Marieke van de Rakt Marieke van de Rakt is the founder of Yoast Academy and CEO of Yoast. Her favorite SEO topics are SEO copywriting and site structure. Do you want your articles to be as well optimized as possible? Do you aim for that number 1 position in the search results? And do you […]
Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin has been updated with new how-to blocks. The latest release also adds tabs to the top of the meta box as well as schema and security fixes. Yoast’s new how-to block. Image source: Yoast blog. More on the update. Referring to Google’s announcement of support for new how-to structured data at
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Edwin Toonen Edwin is an experienced writer, editor & content manager. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. Yoast SEO 11.6 is out today. Of course, we did the regular round of bug fixing, but the focus of this release is two-fold: a new, much easier
Remkus de Vries Remkus is Manager Partnerships at Yoast and also focusses on our Translate Yoast site. Additionally, he works on the WordPress Project organizing and mentoring WordCamps. Last week was a busy week, with lots of things happening in the WordPress Community. Which means several different news items to cover today! We’ve got an
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Edwin Toonen Edwin is an experienced writer, editor & content manager. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. People are always talking about ranking factors. You know, the secret ingredients to Google’s magic algorithmic formula. If you know them and find a way to please these
Meike Hendriks Meike Hendriks is a digital marketer at the Yoast SEO team. She works on SEO, SEA, and CRO to continuously improve Yoast.com. When you’ve welcomed your visitors to your website, you want them to stay and to hang around and, eventually, you want them to convert. Converting could mean subscribing to your newsletter,
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Remkus de Vries Remkus is Manager Partnerships at Yoast and also focusses on our Translate Yoast site. Additionally, he works on the WordPress Project organizing and mentoring WordCamps. WordPress 5.2.2 launched last week, but of course, that wasn’t the only news happening. There was a lot going on in the world of WordPress as it
Gutenberg 6.0, WPGraphQL, and WP Engine news • Yoast Read More »
Joost de Valk Joost de Valk is the founder and Chief Product Officer of Yoast and the Lead Marketing & Communication for WordPress.org. He’s a digital marketer, developer and an Open Source fanatic. If you want to get more clicks from search results, you need to optimize how your site looks in those search results.
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Edwin Toonen Edwin is an experienced writer, editor & content manager. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. If you’ve been working on your site for a while, you might have come across a soft 404 error. Google Search Console might have sent you an email
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Caroline Geven Caroline is creative online marketeer at Yoast. In her spare time she writes and maintains a personal blog. For a long time, she thought she didn’t need to think about SEO as a blogger. She was very wrong. A few of the most asked questions I get as a blogger is how I
