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…
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…
Get your website back into shape with SEO fitness
Back to Yoast.com Whether your website is brand new or has been around for a while, it’s important to keep…
WordPress.com Welcomes the Award-Winning Atavist Magazine to the Platform
At WordPress.com, part of our mission is to support and empower storytellers and publishers of all sizes. We’re thrilled to…
Day One, the Journaling App, Joins Automattic
We’re excited to welcome Day One to the Automattic team. Day One is a private journaling app that makes writing…
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…
SEO news in May 2021: Google introduces a new language model
This month, Google held their annual I/O conference, an event at which they announce new product releases and other interesting…
4 creative writing exercises to improve your writing
Creating content is essential for SEO. However, if you’re a blogger or content creator of some kind, chances are that…
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…
What is readability and why is it important?
When it comes to writing, it can be hard to look at your work objectively. Of course, most of us…
What can Google’s “product reviews update” teach us about “high-quality content”?
In April 2021, Google changed how they assess content which ‘reviews’ products and services. The “Product reviews update” made it…
Introducing a new design for the WordPress apps
The WordPress mobile apps are the best way to manage your site from anywhere. If you’re already using the app,…
What’s New in the Block Editor: New Page Layout Picker, Better Block Transformation Options, and More
Here’s a peek at the latest changes in the block editor — subtle-yet-practical enhancements that help you create beautiful posts…
7 ways to improve product descriptions in your online store
These days, it seems as if everyone and their mother have an online store. Platforms such as WooCommerce and Shopify…
How to create a digital story in WordPress
‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen’. The first line of George Orwells’s…
SEO news in March 2021: A rise in Google’s zero-click searches
There was quite a bit of discussion about a study that said that nearly 65% of Google searches in 2020…
Google’s algorithm is amazingly smart and incredibly dumb at the same time
Google is really smart, amazingly smart. The algorithm is very close to reading texts like human-beings. At the same time,…
Publish and Update WordPress Posts Directly From Ulysses
If you use Ulysses for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, you already know that this Apple Design Award-winning writing app offers…