Yoast SEO news webinar – April 20, 2021

What you will learn

Our SEO experts Jono Alderson and Joost de Valk will talk you through:

• The most important SEO updates from Google, WordPress and other platforms
• What to prioritize as they share their views on the news
• Relevant best practices to help you outrank your competitors

Replay & recap

This webinar took place on April 20, 2021. Watch the replay above or read the recap right here!

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Topics discussed in this webinar

Timestamps indicate when the topic comes up in the recording.

Google News

• 2:00 – New Product reviews algorithm update…
• 3:54 – …which was big for affiliates and review sites
• 5:52 – Google Search Console improved data filtering and comparison
• 7:50 – Various Core Web Vitals updates
• 11:55 – Video structured data thumbnailUrl adds support for WebP & SVG
• 14:20 – Enhanced business profiles for stores
• 16:20 – Coding to hide health prices from web searches is barred by regulators

Other SEO news

• 18:47 – A great article (and mental model for SEO) from Cyrus Shepherd
• 20:20 – A guide to making the perfect product page for SEO

Social news

• 21:17 – Pew Research investigated social media use in the US in 2021

WordPress news

• 23:55 – Full site editing is partly a ‘go’ for WordPress 5.8
• 27:25 – JetPack Boost: a Web Vitals WordPress plugin by Automattic

Yoast news

• 28:36 – Yoast SEO 16.1 & News SEO 12.7 were released
• 29:20 – We have worked on the Video SEO plugin
• 29:27 – We hosted a Video SEO webinar and a Page speed webinar
• 29:56 – We published a podcast about video and a podcast about eCommerce

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