17 top plugins and extensions for SEO
(According to experienced SEOs.) We asked SEO experts which plugins and extensions they use for easier, more productive work. Here are their top 17 answers.
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How to safely change themes on your WordPress site
Changing a WordPress theme can be a trivial task, but it requires careful steps if you have a big website and don’t want to take risks. Lucy Barret explains.
How to optimize WordPress after running a page speed test
If you’re serious about your WordPress website, you have run a page speed test at some point. There are many variations of these tests out there. Some more convenient and true to your target audience than others. But they all will give you a pretty decent idea of where you can still improve your site. […]
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Yoast SEO 7.7: New snippet editor & better snippet variables
The snippet editor is one of the core pieces of technology in Yoast SEO. It helps you build snippets that truly stand out in the search results to get you traffic. To make this vital piece future-proof and to update it with new features, we needed to rebuild it. In Yoast SEO 7.7, you’ll find […]
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Media / attachment URL: what to do with them?
In our major Yoast SEO 7.0 update, there was a bug concerning attachment URL’s. We quickly resolved the bug, but some people have suffered anyhow (because they updated before our patch). This post serves both as a warning and an apology. We want to ask all of you to check whether your settings for the […]
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GDPR: ensuring your website is secure
In the run up to the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), new data shows that 86.5% of WordPress websites in the UK are vulnerable to known hackable exploits.
14 essential WordPress plugins to improve SEO
SEO is often a long and convoluted process which takes time, dedication and expertise. Therefore, anything that can simplify or speed up aspects of a campaign are welcome additions. If your website is hosted on a Wordpress CMS, then you are fortunate enough to have access to a plethora of handy plugins. Here are the 14 plugins we think are must-haves for SEO.
Yoast SEO 7.2: Fixes and improvements
These past few weeks were all about the 7.0 release of Yoast SEO. That release brought many changes and made a lot of SEO work easier to understand and do. In 7.1 we fixed some bugs, improved the importers and added a new language to our roster: Portuguese. Yoast SEO 7.2 — out now — […]
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Yoast SEO 7.1: A língua Portuguesa
Two weeks ago, we released one of our most significant updates yet: Yoast SEO 7.0. This release featured some much-needed spring-cleaning and a wholly revamped XML sitemap experience. In it, the focus is much less on the sitemap as it is on easily getting indexed what you want to get indexed. Yoast SEO 7.1 — […]
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How to add focus to your text with Yoast SEO Insights
Your keyword research is done and you know what to write about. Nothing is going to stop you from getting all that traffic with your new articles. But when you start writing your article, you notice it can be hard to keep your text focused. Yoast SEO Premium has a helpful little tool to guide […]
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8 tips for boosting the speed of your WordPress site
Slow-loading web pages can slowly become the leading cause of high bounce rates, low user engagement, lost traffic opportunities, and abandoned sales journeys. If you have a WordPress site, there are a number of easy and effective methods you can use that will significantly increase your site’s loading speed.
Yoast SEO 6.2: Passive voice checks for French and Spanish
Since launching the readability analysis way back when we’ve been steadily adding support for more and more languages. Today, with the release of Yoast SEO 6.2, we’re expanding our knowledge of languages again by introducing passive voice checks for the French and Spanish languages. Improving language checks At Yoast, we firmly believe that readability ranks. […]
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Yoast SEO 6.1
Welcome, 2018! And welcome to our first release of 2018: Yoast SEO 6.1. This is the first in a long line of new versions to be released in this new year. Yoast SEO 6.1 is mainly a bug fix release that makes sure that your favorite plugin runs like butter. Find out what’s new! Bye […]
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Yoast SEO: How to use the internal linking tool
The article you are about to read is probably one of the easiest posts I have written in a long time, as its subject is right there next to the edit screen in WordPress: the internal linking tool, which is a part of Yoast SEO Premium. I have only written three lines right now, but […]
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Always improving: Yoast SEO in 2017
A year always seems like such a long time. But whenever we reach the end of one, we tend to say: where did it go? That’s definitely the case for developing and using software. We’re so invested in Yoast SEO that we sometimes forget when we added a feature because we use it so much. […]
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Yoast SEO 6.0: More characters for your meta descriptions
The end of the year is coming up fast. Today is the day we’re releasing the last update of Yoast SEO in 2017. It’s been a wild ride this year and we’re already working on big plans for 2018. But first, Yoast SEO 6.0. And yes, we’ve heard you loud and clear; we’ve extended the […]
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Yoast SEO 5.9: A more accessible content analysis
A new release doesn’t always have to bring incredible features, as it can silently set the stage for bigger things to come. Yoast SEO 5.9, released today, is such a release. While this release doesn’t contain groundbreaking new features, it does provide an important new piece of the Yoast SEO puzzle for the future: we’ve […]
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How to connect Google Search Console to Yoast SEO and fix errors
In our plugin, you can connect Google Search Console to Yoast SEO. This verifies your website for your Google Search Console account and allows you to view your crawl errors. Especially when you have a large site, the number of crawl errors might scare you. In this post, I’ll explain a bit more about crawl […]
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Yoast SEO 5.8
For us, these last few weeks were mostly about our SEO conference YoastCon, but work on Yoast SEO went on as well. Today, we’re proud to present Yoast SEO 5.8. In this release, you’ll find a truckload of fixes and enhancements. I’ll share some of them in this release post and I’ll shine a light […]
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Gutenberg: Concepts for integrating Yoast SEO
Gutenberg is the new editing experience coming to WordPress. We’ve talked about it before. While we have some hesitations, we do see Gutenberg as a major step forward and are thinking about how we will integrate Yoast SEO into Gutenberg. In this post, we’ll share some of the ideas we’re excited about. Gutenberg introduces new concepts, […]
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