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How to optimize a blog post for search engines: a checklist!

24 November 2020 | 16 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

So, you’ve decided to write a blog post. That’s great! Now let’s ensure your efforts pay off, and it turns into an awesome post that also ranks. What will you need to write and optimize that blog post? What steps do you need to take? You can use this blog post checklist to ensure you’ve …

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How to optimize a blog post for search engines: a checklist!

SEO tips for non-profit organizations

6 October 2020 | 4 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

SEO is important for every website that wants to attract traffic. SEO for non-profits, in that regard, isn’t that different from SEO for other businesses. For non-profits -often struggling to make ends meet- it can be a cheap and effective way of attracting traffic. Making sure your website is findable in the search engines increases …

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SEO tips for non-profit organizations

Blog post structure: How to set up an easy-to-read text

30 September 2020 | 9 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

When blogging, it pays dividends to lay out the structure of your piece before you begin writing. The structure is the skeleton of your text and preparing it has multiple benefits. Firstly, it’s easier to write a text when your structure is already there. Secondly, a clear structure helps the reader to easily read your …

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Blog post structure: How to set up an easy-to-read text

How to duplicate a post in WordPress, plus 4 reasons why!

10 September 2020 | 10 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

If you write content in WordPress, duplicating a post can come in quite handy. It can save you a lot of valuable time to clone a post and adjust the content, instead of starting from scratch with every post you write. Fortunately, cloning a post becomes very easy with the Yoast Duplicate post plugin. In …

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How to duplicate a post in WordPress, plus 4 reasons why!

Set up cornerstone content and get it ranking in 6 steps

26 August 2020 | 5 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

On your site, you’ll probably have a few articles that are most dear to your heart. Articles you desperately want people to read. Articles you want people to find in Google. At Yoast, we call these articles your cornerstone articles. How does the Yoast SEO plugin help you set up a cornerstone content strategy? We’ll …

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Set up cornerstone content and get it ranking in 6 steps

Should you optimize your content for questions?

28 July 2020 | 20 Comments Fleur Heesen

Search engines are getting better and better at understanding language. Does that mean they can also understand questions? And what does that mean for the way you should write and optimize your content for questions? We’ll find out in this post! First, we’ll explore how Google understands and uses questions. Then, we’ll go into why …

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Should you optimize your content for questions?

How to optimize a landing page for users

8 June 2020 | 14 Comments Thijs de Valk

Landing pages are a very important part of your website. And if you optimize them, you can really boost your conversion rate. Obviously, you should tailor this page to your preferred audience, but there are a number of things that go for all landing pages. In this post, we’ll go over some best practices to …

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How to optimize a landing page for users

10 years of Yoast and SEO: Webinar recap

5 June 2020 | 19 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

Last Friday, May 29th, Yoast celebrated its 10th anniversary, and we invited everyone to join us! And what better way to celebrate than with an awesome, interactive webinar? We had multiple talks, Q&As, live site reviews, all with loads of SEO tips, insights and practical advice. Of course, we understand that not everyone could join …

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10 years of Yoast and SEO: Webinar recap

What is keyword stemming?

28 May 2020 | 32 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Google can read and analyze texts very well. It understands that walk, walks and walking all boil down to the same thing. Also, Google knows that baby is basically the same as babies. How? By using something called keyword stemming. This gives you the freedom to alternate between different word forms while writing your text. …

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What is keyword stemming?

SEO copywriting and writing for sales

11 May 2020 | 14 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Writing is hard. Writing for search engines is even harder. What about writing for the search engines and writing for sales simultaneously? Is that even doable? Because, in the end, you want to write copy that ranks in the search engines AND convinces people to buy your stuff, contact you, subscribe to your newsletter or …

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SEO copywriting and writing for sales