Yoast and Semrush working together

14 October 2020 | 15 Comments Joost de Valk

Today we’re announcing something really awesome: Yoast has partnered up with Semrush. The reason why we’re so excited? Keyword research is hard, getting keyword data is even harder and this puts it at your fingertips. Right where you’re writing. Why would Yoast and Semrush work together? Yoast has a lot of users; 11 million+ websites …

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Yoast and Semrush working together

Yoast SEO 15.1: Keyword research with SEMrush

14 October 2020 | 74 Comments Edwin Toonen

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could get keyword data while working on your content in Yoast SEO? Well, we asked ourselves that same question and now we have an answer! Yes, you can now find related keyphrases inside the post editor. And it’s not any old data — no, it’s powered by our good …

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Yoast SEO 15.1: Keyword research with SEMrush


SEO tips for non-profit organizations

6 October 2020 | 4 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

SEO is important for every website that wants to attract traffic. SEO for non-profits, in that regard, isn’t that different from SEO for other businesses. For non-profits -often struggling to make ends meet- it can be a cheap and effective way of attracting traffic. Making sure your website is findable in the search engines increases …

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SEO tips for non-profit organizations

Social media optimization with Yoast SEO

5 October 2020 | 10 Comments Joost de Valk

Our Yoast SEO plugin handles optimization of your WordPress site for search engines, and we dare say it does that pretty well! Most of it is technical and content optimization, but there’s more to SEO than on-page optimization. You need links pointing to your website and for that to happen, people need to talk about you and …

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Social media optimization with Yoast SEO

The latest news in SEO and WordPress: September 2020

1 October 2020 | 10 Comments Joost de Valk

Another month, another SEO news webinar at Yoast HQ! For the uninitiated, in these webinars, Jono Alderson and myself, run through the most important bits of news relevant to us and to you. We cover many SEO topics and expand on internet marketing and the state of the web itself. Plus, we’re having a ton …

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The latest news in SEO and WordPress: September 2020

Blog post structure: How to set up an easy-to-read text

30 September 2020 | 9 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

When blogging, it pays dividends to lay out the structure of your piece before you begin writing. The structure is the skeleton of your text and preparing it has multiple benefits. Firstly, it’s easier to write a text when your structure is already there. Secondly, a clear structure helps the reader to easily read your …

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Blog post structure: How to set up an easy-to-read text

Yoast SEO 15.0: Support for Arabic, plus a new table of contents block

29 September 2020 | 91 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re launching Yoast SEO 15.0. This release features some awesome new additions and enhancements. We’ve added full support for Arabic, made a new block for the block editor and made the Yoast SEO block editor sidebar fully-featured. So, high time to take a look at Yoast SEO 15.0! What to expect in Yoast SEO …

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Yoast SEO 15.0: Support for Arabic, plus a new table of contents block


Increase blog engagement: 8 tips to boost shares and comments

23 September 2020 | 23 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Do you want your readers to engage with your blog? Want them to comment and share your post on social media? Want them to come back to your blog and read your next post? Then you want to increase your blog engagement. In this post, I’ll explain what this is, why it’s important for SEO …

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Increase blog engagement: 8 tips to boost shares and comments