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December 2019


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Yoast 10 years
30 December 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Looking back at (almost) a decade of Yoast

11 December 2019 Edwin Toonen

What’s powering conversational search? Featured snippets, structured data and actions

10 December 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.7: Cleaning up and fixing bugs


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01 December 2019 Fleur Heesen

The passive voice: What is it and how to avoid it?

November 2019


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WordPress Gutenberg blocks
27 November 2019 Jono Alderson

It’s not enough to ‘write content’. You have to publish resources.

26 November 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.6: Getting help in the plugin is now easier

Branding favicon
21 November 2019 Edwin Toonen

Search Console showing errors in your product structured data?


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patch release yoast seo 12.5.1
21 November 2019 Willemien Hallebeek

Yoast SEO 12.5.1: Patch release for time-offset issue


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don't make these seo copywriting mistakes
20 November 2019 Willemien Hallebeek

5 SEO copywriting mistakes you should avoid


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Import and export in the Yoast SEO plugin
19 November 2019 Iris Guelen

Why and how to export your focus keyphrases with Yoast SEO Premium

13 November 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.5: Behind the scenes improvements


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07 November 2019 Dijana Muzhdeka

User roles in WordPress


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noindex a post with meta robots noindex
07 November 2019 Jono Alderson

WordPress robots.txt: Best-practice example for SEO

Content analysis FI
04 November 2019 Edwin Toonen

Google BERT: A better understanding of complex queries

October 2019

What is conversion?
31 October 2019 Edwin Toonen

Managing access to Yoast SEO with SEO roles

29 October 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.4: Image in snippet preview


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23 October 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Should you keep old content?


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Social previews in Yoast SEO Premium
22 October 2019 Meike Hendriks

An introduction to user research

Import and export in the Yoast SEO plugin
21 October 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO Import & Export features


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engage your online audience
16 October 2019 Fleur Heesen

Engaging your online audience: 8 practical tips

15 October 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.3: Transition words in Hungarian


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Yoast 10 years
11 October 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Celebrating 10 years of Yoast: YoastCon 2020!

Ask Yoast case study: renting holiday home
08 October 2019 Edwin Toonen

Get Google’s new video reporting with the Yoast Video SEO plugin


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Content analysis FI
03 October 2019 Manuel Augustin

How we make Yoast SEO understand your language

01 October 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.2: Fixes, improvements and more

September 2019

robots meta
26 September 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Robots meta changes for Google

WordPress SEO: The definitive guide
26 September 2019 Maria Garefalaki

How to use WordPress? The 12 most common questions

17 September 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.1: Snippet preview updated


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13 September 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Yoast SEO: don’t just set it and forget it!


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Research
10 September 2019 Meike Hendriks

What is user testing and why should you do it?

Social previews in Yoast SEO Premium
06 September 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Social previews in Yoast SEO Premium


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Sustainable SEO
05 September 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Celebrating the WordPress community: the Yoast Care fund

03 September 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.0: UX improvements and new Portuguese checks

August 2019


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Copywriting
22 August 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

How to become a better writer

20 August 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Yoast SEO 11.9: More fixes and enhancements


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content analysis in yoast seo
15 August 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

How to use Yoast SEO’s content analysis tool


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marketing your blog
13 August 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Marketing your blog: 6 tips to grow your audience


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Research
09 August 2019 Meike Hendriks

Panel research for your business: Benefits and tips

06 August 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Yoast SEO 11.8: Improving Yoast SEO with the help of the community


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green bullet yoast SEO
02 August 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Allure of the green traffic light in Yoast SEO: Pitfalls to avoid

July 2019

30 July 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Website maintenance: Check and fix 404 error pages

26 July 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Where your branding meets your keyword strategy

how to delete pages properly
24 July 2019 Maria Garefalaki

How to properly delete a page from your site

Yoast SEO 11.7
23 July 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Yoast SEO 11.7: Are podcasts the new blogs?

social media
11 July 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Social buttons: How to add and track them on your site

09 July 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 11.6: HowTo Schema update and UI changes

What are ranking signals?
05 July 2019 Edwin Toonen

15 questions about ranking factors – Yoast webinar recap


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04 July 2019 Meike Hendriks

What is an exit survey and why should you use it?

June 2019

27 June 2019 Edwin Toonen

What is a soft 404 error and what to do about it?

