SEO: Using the Yoast WordPress Plug-in

Joost discusses the merits of having a privacy page on your site. Is this beneficial for SEO, & are there other reasons to have one?

How to use breadcrumbs for products in multiple categories.

What can you do if you want meta descriptions and excerpts to have the same text. Is that considered duplicate content?

In this Ask Yoast we answer the following question:
“Our website ranks very well in Sri Lanka, however we’d like to rank globally. We’ve already specified “Unlisted” in Google Search Console with the intention of ranking worldwide. On our Facebook page 75% of likes is from Sri Lanka. Could this be an issue?”

Yoast answers SEO questions from our readers. This time, he tells how blog posts should be handled if they are simply announcing a current special, sale or something else that will expire and not be relevant the next month. “Well, you don’t handle the SEO of that. To be honest there are a lot of posts on our site that we don’t optimize for specific keywords, we don’t do specific things to make that post rank. Just because we don’t care. It’s literally an announcement. In our redesign we actually created a category Announcements and any post in there will usually not be optimized for a specific keyword. We will just let it go. We actually are thinking about hiding that category on some of our overview pages, because in the long run those post might not be as interesting to read. But they might be very interesting for people to read when they’re visiting your About us page or other pages on your site. So these posts have a value for your brand and your business, but just don’t have an SEO value. And that’s fine, there is no need to worry about that.”

“How deep can I make the site structure of my blog? Can I make it for instance:
-Elemis
–products
—anti-aging?”

How important is Google Pagespeed for SEO?

Is keyword strategy still important? Explaining the importance of keyword strategy.

Ask Yoast answers this question
“I’m going to add a third party video, which I have permission to use, to my website. It’s already hosted on YouTube. Should I put the files on my own server or should I leave them on YouTube instead?”

Should I add my business profile to online platforms?

Joost explains on which occasion you should use a 301 and when use should use a 302 redirect.

Joost answers a question about using stop words in your focus keywords.

“For long tail keywords that will be searched for with equal frequency with the words in different order, which would be best practice? a. Use one long tail focus keyword b. Use 5 different focus keywords with one focus keyword”

Question: How do you handle duplicate content if you sell products on multiple channels (Etsy, Ebay, etc.) do descriptions vary greatly?”

How to connect Yoast SEO with Google Search Console

To www or not to www. Joost answers the dilemma.

When you have a site with a lot of outdated content should you try to fix it or start all over with a new site? Watch Joost’s answer in the video!

Is is a good idea to buy multiple extensions (TLDs) of a domain?

“What tactics should I be using for my blog to obtain quality relevant links?”

In this video, Joost discusses sitelinks and what it takes to get them.

Joost explains why you shouldn’t buy links!

What can you do if you want them to have the same text, and is that considered duplicate content?

Joost answers this question: “I recently had a post on Tumblr that was reblogged and resulted in 9000 links to my page, making Tumblr and that post the most link sending post. Will these thousands of links cause a Penguin penalty and hurt my rankings?”

what you should do if you suspect your site’s rankings have lowered because you don’t use HTTPS.

If you move to a new domain are there any security measures you should take?

“Should I include taxonomies, like tags/categories in my XML sitemap?”

In this AskYoast, Joost discusses eCommerce plugins. Which eCommerce plugin does Joost recommend?

“In my online shop, should I aim to get the SEO ‘green light’ on each individual product?”

Marieke wants to know how to use rich snippets for her booksite. Joost explains…

Joost explains how there are different types of structured data markup.