Start contributing to open source: Pro tips from Felix

28 September 2018 | 1 Comment Marieke van de Rakt

Two weeks ago, Joost shared his vision on open source. Today, we introduce yet another WordPress fanatic: Felix Arntz. As a freelancer Felix works part-time for Yoast. Half of that time he’s working on and consulting with the SEO plugin, and the other half Yoast sponsors him to contribute to WordPress core, mainly focusing on …

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Start contributing to open source: Pro tips from Felix

Google at 20: Journeys, AI-driven results and visual search

26 September 2018 | 13 Comments Edwin Toonen

It’s hard to imagine a life without a search engine that knows what it’s doing. I remember the days of AltaVista and co, search engines that just dump random pages on you for every given query. I was so excited to see Google enter the scene and immediately do everything right — the results were …

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Google at 20: Journeys, AI-driven results and visual search




Jono reviews: Cats Protection

19 September 2018 | 14 Comments Jono Alderson

It seems that SEO experts are, more often than not, “cat people”. That’s why the first website which I’m looking at in this series belongs to the Cats Protection charity – a UK organization dedicated to feline welfare. I’m going to explore their website and see where they have issues, errors, and opportunities with their technical SEO. Hopefully, …

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Jono reviews: Cats Protection

A big shout-out to open source

14 September 2018 | 7 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

WordPress is open source. Yoast SEO is open source. At Yoast, we’re open source fanboys (and fangirls). We’ve talked about it, we’ve written about it, we’ve even made a digital story about it. Still, lots of people don’t know why open source is so unique. Or what open source software is. That’s why we’re starting …

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Yoast SEO 8.2: Automatically add structured data with Gutenberg content blocks

11 September 2018 | 26 Comments Edwin Toonen

While we’re still only at the start of the Gutenberg adventure, we’re presenting an awesome, brand-new feature for the new WordPress editor today. Meet the Yoast SEO structured data content blocks! The content blocks automatically add valid structured data code to the content that is added to these blocks. Our initial line-up consists of How-to …

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