A fairly simple but convenient Growth Hack tip is downloading the Yoast plug-in on your website. We gave this tip earlier in our blog with 9 tips to become a BOSS in SEO. Are you curious what this plug-in does and how it works? Read on!
What is the Yoast plug-in?
The Yoast plug-in is a supporting tool for WordPress that automatically analyzes the text on a corresponding page. The plug-in assesses important factors of the on page SEO. How well the page scores, you can tell by the color of the spheres: green, orange or red. It is important that you see the Yoast plug-in as a tool and not as a substitute for your work in SEO.
Why the Yoast plug-in?
If you write a blog post about Facebook Marketing, Google should be reminded of it several times in the blog. The key phrase density is the number of times your key phrase, in this case 'Facebook Marketing', appears in the text compared to the entire text of that page. For example, if you have a 100-word text and 5 of them are a focus keyword, the key phrase density is 5. This percentage tells you if you have used the keyword too little or too much. But where exactly is the Yoast plug-in supporting in it?
Every time you write a new blog, it is important to take into account the SEO of this page. Joost de Valk developed the Yoast plug-in for WordPress. The plug-in isn't going to get you high in search results right away, but it's a useful tool for checking the content. The goal of the program is to make it easier for bloggers to optimize their articles for Google. In addition, the plug-in also checks the general readability of an article.
The Yoast plug-in on WordPress
Snippet preview
The snippet preview is a search result, just as you find it in Google. In this preview you will find a blue clickable link (SEO title), a green url (slug) and the meta description.
SEO title
The SEO title is a catchy phrase that encourages clicks. This is especially important when the title of your blog post is ambiguous. You can recognize the SEO title by the blue clickable link.
Slug
A slug is part of a URL that describes the article. The slug is the part that comes after your domain name in the URL and you can recognize by the green color.
Meta description
The plug-in shows how often the focus keyword/keyphrase can be found in the meta description of your blog post. The meta-description briefly and succinctly explains what the article is about. Make no mistake about how important this description is! As with the focus keyword/keyphrase, there is no optimal findability in the search engines without a meta description. So always write a meta description.
Readability analysis
In addition to analyzing the search engine friendliness of the text, the readability analysis focuses on the visitor. The plug-in here looks at the length of the sentences, the use of heads and the handling of an active writing style. The readability analysis helps you to write high-quality web texts.
Focus keyword/keyphrase
The focus keyword/keyphrase is the keyword or are the keywords that characterize the text and therefore the entire page. This is also the term you want to be found on in the search engines. Previously we gave the example 'Facebook Marketing'. Choose your focus keyword/keyphrase as concretely and unequivocally as possible. Try not only to focus on short search terms of one or two words, but also experiment with longer search terms. This is better known as short tail and long tail keywords. [caption id="attachment_12605" align="alignnone" width="833"]
Keyword/keyphrase density
The plug-in shows at a glance how often the focus keyword/keyphrase can be found in your blog post. The density is the ratio between the total number of words in the text and the number of times the focus keyword/keyphrase appears in the text.
Outgoing links
The plug-in recommends adding external links (links to other sites). Also, the plug-in checks whether these links are being tracked or not.
Text length
In addition, the number of words is counted by the plug-in. It aims for articles with at least 300 words.
Yoast traffic light
Earlier in the blog we explained that you can see from the colors of the spheres how well the page scores. Is the SEO of your blog post well taken care of? Then the ball turns green or yellow. Green equals excellent and yellow equals OK. Is the ball red or orange? Then this means that improvements are still possible.
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