Case study: SEO of a mom blog

6 April 2017 | 11 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

SEO can be a rather complicated and abstract thing. What exactly do we mean by increasing keyword density? How do you start with improving the structure of a site? That’s why I’m going to write a series of Ask Yoast case studies. In these case studies, I’ll take a look at a specific site (the owner …

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Case study: SEO of a mom blog


Page speed as a ranking factor: what you need to know

It’s official: Google announced that page speed will be a ranking factor in its mobile-first index. But what does that mean? There’s no beating around the bush anymore: you should work on making your site as fast and accessible as possible. Don’t wait, do it now. I mean it. Work on your mobile SEO. For …

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Page speed as a ranking factor: what you need to know


Impact of host location on SEO?

27 March 2017 | 7 Comments Joost de Valk

Do you want to set up a brand new website or move your website to a new host? Choosing a web host can be hard because there are thousands of hosting companies out there. So it’s a tough decision to make, but a very important one too! When you’re comparing various hosting aspects, should you consider the …

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Metadata and SEO part 3: social, internationalization and more

15 March 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Literally, metadata is data that says something about other data. You can use particular metadata to send information about a webpage to a search engine or a social media channel, and thereby improve your SEO. In the first two posts of this metadata series, we discussed meta tags in <head>of your site and link rel metadata. …

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Metadata and SEO part 3: social, internationalization and more


Metadata and SEO part 2: link rel metadata

9 March 2017 | 4 Comments Michiel Heijmans

In the first post of our metadata series, I discussed the meta tags in the <head> of your site. But there’s more metadata in the <head> that can influence the SEO of your site. In this second post, we’ll dive into link rel metadata. You can use link rel metadata to instruct browsers and Google, for example to point them to the AMP version …

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Metadata and SEO part 2: link rel metadata