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How to use storytelling in a blog post

7 March 2019 | 9 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

People like reading stories. Stories are a great way to captivate your audience. But how do you use stories in a blog post? And, how do you come up with ideas? In a previous post, I wrote about why you should use storytelling. In this post, I’ll give you 6 tips on how to start …

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How to use storytelling in a blog post

Blog SEO: add and maintain categories on your blog!

20 February 2019 | 10 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

If you write an amazing blog post, you’d like it to help in the ranking of your site, right? If you create awesome content, you’d like people to read it now, but also to be able to find it and read it later. What’s more, you want new visitors on your site to read your …

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Blog SEO: add and maintain categories on your blog!


Explaining SEO to your grandparents

29 August 2017 | 14 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

How do you explain SEO to people who don’t know the first thing about it? What is SEO really about? Before anyone accuses me of discriminating against the elderly, the title of this post is only a figure of speech. Joost’s 90-year old grandmother knows exactly what SEO is, while some of our 30-something friends …

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Explaining SEO to your grandparents

Case study: SEO of a mom blog

6 April 2017 | 11 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

SEO can be a rather complicated and abstract thing. What exactly do we mean by increasing keyword density? How do you start with improving the structure of a site? That’s why I’m going to write a series of Ask Yoast case studies. In these case studies, I’ll take a look at a specific site (the owner …

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Case study: SEO of a mom blog

How to handle comments on your blog

23 February 2016 | 30 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

When you’re blogging regularly, people will start responding to what you write. Maybe not right away, but as your blog is growing, you’ll have to deal with comments on your blog. Especially when you write about your world view or opinions, some people will disagree with you. You will, in short, have to deal with …

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How to handle comments on your blog