Being active on Facebook, sharing your content and interacting with your followers, can be a great way to drive traffic to your site. But it’s hard to keep up with every change in the Facebook algorithm and the consequences for you. And what to think of the changing popularity of social media platforms in your audience? That’s why we regularly write about Facebook, to keep you up to speed on using it to your advantage. Enjoy!
Adding social buttons to your (WordPress) site is easy. When you use the code samples provided here you'll get to track interaction too!
Ever thought about how to increase your Facebook reach? These tips from Marieke will help you find out what works best for your audience!
Social media is a key aspect of every SEO strategy. In this post, Marieke gives you some fundamental tips on how to use social media.
Optimizing how content looks when it’s shared on social media has many benefits. But it's not as simple as just picking a great social image!
The automation tool Zapier works with Zaps that you can create from scratch. These Zaps can link different apps and services to each other to create a smarter workflow and save you lots of time. But that still doesn’t give you a clear answer to this question: What is Zapier exactly? In this post, we’ll …
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October is coming to an end and this means that we hosted another SEO news webinar at Yoast HQ. If you’re not familiar with this recurring event yet: it’s a monthly webinar at which our experts Joost and Jono discuss the latest news when it comes to Google, Bing, WordPress and everything related to SEO. …
Read: "The latest news in SEO and WordPress: October 2020"
Some time ago, Facebook announced that it would change the way it handles embeds on other sites. From October 24, you can no longer simply paste your links in WordPress to make your Facebook and Instagram content appear on your site. Because of this matter, WordPress has to drop support for the Facebook oEmbed API. …
Read: "Facebook & Instagram embeds on WordPress break soon"
Our Yoast SEO plugin handles optimization of your WordPress site for search engines, and we dare say it does that pretty well! Most of it is technical and content optimization, but there’s more to SEO than on-page optimization. You need links pointing to your website and for that to happen, people need to talk about you and …
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A successful local business is one that nurtures relationships with its clients and one that people talk about. Can you think of a better online place for that than social media? It’s where you can engage, share, and get the conversation about your business going. At the same time, social media feels like a struggle to …
Read: "Social media for small businesses: 12 tips to boost your local marketing"
Every company should have a social media strategy. It helps you to increase traffic to your website, it makes it easier to engage with (potential) customers and you’ll increase brand awareness. Of course, you want to see if your efforts pay off. Are you getting closer to the goals that you’ve set up in your …
Read: "Measure your social media efforts with UTM tags"
Social media is not to be ignored these days: it’s everywhere! So, when you’re working on building and growing your website, you need to take social media into account. Not sure why? Check out how social media can influence your SEO. Now, where do you begin? In this post, we’ll walk you through the steps …
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Handling your social media is a necessary part of any marketing strategy, but it’s also a vital part of any good SEO strategy. The popularity of social media has risen and probably will keep doing so. That means Google and other search engines can’t ignore them, and you probably shouldn’t either. You even see recent …
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Social previews in Yoast SEO visualize what your post will look like when shared on Facebook or Twitter. You can see right away if your image fits and whether your title and description will display well. It works much like the snippet preview people have come so used to. As the snippet preview does for search …
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To help your blog gain more readers, you can make use of social buttons which allow your current readers to share interesting posts on their social media accounts. But how should you go about implementing them? In this post, we’ll give you some pointers on how to get started. What are social buttons? For those …
Read: "Social buttons: How to add and track them on your site"