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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Is Your Site Leaking User Info into Search Results? Get GDPR Ready
What do you do when your site is leaking user information into search results? Well, let’s take a step back and look at what kind of personal information this could be:
- Form information that contains first name, last name, email address
- Actual address information, including zip
- Unsubscribe confirmation URLs that contain email addresses and/or names
- Online ordering information like what recently happened to Panera
There are a number of ways this information could be seeping into Google’s index.…
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Structured data for recipes: getting content read out loud
Do you have a recipe site? If so, you might already be using structured data to mark up your recipes so they can get highlighted in the search results. Good work! But, Google recently made some changes that might make your implementation incomplete. It also expanded the possibilities of structured data for recipes by bringing […]
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Google Duplex: The what, the ethics, the SEO
Perhaps you heard about Google Duplex? You know, the artificial assistant that called a hairdresser to make an appointment? Fascinating technology, but what is it exactly? And does it affect search or SEO? In this post, I’ll explain what Google Duplex is. And, I’ll raise some ethical issues I have with it. Finally, I will […]
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Ask Yoast: Canonical for PDF magazine
There are many occassions when you may want to put a PDF on your site. For example, when you’ve made an online magazine, when an article you wrote was featured in a book or magazine, or when you’ve written detailed instructions for a DIY project. So far, so good. But things can get a bit […]
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Study: state of mobile page speed in Ireland
This study from April 2018 shows how well the 100 most popular websites in Ireland perform when it comes to mobile speed. With the homepage taken as a benchmark and compare how they perform against Google’s recommendations on speed, page size, requests and more.
Post from Gustavo Pelogia
URLs, Crawling, and PageRank; Fundamentals of SEO
URLs are the foundation of the web. Many aspects of usability and search engine crawling and ranking focus on URLs. In this post, Barry Adams explains some of the elements that make URLs so important and why you shouldn’t ignore good URLs for your website.
Post from Barry Adams
Technical SEO vs content marketing: Which should SEOs focus on?
In the digital marketing sector we frequently talk about content and technical SEO as two distinct sections of marketing we can do on-site. But that’s not entirely true; the two elements work hand-in-hand on a website to support its organic successes.
Ask Yoast: Bad slug for Arabic URLs
Today’s Ask Yoast will discuss a problem that may be familiar to you if your site is in a non-ASCII language, like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and many other languages. You work hard to write good, SEO-friendly URLs, so people will click to your website. However, when your site is linked to or shared, for instance […]
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Yoast SEO & Ryte: Checking your site’s indexability
Your site needs to be up and running if you want to be found in search engines. If you aren’t blocking anything — deliberately or accidentally — search engine spiders can crawl and index it. You probably know that Yoast SEO has lots of options to determine what does and doesn’t need to be indexed, but […]
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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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Optimizing a single page: One page website SEO
One page websites have been popular for some time now. Basically, it’s your entire website on your homepage. It’s fancy, it’s streamlined. By dividing your homepage into multiple sections, and adding a menu that allows visitors to jump to the section they want to visit, you create an entire website experience on that one single […]
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International sites: the best domain structure for SEO
Making your website rank high can be a challenge. Making your international sites rank high can be an even bigger challenge. There are just a lot more things you have to do for multilingual SEO: create content for different markets, set up sites for those markets and implement hreflang, just to name a few. Plus there are […]
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Pagination & SEO: best practices
Paginated archives have long been a topic of discussion in the SEO community. Over time, best practices for optimization have evolved, and we now have pretty clear definitions. This post explains what these best practices are. It’s good to know that Yoast SEO applies all these rules to every archive with pagination. Indicate that an […]
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An hreflang example and how to test it
There are multiple ways to implement hreflang. Perhaps your content management system supports it, or you are using a plugin or extension to add hreflang in any way to your pages. No matter how you implement them, it’s obviously good that you do! hreflang is the glue that binds pages that are the same except for […]
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Ask Yoast: Include WooCommerce product tags in your XML sitemap?
XML sitemaps are an important part of your site because they ensure search engines can crawl all the pages on your site that you want to appear in the search results. It’s up to you to decide what pages you want to include, and what pages are better left unincluded. Keep an eye out for […]
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Which pages should I noindex or nofollow?
Some of the pages of your site serve a purpose, but that purpose isn’t ranking in search engines or even getting traffic to your site. These pages need to be there as glue for other pages, or simply because whatever regulations require them to be accessible on your website. As a regular visitor to our website, […]
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Ask Yoast: Order of categories and subcategories in URLs
It’s important to put some thought into your URL structure, particularly when you’re starting a new website. If you make sure your URL structure is clear and focused right from the beginning, you won’t have to face the huge task of changing and redirecting all your URLs later on. But, of course, sometimes you need […]
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Benchmarking SEO: competitive analysis
Just recently, a friend of mine asked me to have a quick peek at his website, as he felt some of his keywords didn’t perform as well as before. Some other websites outranked him in Google, and he wondered why. In such a case, it often pays to do a quick competitive analysis. In most […]
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How can you determine your website’s authority, and what can you do to improve it?
The Domain Authority metric was developed by Moz as a means of quantifying your website’s relative importance as a whole – its authority. Like most SEO metrics, this number fluctuates based on several factors, and to improve your authority, you first need to determine where your website stands among the others online.