Content SEO archives

At Yoast, we often advise that you should write for your users and not yourself. Why? Because they’re the ones who visit your site and read your content. But did you know there’s a specific type of writing that focuses solely on creating a good user experience? It’s called UX copywriting. In this blog, we’ll …

Writing a blog post is one of the most effective ways for small business owners to gain online visibility. A well-written post helps you show expertise, connect with potential customers, and improve your site’s visibility in search results. However, learning how to write a blog post that people will want to read and that search …

Reading from a screen can be difficult, so if you want people to read your whole blog post, it must be easy to understand. This will get you more returning visitors and a higher conversion rate. Luckily, improving the readability of your content is something you can do relatively quickly to give your site a …

We’ve all been lured into clicking on unsatisfying search results before. At first glance, it looks promising. But if you can’t see what you’re looking for when you get there, you’ll probably just leave again. *Boing* — there goes the bounce rate! The fact is, just making content and getting it into the search results …

It’s probably no secret that the search results for many topics on Google don’t give you the best results. Many topics are highjacked by high-paying ad buyers and companies with big budgets to write over-optimized SEO content at the expense of readability and user experience. The result is frustration for the searcher. Google is aware …

With the rise of social media and smartphone adoption, emojis have gone from cute icons we add to our text messages to becoming an integral part of our day-to-day communication. For many people, emojis belong to social media and text messages, as we mostly use them in these contexts. But did you know that you …

You need to have nice-looking snippets to get more clicks. One way to ensure your site looks good in the search results is to use Yoast SEO’s search appearance preview. It simulates what a search result for your page would look like and allows you to edit the title, slug, and description! Here, we explain …

The word complexity assessment in Yoast SEO Premium and Yoast SEO for Shopify checks whether a text has too many complex words. But what is a complex word in the first place? How many complex words are too many in a text? What is the scientific reasoning behind this assessment? You’ll find all the answers …

If you own a website or a blog, you probably often think about what new content to create. But did you know it’s also essential to focus on your existing content? Having many low-performing posts or pages on your website is not a good look for your business or Google. Did you know that outdated, …

By SEO for boring products, we mean SEO for products that are really hard to write exciting content for. Products that need a thousand words to describe all tiny details and small print, but are, in the end, just car insurances, paper clips or emergency exit signs. We’ve all had times when we just could not …