Your site should be mobile-friendly. Because nowadays, most people are searching on Google with their phone. But what does it mean to have a mobile-friendly site? And where do you start? In this SEO basics article, you’ll find an overview Continue reading How do you improve your mobile site?
Google’s Core Web Vitals have emerged as critical metrics for SEO. These metrics help you optimize your websites for a superior user experience. A new player is making headlines among these vital metrics: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This one Continue reading All about Core Web Vitals: INP (Interaction to Next Paint)
Google doesn’t always spider every page on a site instantly. Sometimes, it can take weeks. This might get in the way of your SEO efforts. Your newly optimized landing page might not get indexed. At that point, it’s time to optimize Continue reading How to optimize your crawl budget
SEO is all about creating a great experience for people visiting your website, or seeing your snippet in the search results. That’s why a lot of your SEO efforts will likely be focused on things like content, UX and pagespeed. Continue reading A successful link building strategy in 6 steps
One of the things you can do to present your local business better in search results is Schema.org data for rich snippets. Adding structured data to your site can help search engines understand your business and how it performs. For Continue reading Local business listings with Schema.org structured data
It functions differently from a traditional CMS, like WordPress, and therefore requires different considerations for SEO as well. While general SEO best practices and rules remain the same, how you go about implementing them will differ in a headless setup.…Read Continue reading Headless SEO Explained + 6 Best Practices
Finding specific data on Google can be akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. Thankfully, Google’s search operators are here to transform your quests for knowledge into efficient and targeted searches. When used skillfully, these specialized commands can Continue reading Mastering Google Search: Using search operators for SEO
If you search for a specific company, you’ll likely see a big block of information on the right (sometimes the top) of your screen. That’s Google’s Knowledge Graph. This block – also known as the Knowledge Graph Card or Panel Continue reading What is Google’s Knowledge Graph?
Ever felt that some of your keywords don’t perform as well as before? And are you wondering why other companies outrank you in Google? Then it might be smart to do a quick competitive analysis. Because in most cases, it’s Continue reading Benchmarking SEO: Do a competitive analysis
A redirect happens when someone asks for a specific page but gets sent to a different page. Often, the site owner deleted the page and set up a redirect to send visitors and search engine crawlers to a relevant page Continue reading 6 questions about redirects for SEO
The reality of the current web is that JavaScript is everywhere. Most websites use some kind of JavaScript to add interactivity and improve user experience. Yet most of the JavaScript used on so many websites won’t impact SEO at all.…Read Continue reading What SEOs Really Need to Know About JavaScript SEO
Master the art of using Schema.org to elevate your online visibility with our ultimate guide to structured data. Dive into the heart of Schema.org and how it can revolutionize how your site interacts with search engines like Google. Explore its Continue reading Structured data with Schema.org: the ultimate guide
If you use Yoast SEO on your site, you’re probably familiar with features like the SEO analysis or the snippet preview. You might also know our inclusive language analysis, and how easily you can link to related posts or create Continue reading Yoast SEO’s hidden features that secretly level up your SEO
PageSpeed Insights works by analyzing a webpage’s HTML, CSS, fonts, and JavaScript, and provides suggestions to optimize the performance of the page. This includes things like compressing images, minifying code, and reducing the number of HTTP requests made by the…Read Continue reading How to Use PageSpeed Insights
The first impression users have of your site is how fast it appears to be loaded. The largest element is usually going to be a featured image or maybe the tag. But it could also be any of these:…Read more Continue reading Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) – Defined, Measured, & How to Fix
The robots.txt file is one of the main ways of telling a search engine where it can and can’t go on your website. All major search engines support its basic functionality, but some respond to additional rules, which can be Continue reading The ultimate guide to robots.txt
Ensuring your website is accessible to everyone may not be a direct ranking factor. Still, if you’re driving traffic to a website and the users with disabilities can’t access and engage with the entire site, it’s going to impact your…Read Continue reading Accessibility for SEOs: How to Comply With ADA & WCAG
Today, we’re very excited to be releasing Yoast SEO 20.4. With this release, we’re bringing our crawl optimization feature to Yoast SEO Free. With this feature, you can improve your SEO and reduce your carbon footprint with just a few Continue reading Yoast SEO reduces your site’s carbon footprint with crawl optimization
HTTP status codes, like 404, 301, and 500, might not mean much to a regular visitor, but they are incredibly important for SEO. Not only that, search engine spiders, like Googlebot, use these to determine the health of a site. These Continue reading HTTP status codes and what they mean for SEO
As someone working on SEO, you must understand the importance of site speed. You must realize that fast sites equal happy users and happy search engines. PageSpeed Insights is an invaluable tool from Google that can help you optimize your Continue reading Google PageSpeed Insights helps make your site faster