Ask Yoast: Can Google deal with Lazy Load?
We’ve said it time and again: site speed is a crucial aspect of your SEO. That’s why we often write about site speed tools, speed optimization, and other things you need to know to make your site lightning fast. One factor in site speed is image optimization: on most sites, images will play a part […]
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How Long Does It Take SEO Traffic To Recover From Blocking Googlebot?
Two weeks ago a client reset its bot-blocker, unintentionally blocking Googlebot. We had SEORadar monitoring the site so we quickly discovered the problem and alerted the client. Unfortunately, by the time they fixed the bot-blocker settings, they had lost about 100,000 daily visitors from Google. Of course, the first thing they asked was: How Long […]
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How Long Does It Take SEO Traffic To Recover From Blocking Googlebot?
Two weeks ago a client reset its bot-blocker, unintentionally blocking Googlebot. We had SEORadar monitoring the site so we quickly discovered the problem and alerted the client. Unfortunately, by the time they fixed the bot-blocker settings, they had lost about 100,000 daily visitors from Google. Of course, the first thing they asked was: How Long […]
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Server Side Rendering For Dummies (& Non-Technical SEO Decision-Makers)
Your engineering team just mentioned they are rolling out a new type of product landing page built with REACT or Angular or some other hipster tech name you may have seen out of the corner of your eye on your Twitter SEO feed. Your gut says this could be an SEO problem, and your gut […]
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Server Side Rendering For Dummies (& Non-Technical SEO Decision-Makers)
Your engineering team just mentioned they are rolling out a new type of product landing page built with REACT or Angular or some other hipster tech name you may have seen out of the corner of your eye on your Twitter SEO feed. Your gut says this could be an SEO problem, and your gut […]
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Ask Yoast: Hreflang for sites with different domains
If you have two very similar sites in two different languages, you may wonder whether you need to implement hreflang. Will Google recognize both sites as ‘stand-alone’ websites, and is that what you want? While translated content isn’t considered duplicate content, it may still be worth your while to actively point users to the right […]
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SEO-friendly URLs
The subject is up for much discussion: SEO-friendly URLs. Should or shouldn’t I include the category? Should the URL be as short as possible or is there room for extras? Could an URL be stuffed with keywords or not? In this post, I’ll explain our take on SEO-friendly URLs and try to elaborate a bit […]
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SEO Power BI Data Cleaning Checklist for URLs
SEO Power BI Data Cleaning & Preparation Checklist for URLs
Getting into data visualization for finding new opportunities and accelerating analysis? Me too! But there’s a few best practices I’ve learned along the way when connecting datasets by URLs.
When might you want to connect by URL? …
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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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Ask Yoast: Nofollow tags for Amazon affiliate links
When you add a nofollow tag to a link on your site, you’re basically telling search engines that they shouldn’t count your backlink when ranking that page. Doing this helps you avoid leaking link value to pages that may not be trustworthy, or, in case of affiliate marketing, to your advertiser’s website. But what if […]
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Voice search: what will the future bring?
My husband – Joost de Valk – and I often have discussions on how technology will change our day-to-day life. Joost is an early adopter, while I am much slower and more reluctant to technological change. Our discussions are pretty heated. So, what’s Joost’s opinion on the future of voice search? How dominant will voice search […]
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Does site speed influence SEO?
You don’t even have to listen very carefully because SEO people are shouting it from the rooftops: site speed is everything. Not a day goes by without a new article, white paper, Google representative or SEO expert telling us that optimizing for speed is one of the most important things you can do right now. […]
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6 questions about redirects for SEO
A redirect happens when someone asks for a specific page but gets sent to a different page. Often, the site owner deleted the page and set up a redirect to send visitors and search engine crawlers to a relevant page. A much better approach then serving them an annoying, user experience breaking 404 message. Redirects […]
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A successful link building strategy in 6 easy steps
Links are important for SEO. And link building should therefore definitely be part of your holistic SEO strategy. But more importantly, link building should be part of your growth strategy. Links should help generate traffic to your site directly. In this post, I’ll describe 6 important steps for a successful link building strategy, the holistic SEO […]
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Ask Yoast: Redirect responsive pages to AMP pages?
A few years ago, Google announced the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project, and it’s becoming increasingly important for all kinds of websites. AMP is a technology to make webpages faster on mobile devices, improving loading times by stripping some of the design. Initially, AMP was mainly relevant for static content, like blogposts or news articles, […]
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The ultimate guide to the meta robots tag
With the meta robots tag you can control what search engine spiders do on your site. Learn what it does right here!
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Addressing site quality – why building great content isn’t enough
Over the last couple of years, there’s been a real focus on improving the search experience through quality-focused algorithm updates. Google’s making it harder for sites with a high ratio of low quality indexable pages to perform well organically. If your site has thin, low quality, low relevance pages, performance will inevitably suffer – now […]
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Technical SEO: why it matters and seven tweaks to give you an edge
Here are the seven tweaks that will improve technical SEO.
How to keep your page out of the search results
If you want to keep your page out of the search results, there are a number of things you can do. Most of ’em are not hard and you can implement these without a ton of technical knowledge. If you can check a box, your content management system will probably have an option for that. […]
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Scraping ‘People Also Ask’ boxes for SEO and content research
People Also Ask (PAA) boxes have become an increasingly prevalent SERP feature since their introduction in 2016. In fact, recent data from Mozcast suggests that PAA features on around 30% of the queries they monitor. This box, tied to Google’s machine learning algorithms, shows questions related to a user’s initial query. For example, if you […]
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