Popular Podcast App Pocket Casts Joins Automattic
We’re excited to announce that Pocket Casts will be joining Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. More than 80M people…
Build a Blogging Habit with Reminders in Your WordPress App
Writing regularly on your blog both improves your writing skills and engages the readers that visit your site. The more…
Do the SEO workout to rank higher with your best content
Are you ranking with the content you want to rank with? With your very best content? The content you’re the…
How does Google understand text?
On yoast.com, we talk a lot about writing and readability. We consider it a very important part of SEO. Your…
P2 Puts Easy, Flexible Project Tracking Tools In Your Hands
From to-do apps and day planners, to spreadsheets and full-blown subscription services, making your work trackable and visible can really…
A long term SEO strategy? Knowing what Google wants is the key
Ranking signals, algorithm updates. One day you have the right number of keywords, the next day it’s too many. It…
Built-in Duotone Image Filter, Editor Navigation via Persistent List View, and Other Block Editor Improvements
The next batch of exciting updates to the block editor is live on WordPress.com. Powerful duotone image editing, a persistent…
Did Google Search Console send an email with an error message?
We are big fans of Google Search Console — and you should be too! It’s an essential tool to keep…
10 examples of social media posts to get inspired
You’ve probably heard it a dozen times before, but social media needs to be part of your online strategy. Whether…
The beginner’s guide to Yoast SEO
Let’s say you have a website but know little about SEO. But you’ve heard about Yoast SEO and people have…
WordPress.com is the fastest WordPress host in Review Signal’s 2021 test
For the past eight years, Review Signal has published its WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, and 2021’s results are in. We’re…
How to check the performance of your rich results in Google Search Console
Adding structured data to your site is a great way of describing your content to Google so that it makes…
10 reasons your page won’t rank – even though it’s optimized
If your perfectly optimized post isn’t ranking, what could be the matter? Is the problem that your site is not…
On-page video SEO: how to optimize your video pages
When publishing a new video on your website, there are several considerations you need to take into account for video…
The Best of Both Worlds: WordPress.com Managed Hosting
How to get the total freedom to create without the hassles that come with managing your own website. The open…
Rich results are rocking the SERPs
Rich search results are everywhere. Years ago, search engines presented search results without much adornment. Today, the search results look…
Yoast SEO 16.3: Schema structured data improvements
Making sure search engines can understand your site is one of the top priorities in SEO. One of the most…
5 years of writing readable content with Yoast SEO
Writing seems simple enough, but writing a compelling text that keeps the attention is quite hard. Especially online. To keep…