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Search Console showing errors in your product structured data?

21 November 2019 | 14 Comments Edwin Toonen

Google’s recent run of enhancement reports in Search Console gives you lots of insights into how your site is performing in search. Sometimes, though, it gives you stuff to think about, like errors or improvements to make. For instance, if you run an online store, you’re bound to have come across this structured data error: …

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Search Console showing errors in your product structured data?

Get Google’s new video reporting with the Yoast Video SEO plugin

8 October 2019 | 1 Comment Edwin Toonen

Yesterday, Google announced a new addition to the rapidly expanding lineup of enhancement reports in Search Console. This time, it’s all about video! You can now not only see how your video performs in search, but also if your videos have valid structured data so they are eligible for rich results. Need help getting your …

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Get Google’s new video reporting with the Yoast Video SEO plugin


Where did my Search Console errors go?

2 May 2019 | 20 Comments Jono Alderson

If you’ve noticed that your Yoast SEO Search Console report looks surprisingly empty, it’s because Google have shut down the system which provides data about their crawl errors. Update: the Yoast SEO Search Console report doesn’t exist anymore. Please visit your Google Search Console account for information on possible errors. There’s no need to worry, …

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Where did my Search Console errors go?

Live indexing for Bing & Google coming to Yoast SEO

7 February 2019 | 41 Comments Joost de Valk

As we announced at YoastCon, we’re working together with Bing and Google to allow live indexing for everyone who uses Yoast SEO — free and premium. In the coming months, we’ll allow users to connect their sites to MyYoast, our customer portal. After that we’ll roll out live indexing, which means every time you publish, …

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Live indexing for Bing & Google coming to Yoast SEO

What is Google Search Console?

23 January 2019 | 16 Comments Jono Alderson

Google Search Console (or ‘GSC’ for short) lets webmasters monitor and manage their websites through an official portal, which is full of useful statistics. To have access to tools and data provided directly by the search engines can make optimizing your website much easier! But what is it, exactly? It’s a communication channel Search Console accounts …

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What is Google Search Console?

How to create a Google Search Console dashboard

8 August 2018 | 10 Comments Annelieke van den Berg

Dashboards. There are a lot of people out there that absolutely love dashboards. And I agree, creating a good dashboard can save you a lot of time as an analyst. It’s very useful for monitoring data and reporting back to your colleagues. And dashboards can make clear when something’s off the charts, the moment for …

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How to create a Google Search Console dashboard

16 months of Google Search Console data

23 July 2018 | 5 Comments Annelieke van den Berg

The new Google Search Console is out! Since the beginning of this year, more and more users have gotten the pleasure of the new functionalities in Google Search Console. After you get used to the totally new interface, you see all the cool stuff it has to offer. One of those awesome features is the 16 months of …

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16 months of Google Search Console data

Tools to improve your online marketing campaign

9 August 2017 | 15 Comments Michiel Heijmans

One of the most frequently asked questions by fellow SEO consultants probably is: “What online marketing tools do you use?” In the ever-changing SEO world, it was time for us to update our list with the present day tools we use on a very regular basis in a variety of projects. Some of these tools …

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Tools to improve your online marketing campaign