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Case study: SEO for a quality brand

11 August 2017 | 39 Comments Meike Hendriks

With our Ask Yoast case studies we helped clients with their SEO by reviewing the website and giving clear advice and hands-on tips. Those clients send us their website because they’re curious what improvements can be made to improve the overall rankings. This time, we reviewed the website of a high-quality sun protection brand: Calypso. …

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Case study: SEO for a quality brand

Case study: SEO for architect websites

13 July 2017 | 11 Comments Meike Hendriks

In this Ask Yoast case study: the website of Slemish Design Studio Architects, the business site of an architect duo. The architects told us that they get great responses from their clients, but is their website optimized for search engines as well? We’ll dive into this architectural website to see what improvements can be made …

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Case study: SEO for architect websites

Page speed as a ranking factor: what you need to know

It’s official: Google announced that page speed will be a ranking factor in its mobile-first index. But what does that mean? There’s no beating around the bush anymore: you should work on making your site as fast and accessible as possible. Don’t wait, do it now. I mean it. Work on your mobile SEO. For …

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Page speed as a ranking factor: what you need to know

Metadata and SEO part 2: link rel metadata

9 March 2017 | 4 Comments Michiel Heijmans

In the first post of our metadata series, I discussed the meta tags in the <head> of your site. But there’s more metadata in the <head> that can influence the SEO of your site. In this second post, we’ll dive into link rel metadata. You can use link rel metadata to instruct browsers and Google, for example to point them to the AMP version …

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Metadata and SEO part 2: link rel metadata

Performance optimization in an HTTP/2 world

22 December 2016 | 28 Comments Davey Smeekens

A revolution is currently going on in the underpinnings of the web. HTTP, the protocol your browser uses to connect to your site, has a new version: HTTP/2. This is not something that should concern the average user, but for web developers, it changes how we do performance optimization entirely. In this short article, I want to …

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Performance optimization in an HTTP/2 world

How to reduce HTTP requests to speed up your WordPress site

4 November 2016 | 24 Comments Jimmy Comack

Having a website, online shop or blog that’s fast is a must nowadays. A fast website doesn’t only give your visitors a much better experience, but it also helps your website to rank. Sending fewer HTTP requests to the server can improve the loading times of your website. But why is that? What are HTTP …

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How to reduce HTTP requests to speed up your WordPress site