What is keyword cannibalization?

15 March 2023 | Marieke van de Rakt

If you optimize your articles for similar terms, your rankings might suffer from keyword cannibalization: you’ll be ‘devouring’ your own chances to rank in Google! Especially when your site is growing, chances are your content will start competing with itself. Here, I’ll explain why keyword cannibalism can be detrimental to SEO, how you can recognize …

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What is keyword cannibalization?

Yoast SEO 20.3: Better highlighter and Portuguese language support

14 March 2023 | 2 Comments | Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re making Yoast SEO 20.3 available to the world. This release comes with a long list of enhancements, bug fixes, and other improvements designed to help you improve your SEO experience. Improved highlighting in analyses One of the most significant updates in this release is an improved highlighting feature. Yoast SEO helps you quickly …

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Yoast SEO 20.3: Better highlighter and Portuguese language support



Proactive security fixes in Yoast SEO (update to v20.2.1)

6 March 2023 | 2 Comments | Derek Herman

We take security seriously at Yoast and continually look for potential threats and vulnerabilities that could affect our products and customers. That’s why we were alarmed when security firm WordFence found XSS vulnerabilities in another SEO plugin. After carefully reviewing the issues, we found a similar but less severe vulnerability in Yoast SEO, which we …

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Proactive security fixes in Yoast SEO (update to v20.2.1)

Where SEO and UX meet on your site

At Yoast, we believe that the best SEO strategy is a holistic approach. With a holistic approach, SEO has a lot of “teammates” that have to work together. Simply optimizing your page titles isn’t enough. You also need to work on aspects like site speed, great content, and user experience (UX). In this post, we’ll …

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Where SEO and UX meet on your site

Yoast SEO 20.2: Improving our database system

28 February 2023 | 2 Comments | Edwin Toonen

In Yoast SEO 20.2, we’ve improved our innovative indexables technology. We’ve developed a faster and more reliable way of indexing your site’s data. In turn, we make better use of this data to improve your site’s SEO. Plus, this technology helps us do our best to make the web greener and lays the groundwork for …

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Yoast SEO 20.2: Improving our database system

Check validity of structured data in Google Search Console

23 February 2023 | 6 Comments | Edwin Toonen

Google Search Console is an essential tool for website owners. This tool shows you how your site appears in Google’s search results. It also shows you what to improve to maximize your listings in the results. One of the many cool features of Search Console is the structured data analyses found in the Enhancement reports. …

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Check validity of structured data in Google Search Console