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.
What is Gutenberg?
You might have felt some tremors in the WordPress world. There is something brewing. Something called Gutenberg. It’s the new editing environment in WordPress and the impact it’s going to have will be massive. Some welcome it with open arms, while others are critical. There is also a large group of WordPress users who don’t […]
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Writing with Gutenberg
Gutenberg is coming. It’s a really big thing in the world of WordPress. At Yoast, we are really busy making sure our Yoast SEO plugin integrates nicely with the new editor. So we talk and think and a lot about Gutenberg. But as a writer, I didn’t really use Gutenberg yet. And this made me […]
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Yoast conference update: Where were we in March?
Team Yoast often attends WordCamps and other conferences. We’d like to keep you updated on the highlights of these events and share the knowledge we gained and the fun we had there. In March we went, for example, to WordCamp Oslo, WordCamp Antwerp, WordCamp Rotterdam, WordCamp Kathmandu and The Social Conference. We’ve picked some of the highlights for […]
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SEO basics: The difference between tags and categories
Tags and categories help us structure our content. You can often find these in the visual metadata at for instance blog posts, or in a list of clickable links in the sidebar of a website. Tags are sometimes represented as a tag cloud, although most websites refrain from using that element these days. There is […]
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Is Fact Check for Yoast SEO a joke?
Yesterday we released a new add-on to Yoast SEO: Fact check for Yoast SEO 1.4. Were you getting excited to use it already? Then we’re very sorry to disappoint you, but it’s an April Fools’ joke. Or is it…? Our dear colleagues Danny and Irene genuinely built this plugin. Read this short interview and learn […]
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Get our new free plugin: Fact Check for Yoast SEO 1.4 Beta
While developing and benchmarking for new releases of Yoast SEO, we keep a keen eye on requests made by users. An issue that consistently raises concerns is the uprise of fake news. So today, we present Fact Check for Yoast SEO 1.4 Beta, a free add-on for our Yoast SEO plugin. Download Fact Check for […]
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How to migrate your WordPress website domain name
There are many instances where a website might be required to change its domain name. For example, your website might be penalized heavily by Google, and you want a new domain, or you might want to rebrand your business. In this article, we will focus on the tools and techniques that will allow you to migrate WordPress website domain name with minimal impact on SEO.
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 reduced the price of our Yoast SEO for WordPress training
Today we released our new Yoast SEO for WordPress training. This online course will help you use Yoast SEO to its fullest potential. In this course we’ll train you on how to use all of the functionalities of our plugin best. And the most exciting news is, we decided to reduce the price of this […]
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How to drive more traffic to your WordPress blog
Driving traffic to a blog has never been easy, and there’s no magic bullet to achieve it. However, taking certain steps can significantly increase your chances of earning blog traffic and – hopefully – turning a profit with your blog.
Let’s celebrate International Women’s Day!
Today, we celebrate International Women’s Day. And, as we are celebrating, we offer a 11% discount on all of our products! In this post, I’ll first explain the importance of International Women’s Day. After that, I’d like to invite you all to celebrate International Women’s Day with us. Share your story about a WordPress woman who […]
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The journey towards Yoast SEO 7.0
Joost de Valk founded Yoast. For a long time, Joost was the only developer working on Yoast SEO. He came up with all the features and implemented all the code; he did everything. As the company grew, we created a large development team. Joost always remained part of the development team and came up with […]
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Indexing in Yoast SEO: Show x in search results?
Before a search engine can rank a page or a post it needs to index it. A crawler must discover a piece of content before it can evaluate if it is a valuable addition to its index. One of the ways crawlers discover pages, is by crawling XML sitemaps. After a page has been indexed, […]
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Help us test Yoast SEO 7.0
We have got something special for you, but before we release it for real, we need your help testing it: Yoast SEO 7.0. This is one of the biggest releases we have ever done, hence the jump from version 6.3 to 7.0. We’ve greatly simplified the interface, deprecated unused features and combined others into smarter features. […]
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3 reasons why Open Source is so very awesome
The mission of Yoast is ‘SEO for everyone‘. With our plugin, our online courses and our blog we try to make SEO understandable for everyone. We believe that every website -large and small- deserves a fair chance to pop up in the search engines. We strongly believe in our mission. Open Source is an important […]
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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 6.3: Giving you more context
Something’s brewing at Yoast HQ. There’s no sign of spring yet, but we feel the need for a spring clean-up. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking critically at the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin and its many features and thinking: what’s this doing here? And should we get rid of that thing? Some of […]
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What’s the difference between an H1 heading and the SEO title?
Writers tend to put some real thought into their title. For online content, titles are important for both readers and search engines. That makes them double important! If you use WordPress and our Yoast SEO plugin, you insert the post’s title in the post title input field. Your title will appear as an H1 heading […]
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Ask Yoast: Still minify and concatenate CSS and JS files?
To work properly, websites contain multiple CSS and JavaScript files. These must be fetched from the server by the visitors’ computer, to fully load a webpage. In the old standard, HTTP/1, only one request at a time could be handled, so minifying and concatenating multiple files was a good idea. Otherwise, visitors would experience a […]
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