Joost de Valk Joost de Valk is the founder and Chief Product Officer of Yoast and the Lead Marketing & Communication for WordPress.org. He's a digital marketer, developer and an Open Source fanatic. Our Yoast SEO plugin handles optimization of your WordPress site for search engines, and we dare say it does that pretty well! Most of that is technical optimization, like our XML sitemap functionality, and content optimization, like your content and readability analysis. But there’s more to SEO than that. You need links pointing to your website and for that to happen, people need to talk about you and your website. That is the essence of social media, so our plugin helps you optimize for that as well! Before we dive in, if you want to learn more about social media and other essential SEO skills, you should check out our All-Around SEO training! It doesn’t just tell you about SEO: it makes sure you know how to put these skills into actual … [Read more...] about Social media optimization with Yoast SEO
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Proven SEO techniques for WordPress Using Yoast SEO
Search Engine Optimization; the joy and nightmare of most bloggers. In this article I will share you the complete knowledge of proven seo techniques for wordpress. Before we move on, I will love to discuss about SEO in particular…. What is SEO? SEO is the acronym of Search Engine Optimization. It is the process and act of tweaking; beautifying; and modifying of your website to be readable by search engine crawlers or bots. A search engine bot is a special program that is written and well structured for the purpose of analyzing webpages; and their informations to know which is relevant and useful. All search engines have their personal bots. These bots are well programmed making them able to access all information on a webpage in a split second and index them if they are relevant; where most webmasters get it all wrong is that they don’t allow access to these bots to crawl their site at all; or either their website is unreadable by the spiders. This in most cases is not … [Read more...] about Proven SEO techniques for WordPress Using Yoast SEO
How to Set Up Google Search Console in 5 Easy Steps
Jun 15, 2018 by Kristien Matelski Search Engine Optimization Vizion Interactive Google wants your website to succeed. The search engine powerhouse has proved this again and again with the incredible tools it offers businesses and website owners. One tool you shouldn’t pass up is Google Search Console. Google Search Console is the new name for the suite formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools (GWT). Google Search Console is a free webmaster console that generates a wealth of information about your website and its visitors. It lets you track metrics such as the number of site visitors, where they came from, what devices they’re using, and what pages they like the most. It also makes it easy to detect and repair issues with your site, submit a sitemap to Google, and more. If Google Search Console sounds like a tool that could benefit you, set up an account with the following steps. Start a Google Account First, if you don’t have a Google account, you’ll need … [Read more...] about How to Set Up Google Search Console in 5 Easy Steps
The 8 Most Common But Simple Missed Opportunities In Optimizing Content
This year marks my tenth year in business as an SEO firm, and over that time, I’ve seen my share of missed opportunities on websites. With the changes that are always emerging in SEO, it can be difficult to differentiate the tactics that will be most effective, especially if you’re resource-strapped. Here are the eight most common but simple missed opportunities I typically see for optimizing content for SEO. 1. Poorly Written Or Duplicated Page Titles Why is it that some websites feel the need to list everything but the kitchen sink in a title tag? Yet other sites may just ignore the title tag for each page, choosing to duplicate them by default. The poor title tag has often been an abused tag on the Web page, with some SEOs desperately stuffing keywords into the title tag like it was a Thanksgiving turkey. The title tag’s most important role, however, isn’t SEO rankings — it’s what it offers you after you get the ranking. Take for example this … [Read more...] about The 8 Most Common But Simple Missed Opportunities In Optimizing Content
How to Build a WordPress Site in 24 Hours
WordPress is a fantastic platform for building websites on-the-fly with little to no development time required to get up and running. In addition, WordPress has fantastic customizability ranging from being able to fully customize your theme, to finding plug-ins that have functionality to do just about anything you want. The list of what you can do to customize WordPress is endless and is generally limited only to your imagination. You can install a newsletter plug-in to manage your newsletter subscriptions. You can install analytics plug-ins that seamlessly integrate with WordPress and Google Analytics. Other WordPress plugins allow you to customize your SEO such as your title tags, meta descriptions, and meta keywords. Still, some plug-ins will also let you add noodp and noydir tags, and dive deep enough into their functionality to allow for full control over noindex/nofollow on individual pages. This should go without saying, but choosing a good domain name is half the battle toward … [Read more...] about How to Build a WordPress Site in 24 Hours