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Shops & restaurants: easy curbside pickup with WooCommerce and Local SEO

8 April 2020 | 3 Comments Edwin Toonen

With restaurants, shops, and other businesses closing due to the Coronavirus pandemic, their owners are looking for other ways to keep their businesses going. Luckily, many customers are searching for ways to support their local businesses. One of the ways for a restaurant to keep serving people is by offering local pickups of meals. You …

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Shops & restaurants: easy curbside pickup with WooCommerce and Local SEO

How to make the transition to the block editor (from the classic editor) in WordPress

1 April 2020 | 17 Comments Iris Guelen

Are you considering switching from the classic editor to the block editor? That’s great, as the block editor will give you lots of possibilities to create awesome, high-quality and high-ranking content! Not sure how to go about this though? Don’t look any further. Here, we’ll guide you through the process of making the switch to …

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How to make the transition to the block editor (from the classic editor) in WordPress


The WordPress block editor: Why you should be using it

At Yoast, we truly believe you should be using the block editor (formerly known as Gutenberg) in WordPress, simply because it’s a much better experience than the ‘classic editor’. Unfortunately, when we look at our statistics, we see that a large segment of our users still uses the classic editor. Which is why we’d like …

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The WordPress block editor: Why you should be using it

Brand-new free online training: Block editor training

24 March 2020 | 2 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

At Yoast, we are huge fans of the block editor. Admittedly -not right from the start-, but we’re now block-editor fanboys and fangirls. That’s why we created an awesome free block editor course! We hope it will help everybody to use the block editor to the fullest! In this course, you’ll learn how to create …

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Brand-new free online training: Block editor training

How to get your new WordPress site indexed

18 March 2020 | 10 Comments Dijana Muzhdeka

When you roll out the red carpet on a new website, you might be expecting visitors to start coming eagerly. In reality, before people start visiting your site, search engines need to find, index and rank it. In this article, I share some tips that could help you get your site indexed faster.  A quick note …

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How to get your new WordPress site indexed



Google’s Sitelinks Searchbox, with or without Yoast SEO

26 February 2020 | 20 Comments Edwin Toonen

A couple of years ago, Google introduced the Sitelinks Searchbox. When activated, this search box appears under the main URL for a given brand in the search results, above its sitelinks, hence the name. When you search for that brand in Google, you can directly use the site’s search engine. The results will be presented …

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Google’s Sitelinks Searchbox, with or without Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO 13.1: Schema.org structured data enhancements

18 February 2020 | 5 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 13.1 and WooCommerce SEO 12.6 are out today! In these two updated SEO plugins, you’ll find several fixes and enhancements, mostly focused at improving our Schema.org structured data implementation. In this post, you can learn more about the latest versions of Yoast SEO and WooCommerce SEO. Yoast SEO 13.1 Back in Yoast SEO …

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Yoast SEO 13.1: Schema.org structured data enhancements