If you’re using Yoast, you’re probably familiar with setting a focus keyword so you can optimize content for green lights. These should not be guessed. You don’t want to create content for a keyword you’ll never rank for, or have to go back and change content. We need to know WHAT people are searching (keyword […]
The Ideal Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Settings: And Complete Guide To Optimizing WordPress Sites With Yoast (Last Updated 7/23/2019 With Latest Plugin Version 11.7.0)
Everyone has Yoast, but few use it correctly. No worries. This tutorial breaks it down into 3 key steps: configuring the Yoast SEO settings (including adding AMP Pages to make mobile pages load faster), researching long-tail focus keywords, and optimizing content (there’s more to it than green lights). I will also show you how to connect Yoast […]
Stop Obsessing Over Green Lights In Yoast’s SEO Analysis (Injecting Focus Keywords = Spammy Content) & Yoast Only Detects Exact Keyword Matches In The Visual/HTML Editor
Content optimization does NOT mean getting green lights in Yoast – and I think it’s time someone drops the bomb on Yoast’s SEO analysis when it tells you to use your focus keyword. The problem is, Yoast’s SEO analysis only detects exact matches of your focus keyword in the visual and HTML editor (not page builders). […]
Yoast SEO Premium Review – Is It Worth $89/Year? (Spoiler: I Wouldn’t Use It If I Didn’t Do WordPress SEO For A Living)
As a full-time WordPress SEO blogger, it’s my duty to have Yoast SEO Premium. But to be honest, I wouldn’t have Yoast premium it if I didn’t do WordPress SEO for a living. Yoast’s SEO analysis becomes useless when targeting multiple focus keywords, there are plenty of free redirect plugins out there, and I don’t need […]
Why You Should NOT Always Remove Stop Words From URLs (Hint: Plugins Like Yoast Make Your URLs Read Funny)
If you’re considering removing stop words from your URLs to make them look cleaner, please DO NOT enable this as the default option in your permalink settings. Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with… and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the […]