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How to use emojis in your page title and meta description💡

29 July 2022 Willemien Hallebeek

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 …

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How to use emojis in your page title and meta description💡

How to use the search appearance preview in Yoast SEO

27 July 2022 Edwin Toonen

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 …

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How to use the search appearance preview in Yoast SEO

The word complexity assessment in Yoast SEO Premium

12 July 2022 Edwin Toonen

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 …

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The word complexity assessment in Yoast SEO Premium



How to adapt your content SEO strategy

8 June 2022 | 11 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

If you’re serious about your SEO, you’ve probably set (implicit) goals for what you want to achieve. Perhaps you want to rank in the top ten search results for a specific keyword. Maybe you want your organic traffic to rise by a certain number. But what do you do if you are unable to meet …

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How to adapt your content SEO strategy



YouTube SEO in 5 minutes

24 May 2022 Maria Garefalaki

We’ll start with a brief summary of YouTube ranking factors. Next, we’ll make a best-guess assessment of how they break down from a practical standpoint. And then we’ll discuss how to do Youtube SEO. YouTube ranking factors There are two core overarching groups into which YouTube ranking factors fit: relevancy and authority. Relevancy Transcripts and …

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YouTube SEO in 5 minutes

Premium SEO analysis: As smart as Google

23 May 2022 | 22 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Yoast SEO Premium comes with a great functionality that will help you write SEO-friendly texts. We put a lot of work and care into developing it, and the software and our techniques are really smart and advanced. So, at Yoast, we’re very proud of our Premium SEO analysis. But why do YOU need this? Will it …

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Premium SEO analysis: As smart as Google