23 April 2018
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Michiel Heijmans
A few months ago Google changed the length of the meta description from 160 to 320 characters. This caused quite a buzz in the SEO community and a lot of people wanted to know whether they should change their own crafted meta descriptions. In the meantime, we already changed the length of the meta description …
Read: "We researched longer meta descriptions: here are our findings"
18 April 2018
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Marieke van de Rakt
Last week was all about Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional hearing. There’s no point in denying that Facebook gathers lots and lots of data about individual users. That being said, all kinds of companies and governmental organizations are more than willing to use that data to have successful Facebook campaigns. So, is Facebook evil for gathering that data? …
Read: "Is Facebook evil? Aren’t we all?"
11 April 2018
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Michiel Heijmans
Crawl errors occur when a search engine tries to reach a page on your website but fails. Let’s shed some more light on crawling first. Crawling is the process where a search engine tries to visit every page of your website via a bot. A search engine bot finds a link to your website and starts to find …
Read: "What are crawl errors?"
10 April 2018
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Thijs de Valk
I remember my first time in Google Analytics. As a data lover, I enthusiastically clicked my way through the numerous tabs. Seeing terms like sessions, pageviews, users, bounce rate and so on. Being so enthusiastic, I didn’t really think about what these terms actually mean. And that’s pretty important, because without knowing what Google Analytics’ definition of the term …
Read: "What are sessions in Google Analytics?"
6 April 2018
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Marieke van de Rakt
Gutenberg is coming. It’s a really big thing in the world of WordPress. At Yoast, we are really busy making sure our Yoast SEO plugin integrates nicely with the new editor. So we talk and think and a lot about Gutenberg. But as a writer, I didn’t really use Gutenberg yet. And this made me …
Read: "Writing with Gutenberg"