Open source: reducing boundaries and creating opportunities

9 November 2018 | 4 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

“I love that WordPress allows you to raise your voice, no matter who you are, and where you are located.” That’s just one of the many inspiring quotes of Carole Olinger, our third interviewee in this series on open source. Carole is Community Manager at Plesk, and a true WordPress Community junkie. Learn why she …

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Open source: reducing boundaries and creating opportunities

The power of Landing Pages in Google Analytics

7 November 2018 | 5 Comments Annelieke van den Berg

Landing Pages in Google Analytics, perhaps a dimension you take for granted. That you look at, but don’t actually look at. Just like looking at what time it is without actually knowing or understanding what time it is. In my opinion, the Landing Page is a powerful dimension in Google Analytics. Let me explain why I …

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The power of Landing Pages in Google Analytics

Yoast SEO 9.1: The Hacktoberfest Edition

6 November 2018 | 7 Comments Edwin Toonen

October is Hacktoberfest month! Hacktoberfest is all about contributing to open source projects together. This year, we welcomed a nice crowd at Yoast HQ to help us improve our own and other peoples open source projects. Some of these fixes and enhancements made by this fine group of people made it into Yoast SEO 9.1. …

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Yoast SEO 9.1: The Hacktoberfest Edition

Splitting your product pages by departure date

2 November 2018 Joost de Valk

Running an eCommerce website isn’t always easy. You have to know a little bit about everything: digital marketing, technical SEO, copywriting, and so on… What’s more, you probably offer many products that are similar, so you have to make sure you avoid those dreaded duplicate content issues, and give extra thought to your keyword strategy. …

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On Google’s related entities patent: Write awesome posts!

24 October 2018 | 2 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Perhaps you’ve read about the related entities patent which was recently granted to Google, or perhaps you haven’t yet. You should read Dave Davies post about it on Search Engine Land and find out more about it. The related entities patent gives us valuable insights into how Google identifies relationships between content. It was a …

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On Google’s related entities patent: Write awesome posts!

Yoast SEO 9.0: A much improved SEO analysis

23 October 2018 | 27 Comments Edwin Toonen

Welcome to the dawn of a new era. For ages, Yoast SEO has helped you optimize your content using a focus keyword. This works well but could be a lot more flexible. The plugin only recognized an exact match of your keyword and didn’t take plural forms into account, for instance. So, sometimes you had …

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Yoast SEO 9.0: A much improved SEO analysis

How Google Analytics wants to help you

22 October 2018 | 2 Comments Annelieke van den Berg

Aaah, lovely Google Analytics. A tool some people love to hate. And I must agree, I have a tough relationship with Google Analytics as well. It has so many functionalities and so much to offer, which can make it quite overwhelming. But Google Analytics is really trying to help you get along with its data tool. In this …

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How Google Analytics wants to help you

Site migration and rankings

19 October 2018 | 4 Comments Joost de Valk

Site migrations are probably not on most people’s fun list. Alas, sometimes they’re necessary to ensure the continued health of a website. Once you’ve decided you need to do a migration, it’s important to make sure you know what you’re doing and make a plan for how to approach things beforehand. Whether you’re moving from …

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Crawl efficiency: making Google’s crawl easier

16 October 2018 | 6 Comments Joost de Valk

Search engines crawl your site to get the contents into their index. The bigger your site gets, the longer this crawl takes. It’s important that the time spent crawling your site is well spent. If your site has 1,000 pages or less, this is not a topic you’ll need to think about much. If you intend on …

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Crawl efficiency: making Google’s crawl easier

Yoast SEO 8.4: Helping you optimize taxonomies

9 October 2018 | 9 Comments Edwin Toonen

Most releases are all about incredible new features or fixing a gazillion bugs with the help of the community. But sometimes, there’s a small release that is unfortunately timed just before a big one. There may not be any new game-changers in Yoast SEO 8.4, but does that mean it shouldn’t get its own release …

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Yoast SEO 8.4: Helping you optimize taxonomies