. While last week was filled to the brim with search news, this week it’s incredibly slow. There was a lot of news out of Apple though, and some of it touches on...
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Introducing Yoast Comment Hacks
Comments are awesome, but the WordPress comments system is sometimes slightly lacking. Several large sites have, in the first few months of this year, announced they were no longer allowing comments....
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What our Website Reviews can do for you
“Can you make us rank #1 for our keyword?” “How much more traffic can you promise us?” “Can you make us rank higher, and if so, what spot?” These are just a few examples of questions I’ve gotten from...
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Focus on Clarity First
With the current trend of larger and larger header images being used on homepages, there is one thing that seems to be forgotten a lot: the purpose of a website. How often have you found yourself...
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Weekly SEO Recap: Google & HTTPS, Bing no longer nice
An interesting week this one, including an update that seems to have quite a bit of impact. There are also some nice new features in Google Trends, possible labels for slow loading sites and some more...
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How to incorporate cornerstone content
Two weeks ago, I wrote a post focussing on the question of the type of content of cornerstone articles. I concluded with the notion that cornerstone content should be informative, fun to read and...
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Facebook author tags & Yoast SEO
Last week, Facebook did a post on their media site about Facebook author tags. Many blogs, including sites we love like SearchEngineJournal, picked it up as though it was the best new thing since...
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Optimizing your mobile content
I don’t have to tell you that mobile traffic is taking over desktop traffic in a fast pace. Mainly because I already did. We have been talking about making sure your website is responsive and how...
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Weekly SEO Recap: Google tests & oDesk becomes Upwork
Coming to you from warm & very sunny Seville, where I’m currently attending WordCamp Europe along with some colleagues, this is another weeks SEO recap! There was some nice news about Google tests...
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