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December 2017

Yoast 2017
28 December 2017 Marieke van de Rakt

Looking back at Yoast in 2017 (with infographic!)

Meta description
20 December 2017 Joost de Valk

Google’s snippets and the length of your meta description

yoast seo 6.0
20 December 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 6.0: More characters for your meta descriptions

make your site stand out in search results
14 December 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Yoast SEO: How to make your site stand out in search results

maxserv yoast typo3
13 December 2017 Edwin Toonen

Hot off the press: Yoast SEO for TYPO3 1.3

Website SEO audit
07 December 2017 Michiel Heijmans

How to perform an SEO audit. Part 3: Site speed & Engagement

Website SEO audit
06 December 2017 Michiel Heijmans

How to perform an SEO audit. Part 2: General SEO

Website SEO audit
05 December 2017 Michiel Heijmans

How to perform an SEO audit. Part 1: Content SEO & UX

Yoast SEO 5.9
05 December 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 5.9: A more accessible content analysis

November 2017

Moving WordPress site
30 November 2017 Edwin Toonen

What does the redirect manager in Yoast SEO do?

Ask Yoast case study: renting holiday home
26 November 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Video backgrounds suck: Ban them from your website

SEO basics: 5 seo questions
23 November 2017 Michiel Heijmans

5 SEO questions you were afraid to ask

SEO basics: what is Googlebot?
21 November 2017 Edwin Toonen

What is Googlebot?

SEO basics: what is conversion?
16 November 2017 Thijs de Valk

What is conversion: An explanation for beginners

Yoast SEO 5.8
15 November 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 5.8

Google Analytics
10 November 2017 Annelieke van den Berg

Which posts and pages perform best?

YoastCon promo
09 November 2017 Edwin Toonen

YoastCon 2017: 10 takeaways to improve your SEO

Check your site's SEO yourself
08 November 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Check your site’s SEO yourself

Content analysis in the Yoast SEO plugin
06 November 2017 Marieke van de Rakt

How’s your English?

03 November 2017 Edwin Toonen

YoastCon 2017: The day after

October 2017

Yoast SEO 5.7
24 October 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 5.7

Create a website with SEO in mind: Content optimization
20 October 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Create a website with SEO in mind: Content optimization

A/B testing your newsletters
18 October 2017 Annelieke van den Berg

A/B testing your newsletters

spider traps
12 October 2017 Joost de Valk

Closing a spider trap: fix crawl inefficiencies

Yoast SEO 5.6
10 October 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 5.6: The orphaned content filter

SEO basics: what are user signals?
04 October 2017 Marieke van de Rakt

What are user signals?

Gutenberg
03 October 2017 Joost de Valk

An alternative approach to Gutenberg

September 2017

about headlines and taglines
28 September 2017 Jimmy Comack

How to improve WordPress search

Yoast SEO 5.5
26 September 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 5.5: Introducing SEO roles

Demystifying viewing patterns
25 September 2017 Thijs de Valk

Demystifying Viewing Patterns

How to create the right meta description
22 September 2017 Edwin Toonen

Snippet variables in Yoast SEO

difference between H1 and SEO title
20 September 2017 Michiel Heijmans

What are headlines and taglines, and how do you optimize them?

Alain Schlessera
15 September 2017 Edwin Toonen

5 questions: Alain Schlesser – WordPress Core Contributor

12 September 2017 Marieke van de Rakt

How to become an SEO expert

Interview Roy Huiskes
11 September 2017 Edwin Toonen

5 questions: Roy Huiskes – Chapter42

Voice search
09 September 2017 Edwin Toonen

How to prepare for voice search

Google Analytics
08 September 2017 Annelieke van den Berg

What is Cohort Analysis in Google Analytics?

Yoast SEO 5.4
06 September 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 5.4

Interview Dave Naylor
05 September 2017 Edwin Toonen

More on ranking #1 – Interview with Dave Naylor

SEO basics: what are ranking signals?
04 September 2017 Marieke van de Rakt

What are ranking signals?

