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Schema.org is hard, Yoast SEO makes it easy for you

9 September 2020 | 9 Comments Davey Smeekens

Getting a Schema.org implementation right on a website was always enormously painful. There was not enough documentation and no good tools to help you to make it truly simple. For years, even the best implementations were still just a fragmented mess. In the spring of 2019, we fixed that with Yoast SEO 11.0 — and …

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Schema.org is hard, Yoast SEO makes it easy for you

How to add HowTo Schema using Yoast SEO blocks

7 September 2020 | 16 Comments Edwin Toonen

You might know that structured data in the form of Schema.org can do wonders for your search results. It also forms the basis for an ever-increasing amount of new and exciting developments on the search engine front. Google has said many times that structured data is beneficial. Today, we’re going to look at an exciting …

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How to add HowTo Schema using Yoast SEO blocks


What is a static WordPress site? Why would you want one?

24 August 2020 | 8 Comments Edwin Toonen

Static websites? Isn’t that old-school? In the early days of the web, all websites were static. Today, turning your dynamic WordPress site into a high-performing static one might be a viable option for you. Visitors get a super-fast browsing experience, while content managers continue to use the WordPress authoring experience and plugin ecosystem. Hackers have …

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What is a static WordPress site? Why would you want one?

Yoast SEO 14.8: Related links block in Premium, a new Schema tab and Arabic keyphrase recognition

18 August 2020 | 18 Comments
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Willemien Hallebeek

Get ready for a brand new version of Yoast SEO! The 14.8 release is so full of remarkable free and premium features we’re having a hard time mentioning them all in this short introduction. So, to make everyone’s life easier, let’s start this post with a list of new features. In Yoast SEO 14.8, you’ll …

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Yoast SEO 14.8: Related links block in Premium, a new Schema tab and Arabic keyphrase recognition

The history of Schema: towards an easy to understand web

17 August 2020 | 13 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, it seems that everyone is talking about Schema as being the next hot thing. It has a rich history, and it took a long while for it to gain momentum. Talk of a machine-readable web started when the internet was still in its infancy. It was Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the computer scientist best …

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The history of Schema: towards an easy to understand web



Yoast SEO 14.7: Smarter and faster internal linking suggestions in Premium

5 August 2020 | 33 Comments
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Willemien Hallebeek

Say hi to Yoast SEO 14.7, chock-full of enhancements to help you with your site’s SEO. Have you heard about the addition of XML sitemaps in WordPress 5.5? The Yoast SEO plugin is completely prepared for this. We also have some great news for users of the Web Stories plugin. But most importantly, we’re releasing …

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Yoast SEO 14.7: Smarter and faster internal linking suggestions in Premium

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