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Latest posts on our SEO blog

December 2018

Yoast SEO 9.3
18 December 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 9.3: Fixes and enhancements

13 December 2018 Willemien Hallebeek

What are long-tail keywords?

SEO basics: what is Googlebot?
11 December 2018 Jono Alderson

Why doesn’t Google index my content properly?

WordPress SEO: The definitive guide
07 December 2018 Edwin Toonen

How to test WordPress 5.0 — and every other new release

Gutenberg
05 December 2018 Edwin Toonen

Pressing questions about Gutenberg: the new editor in WordPress 5.0

Gutenberg
04 December 2018 Joost de Valk

Should you update to WordPress 5.0?

Gutenberg
03 December 2018 Edwin Toonen

WordPress: What is Gutenberg aka the block editor?

November 2018

Open Source
30 November 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Reaching higher together: how we all benefit from open source

search term
21 November 2018 Willemien Hallebeek

What is a search term?

Yoast SEO 9.2
20 November 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 9.2: Getting ready for WordPress 5.0

Annelieke's Analytics
19 November 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

5 Google Analytics segments for your blog

What is conversion?
14 November 2018 Meike Hendriks

Assisted Conversions in Google Analytics

Open Source
09 November 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Open source: reducing boundaries and creating opportunities

Annelieke's Analytics
07 November 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

The power of Landing Pages in Google Analytics

Yoast SEO 9.1
06 November 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 9.1: The Hacktoberfest Edition

October 2018

Blog structure
24 October 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

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

23 October 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 9.0: A much improved SEO analysis

Annelieke's Analytics
22 October 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

How Google Analytics wants to help you

Crawl efficiency
16 October 2018 Joost de Valk

Crawl efficiency: making Google’s crawl easier

Yoast SEO 8.4
09 October 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 8.4: Helping you optimize taxonomies

Google analytics
08 October 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

Sequence segments in Google Analytics

what is a redirect?
03 October 2018 Joost de Valk

What is a redirect?

September 2018

Open Source
28 September 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Start contributing to open source: Pro tips from Felix

Google
26 September 2018 Edwin Toonen

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

Yoast SEO release 8.3
25 September 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 8.3: Community improvements

Google Analytics
24 September 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

Check your image search traffic in Google Analytics

Jono reviews
19 September 2018 Jono Alderson

Jono reviews: Cats Protection

Open Source
14 September 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

A big shout-out to open source

Yoast SEO 8.2
11 September 2018 Edwin Toonen

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

Google Analytics
10 September 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

Secondary dimensions in Google Analytics

The inverted pyramid
07 September 2018 Edwin Toonen

First things first: writing content with the inverted pyramid style

Facebook reach
06 September 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

New tactics to improve your Facebook reach

what to do if people copy your content
05 September 2018 Michiel Heijmans

What if people copy content from your site?

WordPress Gutenberg blocks
04 September 2018 Willemien Hallebeek

Are content blocks the future? And, what’s the benefit for SEO?

August 2018

facebook traffic decrease
30 August 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Facebook traffic: What’s the current status?

Yoast SEO 8.1 release image
28 August 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 8.1: Gutenberg part 2, introducing the snippet preview

Caroline's Corner
27 August 2018 Caroline Geven

Writing great social media content for your blog

Dealing with Google updates
22 August 2018 Joost de Valk

Google’s Medic update, and how to deal with it

Google Analytics
20 August 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

3 exercises to have more fun with Google Analytics

WordPress Gutenberg blocks
14 August 2018 Tim Hengeveld

How we designed Yoast SEO for Gutenberg

Yoast SEO 8.0
14 August 2018 Willemien Hallebeek

Yoast SEO 8.0: Introducing the Yoast SEO Gutenberg sidebar & a revamped meta box

Google Analytics
08 August 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

How to create a Google Search Console dashboard

Release 7.9.1
07 August 2018 Willemien Hallebeek

Yoast SEO 7.9.1: Dutch checks complete & improved keyword recognition

06 August 2018 Edwin Toonen

What is duplicate content?

What is WordPress?
03 August 2018 Joost de Valk

What is WordPress?

Caroline's Corner
02 August 2018 Caroline Geven

Blogging during summer

July 2018

yoast seo 7.9
24 July 2018 Willemien Hallebeek

Yoast SEO 7.9: Getting rid of bugs in the summer

Google Analytics
23 July 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

16 months of Google Search Console data

future of voice search
19 July 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Voice search: what will the future bring?

Yoast SEO 7.8
10 July 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 7.8: Synonyms and keyword distribution

Google Analytics
09 July 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

What is Page Value in Google Analytics?

web content accessibility at yoast
07 July 2018 Joost de Valk

Why we don’t support old WordPress versions

June 2018

26 June 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 7.7: New snippet editor & better snippet variables

Google Analytics
25 June 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

Users Flow in Google Analytics

New Basic SEO training
22 June 2018 Jesse van de Hulsbeek

Basic SEO training / SEO for beginners: What’s the difference?

