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Structured data for beginners: New and free training course!

19 November 2020 | 2 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Today, we’re adding a NEW and FREE training course to Yoast SEO Academy: Structured data for beginners! Want to get noticed in Google? Want your pages to stand out from the other search results? Then you need colorful, rich results that entice people to click. To show rich results for your website, search engines need …

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Structured data for beginners: New and free training course!

Free access to all SEO courses with Yoast SEO Premium!

18 November 2020 | 29 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

We have very exciting news to share with you: we’re combining Yoast SEO Premium with Yoast SEO Academy! If you buy Yoast SEO Premium, you’ll now also get free access to all of our SEO training courses in Yoast SEO Academy. So the price of Yoast SEO Premium hasn’t changed, but what you’re getting has! …

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Free access to all SEO courses with Yoast SEO Premium!

New Local SEO training: Learn how to rank locally!

8 September 2020 | 2 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

With a website, you can reach out to the entire online world. But what if you want to target a local audience? Then you need to practice local SEO! Especially now, ensuring your local audience can find you online is incredibly important. That’s why we’re launching a brand-new Local SEO training today! In this training, …

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New Local SEO training: Learn how to rank locally!

The latest news in SEO and WordPress: July 2020

Every few weeks we have an SEO News video in which Jono Alderson and I, along with other experts, share the latest SEO news with our academy subscribers. Last week, we decided to try this in the form of a webinar where viewers were able to ask us questions right away. Because this was such …

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The latest news in SEO and WordPress: July 2020

Brand-new free online training: Block editor training

24 March 2020 | 2 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

At Yoast, we are huge fans of the block editor. Admittedly -not right from the start-, but we’re now block-editor fanboys and fangirls. That’s why we created an awesome free block editor course! We hope it will help everybody to use the block editor to the fullest! In this course, you’ll learn how to create …

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Brand-new free online training: Block editor training


Basic SEO training / SEO for beginners: What’s the difference?

22 June 2018 | 19 Comments Jesse van de Hulsbeek

Yesterday, Yoast Academy released a new and improved Basic SEO course. But wait, didn’t Yoast release a free SEO for beginners course just a couple of months ago? Yes, we did. So what’s the difference? Doesn’t the SEO for beginners training also cover the basics? Why should you pay for access to the Basic SEO …

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Basic SEO training / SEO for beginners: What’s the difference?


Why we changed so many things in the 7.0 update

On March 6, we released a major update of our Yoast SEO plugin. This update was aimed at making SEO easier and more understandable for our users. We removed quite a few settings and options. In other cases, we changed the names of settings making them easier to understand for non-technical users. All in all, …

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Why we changed so many things in the 7.0 update

Looking back at Yoast in 2017 (with infographic!)

28 December 2017 | 5 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

With 2018 just around the corner, it’s time to look back at yet another amazing year at Yoast. We’ve made some excellent improvements to Yoast SEO and released a bunch of new awesome online SEO courses. Team Yoast has been to lots and lots of conferences. We’ll write separate blog posts to look back at …

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Looking back at Yoast in 2017 (with infographic!)