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What is content marketing?

22 December 2020 | 5 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Content marketing consists of all marketing activities that focus on the creation and sharing of information. If you’re serious about your SEO, it should definitely be part of your strategy. But nowadays, it’s also crucial for branding. Sharing valuable information is a great way to attract an audience and show them that you’re an expert in what …

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What is content marketing?

The Yoast and Elementor partnership: building easy and SEO-friendly websites together

2 December 2020 | 26 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Today, we’re launching the result of a great collaboration: the Yoast SEO plugin now seamlessly integrates with the Elementor page builder! We’re really excited about this integration. It means that millions of WordPress users can now easily build a page with Elementor and optimize its content with Yoast SEO. To make this happen, we’ve partnered …

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The Yoast and Elementor partnership: building easy and SEO-friendly websites together

How to optimize a blog post for search engines: a checklist!

24 November 2020 | 16 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

So you’ve decided to write a blog post. That’s great! Now let’s make sure your efforts pay off and it turns into an awesome post that also ranks. What will you need to write and optimize that blog post? What steps do you need to take? You can use this blog post checklist to make …

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How to optimize a blog post for search engines: a checklist!

Using Google’s search results to create great content

26 October 2020 Willemien Hallebeek

To get your page to the top of the search results, you need to create content that people are actually looking for. That’s why you need to consider search intent before you start writing. Google is getting better and better at guessing what people want or need when they type in their – sometimes cryptic …

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Using Google’s search results to create great content


Yoast and Semrush working together

14 October 2020 | 15 Comments Joost de Valk

Today we’re announcing something really awesome: Yoast has partnered up with Semrush. The reason why we’re so excited? Keyword research is hard, getting keyword data is even harder and this puts it at your fingertips. Right where you’re writing. Why would Yoast and Semrush work together? Yoast has a lot of users; 11 million+ websites …

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Yoast and Semrush working together

Yoast SEO 15.1: Keyword research with SEMrush

14 October 2020 | 74 Comments Edwin Toonen

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could get keyword data while working on your content in Yoast SEO? Well, we asked ourselves that same question and now we have an answer! Yes, you can now find related keyphrases inside the post editor. And it’s not any old data — no, it’s powered by our good …

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Yoast SEO 15.1: Keyword research with SEMrush

SEO tips for non-profit organizations

6 October 2020 | 4 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

SEO is important for every website that wants to attract traffic. SEO for non-profits, in that regard, isn’t that different from SEO for other businesses. For non-profits -often struggling to make ends meet- it can be a cheap and effective way of attracting traffic. Making sure your website is findable in the search engines increases …

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SEO tips for non-profit organizations

Blog post structure: How to set up an easy-to-read text

30 September 2020 | 9 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

When blogging, it pays dividends to lay out the structure of your piece before you begin writing. The structure is the skeleton of your text and preparing it has multiple benefits. Firstly, it’s easier to write a text when your structure is already there. Secondly, a clear structure helps the reader to easily read your …

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Blog post structure: How to set up an easy-to-read text

Increase blog engagement: 8 tips to boost shares and comments

23 September 2020 | 23 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Do you want your readers to engage with your blog? Want them to comment and share your post on social media? Want them to come back to your blog and read your next post? Then you want to increase your blog engagement. In this post, I’ll explain what this is, why it’s important for SEO …

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Increase blog engagement: 8 tips to boost shares and comments