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Surviving the March 2024 Google core update

25 April 2024 Edwin Toonen

Google’s algorithm updates can shift the visibility of your sites. In March 2024, Google launched one of its biggest core algorithm updates yet, giving many people food for thought. This update differs from previous ones, as it targets low-quality, often AI-generated, content that’s cluttering search results. All of this affects the quality of information users …

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Surviving the March 2024 Google core update

SEO in 2024: Four insights from Yoast SEO experts

21 December 2023 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

Step into 2024, where SEO is on the brink of transformation. This post offers a deep dive into the minds of four SEO experts at Yoast. Each expert sheds light on the impact of the changes they see happening. Explore their collective wisdom as they dissect the future of search, the evolving challenges of engagement, …

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SEO in 2024: Four insights from Yoast SEO experts

What is Google’s Knowledge Graph?

21 November 2023 Edwin Toonen

If you search for a specific company, you’ll likely see a big block of information on the right (sometimes the top) of your screen. That’s Google’s Knowledge Graph. This block – also known as the Knowledge Graph Card or Panel – contains relevant, context-specific information regarding your search, powered by the Knowledge Graph. If you …

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What is Google’s Knowledge Graph?

Do a few companies have a monopoly on the search results?

16 November 2023 | 5 Comments Camille Cunningham

Online search has become an integral part of our lives. When someone pulls out their phone to do an online search, you want your website to show up first. Because your place in the results can literally mean the difference between hundreds or thousands of dollars. But do you have any chance of showing up …

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Do a few companies have a monopoly on the search results?

Search evolved: Exploring the AI-powered world of Google’s SGE

9 November 2023 | 3 Comments Edwin Toonen

Thanks to AI, search is very much on the move. Generative AI can help us do more in search engines, as Google shows in its Search Generative Experience (SGE). This experimental addition to the search engine gives us a glimpse of the future of search. Let’s take a look and see what it entails! What …

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Search evolved: Exploring the AI-powered world of Google’s SGE


What are YMYL websites? How does Google evaluate these?

11 October 2023 Edwin Toonen

SEO is all about trying to rank high on search engine result pages. However, not every website is treated equally by Google. Sites focusing on topics impacting people’s lives and finances have a higher standard to meet. Welcome to the world of YMYL, where improving content goes beyond regular SEO techniques. In this article, we’ll …

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What are YMYL websites? How does Google evaluate these?

How to stop videos negatively impacting Core Web Vitals

12 April 2023 | 2 Comments Phil Nottingham

Embedded videos are an increasingly important part of websites. And it’s easy to see why. They add an engaging and interactive layer to all manner of page types. But there is one problem: video files are big. Particularly on lower bandwidth mobile connections, they can be very slow to load. This can be a problem …

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How to stop videos negatively impacting Core Web Vitals

Google PageSpeed Insights helps make your site faster

16 February 2023 | 3 Comments Edwin Toonen

As someone working on SEO, you must understand the importance of site speed. You must realize that fast sites equal happy users and happy search engines. PageSpeed Insights is an invaluable tool from Google that can help you optimize your website. It enables you to improve your rankings by giving you everything you need to …

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Google PageSpeed Insights helps make your site faster

A brief history of Google’s algorithm updates

16 November 2022 Willemien Hallebeek

These days, the way we do SEO is somewhat different from how things were done ca. 10 years ago. There’s one important reason for that: search engines have been continuously improving their algorithms to give searchers the best possible results. Over the last decade, Google, as the leading search engine, introduced several major updates, and …

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A brief history of Google’s algorithm updates