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WordPress Plugins

Optimizing your site for Search Engines, Speeding them up and then Measuring the results has never been this easy: try our awesome WordPress Plugins.

Quix

Project Quix

Making you more productive in your browser, by having all your tools just a few keystrokes away, Quix has been dubbed a bookmarklet on steroids.

Website Review

Website Review

Want to improve your site? You can! With a full Website Review from Yoast in hand, you can improve your website's SEO, Speed, Usability and Conversion!

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WordPress

Changing the look of your Search Result Pages

February 22, 2012

I love Google, I seriously do. What I don’t like too much is them adding more and more fluff to my search result pages (or SERPs) that I really don’t want or need. Most of us know about their new Terms of Service now, right? No reason to show me that box all the bloody [...]

Do you have a clear Call to Action on your homepage? Or are you confusing people?

Where do you want me to click?

February 17, 2012

The case for a clear Call to Action on your homepage It’s a vastly overrated notion that a homepage should include all sections of your website and serve all kind of visitors. It needs one clear call to action. Clutter: To make disorderly or hard to use by filling or covering with objects The need [...]

Wordpress stats 9 Feb

Website Traffic times ten? Sometimes it’s easy

February 15, 2012

I’ll be honest, this post is somewhat of a “boast”. But since “boast” rhymes with “Yoast”, I think it’s allowed. Recently we did a website review for “How do you say that Word?”. The review contained instructions to make a section of the site accessible to spiders. Results? 10x the traffic. The Site & The [...]

Latest Wordpress Podcast episodes

How To Monetize Your Blog

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Joost de Valk & Frederick Townes

How To Grow The Engagement On Your Blog

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Joost de Valk & Frederick Townes

Latest Videos

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Snippet Preview for the WordPress SEO plugin

April 8, 2011 A quick example of how to use the snippet preview in the WordPress SEO plugin.
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Google Analytics for WordPress Introduction

August 26, 2010 This video is an introduction to Google Analytics for WordPress, showing you what it does and where you can find the results in Google Analytics.
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Introducing Google Analytics for WordPress with Debug Mode

August 26, 2010 The latest version of Google Analytics for WordPress contains a new debug mode. In this video I explain you how to use it and what it does.

Latest WordPress Plugin & Theme Reviews

What is in WordPress Cron? Cron View shows you!

Cron View

November 5, 2011

A simple plugin to look at the active WP-cron jobs, displaying the next due, schedule and the hook called. Easy & useful for developers playing with cron!

WP-Cron Control Settings

WP-Cron Control

November 5, 2011

Take control of WP-Cron. Prevents missing scheduled posts, race conditions in WP-Cron and other cron issues by allowing you to setup a system cron.

Latest WordPress Dev Best Practices

Optional Styles

April 18, 2011