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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

Timeless SEO tips: 6 universal SEO tactics that never go out of fashion

19 January 2021 | 14 Comments
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Willemien Hallebeek

Things are always on the move in the SEO world. Google regularly updates its algorithm, and the competition is never far behind. And with the rising popularity of AI tools, the situation is changing yet again. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a list of timeless SEO improvements to focus on? We thought it might! …

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Timeless SEO tips: 6 universal SEO tactics that never go out of fashion

Making the web better: an interview with Joost & Omar

30 July 2020 | 22 Comments
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Willemien Hallebeek

August 1 is World Wide Web Day. On this date, back in 1989, the world wide web was born at the CERN lab in Switzerland. Something that started as a way to share knowledge between scientists, has grown out to something none of us can imagine life without. And because the web is such an …

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Making the web better: an interview with Joost & Omar




How to use WordPress? The 12 most common questions

26 September 2019 Davey Smeekens

WordPress is huge. According to the latest stats, WordPress powers almost 35% of the web — and keeps on growing. With many sites staying true to the CMS and many new sites bursting onto the scene, there are a lot of new users taking their first steps into the wonderful world of WordPress. People from …

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How to use WordPress? The 12 most common questions

15 questions about ranking factors – Yoast webinar recap

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 factors, you’re well on your way to that coveted number one spot — or so people seem to think. In general, chasing all these individual ranking factors …

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15 questions about ranking factors – Yoast webinar recap

Should I follow every change Google makes?

30 May 2018 | 21 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

Last week, I wrote about Google’s decision to shorten the meta descriptions. Now, meta descriptions are about the same size as they were half a year ago. But for a couple of months, they were much longer. We got a lot of questions and quite a few people were pretty annoyed — understandably so. Is …

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Should I follow every change Google makes?

How to perform an SEO audit. Part 3: Site speed & Engagement

7 December 2017 | 12 Comments
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Michiel Heijmans

This is the third and final part in our series on how to do an SEO audit on your website. Regularly auditing your site – or your clients’ sites – is a great way to get a feel for what you can do to improve its SEO. In part 1, I talked about user experience and …

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How to perform an SEO audit. Part 3: Site speed & Engagement