Yoast SEO Blog

Written by Edwin Toonen - We are thrilled to announce the release of Yoast SEO 20.0. This release features a brand-new, state-of-the-art settings interface that takes your SEO work to [...]

Written by Camille Cunningham - So you want to write more inclusively? Great! That means more people will feel welcome when they read your content, and you won’t accidentally exclude [...]

Written by Phil Nottingham - Google Search Console is the best data source for tracking the traffic you are getting to video content on your website from Google search, as [...]

Written by Edwin Toonen - Last year, we launched the inclusive language analysis to help you open up your content to a broader audience. It’s been well-received, with thousands of [...]

Written by Camille Cunningham - We often get questions from people asking about the influence of domain names on SEO. Is there any relation at all? Does it help to include keywords [...]

Written by Willemien Hallebeek - Link building is an essential aspect of SEO. It helps search engines to find and rank your pages. You can write the perfect post, but [...]

Written by Edwin Toonen - Content freshness is a ranking factor in Google’s algorithm and has been that way for years. Google tends to favor unique, recent, and timely content [...]

Written by Camille Cunningham - You might have been hearing more and more about it in the last few years: inclusive language. But what do people mean by it exactly? [...]

Written by Edwin Toonen - Last week, we uncovered a problem in Gutenberg’s upcoming release that breaks the block editor’s link functionality when used in conjunction with Yoast SEO. The [...]

Written by Marieke van de Rakt - Site structure is a vital aspect of your SEO strategy. Why? Because the structure of your website shows Google which pages of your [...]

Written by Sam Alderson - If you own a blog or a business, SEO is probably important to you. Then you also know that Google cares a lot about user [...]

Written by Camille Cunningham - Earlier this year, we added a new feature to our Premium plugin, the inclusive language analysis. Now we’re excited to say that we’re bringing it [...]

Written by Amy Lees - No, it’s not writing about nature. It means you write in a way that flows well and sounds natural. As if you were talking to [...]

Written by Phil Nottingham - Do you have two pages on your site that are practically identical yet necessary in order for your site to work? And do you need [...]

Written by Amy Lees - Search has come a long way since its early beginnings. Altavista and AskJeeves are long gone, and most of us can’t imagine a world without [...]

Written by Edwin Toonen - At Yoast HQ, we’re doing our part to make your websites run like clockwork. One of the things we’re working on is optimizing our Yoast [...]

Written by Phil Nottingham - In July 2022, Google launched a new video indexing report in Google Search Console. This report will allow you to see how many pages Google [...]

Written by Willemien Hallebeek - At Yoast, we try to combat the notion that SEO is just a trick. While tricks might get you ranked quickly, they usually don’t work [...]

Written by Jono Alderson - With more than 15 years of experience in the industry, Hannah Smith has worked with a range of well-known companies, and her creative work has [...]

Written by Edwin Toonen - Today, we’re releasing updates for four plugins and add-ons: Yoast SEO 19.10, Yoast SEO Premium 19.5, Local SEO 14.7, and WooCommerce SEO 15.3. The updates [...]

Written by Edwin Toonen - WordPress 6.1 – the last major release of 2022 – is finally here! This release is a step in the right direction for full-site editing, [...]

Written by Jono Alderson - In this day and age, page speed is everything. Not a day goes by without a new article, Google representative, or SEO expert telling us [...]

Written by Amy Lees - Have you heard the news? WordPress 6.1 is out! Welcome to the third and last major WordPress release of 2022. This release continues to build, [...]

Written by Phil Nottingham - When embedding a YouTube video on your website, you’ve probably discovered a minor but very annoying issue: YouTube embeds are not natively responsive. This means [...]