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Get Google’s new video reporting with the Yoast Video SEO plugin

8 October 2019 | 1 Comment Edwin Toonen

Yesterday, Google announced a new addition to the rapidly expanding lineup of enhancement reports in Search Console. This time, it’s all about video! You can now not only see how your video performs in search, but also if your videos have valid structured data so they are eligible for rich results. Need help getting your …

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Get Google’s new video reporting with the Yoast Video SEO plugin


How to use WordPress? The 12 most common questions

26 September 2019 Joost de Valk

WordPress is huge. According to the latest stats, WordPress powers almost 35% of the web — and keeps on growing. With many sites staying true to the CMS and many new sites bursting onto the scene, there are a lot of new users taking their first steps into the wonderful world of WordPress. People from …

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How to use WordPress? The 12 most common questions

Website maintenance: Check and fix 404 error pages

30 July 2019 Joost de Valk

If your website is important to your business, it’s essential to schedule time to keep it running smoothly. Therefore we regularly write about the things you should do to keep your site in shape. In this post, we’ll write about the most basic of all: checking for 404 errors. Note: this post does not cover the required elements of a …

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Website maintenance: Check and fix 404 error pages

How to properly delete a page from your site

Whenever you delete a page (or post) from your site, you also delete one or more URLs. That old URL, when visited, will usually return a ‘404 not found’ error, which is not the best thing for Google or your users. Is that what you really wanted to happen? You could redirect that deleted page …

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How to properly delete a page from your site



Setting up WordPress for AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages

6 June 2019 | 28 Comments Jono Alderson

This post explains what AMP is and aims to do, who should implement and why, how to get your WordPress site ready for AMP and how to make sure Yoast SEO integrates nicely with it. What are Accelerated Mobile Pages/AMP? The Accelerated Mobile Pages project aims to make pages load instantly on mobile. The web is slow …

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Setting up WordPress for AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages

A story about Schema, structured data and robots

17 April 2019 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

Once upon a time, there was a little robot who came to a website to try to figure out what it was all about. The robot read some words and followed some links and thought: “Well, there are a lot of mentions of this particular word, so the page must be about that!” She sent …

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A story about Schema, structured data and robots

How to optimize your restaurant website

4 April 2019 | 9 Comments Michiel Heijmans

If you have a restaurant and a restaurant website to go with it, you might want to read this article. We have covered a lot of topics on this website already, but we’ve decided to focus a bit more on specific types of websites in a number of posts. In this post, we discuss what you need …

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How to optimize your restaurant website