A well-written and nicely structured high quality content article will help you to rank in the search engines. In this post, I explain why.
Image SEO should be in every online marketeer's and copywriter's toolbox. Here's how you should optimize your images!
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.
The first step in every content SEO strategy should be executing keyword research. In this ultimate guide, we'll teach you how to do that.
Your site structure is vital for users and SEO. Our complete guide will lead you through all steps necessary to create a sound site structure.
This ultimate guide covers the three crucial steps of content SEO: keyword research, site structure and awesome copywriting. Learn how to tackle all three!
Do you wonder how often you link to a certain post? Or how many outgoing links it has? If you don’t, you should. Because if you want a post to rank, you should link to it from related content. And, if it’s an important post, you should link to it more often. But how do …
Read: "How many internal links does a post have? Find out the easy way!"
Many, many sites have an FAQ page. This is a page where a lot of frequently asked questions get the appropriate answer. It is often a single page filled to the brim with questions and answers. While it’s easy to add one, it’s good to keep in mind that not all sites need an FAQ. …
Read: "How to add FAQ Schema in WordPress using Yoast SEO"
On your site, you’ll probably have a few articles that are most dear to your heart. Articles you desperately want people to read. Articles you want people to find in Google. At Yoast, we call these articles your cornerstone articles. How does the Yoast SEO plugin help you set up a cornerstone content strategy? I’ll …
Read: "How to set up a cornerstone content strategy with Yoast SEO"
Showing related posts below your post are a great way to keep visitors on your website. That’s why lots of site owners already use related posts to reduce the number of visitors that leave their site after reading an article. You could say that a related posts section is the glue that binds posts together. But …
Read: "Related posts in WordPress: make sure to suggest the best"
Whether you’re a blogger or write articles for an online magazine or newspaper, chances are you’ll find yourself asking whether your article needs an image or not. The answer is always “Yes”. Images bring an article to life and also contribute to your website’s SEO. This post explains how to fully optimize an image for SEO and …
Read: "Image SEO: Optimizing images for search engines"
Optimizing your site structure should be an important aspect of your SEO strategy. A good site structure is of crucial importance for your SEO, as it makes it easier for both your users and Google to navigate your site. But how do you improve a site’s structure? Where do you start and how do you …
Read: "Improve your site structure in 4 simple steps"
Before your content can rank, it needs links. Google finds your posts and pages best when they’re linked to from somewhere on the web. Internal links also connect your content and give Google an idea of the structure of your website. They can establish a hierarchy on your site, allowing you to give the most important pages …
Read: "Internal linking for SEO: Why and how?"
Search engines are getting better and better at understanding language. Does that mean they can also understand questions? And what does that mean for the way you should write and optimize your content for questions? We’ll find out in this post! First, we’ll explore how Google understands and uses questions. Then, we’ll go into why …
Read: "Should you optimize your content for questions?"
Our green bullets are addictive. We get that. While they help people optimize their texts for the search engines, we don’t want people chasing only our bullets and losing track of their texts. We do want to nudge them and help get that text as SEO-friendly as possible. In this blog post, I’ll tell you …
Read: "Beyond exact keyword matching: optimize your text naturally"
Using the right keywords is essential in SEO. Because using the words your audience searches with, will help your posts and pages rank. That’s why we tell you to put some effort into finding the perfect keywords to optimize your articles for. So, after finding that perfect keyword, why shouldn’t you use it over and …
Read: "Why you should use synonyms and related keywords"
We write a lot about content strategy, optimizing content, better content writing, creating a good site structure, performing keyword research and lots of specific tips about blog SEO.
If you want all of our thinking around these topics in a clear overview, you have come to the right page!
