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Thanks to Yoast’s WordPress loving sponsors
I wanted to say thanks to Yoast’s sponsors, for enabling me to continue to provide you with WordPress tips and tricks, and to allow me to work on some cool stuff that I’ll be able to announce soon! Advertise on Yoast, and get to that WordPress crowd This blog has a very engaged crowd of [...]
Searching Without Result
Justin Cutroni wrote a great post a while back on Tracking Zero Result Searches in Google Analytics. Tracking zero result searches on your website (corporate site, e-commerce website or your blog) is vital to get a glimpse of what your visitors are looking for but can’t find on your website. Beneath you will find more [...]
An interview with Matthew Wood of A4UExpo
Next month Amsterdam will see the first A4UExpo Europe, the European counterpart of the highly succesfull A4UExpo conference series in London. I though it would be interesting for all of you to do an interview with Matthew Wood, the genius behind all of this. Hey Matthew, could you quickly introduce yourself and a4uexpo? Sure, I’ve [...]
Interview with Todd Garland of BuySellAds
I’ve recently switched from selling my ads directly to having BuySellAds take care of it, and it’s been an absolutely awesome experience. As a result of that experience, I do not agree with Chris Brogan yet that advertising is completely broken, but it does need a good level of reinvention. So, to introduce you to [...]
Joost de Valk – Biography
Joost de Valk is a well-known specialist in the fields of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and web development, and often speaks on the topic. In the past he’s spoken at conferences like Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, SASCon, A4UExpo and WordCamps in various countries. Currently, Joost is a freelance consultant in SEO, web development [...]
Link Building 101
Most people understand by now that links have a very real influence on rankings in search engines. How it works and in which ways a link can influence your ranking is often unclear though, resulting in many myths. This link building 101 tries to explain the basics of link building and to refute some of [...]
One more time: Selling links? Don’t be Stupid.
I’m going to say this one more time (that’s a lie, considering how stupid people have been at this, I’m probably gonna repeat it over and over again): when you sell links, nofollow them. If you don’t, you run the risk of being banned. If you knowingly run that risk, don’t be stupid and don’t [...]
Advertise on yoast.com
Let me be honest: I’m asking for your money :) There are ad spots free here on yoast.com, and I’d like to fill them. Due to a strange combination of circumstances, I’ve got a couple of ad spots free here at yoast.com at the moment, something I’m not very used to anymore. Let me first explain [...]
Link dump: interesting reads from around the web
So last week I’ve started sharing a lot more of what I read on a day to day basis on Twitter, and I decided I had to share these links here on yoast.com as well. Below is a quite extensive list of links that I found interesting, ordered by topic. I’ll try to do these [...]
From your site’s goal to its structure
This article is the first in a series of articles on using WordPress as a CMS, aimed at helping you develop a good corporate site with WordPress, helping you to go from basically nothing to a fully functional website. While this article itself hardly touches on WordPress, it’s in these first steps that the end [...]
Google Analytics WordPress
Track your WordPress site easily in Google Analytics and add lots of data, for example views per author & category and automatic tracking of outbound clicks, pageviews & downloads.
