SEO is short for search engine optimization. In the world of digital marketing, this marketing strategy plays an important role in helping you increase your reach to potential customers. While, Google doesn’t share its overall search volume, it’s safe to say it’s a lot. Some a have estimated it at 3.5 billion searches per day and the volume of searches grows by …
Want to show Google that you’re an expert on a particular topic? Then topic clusters should become your go-to content marketing technique. The year is 2020 and SEO has evolved again. Google is probably changing its algorithm once more as you read this – and topic clusters are on the horizon. I know, I know. Topic …
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Articles that contain “original reporting” will be elevated in Google LLC’s search rankings from now on, the company announced Thursday. The change should be good news for journalists, with Google saying its team of human reviewers will also scan the deluge of stories in an attempt to find good journalism among more dubious articles. “An …
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Edwin Toonen Edwin is an experienced writer, editor & content manager. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. People are always talking about ranking factors. You know, the secret ingredients to Google’s magic algorithmic formula. If you know them and find a way to please these …
Do you know the triumph when your content finally hits the first page of Google and attracts significant traffic? Unfortunately, nobody is safe from a sudden drop in rankings. The thing is that the reasons for it may be different and not obvious at all. In this post, you’ll discover what could cause a sudden drop …
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Edwin Toonen Edwin is an experienced writer, editor & content manager. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. Google’s Knowledge Graph is hard to find, but its results are not. Take for instance that big block of information that appears on the right-hand side of your …
Edwin Toonen Edwin is an experienced writer, editor & content manager. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. Sometimes you wonder if Google even knows how Google works. Search is getting more complex by the day and there comes a point where it’s anybody’s guess. Yesterday, …
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Jesse van de Hulsbeek Jesse van de Hulsbeek is the Yoast Academy lead. He creates SEO training courses and works on the Academy’s didactic methods. On Yoast.com, we talk a lot about writing and readability. We consider it a very important part of good SEO. Your text needs to satisfy your users’ needs. This, in …
The world of SEO changes by the day – some might argue that it changes by the hour. Your ability to keep up and adjust with the updates of the major search engines determines your success in this complicated genre of digital marketing. Through the years, Google’s algorithms have seen all sorts of adjustments. Some …
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If you take a look at the New Year’s resolutions you made for 2019, they’ll likely contain some financial ones, ones where you plan to have a more profitable year. And, if you are a business owner or work in marketing, consider adding this resolution to your list: “I’m ditching SEO gimmicks for good.” When …
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Search came a long way this past year. We saw the appearance of the zero-result SERP, featuring knowledge cards for answers such as conversions and times. We welcomed the mobile-first index and the mobile speed update. With the focus on mobile, we saw meta description lengths shorten from 300+ to 150 or so. We saw …
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Google updates its algorithm routinely. Its goal is to provide users with the most relevant results for their search patterns. The algorithm updates always seem to affect either a larger or smaller percentage of sites. While it may be impossible to predict a change, you can get in the habit of being aware of changes …
