20 January 2020
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Jono Alderson
Sometimes, branding, technical or business decisions mean that you need to change your domain. If you’re not careful, a poorly managed move can really hurt your SEO. Thankfully, WordPress makes things pretty easy – here’s everything you need to do. 10 steps to move WordPress That should be it, you’ve moved WordPress to a new …
Read: "Move WordPress to a new domain in 10 easy steps!"
7 November 2019
Jono Alderson
Your robots.txt file is a powerful tool when working on a website’s SEO – but you should handle it with care. It allows you to deny search engines access to different files and folders, but often that’s not the best way to optimize your site. Here, we’ll explain how we think site owners should use their …
Read: "WordPress robots.txt: Best-practice example for SEO"
24 June 2019
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Michiel Heijmans
Duplicate content is much-dreaded in the world of SEO. If your content lives on multiple pages on your site, or other websites, Google might get confused and won’t know what to rank first. You’ll want to prevent duplicate content as much as possible. So, what can you do, yourself? Here, I’ll explain how to perform …
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6 June 2019
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Jono Alderson
This post explains what AMP is and aims to do, who should implement and why, how to get your WordPress site ready for AMP and how to make sure Yoast SEO integrates nicely with it. What are Accelerated Mobile Pages/AMP? The Accelerated Mobile Pages project aims to make pages load instantly on mobile. The web is slow …
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6 March 2019
Michiel Heijmans
Have you read my post on image SEO? On that post, I got this comment from Jerry, a professional photographer: “In galleries, do you have any suggestions about what the ALT text should look like? The main concern is that we don’t want to be perceived as keyword spamming; using the same keyword in all the …
Read: "Photography SEO: How to optimize your images"