20 February 2020
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Iris Guelen
Need to switch to online asap and don’t have a website yet? WordPress is your best friend! Whether you want to create your own personal blog, an online store, or a business website – with WordPress, creating your own website is easy as pie. If you know what you’re doing, of course. In this video, »
Read: "How to make a WordPress website"
6 February 2020
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Iris Guelen
Coming up with a clear and catchy URL can be quite hard. Sometimes, you might think of a better URL right after you’ve published your post or page. So, what do you do then? If you are not careful, you could mess up your SEO with 404 errors. But don’t worry, we’ll tell you the »
Read: "How to change a URL in WordPress"
27 August 2019
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Annelieke van den Berg
Working on your SEO takes a lot of time and effort. So, you want to be able to see if those efforts paid off, as well as keep an eye on how your site is doing. A great way to get a quick overview of your site’s overall performance is creating a dashboard in Google »
Read: "How to create a dashboard in Google Data Studio"
13 March 2019
Marieke van de Rakt
Our new Yoast SEO analysis has been released. At Yoast, we are all very excited! The changes in Yoast SEO are the result of a long process of researching and evaluating our SEO analysis. And we’re not going to stop improving! Want to know more about what Yoast is doing to provide our customers with »
Read: "New SEO analysis: a look behind the scenes"
8 March 2019
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Joost de Valk
There are many occasions when you may want to put a PDF on your site. For example, when you’ve made an online magazine, when an article you wrote was featured in a book or magazine, if products you sell have useful manuals, or if you’ve written detailed instructions for a DIY project. As you can »
Read: "PDFs on your website"
1 March 2019
Joost de Valk
Picking a theme for your WordPress website can be hard. You want something that looks nice, meets your needs and won’t slow down your website. If you don’t invest some time into picking a theme, you could end up with a theme that only allows you to use <h2> headings, for example. Or you might »
Read: "Changing your WordPress theme"
22 February 2019
Joost de Valk
Let’s say you own the website http://www.some-example.com. After a while, you decide you don’t want to keep the www. You want your visitors to go to the non-www version of your domain instead. What’s more, you’ve also decided to switch from HTTP to HTTPS, to follow security best practices. These two things combined make for quite a move, »
Read: "Redirecting your site to non-www and HTTPS"
15 February 2019
Joost de Valk
As a site owner, you want to come across as an authoritative result, as well as stand out in the search results. Even if you’re already ranking #1. Sitelinks can help you with that. What are sitelinks, you ask? Sitelinks appear under the main search result, highlighting subpages of a website in a menu-like structure. »
Read: "How to get sitelinks"
1 February 2019
Joost de Valk
As you’re probably aware, at Yoast we’re all about WordPress. But of course, there are other ways to build a website, like with another content management system, or even by static site generation. If you’ve only ever used a Content Management System (CMS), like WordPress, to build your website, you may wonder what static site »
Read: "Static site generation and SEO"
25 January 2019
Joost de Valk
Imagine the following situation: you have a local business, like a shop, or service business, and you carefully optimize your website to make sure people can find you, online and in real life. You add your data to Google My Business and work on a great local content SEO strategy. Also, you make sure you »
Read: "Moving to a new city and keeping your business’s website"