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10 reasons your page won’t rank – even though it’s optimized

3 June 2021
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Marieke van de Rakt

What could be the matter if your perfectly optimized post isn’t ranking? Is the problem that your site is not on Google, or is something else going wrong? What is keeping your content from reaching that coveted #1 position? In this post, we’ll discuss ten possible reasons why your page is not ranking, even though …

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10 reasons your page won’t rank – even though it’s optimized

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!

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?

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

Improving the content SEO fitness of your website

11 February 2021 | 3 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

Sites get bigger. We keep on adding content but tend to forget to clean up. As the web grows older, more and more sites are growing older and bigger as well. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Google loves authority, so being around for a long time pays off. However, your website does need to …

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Improving the content SEO fitness of your website

How to perfect the category page of your online store

1 February 2021 | 10 Comments Edwin Toonen

The one page that often seems to be forgotten in the optimization of ecommerce sites is the product category page. We see this very often: category pages just don’t get the love they deserve. That’s a lot of missed opportunities, because many people arrive from the SERPs on these specific pages. In this article, we’d …

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How to perfect the category page of your online store

How to plan an SEO campaign for higher rankings

25 January 2021 | 27 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

A new year asks for a new and improved content SEO strategy! Are you also pumped and full of plans to improve your SEO strategy and start a brand new SEO campaign? In this post, I’ll tell you just how to set up a content SEO campaign and quickly improve your chances to outrank your …

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How to plan an SEO campaign for higher rankings

How to optimize your homepage

21 January 2021 | 19 Comments Edwin Toonen

Does homepage SEO exist? We asked ourselves that in our post on homepage SEO. However, a lot of the people still feel that a homepage should be optimized for a keyword. Perhaps optimizing your homepage for search engines works for some of you, but ranking in Google should definitely not be the only purpose of your homepage! …

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How to optimize your homepage

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

What is anchor text and how to improve your link text?

6 January 2021 | 7 Comments Edwin Toonen

Anchor text — or link text — is the visible, clickable text of a link. It usually appears in a different color than the surrounding text and is often underlined. Good link text tells the reader what to expect if they click on the link. Getting your anchor text right increases the chance of someone …

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What is anchor text and how to improve your link text?