SEO copywriting must-reads for better content
A great starting point to improve your writing
Good content is essential for your website. To get high-quality content, you need to research your topic and your audience. In addition, you need to learn about readability and how to improve your writing skills. Seems a lot to do, right? We feel you! This page offers a selection of content handpicked to help you reach your SEO goals!
Essential reading: the Yoast ultimate guides
At Yoast, we put a lot of effort into writing all-encompassing ultimate guides for SEO. These guides describe an SEO topic in-depth and don’t leave much to desire. Start with these and dive deeper into a topic when needed. We have the following ultimate guides related to SEO copywriting.
The first step in your content SEO strategy should be doing keyword research. Want to learn how? We'll teach you in this ultimate guide!
SEO copywriting is both a key element and a challenge in every SEO strategy. This guide covers all the phases of a good SEO writing strategy.
Learn about the three crucial steps of content SEO: keyword research, site structure and awesome copywriting in this ultimate guide!
This ultimate guide covers all the important aspects of blogging. Find out how to set up a successful blog or how to make yours even better!
Get practical
Want to learn how to improve your writing? Or how to set up a good structure for your blog post? You’ve come to the right place. The following articles will guide you and help you improve your content.
Writer's block? In this blog post, we discuss 4 writing exercises that can help get your creative juices flowing!
Everybody can learn how to write better. You just need a little practice! We share 5 tips that’ll help you become a better writer.
In this post, I will give five tips on how to get people to stay on your site and read your post.
When is content considered quality content? And what can you do to make sure your content hits the mark? Read all about it in this post!
Writing blog posts that are both well-structured and SEO friendly can be challenging. Luckily, this guide shows you how!
Readers – and Google – will understand a text better if it is structured well. Read how to create a winning blog post structure!
The inverted pyramid style of writing puts the important parts of a story in the first paragraph. Find out how it can help your writing!
Writing great titles is an essential skill for anyone doing SEO. In this post we explain all about creating great page titles for SEO.
Readability
At Yoast, we are all about readability. Readable content is content that everyone can understand. To help you improve the readability of your pages, Yoast SEO comes with a readability analysis. In addition, we have several articles that can help you understand the importance of readability and find ways to better your writing.
Wondering what readability is all about? Find out what it means, why it matters, and how to improve the readability of your pages and posts.
Text structure is important for SEO. If your content is clearly structured, your chance to rank well in Google will be higher. Let's dig in!
Ever wondered why our readability analysis checks if texts have too much passive voice? In this post, we explain everything about it!
The Yoast SEO plugin checks the length of your sentences. Learn why you should avoid too many long sentences and how to shorten them.
Yoast SEO includes a super useful feature called the readability analysis. Combined with the SEO analysis, it helps you write great content!
Does readability rank? Should you invest time in writing plain and understandable copy? Read here why you should, and find out how!
Writing good headings for your web copy is crucial for both readability and accessibility. Here's how to use headings properly on your site.
Yoast SEO's readability analysis uses the Flesch reading ease score to improve your writing. Here, we explain why and how you should use it.
Other topics related to SEO copywriting
Of course, there is much more to read in relation to SEO copywriting. Here are a couple of articles to get you started.
Cornerstone content is the core of your website. Find out how to improve your site structure with cornerstone content.
In this post, we explain what a cornerstone article is, why you'd want to have them and what type of article it should be.
Blogging is a great SEO and marketing strategy. In this article, I'll share tips on how to start a blog and make it a success.
Why should you use synonyms and related keywords? Because they increase your chances of ranking. Learn why you should optimize for both!
Is your keyphrase evenly distributed throughout your text? Find out why keyphrase distribution is important and how to balance it.
Choosing the right focus keyword for your post or page is hard. We offer you some methods to determine the perfect focus keyword.
The paragraph length check in Yoast SEO tells you to write shorter paragraphs when they're too long. But why? And how can you improve?
Anchor text is the visible, clickable text of a link. Here is why this piece of text is important for your website's SEO and your readers.
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