Blog structure
15 June 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

The context of internal links

interview with taco
14 June 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

5 questions for Yoast’s community hero Taco

Google Analytics
11 June 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

Email performance in Google Analytics

Facebook reach
07 June 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Is Facebook getting less important?

Gutenberg
06 June 2018 Willemien Hallebeek

Using Gutenberg as an editor: does it make my life easier?

Yoast SEO 7.6
05 June 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 7.6: Shorter meta descriptions are back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

May 2018

The dude abides
30 May 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Should I follow every change Google makes?

seo basics what is a cdn
29 May 2018 Edwin Toonen

What is a content delivery network (CDN)?

Google Analytics
28 May 2018 Annelieke van den Berg

Technology report in Google Analytics

How to use Yoast SEO to create an awesome meta description
24 May 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Meta descriptions are going to be shorter again

structured data for recipes
23 May 2018 Edwin Toonen

Structured data for recipes: getting content read out loud

Google duplex AI
16 May 2018 Joost de Valk

Google Duplex: The what, the ethics, the SEO

Yoast SEO 7.5
15 May 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 7.5: Привет, Россия

Google Analytics
14 May 2018 Thijs de Valk

What are dimensions and metrics in Google Analytics?

Free SEO for beginners training
07 May 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Why a free online course?

Google Analytics
02 May 2018 Thijs de Valk

What are pageviews in Google Analytics?

Yoast SEO 7.4
01 May 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 7.4: Enhanced image support

April 2018

Optimize product images for your online shop
30 April 2018 Jono Alderson

How social image sharing works and how to optimize your og:image tags

should i write longer meta descriptions
23 April 2018 Michiel Heijmans

We researched longer meta descriptions: here are our findings

What is HTTP/2?
19 April 2018 Edwin Toonen

What is HTTP/2?

18 April 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Is Facebook evil? Aren’t we all?

Yoast SEO 7.3
17 April 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 7.3: Import all the things

What are crawl errors?
11 April 2018 Michiel Heijmans

What are crawl errors?

Google Analytics
10 April 2018 Thijs de Valk

What are sessions in Google Analytics?

Gutenberg
06 April 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Writing with Gutenberg

SEO basics: difference tags and categories
04 April 2018 Edwin Toonen

What is the difference between tags and categories?

Yoast SEO 7.2
03 April 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 7.2: Fixes and improvements

March 2018

yoast SEO 7.0
28 March 2018 Joost de Valk

Why we changed so many things in the 7.0 update

Facebook reach
26 March 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

What to do if traffic from Facebook is decreasing?

seo for architects
21 March 2018 Michiel Heijmans

Optimizing a single page: One page website SEO

Facebook reach
21 March 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

As Facebook’s algorithm changes SEO becomes crucial

domains for your international sites
20 March 2018 Willemien Hallebeek

International sites: the best domain structure for SEO

Yoast SEO 7.1
20 March 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 7.1: A língua Portuguesa

Category pages
15 March 2018 Joost de Valk

Pagination & SEO: best practices

hreflang example
14 March 2018 Michiel Heijmans

An hreflang example and how to test it

yoast seo for typo3 premium
09 March 2018 Taco Verdonschot

Yoast SEO Premium for TYPO3 available now!

International Woman's Day 2018
08 March 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Let’s celebrate International Women’s Day!

Yoast SEO 7.0
07 March 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

The journey towards Yoast SEO 7.0

Yoast SEO 7.0
06 March 2018 Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO 7.0: Making SEO easier for everyone

February 2018

elements of the search results pages of google
26 February 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

Elements of the Google Search Engine Results Page

Yoast SEO 7.0
22 February 2018 Joost de Valk

Help us test Yoast SEO 7.0

maxserv yoast typo3
14 February 2018 Taco Verdonschot

New release: Yoast SEO for TYPO3 2.0

Interview Jono Alderson
13 February 2018 Edwin Toonen

Please welcome to Yoast: SEO expert Jono Alderson

yoast seo 6.3 fi
13 February 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 6.3: Giving you more context

Yoast SEO friendly copy in foreign language
08 February 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

How to create SEO-friendly copy in a foreign language

Ask Yoast Case study: SEO for a Real estate
08 February 2018 Meike Hendriks

Case study: Appealing content for a real estate site

keyword density
07 February 2018 Fleur Heesen

SEO copywriting for multilingual and multi-regional sites

difference between H1 and SEO title
05 February 2018 Marieke van de Rakt

What’s the difference between an H1 heading and the SEO title?

January 2018

yoast seo 6.2
23 January 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 6.2: Passive voice checks for French and Spanish

release yoast seo 6.1
09 January 2018 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 6.1