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What is keyword research?

6 May 2021 | 10 Comments
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Willemien Hallebeek

If you have a business nowadays, your website might just have become your lifeline. There’s no time to waste: Let’s get started with SEO and improve your rankings in Google. Keyword research is an essential first step. Here, you’ll find out what it is and which factors you should take into account. What is keyword …

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What is keyword research?

6 site structure mistakes and how to avoid them!

30 April 2021 | 8 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

If you take your SEO and users seriously, you’ll be working on a kick-ass site structure. But, setting up a decent site structure can be challenging. Maintaining a decent site structure when your site is growing, is even harder. With all these new pages on your site, it’s easy to overlook something or make a …

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6 site structure mistakes and how to avoid them!

What can Google’s “product reviews update” teach us about “high-quality content”?

27 April 2021 | 4 Comments
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Jono Alderson

In April 2021, Google changed how they assess content which ‘reviews’ products and services. The “Product reviews update” made it harder for pages that do little more than “summarize a bunch of products” to rank highly. But, unlike many other Google updates, this one came with a cheat sheet that describes what site editors need …

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What can Google’s “product reviews update” teach us about “high-quality content”?


How to create eye-catching social images for your content

The web and our online habits with it are never at a standstill. One result of our fast-paced online behavior is that we scroll through our social media channels like nobody’s business. Or without our full attention. Most of the time, your social image is the first (or only) thing users see before they scroll …

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How to create eye-catching social images for your content

SEO tutorial for beginners: How to start with SEO?

14 April 2021 | 17 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

If you’re not already working on it, now is definitely the time to start with SEO. You need to rank high if you want customers to find you online. So, what should you do? How do you get started with SEO? Or, how do you start with SEO on a brand new site? In this …

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SEO tutorial for beginners: How to start with SEO?

How to create a digital story in WordPress

‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen’. The first line of George Orwells’s book titled 1984. Kind of pulls you in right? That’s the idea of storytelling anyway. Creating content that people won’t want to put down until they’ve read the very last letter. Nowadays, storytelling isn’t just …

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How to create a digital story in WordPress

Everyday website optimization: 6 tasks for your daily SEO routine

Many of you log into your site every day, or, at the very least, once a week. But, if you’re managing a small business or team, you can’t always spend a lot of time on your SEO. You probably have tons of other things to do! Here, we discuss a few small yet impactful things …

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Everyday website optimization: 6 tasks for your daily SEO routine

Google’s algorithm is smart and dumb at the same time

30 March 2021 | 8 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

Google is smart, amazingly smart. The algorithm is very close to reading texts like human beings. At the same time, parts of Google’s algorithm aren’t smart at all. Computers aren’t good at understanding ‘what is what’ on a page. If you have a recipe site, you’ll need to tell Google what an ingredient is, what …

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Google’s algorithm is smart and dumb at the same time

Mobile parity: does your site offer a singular experience?

26 March 2021 | 7 Comments Edwin Toonen

You might have heard the term parity before in SEO, specifically mobile parity. It all comes down to one thing: you should see your site as a single thing. You shouldn’t have a ‘mobile site,’ as distinct from a ‘desktop site.’ You should have one site — which may use CSS to display elements differently …

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Mobile parity: does your site offer a singular experience?