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Semantically link entities to your content with Yoast SEO

25 February 2020 Edwin Toonen

Search engines love entities. Entities can be people, places, things, concepts, or ideas, often appearing in the Knowledge Graph. Many search terms can be an entity, but specific search terms can also have different meanings and, thus, be separate entities. Take [Mars], for example; are you talking about the planet or candy bar entity? The …

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Semantically link entities to your content with Yoast SEO

Readability: Dumbing down or opening up?

24 February 2020 | 3 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Writing a readable text can be daunting. Especially if the topic of your blog is difficult or extremely technical. Is it really necessary to focus on readability if your audience is used to your jargon? Well, although your audience might be up to the task of reading your lingo, the entire purpose of SEO is …

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Readability: Dumbing down or opening up?

How to improve your writing style: 6 tips to write an attractive text

17 February 2020 | 6 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Some of us are natural writers. They can write an attractive, fun, readable text in a matter of minutes. Others lack that skill. Unfortunately, they’ll have more difficulties keeping visitors on their website. But, while attractive writing is partly a matter of talent, practice sure helps! In the current situation, it’s extra important to write …

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How to improve your writing style: 6 tips to write an attractive text

Why and how to write shorter sentences for SEO

11 February 2020 Marieke van de Rakt

The sentence length check in Yoast SEO warns against using too many long sentences. But what makes a sentence too long? Why should you avoid too many long sentences? And how do you chop up one longer sentence into several shorter sentences? This article will explain why you shouldn’t use too many long sentences and …

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Why and how to write shorter sentences for SEO



Why text structure is important for SEO

29 January 2020 | 8 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

The structure of the texts on your site is important for SEO. If your content is clearly structured, your chance to rank well in Google will be higher. In this blog post, I’ll tell you why text structure is essential. How do people scan a text? Before deciding whether or not to read something, people …

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Why text structure is important for SEO


Avoid starting consecutive sentences with the same word

19 January 2020 Marieke van de Rakt

The consecutive sentences check in Yoast SEO for WordPress or Yoast SEO for Shopify warns against using the same word to start consecutive sentences. Why is this starting consecutive sentences with the same word a bad idea, though? How is this related to SEO? And, how should you rewrite those sentences? Are there any exceptions? Let’s see! …

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