What are permalinks? How to optimize them for SEO
URLs instead of long, messy links filled with numbers and symbols. The idea quickly spread across…
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Introducing the new SEO Task List in Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO, and a more comprehensive list is available for Yoast SEO Premium users. Carl Henry…
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Word count and SEO: how long should an article or page be?
search intent. A page with sufficient text provides both readers and search engines with the signals…
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What is link building in SEO?
Beginner’s guide to SEO for a complete overview. What is a link? A link, or hyperlink,…
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Why the Themes and Plugins You Choose Matter to Your Clients
There’s a school of thought among web developers that clients don’t care about how you build…
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New to AI Brand Insights: Scan your brand visibility in Perplexity
Yoast SEO AI+ package. You can now scan how your brand appears in answers generated by…
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Site Kit by Google insights now available for all Yoast SEO Premium users
its launch in June we have been rolling out our integration with Site Kit by Google….
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SEO Update by Yoast November 2025 edition recap
November 2025 edition of the SEO Update by Yoast, our principal SEOs, Carolyn Shelby and Alex…
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WooCommerce SEO Success – 9 Winning Tips
If you own a WooCommerce store, you probably don’t mind driving as much traffic to it…
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From slow to super fast: how to boost site speed the right way
11% fewer page views? That’s right, you might have the best content strategy and a solid…
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The Ultimate Guide to Image Optimization for Better Performance of Your WordPress
You probably know that optimizing images is of some importance when it comes to your WordPress…
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Content maintenance strategy: 6 tips for a cleaner website
SEO audits and reserve some time for content pruning. How often you should do that depends…
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Last-minute Black Friday SEO prepping for ecommerce stores
Carolyn Shelby and Alex Moss. Alex states, “Black Friday isn’t one day anymore, but a season….
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A recap of the October 2025 SEO Update by Yoast
this month’s SEO Update is clear: AI and data accuracy are reshaping how we plan, optimize,…
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WordPress 5.5 – Significant Additions and Improvements
Time flies, and with it comes the next WordPress update. Today, August 11, 2020, we got…
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How to Effectively Manage and Scale WordPress Multisite
Monitoring and managing multiple WordPress sites can be a time-consuming challenge. Yes, the platform has an…
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The psychology of scannable content and bullet points
statistics are sobering. Users read only 20-28% of webpage content, spending an average of 15 seconds…
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Still not ready for Black Friday 2025? Here is your last minute rescue plan
Black Friday tips to help you make quick, effective changes to your eCommerce store. Even with…
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First things first: writing content with the inverted pyramid style
writing meta descriptions in Yoast SEO that answers exactly that question in an easy-to-understand way. We…
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The Flesch reading ease score: Why & how to use it
Yoast SEO 19.3. We replaced the Flesch Reading Ease Score with the word complexity assessment. You…
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Why is summarizing essential for modern content?
high-quality content into a shorter version while keeping the essential points intact. The aim is straightforward:…
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Introducing a new AI-powered package: Track your brand in AI search
Yoast SEO AI+ package. This new tool helps you understand how your brand appears in AI-powered…
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How to write an effective summary for your content
Yoast AI Summarize, they can be created very easily. So adding a summary can be a…
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Go beyond CTR with 6 AI-powered SEO discoverability metrics
32% CTR drop after AI Overviews launched, plummeting from 28% to 19%. Position #2 fared even…
