6 June 2019
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Marieke van de Rakt
Some bloggers consistently write awesome content. Everything they create is of the highest quality. Does that mean that these bloggers never have to clean up their website? Well, we have some bad news… Even if your content is really great, you could still have too much of it. In this post, I’ll tell you why …
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4 June 2019
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Marieke van de Rakt
As text makes up a large part of most websites, it’s an important thing to focus on. You can work on the structure of your text, or the style of your post. In this post, we will focus on another aspect: the purpose of your text. A lot of people forget to properly formulate the …
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20 May 2019
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Marieke van de Rakt
If you use our readability analysis in the Yoast SEO plugin, you probably have seen the Flesch reading ease score. This score tells you how easy to read your text is. You might have wondered: how is the Flesch reading ease score calculated? Why is this score important for SEO? And, crucially, how can you use …
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17 May 2019
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Marieke van de Rakt
For a blog, it’s of great importance that people can read the texts of your post properly. Reading from screens is hard, so make sure you don’t make it any harder than it already is. In this post, we’ll give tips on how to improve the typography of your blog. Typography and readability The readability …
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10 May 2019
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Fleur Heesen
This is just one of the many misconceptions about the Yoast SEO readability feedback we’re happy to set straight. We’ve often been telling you to go chase those green traffic lights. The traffic lights are a key part of the Yoast SEO plugin. They serve to give intuitive feedback on your text and gamify the Yoast …
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18 April 2019
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Marieke van de Rakt
Once upon a time, there was this woman – let’s call her Mia – and she wanted to write beautiful stories for her blog. Mia noticed she was not getting much traffic from Google, while other bloggers seemed to attract a lot of visitors. She wondered what she was doing wrong. One day, at a …
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5 April 2019
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Marieke van de Rakt
Cornerstone articles should be the best and most complete articles on your website. That means that you should make an effort to make this article as awesome as possible. Raise your normal standards and write extraordinary cornerstones. To help you create excellent cornerstone articles, we developed a special cornerstone analysis. Why do you need a separate analysis? …
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4 April 2019
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Michiel Heijmans
If you have a restaurant and a restaurant website to go with it, you might want to read this article. We have covered a lot of topics on this website already, but we’ve decided to focus a bit more on specific types of websites in a number of posts. In this post, we discuss what you need …
Read: "How to optimize your restaurant website"