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All about Core Web Vitals: INP (Interaction to Next Paint)

26 March 2024 Edwin Toonen

Google’s Core Web Vitals have emerged as critical metrics for SEO. These metrics help you optimize your websites for a superior user experience. A new player is making headlines among these vital metrics: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This one replaces the First Input Delay (FID). This post will explain what INP entails, its significance, …

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All about Core Web Vitals: INP (Interaction to Next Paint)


A successful link building strategy in 6 steps

8 February 2024 Camille Cunningham

SEO is all about creating a great experience for people visiting your website, or seeing your snippet in the search results. That’s why a lot of your SEO efforts will likely be focused on things like content, UX and pagespeed. Efforts that help you optimize your page or website overall. As they should be! They …

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A successful link building strategy in 6 steps

Local business listings with Schema.org structured data

1 February 2024 Edwin Toonen

One of the things you can do to present your local business better in search results is Schema.org data for rich snippets. Adding structured data to your site can help search engines understand your business and how it performs. For this reason, you must add your NAP details, store/location map, reviews, and images. Find out …

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Local business listings with Schema.org structured data

Holistic SEO: Improve every aspect of your website

2 January 2024 Cindy Paul

SEO isn’t just a trick. Sure, tricks might get you ranked quickly, but they usually don’t work in the long run. In fact, they might even backfire. If you want to permanently rank well in Google, you need an extensive SEO strategy focused on every aspect of your website; the technical stuff, the user experience, …

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Holistic SEO: Improve every aspect of your website

Yoast SEO helps you navigate all Google Schema updates

14 December 2023 Edwin Toonen

Google has announced a couple of updates to its Schema structured data support. These enhancements will improve discussion forums, profile pages, and organizations’ appearance in search engine results pages. Let’s review these changes. You’ll see how the Yoast SEO Schema framework can help you leverage them to their fullest potential. About the discussion and profile …

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Yoast SEO helps you navigate all Google Schema updates

Mastering Google Search: Using search operators for SEO

7 December 2023 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

Finding specific data on Google can be akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. Thankfully, Google’s search operators are here to transform your quests for knowledge into efficient and targeted searches. When used skillfully, these specialized commands can drastically reduce time spent sifting through irrelevant results. It can also help in your SEO …

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Mastering Google Search: Using search operators for SEO

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?

Benchmarking SEO: Do a competitive analysis

27 September 2023 Edwin Toonen

Have you ever felt that some of your keywords don’t perform as well as before? And are you wondering why other companies outrank you in Google? Then, it might be wise to do a quick competitive analysis. Because in most cases, it’s not necessarily your site performing worse; it’s other sites doing better. Luckily, if …

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Benchmarking SEO: Do a competitive analysis