At Yoast, we believe in sharing knowledge. That’s why we write about SEO on our blog. But we also want to help people that are overwhelmed and don’t know where to start, or want to focus on a specific aspect of SEO. That’s why we launched the Yoast Academy in 2015. Ever since, we’ve been expanding our range of courses, always aiming to offer the best learning experience out there! You’ll find articles related to our courses and developments in Yoast Academy here.
The Yoast Academy is the go-to place if you want to teach yourself SEO. In this post, Marieke explains how the Academy came about and why it's catching on.
Want to outrank the competition? Read our article and learn how to become an SEOexpert, so both the technical and marketing side of your site are top-notch!
Yoast Academy is our online SEO training center. We offer various courses, ranging from Basic SEO to SEO copywriting and Technical SEO. In this post, Marieke looks back at the growth of Yoast Academy in 2017 and gives a brief glimpse of what's to come in 2018.
Leading up to the release of our free SEO for beginners course, Justin from LearnDash and Jesse from Yoast Academy decided to really dive into the Academy and discuss the ins and outs of how we create courses at Yoast!
It’s a common misconception that the internet is the ultimate learning environment. Yes, you can find everything you need, for free, but the information you end up with is not always trustworthy. It’s scattered, often outdated and sometimes contradictory. So if you want to learn all about a particular subject, you might be better off …
Read: "Yoast Academy: Teach yourself SEO"
Once you finish a Yoast Academy SEO training course, you get a shiny certificate of completion and a badge you can embed on your site or share on social media. In this way, you can let everyone know about your newly acquired SEO expertise. Awesome! But how useful is SEO training certification, really? Does it …
Read: "Four ways you could benefit from a Yoast SEO training certification"
Want to learn how to make your site rank high? Get better at SEO and practice your skills in a fun way? We think our Yoast Academy SEO courses are exactly what you need, but maybe you’re not so sure yet. You can now try them out, for free! You can get free access to …
Read: "Try your free SEO lessons today: Yoast Academy trials available now"
Yesterday, Yoast Academy released a new and improved Basic SEO course. But wait, didn’t Yoast release a free SEO for beginners course just a couple of months ago? Yes, we did. So what’s the difference? Doesn’t the SEO for beginners training also cover the basics? Why should you pay for access to the Basic SEO …
Read: "Basic SEO training / SEO for beginners: What’s the difference?"
In November 2017, Yoast Academy took a big leap forward. Switching to a different Learning Management system, called LearnDash, was a key factor in this. Leading up to the release of our free SEO for beginners course, Justin from LearnDash and I decided to take twenty minutes to really dive into the Academy and discuss the …
Read: "Creating SEO courses at Yoast – Interview by LearnDash"
We’ve added a free course to our curriculum of online SEO courses. It is an SEO course for beginners. If you’re an SEO-newbie or your SEO skills have become a bit rusty, then this is the course for you! Our free online SEO course offers lots and lots of training videos, reading material and challenging …
Read: "Why a free online course?"
Today we’re launching the Personal configuration review: an extra personal assignment you can add to the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin training. You can now test if you’ve understood the subject matter of our training well and do an extra assignment – on your own site! When you’ve configured Yoast SEO on your site, we’ll …
Read: "Personal configuration review: Train your skills and get our feedback"
On March 6, we released a major update of our Yoast SEO plugin. This update was aimed at making SEO easier and more understandable for our users. We removed quite a few settings and options. In other cases, we changed the names of settings making them easier to understand for non-technical users. All in all, …
Read: "Why we changed so many things in the 7.0 update"
Today we released our new Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin training. This online course will help you use Yoast SEO to its fullest potential. In this course we’ll train you on how to use all of the functionalities of our plugin best. And the most exciting news is, we decided to reduce the price of …
Read: "Why we reduced the price of our Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin training"
If you want to use the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin to its full potential, you obviously need to know exactly what it can and can’t do. The release of Yoast SEO 7.0 at the beginning of March introduced many changes to the Yoast SEO plugin. Because of all these changes, we’ve decided to completely …
Read: "Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin training: Better than ever & reduced in price!"
