Back to Yoast.com A recipe to impress your dinner guests, a step-by-step guide to changing your tire, or the opening hours of the store around the corner. You might have noticed that Google is stepping its game up with the way it’s displaying the results to your search queries. These prominent and often visual answers…
Coming soon: Understanding structured data course!
There’s a new Yoast SEO academy course on its way: the Understanding structured data course! Are you ready to take a deep dive into the theory of structured data? After completing this course, you’ll understand the concepts and terms related to structured data in detail. And, implementing this knowledge could help you get wonderful rich…
SEO in 2021: A new chance to impress
Although it also brought lots of good things, 2020 was a year to quickly forget for most of us. So let us take a look at next year. For most sites, SEO in 2021 is not much different from the past couple of years: you still need to improve the same stuff, but you do…
Towards a trusted web: Timestamping content with WordProof
The worldwide web is one of the greatest achievements of mankind. It has revolutionized communication and allowed for a stunning amount of innovation to happen. As a place without regulation, the web was allowed to grow tremendously. But today, we cope with the side-effects of that unregulated growth: misuse hurts people and even democracies. Now,…
What is structured data?
You might have heard about structured data, Schema.org, and JSON-LD. You might have even heard that it’s becoming more and more important to add them to your site. But what do these terms mean exactly? What is structured data? And what does it have to do with SEO? We’ll explain all of this, and how…
Coming soon: Free Structured data for beginners course!
Have you noticed that, over the years, search engines have been changing the way they show you the results of your search? These results are becoming more visual, notable, and clickable. Which means that it really pays off to be one of these results! The good news is that you can increase the chance of…
How to get great looking Google results
You probably know the feeling. You’re Googling for a term you’d (like to) rank for and you see a competitor that has a search result that looks incredible. It has star ratings or an image, or both. Or it might have a video, or some other thing. These are so-called rich results. They stand out…
Local ranking factors that help your small business’ SEO
If you have a local business, selling products or services, you have to think about the local ranking of your website. Local optimization will help you surface for related search queries in your area. As Google shows local results first in a lot of cases, you need to make sure Google understands where you are…