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Writing fantastic copy isn’t just a skill. It’s an art. We’ve been asking around to find the best copywriting tips from expert writers. Find out how they get started with each piece of writing, what they focus on, and how they craft their content to achieve a goal. If you write for a website or …

The quality of your content is so important nowadays. By creating high-quality content you can improve your rankings, attract new people and build a strong relationship with the audience you already have. If you can show authority on a topic, this lends more strength to your high-quality content and lets users know they can trust …

Did you know Spanish is the second-most spoken native language on this planet, after Mandarin Chinese? Over 500 million people natively speak Spanish. What’s more, Spanish is the fourth-most spoken language in the world. For Yoast, millions of Spanish-speaking people use our tools to improve their websites in their markets. We like to help them …

Yoast SEO is a WordPress plugin that helps your site perform better in search engines like Google. It also gives you the tools to bring your content to the highest standards of SEO and overall readability. Here, we’ll explain how our plugin helps you build the best website you possibly can! What Yoast SEO does …

Indexing is an important part of what a search engine does. Without indexing, all the pages Googlebot crawls don’t have a place to live — and the ranking systems don’t have the input they need to do their work. If Google can’t index your site it can’t appear in the search results. The basics of …

If you have ever used a search engine like Google, you’ll know that there is loads of content out there. On pretty much any topic that you can imagine. This is great for search engines, as they’re able to show relevant results for any term that people type in. It does, however, require some effort …

It still feels a bit like summer outside, but here we are telling you to get ready for the biggest sales of the year: Black Friday and Cyber Monday. And, not to forget the Christmas and Thanksgiving shopping season. What’s up with that? Well, it’s never early enough to start planning for the most beautiful …

Launched just a couple of months ago, the SEO workouts in Yoast SEO Premium turn out to be a real asset for many people. The two SEO workouts we have right now, help you enhance your internal linking structure and improve the quality and discoverability of your content. In Yoast SEO 17.3, we’ve drastically improved …

As the world’s second-biggest search engine (after Google), and the world’s second-biggest social network (after Facebook), YouTube can be an incredibly valuable marketing investment for almost every business. The key to getting a consistently high number of views is to create a channel with a compelling offering. But unfortunately, very few businesses succeed in this …

Every month, our resident SEO experts Jono Alderson and Joost de Valk discuss all the latest happenings in the online world. Topics discussed range from Google’s newest updates to relevant developments with the WordPress CMS or tech news that will influence how you do your work. In the September 2021 edition of the SEO news …