Web sustainability is a huge topic and covers a lot of aspects, from design principles to many technical details. Did you know that SEO can actually lower your website’s impact on the web’s carbon footprint? If you want to know more about sustainable website growth and how SEO can help you, then read on! What…
Do outbound links matter for SEO?
One of the checks that we have in Yoast SEO is the check for outbound links. This check scans your text to see if there are any outbound links in your post or on your page. In case it doesn’t find one, Yoast SEO advises you to add at least one outbound to your content….
Homepage SEO: Does it exist?
The homepage of your website serves many different purposes. It’s the page where you welcome people to your website, where you want to highlight your most important stuff, and from where users can navigate to your other pages. That’s why it’s important to spend enough time optimizing your homepage. But should you also optimize your…
What is cornerstone content?
This post explains everything you need to know about cornerstone content – or evergreen content, as it’s also known. You’ll learn what it is, why it’s important for SEO, how to write this kind of content and how you should link from your posts to your cornerstone articles. Table of contents What is cornerstone content?…
Why and how to set up a blog on an ecommerce site
Why do so many ecommerce sites have a blog? Is that because online shop owners love to write posts? Or perhaps they have a lot of spare time on their hands? Probably not. Although blogging is a lot of fun, it is also a great marketing and SEO strategy. And because of that, ecommerce site…
How to write an SEO-friendly conclusion
Does that very last paragraph even matter? Do you need to think about SEO at all if you’re writing a conclusion? Well… yes you do! That last paragraph is a very important one for your readers. And whatever is important for your readers, is important for Google as well! But why is a concluding paragraph…
Taxonomy SEO: How to optimize your categories and tags
We often encounter sites with category and tag structures that are completely unmanaged. Even large news sites can suffer from overusage of tags and categories. Tags and categories are both examples of a taxonomy system. When used correctly, a good taxonomy system can boost your site’s SEO. The opposite is also true: when used wrong,…
Sustainable SEO: How to focus on a lasting SEO strategy
You’re probably familiar with SEO, but what do we mean by sustainable SEO? Well, it’s all about spending your time on the right things in order to outrank competitions in the search engines! But how do you keep doing SEO in an efficient and successful way? How do you keep ranking in the long run? If you’re…