Help, I’ve accidentally noindexed a post. What to do?

9 January 2020 | 17 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

It can happen to anyone: You’re working on your site, fiddling on some posts here and there, and hit update when you’re done. After a while, you check back on how a post is doing and, to your dismay, it disappeared completely from the search engines! It turns out you’ve accidentally set a post or …

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Help, I’ve accidentally noindexed a post. What to do?

Keyphrase distribution: What it is and how to balance it

8 January 2020 Fleur Heesen

Ever heard of keyphrase distribution? The SEO analysis in the Yoast SEO plugins provides feedback on your keyphrase distribution. But what does this entail? Why does it matter? And how can you balance your keyphrase distribution? That’s what you’ll find out in this post! Having an orange or red traffic light for the keyphrase distribution …

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Keyphrase distribution: What it is and how to balance it

Yoast SEO 12.8: Fixes and enhancements

7 January 2020 | 25 Comments Edwin Toonen

Welcome to another year of helping you achieve your goals with your site! Today, it’s time for the first in a long line of releases planned for 2020: Yoast SEO 12.8. In this release, you’ll find a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements. Let’s get to it! Enhancements A while ago, a developer called …

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Yoast SEO 12.8: Fixes and enhancements

Find and fix keyword cannibalization in 4 steps

6 January 2020 | 21 Comments Joost de Valk

As your site grows, you’ll have more and more posts. Some of these posts are going to be about a similar topic. Even when you’ve always categorized it well, your content might be competing with itself: You’re suffering from keyword cannibalization. At the same time, some of your articles might get out of date. To …

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Find and fix keyword cannibalization in 4 steps


What’s powering conversational search? Featured snippets, structured data and actions

11 December 2019 | 8 Comments Edwin Toonen

Voice search is still hot, but it might be a little slower on the uptake than many predicted. Google and friends continue to bombard the consumer with new devices, with new possibilities and new ways of controlling them via voice. The results for these voice searches come from a mix of actions, knowledge graph data, …

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What’s powering conversational search? Featured snippets, structured data and actions

Yoast SEO 12.7: Cleaning up and fixing bugs

10 December 2019 | 16 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.7 is out today — signaling the last release of 2019. This release is all about cleaning up and fixing bugs. Since we have a two-week release schedule, we can quickly respond to any bug we might find. In this post, you’ll find out more about this release. Plus, you can get Yoast …

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Yoast SEO 12.7: Cleaning up and fixing bugs

The passive voice: What is it and how to avoid it?

1 December 2019 Fleur Heesen

Do you know what the passive voice is and why you should avoid it in most cases? In the readability analysis in Yoast SEO, we recommend using the passive voice in a maximum of 10% of your sentences. In this post, we’ll answer a couple of questions about the passive voice and the assessment in our plugin. …

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The passive voice: What is it and how to avoid it?

It’s not enough to ‘write content’. You have to publish resources.

27 November 2019 | 2 Comments Jono Alderson

Sometimes, having a great website with great content isn’t enough. Even if you’re doing everything right, you might still fall behind a stronger, faster, better-resourced competitor. In almost every niche, SEO is about more than just improving your site — it’s about beating every other site. If you want to win, you have to do …

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Yoast SEO 12.6: Getting help in the plugin is now easier

26 November 2019 | 8 Comments Edwin Toonen

In Yoast SEO 12.6, we’re activating our new beacon for help documentation. This tool helps answer the questions you might have about using Yoast SEO. It’s easy to use and very friendly. Just hit that big purple question mark and search! Other improvements in Yoast SEO 12.6 includes a number of fixes and enhancements. Read …

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Yoast SEO 12.6: Getting help in the plugin is now easier