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Smash Balloon and Duplicate Post Acquisitions…

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Smash Balloon and Duplicate Post Acquisitions Yoast SEO and Awesome Motive both made recent plugin acquisitions: 🔌 John Brackett and his whole team at Smash Balloon are joining Syed Balki at Awesome Motive. John is coming on board as a…

Many companies and individuals — both…

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Many companies and individuals — both inside and outside the WordPress space — recently offered reduced or free versions of their products. 🎁 Igor Benić made his WordPress developer course for free using this link for a limited time. The…

Joost de Valk has a proposal…

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Joost de Valk has a proposal for improving SEO on WordCamp sites so more of them can be indexed by Google. Judging by the response so far to this tweet, it looks like this is a common problem for WordCamp…

Cody Landefeld has put together a…

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Cody Landefeld has put together a handy SEO guide for WooCommerce users. Cody advises you to start with the Yoast WooCommerce SEO Plugin, but there are many tips about speed and security too. 🛒

Rebecca Gill will be hosting a…

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Rebecca Gill will be hosting a three-day SEO Bootcamp next month (January 21 – 23, 2020). Registration is free, and you can signup at seobootcamp.com.

The 10th Yoastcon is happening on…

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The 10th Yoastcon is happening on April 24, 2020, in the Netherlands. It appears this SEO conference led by Yoast will be free. (Ticket information is forthcoming.) 🎟️ In the past, this event has been recorded and live-streamed, but that…

Losing Your Head 🗣️ Dan Fries…

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Losing Your Head 🗣️ Dan Fries thinks the future of websites is "headless CMS." He explains what counts as headless and the pros and cons of different headless solutions. Dan notes WordPress and other platforms "account for more than 60%…

Yoast SEO 11.3 is out with…

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Yoast SEO 11.3 is out with some bug fixes and enhancements. As soon as WordPress 5.3 comes out, Yoast will go back to supporting the two most recent versions — starting with WordPress 5.2 and 5.3.

Pavel Ciorici explains why WPZoom was…

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Pavel Ciorici explains why WPZoom was delisted from Google search results and what it took to get relisted. 😖 The problem was a backlink in the footer of WPZoom themes. Some advice from Pavel: Only use the footer backlinks with…

Yoast SEO 11.1 is officially out.…

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Yoast SEO 11.1 is officially out. This release features schema improvements for videos and images along with better language support for German.

Yoast has announced an improved “Schema.org…

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Yoast has announced an improved "Schema.org implementation" as a key feature of their upcoming 11.0 version. Edwin Toonen writes, "Yoast SEO will now output a lot more structured data about your website and how its pages fit together." After this…

There are signs that Gutenberg is being considered…

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There are signs that Gutenberg is being considered for adoption on some level in Drupal. There is already a demo of Gutenberg in Drupal, and there is a talk dedicated to the subject at the upcoming Drupal Europe conference. Yoast recently showed off…
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