Content SEO

We write a lot about content strategy, optimizing content, better content writing, creating a good site structure, performing keyword research and lots of specific tips about blog SEO.

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Must read articles about Content SEO

Know your customer

20 December 2016 by Michiel Heijmans » - 5 Comments

know your customer

Once in a while, every company needs to take a closer look at the state of its marketing. Are you still sending the right message to your customer? Do you still target the same customers? And, in what way did these customers change? In this article, we’ll address a number of things every website owner needs »

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SEO basics: What is content marketing?

19 December 2016 by Marieke van de Rakt » - 7 Comments

what is content marketing

Content marketing consists of all marketing activities that focus on creating and sharing information. It should be part of every SEO strategy, but it’s also crucial for branding. The idea of content marketing is that sharing valuable information is a great way to attract an audience and to build a brand. Blogging is one of the most well-known ways of »

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Ask Yoast: change URLs when relaunching website?

16 December 2016 by Joost de Valk » - 4 Comments

Ask Yoast change urls

Relaunching a website can be an overwhelming project. You need a new design and perhaps new functionalities. What should you do with your existing content? And what about new content? The more changes you want, the more challenging it gets. In this process you might face the question if you should change or keep your URLs. »

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Why you should NOT write clickbait headlines

15 December 2016 by Marieke van de Rakt » - 4 Comments

clickbait headlines don't work

You’d like your post to rank and your headlines to be clicked on. That’s how you generate traffic from the organic search results. After your headlines have generated those clicks, you’d want your customers to stay on our site and read your posts (and eventually decide to buy your stuff). That’s why writing clickbait headlines are not »

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Why you should use Yoast internal linking

14 December 2016 by Marieke van de Rakt » - 6 Comments

use the yoast internal linking tool

Yesterday we released our new internal linking tool in Yoast SEO Premium. The internal linking tool will help you to link to related content. It will find related posts for you, and it will become much easier to link from your post to these related articles. Using our tool systematically will help you improve the structure »

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Site structure training: now available!

13 December 2016 by Marieke van de Rakt »

Site structure training

You want your site to appear high in the search engines. You want extra traffic and more customers and sales. And what you want most, is to outrank the competition. In order to do so, you can apply all kinds of SEO tactics. Structuring you site well is one of these tactics. It will help Google »

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Why is site structure important?

8 December 2016 by Marieke van de Rakt » - 7 Comments

site structure for SEO

Structuring your site is a crucial element of SEO. If you want to generate more traffic to your website, you should create a structure for your site that makes sense to Google and your site’s visitors. In this post, I’ll explain why site structure is such an important aspect of SEO. Structure shows importance to Google »

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Ask Yoast: how to rank globally

6 December 2016 by Joost de Valk » - 3 Comments

Ask Yoast change urls

Ranking in your own country is one thing, ranking around the globe is quite another thing though. It poses other challenges. Let’s say you’re organizing trips for tourists who visit your country, how to reach those tourists? In this Ask Yoast, I’ll explain what’s essential for your global SEO strategy. We received the following question from »

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We’ve created the fastest related posts ever

5 December 2016 by Omar Reiss » - 32 Comments

Related posts

When we say “related posts for WordPress“, we say “bad performance”. Without using an external service like ElasticSearch, it’s practically impossible to have related posts work fast in WordPress. That’s why we’ve always stayed away from including any related posts plugin on our site. It’s also the reason we haven’t tried to come up with a solution ourselves before. In the »

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Site structure: the ultimate guide

30 November 2016 by Marieke van de Rakt » - 7 Comments

site structure for SEO

Your site needs a certain structure. Otherwise, it’ll just be a collection of pages and blog posts. Your users need the structure to navigate through your site, to click from one page to the other. And Google uses the structure of your site in order to determine what content is important and what content is »

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