Technical SEO archives

Today we are launching the first two in a series of technical SEO courses: Hosting and server configuration, and Crawlability and indexability! SEO is about more than using the right keywords and writing great content. Without a solid technical foundation, you risk losing the benefits of all your other SEO efforts. We know that technical …

You might have heard that you need structured data on your website. Not only will Google understand your content better, but it will also increase your chances of getting those shiny rich results. In Yoast SEO, we output schema as a graph. This means it’s all tied together and the relationship between various elements is …

Over the last couple of months, there’s been a lot of talk about a new protocol called IndexNow. This new protocol automatically notifies search engines that support it about all the updates on your site. While initially skeptical about this development, we’ve decided to add an IndexNow integration to Yoast SEO Premium 18.8. What is …

One of the most important aspects of SEO is ensuring your content is crawled and indexed by search engines. In fact, without your content in the index, your website won’t be able to generate traffic from search at all. But indexing isn’t always a fast process. There are a lot of factors affecting how fast …

The ONLY tutorial you need to boost your search engine traffic by improving your WordPress SEO. Tips on WordPress SEO plugin usage, structuring your site and optimizing your theme!

Many people want to know what it takes to appear at the top of Google’s search results, and it’s easy to see why – it’s a goal that can make a huge difference online. The truth is, giving a simple answer isn’t easy. In fact, explaining how to rank highly can be almost as challenging …

This guide discusses what hreflang is, what it is for and gives in-depth information on how to implement it for your multilingual websites.

The homepage of your website serves many different purposes. It’s the page where you welcome people to your website, where you want to highlight your most important stuff, and from where users can navigate to your other pages. That’s why it’s important to spend enough time optimizing your homepage. But should you also optimize your …

Traditionally, you will use a robots.txt file on your server to manage what pages, folders, subdomains, or other content search engines can crawl. But did you know there’s also such a thing as the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header? Here, we’ll discuss the possibilities and how this might be a better option for your blog. Quick recap: …

Getting rid of duplicate content is a very important task for an SEO. This article discusses common causes & how to identify and fix duplicate content.