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Customer reviews increase users’ trust

Customer reviews increase users’ trust

At Yoast, we’ve seen a lot of websites of every caliber. Every website has its own issues, but all websites benefit from optimizing the conversion rate. It really doesn’t matter if your goal is more sales, more Facebook likes or more newsletter subscribers. One thing that helps almost every website is the right use of […]

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How to improve the accessibility of your website

How to improve the accessibility of your website

Accessibility matters. And making sure that your website is accessible for everyone shouldn’t be an afterthought. It plays a big part in the usability of your website and that’s why Google is also focusing more on how accessible your content is. Fortunately, awareness is growing and platforms such as WordPress offer lots of possibilities to

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Now is the best time to stitch your search marketing loopholes before 2022

Now is the best time to stitch your search marketing loopholes before 2022

30-second summary: Confused users don’t spend money Your search marketing needs to thread in your brand’s messaging, targeting, design, and overall experience to ensure trust, clarity, and eventual sales SEO pioneer, serial entrepreneur, and best selling author, Kris Jones helps you weave a tight SEO and search marketing strategy before 2022 ushers in If you

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Ecommerce usability: the ultimate guide

Ecommerce usability: the ultimate guide

Usability essentially boils down to your visitor’s on-site shopping experience. How easy they can navigate your pages, find the information they’re looking for and buy the product they want. Providing people with a great experience keeps them on your website and it plays a big role in whether they will come back. Optimizing usability is

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Optimizing internal search in WordPress

Optimizing internal search in WordPress

WordPress comes with a basic internal search system, but it has lots of room for improvement. If your webpage has more than just a few pages, you should definitely make sure that you’re providing a great internal search experience. Read on to understand why! Search is how we… search In the early days of the

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Page experience: a new Google ranking factor

Page experience: a new Google ranking factor

Some time ago, Google announced Web Vitals — a new set of metrics to measure websites’ speed and user experience. Last year, Google announced that these metrics would make their way into a core algorithm update as new ways of judging and ranking sites based on the page experience they offer. This update is now

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How to get ratings and reviews for your online business

How to get ratings and reviews for your online business

Reviews or testimonials are mostly said to work based on social proof. Social proof is a psychological process in which people copy the behavior of others in an attempt to reflect correct behavior. In addition, search engines are increasingly looking for that proof as well. In this post, I’ll look at how reviews work, how

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Contact page mistakes: Five annoying errors to avoid

Contact page mistakes: Five annoying errors to avoid

If you have a website for a business, it’s essential to maintain a good contact page so that (potential) customers can contact you or find your store. Not only is it detrimental to UX if your visitors end up struggling to contact you — you could lose out on sales, too. So it’s not good

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6 site structure mistakes and how to avoid them!

6 site structure mistakes and how to avoid them!

If you take your SEO and users seriously, you’ll be working on a kick-ass site structure. But, setting up a decent site structure can be challenging. Maintaining a decent site structure when your site is growing, is even harder. With all these new pages on your site, it’s easy to overlook something or make a

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5 ways to improve your Core Web Vitals

5 ways to improve your Core Web Vitals

“If only I could simply wave my wand and have a super fast website!” This has probably crossed your mind as well, right? Optimizing site speed and user experience is a lot of work and gets technical — and complicated — really fast. Most site owners or managers quickly need to talk to their developers

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Mobile-first and Core Web Vitals: connecting the dots for page experience success

Mobile-first and Core Web Vitals: connecting the dots for page experience success

30-second summary: The Mobile Experience is critical for all categories when looking at Core Web Vitals (CWV) Image compression seems to be a leading challenge for leading brands Pages doing well for CWV tend to be informational in nature Retail, in particular, could see significant disruption if second-tier retailers receive a boost Across all sectors,

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Mobile parity: does your site offer a singular experience?

Mobile parity: does your site offer a singular experience?

You might have heard the term parity before in SEO, or more specifically, mobile parity. It all comes down to one thing: you should see your site as being a single thing. You shouldn’t have a ‘mobile site,’ as distinct from a ‘desktop site.’ You should have one site — which may use CSS to

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Contact page examples: What makes a great contact page?

Contact page examples: What makes a great contact page?

In this post, we’ll go over a number of contact page examples, so you’ll be able to review your own contact page and improve it. For a lot of companies, that contact page is the main reason they have a website in the first place. For others, the contact page filters or manages all incoming

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