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Content Analysis with the WordPress SEO plugin

We’ve been rather busy with the WordPress SEO plugin the last few days. We did a release yesterday and a quick follow up today to fix a few collisions with other plugins. Loads of cool small fixes in there, but one in particular that I think is worth highlighting as it’s something other plugin developers…

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Why Google won’t display the right page title

Lately we’ve been inundated, literally, with support requests for WordPress SEO and its premium add-ons, all asking one “simple” thing: why isn’t Google picking up my page title? People who changed their page title and see that the search results still show their old title are bound to think Google didn’t “get” the new title…

Why Google won’t display the right page title is a post by on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.

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HTTP 503: Handling site maintenance correctly for SEO

Last week I got a few messages from Google Webmaster Tools, saying it couldn’t access the robots.txt file on a site of a client. Turns out the client didn’t handle scheduled downtime correctly, causing problems with Google. While this article covers some rather basic technical SEO the last bit might be interesting for more advanced…

HTTP 503: Handling site maintenance correctly for SEO is a post by on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.

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Can Blogging Be a Long-Term Asset-Building Strategy for Online Business?

In short, for all of you who don’t want to read the whole thing, yes it can. However, it’s not actually that simple. The good thing is that your blog can, indeed, become a great resource for some niche audience and make you recognizable, that’s a fact. But the bad thing is that the content on every blog is very chaotic (by definition).

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Local SEO made easy!

We’ve been hard at work here at Yoast.com, together with our good friend Arjan Snaterse, to complete the delivery of our next baby: the Local SEO plugin, which is, just like our Video SEO plugin, an extension to the WordPress SEO plugin. The Local SEO makes creating geo sitemaps and KML files a breeze, while…

Local SEO made easy! is a post by on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.

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The focus keyword in WordPress SEO

This question pops up time and again: why can I only add one focus keyword to your SEO plugin? People seem to think they have to set several keywords for each post. This post explores the reasoning behind that, very deliberate, decision. This is the input field I’m talking about: The focus keyword is not…

The focus keyword in WordPress SEO is a post by on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.

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500 Website Reviews, what we’ve learned!

Over the last 3 years, we’ve sold & delivered 500 website reviews, selling our 500th today. I’m incredibly proud of this and wanted to share some of our learnings in this post, as well as announce some changes. Some stats on our website reviews I started doing these website reviews in 2010, finishing 42 of…

500 Website Reviews, what we’ve learned! is a post by on Yoast – Website Optimization.

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Want SEOs to lose their job? Start doing yours!

This morning, an article by Paul Boag was published on Smashing Magazine that got a few SEOs, including myself, all riled up. As Bill Slawski pointed out in the comments, Paul has written articles on SEO before. Paul, whom I respect tremendously for his web development work, obviously doesn’t “get” SEO and has evidently had…

Want SEOs to lose their job? Start doing yours! is a post by on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.

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