25 June 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 11.5: An updated mobile preview + favicon!


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Duplicate content
24 June 2019 Michiel Heijmans

DIY: Duplicate content check

what is structured data and schema.org
20 June 2019 Edwin Toonen

How to get a Google answer box

13 June 2019 Edwin Toonen

Content design: a great way to make user-centered content

12 June 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 11.4: FAQ structured data in the graph


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AMP news: where are we now
06 June 2019 Jono Alderson

Setting up WordPress for AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages


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06 June 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Is there such a thing as too much high-quality content?

Sustainable SEO
05 June 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Tips for an eco-friendly website


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text objective and purpose
04 June 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Why the purpose of your text is important for SEO

May 2019


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31 May 2019 Meike Hendriks

Why and how to investigate the top tasks of your visitors

28 May 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 11.3: Even more enhancements


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Annelieke's Analytics
22 May 2019 Thijs de Valk

How to do a one-page analysis in Google Analytics


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Readability
20 May 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

The Flesch reading ease score: why and how to use it


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Writing a readable blog post
17 May 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

The importance of typography

WordPress SEO: The definitive guide
16 May 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Supporting older versions of WordPress

Yoast SEO 11.2
15 May 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 11.2: Schema enhancements and more

10 May 2019 Edwin Toonen

Announcing a new integration: Yoast SEO for Neos CMS


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yoast seo hates my writing style
10 May 2019 Fleur Heesen

“Yoast SEO hates my writing style!”


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Search console Yoast SEO
02 May 2019 Jono Alderson

Where did my Search Console errors go?

April 2019


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help plugin not working
30 April 2019 Willemien Hallebeek

WordPress plugin not working? Check these 5 things

30 April 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 11.1: Even more Schema enhancements!

Permalink_structure
25 April 2019 Maria Garefalaki

15 advanced link building tactics & tips to boost your SEO


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Storytelling
18 April 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Why storytelling is good for SEO

Yoast SEO Schema FI
17 April 2019 Edwin Toonen

A story about Schema, structured data and robots

Yoast SEO 11.0
16 April 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 11.0: Structured data awesomeness

11 April 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Tagging posts properly for users and SEO


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Annelieke's Analytics
10 April 2019 Annelieke van den Berg

Create your first report in Google Data Studio


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yoast seo hates my writing style
05 April 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Cornerstone analysis to help you create your best articles


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how to optimize your restaurant website
04 April 2019 Michiel Heijmans

How to optimize your restaurant website

Yoast SEO 10.1
02 April 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 10.1: Wortformen auf Deutsch

March 2019


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27 March 2019 Iris Guelen

What is the difference between a keyword and a keyphrase?

Google
22 March 2019 Edwin Toonen

Google says it doesn’t use rel=prev/next for pagination


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Storytelling
21 March 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Using storytelling on product pages


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product page SEO and UX - beware of the panda and penguin
20 March 2019 Thijs de Valk

Product page UX: 3 great examples


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link building don'ts
19 March 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

5 link building DON’Ts you didn’t know about

Yoast SEO 10.0 release illustration
12 March 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 10.0: Meet the new SEO analysis

Keep your cornerstone content fresh with the stale content filter
12 March 2019 Edwin Toonen

The stale cornerstone content filter: keep your core content fresh!


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Storytelling
07 March 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

How to use storytelling in a blog post


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Optimize product images for your online shop
06 March 2019 Michiel Heijmans

Photography SEO: How to optimize your images

February 2019

Yoast SEO 9.7
26 February 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 9.7: Fixes and enhancements


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keep pages out of search results
25 February 2019 Michiel Heijmans

How to keep your page out of the search results


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ideal site structure pyramid
20 February 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

Blog SEO: add and maintain categories on your blog!

YoastCon 2019 banner image
19 February 2019 Edwin Toonen

Missed YoastCon 2019? Learn from our takeaways!

visual search illustration
14 February 2019 Edwin Toonen

Visual search: The future is now

Yoast SEO 9.6 release
12 February 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 9.6: Improving our code

live indexing with yoast seo
07 February 2019 Maria Garefalaki

Live indexing for Bing & Google coming to Yoast SEO

January 2019


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31 January 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

What type of content should a cornerstone article be?


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OPen source design conventions
29 January 2019 Luc Kickken

Open source design: claiming ownership over design conventions


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YoastCon 2019
24 January 2019 Marieke van de Rakt

7 reasons to come to YoastCon


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23 January 2019 Jono Alderson

What is Google Search Console?

22 January 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 9.5: Hej Sverige!

Gutenberg
21 January 2019 Maria Garefalaki

On Gutenberg and WordPress 5.0

404 error pages
14 January 2019 Maria Garefalaki

SEO Anti-patterns: 301 redirect all your 404s to your homepage

08 January 2019 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 9.4: Help us beta test the new SEO analysis!