Archive for the “seo” category
Website Traffic times ten? Sometimes it’s easy
by Joost de Valk on February 15, 2012
I’ll be honest, this post is somewhat of a “boast”. But since “boast” rhymes with “Yoast”, I think it’s allowed. Recently we did a website review for “How do you say that Word?”. The review contained instructions to make a section of the site accessible to spiders. Results? 10x the traffic. The Site & The [...]
Website Traffic times ten? Sometimes it’s easy is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!
Search & Social – you can’t get the cream out of the coffee
by Joost de Valk on January 11, 2012
Yesterday, Google launched “Search plus your World”, intermixing search and social and providing even more “personalized” results. There’s a lot of outcry about some parts of this, with people saying they don’t want “personalized” results. I actually think that normal users do want personalized results and that this is, for the most part, a good thing. [...]
Search & Social – you can’t get the cream out of the coffee is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!
GoDaddy’s spammy link building techniques
by Joost de Valk on December 15, 2011
Over the last few months, I’ve seen GoDaddy rise up in the rankings for a lot of hosting related terms. At first I suspected they were finally using their very strong domain in a smart way, but then I noticed they ranked for terms I know you can’t rank for without a lot of external links, no [...]
GoDaddy’s spammy link building techniques is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!
Rich Snippets showing up everywhere
by Joost de Valk on December 14, 2011
Google seems to have taken out the whitelisting process for several types rich snippets, most importantly the review and review-aggregate types. In the process they have also made some changes to how combined author / rich snippets are shown. Let me run you through what I’ve seen over the last few days. Review snippets for [...]
Rich Snippets showing up everywhere is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!
Using Cornerstone Content to make your Site Rank
by Joost de Valk on December 8, 2011
The most common question we answer in our website reviews is “how do I make my site rank for keyword X?”. What most people don’t realize is that they’re asking the wrong question. You see, sites don’t rank: pages rank. If you want to rank for a keyword, you’ll need to determine which page is [...]
Using Cornerstone Content to make your Site Rank is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!
Questions and Answers – Google+ edition
by Joost de Valk on November 28, 2011
In honor of the new Yoast Google+ page, I’ve taken questions there which I’ll answer here, so everyone can benefit. Do you think the increased number of metatags released by Google are good for webmasters and the web, or just making things more complicated for the amateur so only those that can afford SEO consultancy [...]
Questions and Answers – Google+ edition is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!