24 November 2020
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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 …
Read: "How to optimize a blog post for search engines: a checklist!"
6 October 2020
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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 …
Read: "SEO tips for non-profit organizations"
30 September 2020
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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 …
Read: "Blog post structure: How to set up an easy-to-read text"
10 September 2020
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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 …
Read: "How to duplicate a post in WordPress, plus 4 reasons why!"
26 August 2020
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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 …
Read: "Set up cornerstone content and get it ranking in 6 steps"
28 July 2020
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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 …
Read: "Should you optimize your content for questions?"
8 June 2020
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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 …
Read: "How to optimize a landing page for users"
5 June 2020
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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 …
Read: "10 years of Yoast and SEO: Webinar recap"
28 May 2020
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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. …
Read: "What is keyword stemming?"
11 May 2020
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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 …
Read: "SEO copywriting and writing for sales"