Interview Remkus de Vries
01 September 2017 Edwin Toonen

5 questions: Remkus de Vries – Forsite Media

August 2017

Introducing My Yoast
30 August 2017 Willemien Hallebeek

Introducing MyYoast: our brand new customer portal

SEO basics: explaining SEO to grandparents
29 August 2017 Marieke van de Rakt

Explaining SEO to your grandparents

custom taxonomies in WordPress
28 August 2017 Michiel Heijmans

What are custom taxonomies in WordPress?

checkout field validation
25 August 2017 Jimmy Comack

Checkout field validation: tips and tricks

open source
22 August 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO supports Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

yoast seo 5.3
22 August 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 5.3: The community edition

How to use custom campaigns
18 August 2017 Annelieke van den Berg

How to use custom campaigns

wish list
11 August 2017 Meike Hendriks

Case study: SEO for a quality brand

seo tools
09 August 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Tools to improve your online marketing campaign

Yoast SEO 5.2
08 August 2017 Willemien Hallebeek

Yoast SEO 5.2: Accessibility, compatibility and bug fixes

July 2017

Yoast SEO 5.1
25 July 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 5.1: Internal linking suggestions in Italian

yoastcon dixon jones link building
24 July 2017 Willemien Hallebeek

Link building with Dixon Jones (Majestic)

seo for architects
13 July 2017 Meike Hendriks

Case study: SEO for architect websites

moving your website to HTTPS
12 July 2017 Jimmy Comack

Moving your website to HTTPS / SSL: tips and tricks

yoast seo 5.0
06 July 2017 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 5.0: Site-wide SEO with the text link counter

June 2017

Twitter cards
16 June 2017 Jimmy Comack

Twitter cards in Yoast SEO

local seo
15 June 2017 Edwin Toonen

5 questions: Talking local SEO with David Mihm

Google Tag Manager
14 June 2017 Annelieke van den Berg

Google Tag Manager: an introduction

Ask Yoast Case study
13 June 2017 Meike Hendriks

Case study: SEO of a photographer’s site

yoast seo 4.9 fb
07 June 2017 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 4.9: fixing bugs

google analytics custom dimensions
01 June 2017 Annelieke van den Berg

Google Analytics custom dimensions

May 2017

clean up bad backlinks
26 May 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Clean up your bad backlinks

yoast seo 4.8
23 May 2017 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 4.8: Cornerstone content analysis

meta keywords tag - don't use it
17 May 2017 Joost de Valk

Meta keywords: why we don’t use them – and neither should you

interview karl gilis
16 May 2017 Willemien Hallebeek

Interview with Karl Gilis, AGConsult – YoastCon speaker

How to use custom campaigns
04 May 2017 Annelieke van den Berg

Perfecting your goals in Google Analytics

Yoast SEO 4.7
02 May 2017 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 4.7: Introducing Italian

April 2017

ranking high in Google
28 April 2017 Willemien Hallebeek

SEO for B2B and B2C – what are the differences?

seo of an online shop
21 April 2017 Marieke van de Rakt

Case study: SEO of an online shop

google analytics dashboards
13 April 2017 Annelieke van den Berg

How to create and use dashboards in Google Analytics

Yoast SEO 4.6
11 April 2017 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 4.6: the cornerstone content update

seo of an online shop
06 April 2017 Marieke van de Rakt

Case study: SEO of a mom blog

WordCamp London WordPress design
05 April 2017 Tim Hengeveld

Contributing to WordPress as a designer

How to improve your mobile site?
04 April 2017 Edwin Toonen

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

March 2017

tracking your SEO with Google Analytics
29 March 2017 Thijs de Valk

Tracking your SEO with Google Analytics: a how-to

21 March 2017 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 4.5: update your PHP version

metadata seo social media internationalization
15 March 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Metadata and SEO part 3: social, internationalization and more

metadata SEO link rel
09 March 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Metadata and SEO part 2: link rel metadata

category and tag pages
03 March 2017 Jimmy Comack

WordPress archive pages: the tutorial

what is link building
01 March 2017 Michiel Heijmans

Metadata and SEO part 1: the head section

February 2017

Yoast SEO
28 February 2017 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 4.4

segments in google analytics
24 February 2017 Annelieke van den Berg

Why use segments in Google Analytics?

the perfect wordpress seo permalink
17 February 2017 Joost de Valk

The perfect WordPress SEO permalink structure

Yoast SEO
14 February 2017 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 4.3: It’s time for Spanish

post ranks no traffic
07 February 2017 Marieke van de Rakt

My post ranks, but I don’t get any traffic

remove www from URL
03 February 2017 Jimmy Comack

How to remove www from your URL

January 2017

Yoast SEO
31 January 2017 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 4.2 adds another new language: Dutch

24 January 2017 Joost de Valk

How to cloak your affiliate links

How to improve your mobile site?
17 January 2017 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 4.1: Mobile snippets and German readability

03 January 2017 Joost de Valk

What’s the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header? And how to use it?