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Yoast SEO 4.1: Mobile snippets and German readability

17 January 2017 | 7 Comments Joost de Valk

As you might know, we’ve added quite a few new features to Yoast SEO over the last few months. Today marks the release of Yoast SEO 4.1, the first of many releases to come in the new year. Besides fixing some bugs, this version comes with two major new features: a mobile snippet preview and full …

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Yoast SEO 4.1: Mobile snippets and German readability

Optimizing the searcher’s journey – Interview with Maile Ohye (Google)

18 November 2016 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

According to Maile Ohye of Google, “SEO is evolving into what Loren George McKechnie described as ‘search experience optimization’. It’s less about top ranking, and more about optimizing the searcher’s journey. It’s the intersection of content, UX, and as always, staying smart about search engines.” We had the chance to ask Maile a couple of questions, …

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Optimizing the searcher’s journey – Interview with Maile Ohye (Google)

Use Yoast SEO to make your content findable

25 October 2016 | 5 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

If you want to write awesome and SEO-friendly content, you should write findable content. Findability has to do with maximizing the likelihood your content will be picked up by the search engines. In this post, I’ll explain how the Yoast SEO plugin will help you to make your posts findable. What is findable content? Search Engine …

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Use Yoast SEO to make your content findable

The success of TNW (The Next Web) uncovered – Interview with Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

16 September 2016 | 2 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

TNW owns one of the most visited tech news sites, and they organize large tech events around the world. Besides that, TNW also offers gadgets for tech geeks, and they’re just launching a tech hub and a market intelligence platform. Boris seems to be a busy guy! Luckily he found time to answer some questions for our new series “5 …

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The success of TNW (The Next Web) uncovered – Interview with Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten


Yoast SEO 3.3: content analysis

Today we’re very proud to release Yoast SEO 3.3! Yoast SEO 3.3 is a huge update, with many new features. The most important improvement is the new content analysis. As of today, Yoast SEO checks both the readability and the SEO-friendliness of your articles. But this update contains even more: we’ve expanded our help center …

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Yoast SEO 3.3: content analysis

How we built the Yoast SEO readability analysis

14 June 2016 | 5 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

In Yoast SEO, you’ll find readability checks to help you make your text easy to read. Here, we’ll explain our choices while developing all these checks. What was our methodology, why did we include these checks in the readability analysis? And how did we set them up? Want to know if the readability analysis works in …

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How we built the Yoast SEO readability analysis

How to optimize your real estate site

16 March 2016 | 8 Comments Michiel Heijmans

There is a significant difference between a real estate site and a ‘regular’ website. Real estate sites have temporary content: when an estate is up for sale, there is a page for it online. But when it’s sold, it tends to leave the internet. In this post, I’ll tell you how to deal with that. First …

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How to optimize your real estate site

How to handle comments on your blog

23 February 2016 | 30 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

When you’re blogging regularly, people will start responding to what you write. Maybe not right away, but as your blog is growing, you’ll have to deal with comments on your blog. Especially when you write about your world view or opinions, some people will disagree with you. You will, in short, have to deal with …

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How to handle comments on your blog

Monetizing your blog

3 February 2016 | 21 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Just writing a blog post every day does not pay the bills. For some bloggers, the ultimate goal of their blog is to be able to make a living out of it. But in what ways can you actually make money with your blog? In this post, we’ll talk you through a few ways of monetizing …

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Monetizing your blog