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The ultimate guide to content SEO

26 April 2023 | 2 Comments | Marieke van de Rakt

Content SEO is a key part of any SEO strategy. Without content, it’s impossible for your site to rank in search engines. It’s, therefore, crucial to write and structure quality content! This ultimate guide covers the most important areas of content SEO. Read on if you want to learn how to create content that ranks. …

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The ultimate guide to content SEO



What is natural writing?

8 December 2022 | Cindy Paul

No, it’s not writing about nature. It means you write in a way that flows well and sounds natural. As if you were talking to someone. Now, we’re not saying to write slang words and half-finished sentences, because that wouldn’t read very well. So, what is natural writing? Read more to find out! Write like …

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What is natural writing?

5 tips for writing readable blog posts

16 September 2022 | Marieke van de Rakt

Reading from a screen can be difficult, so if you want people to read your whole blog post, it must be easy to read. This will get you more returning visitors and a higher conversion rate. Luckily, improving the readability of your content is something you can do relatively easily, to give your site a …

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5 tips for writing readable blog posts

Make satisfying content by managing users’ expectations

8 September 2022 | Camille Cunningham

We’ve all been lured into clicking on unsatisfying search results before. At first glance, it looks promising. But if you can’t see what you’re looking for when you get there, you’ll probably just leave again. *Boing* — there goes the bounce rate! The fact is, just making content and getting it into the search results …

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Make satisfying content by managing users’ expectations

Yoast SEO Premium 19.0: new emoji picker tool, word complexity feedback in more languages and Schema improvements

26 July 2022 | 4 Comments | Willemien Hallebeek

We’re always working to improve and refine the Yoast SEO user experience with every release. In this release, we’ve rolled out improvements to our Schema structured data implementation and fixed a couple of bugs. Aside from that, we’ve decided to include some exciting additions to our plugins, starting with a new emoji picker tool and …

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Yoast SEO Premium 19.0: new emoji picker tool, word complexity feedback in more languages and Schema improvements

New in Yoast SEO Premium: the word complexity assessment

12 July 2022 | 2 Comments | Edwin Toonen

We’ve always been proud of our readability analysis. It has not only helped us in writing readable text for the web, but also thousands of other users running Yoast SEO. In 2022, we introduced another addition to our readability analysis in Yoast SEO Premium: the word complexity assessment. Let’s explore what it is and how to …

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New in Yoast SEO Premium: the word complexity assessment

Why you should use synonyms and related keywords

6 July 2022 | 2 Comments | Marieke van de Rakt

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 always tell you to put some effort into finding the perfect keywords to optimize your articles for. So, after finding the perfect keyword, why shouldn’t you use it over …

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Why you should use synonyms and related keywords