How to create an XML sitemap and submit it to Google
Detailed information on sitemaps and the benefits of using them. This article covers how to properly create an XML sitemap using different tools and details on how you can fix existing sitemap errors.
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Yoast SEO 14.7: Smarter and faster internal linking suggestions in Premium
Say hi to Yoast SEO 14.7, chock-full of enhancements to help you with your site’s SEO. Have you heard about the addition of XML sitemaps in WordPress 5.5? The Yoast SEO plugin is completely prepared for this. We also have some great news for users of the Web Stories plugin. But most importantly, we’re releasing […]
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How to get your new WordPress site indexed
When you roll out the red carpet on a new website, you might be expecting visitors to start coming eagerly. In reality, before people start visiting your site, search engines need to find, index and rank it. In this article, I share some tips that could help you get your site indexed faster. A quick note […]
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How to set up SEO on WordPress [Video]
WordPress can provide a strong foundation for good SEO. A step-by-step list of how we handle SEO on WordPress and make sites more visible on search.
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Help, I’ve accidentally noindexed a post. What to do?
It can happen to anyone: You’re working on your site, fiddling on some posts here and there, and hit update when you’re done. After a while, you check back on how a post is doing and, to your dismay, it disappeared completely from the search engines! It turns out you’ve accidentally set a post or […]
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Four SEO myths to shake off in 2020
To help your brand succeed in 2020 by optimizing your website for greater organic visibility, here’s the truth about the top four SEO myths.
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Quick wins for Magento SEO
Is Magento SEO friendly? Dive into SEO best practices to follow with a quick look at technical considerations and content strategy.
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Quick wins for Magento SEO
Is Magento SEO friendly? Dive into SEO best practices to follow with a quick look at technical considerations and content strategy.
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Google Sandbox: Is it still affecting new sites in 2019?
Google never confirmed its existence, but many SEOs believe that Google Sandbox exists. So, does it exist in 2019? If yes, how to avoid getting affected?
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What’s technical SEO? 8 technical aspects everyone should know
An SEO Basics post about technical SEO might seem like a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, some basic knowledge about the more technical side of SEO can mean the difference between a high ranking site and a site that doesn’t rank at all. Technical SEO isn’t easy, but here we’ll explain – in layman’s language – […]
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How to pick the best website audit tool for your digital agency
What exactly agencies need when it comes to website audits and what to look for in choosing a tool. Five specific recommendations, screenshots, examples.
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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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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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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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What is an XML sitemap and why should you have one?
A good XML sitemap is a roadmap to all important pages of a website. This roadmap guides Google to all main content on a website. Having an XML sitemap can be beneficial for SEO, as Google can retrieve essential pages of a website very fast, even if the internal linking of a site isn’t flawless. […]
The sense and nonsense of XML sitemaps
Fact: if your website is set up the right way, you shouldn’t need an XML sitemap at all. You shouldn’t need to think about your category’s XML sitemaps or about including images in your post’s XML sitemap. But why do we keep talking about them like it’s the most important thing ever for SEO? It’s an almost daily […]
Ask Yoast: include taxonomies in XML sitemap?
Your tag and category pages could be very important pages on your site. If you’re using these pages in the right way, they can boost your site’s SEO. You might wonder if you should also include these taxonomy pages in your XML sitemap. In this Ask Yoast we explain whether you should, and why! Our support team received the following question […]
Yoast SEO 3.5
We’ve just pushed out a new release of Yoast SEO, our flagship plugin. The new version, 3.5, mostly has a metric ton of small bugfixes. In this post, we’ll discuss the most notable changes, but you should mostly be aware that this is what we would call a bugfix release. XML Sitemap changes We’ve decided to […]