The contact page is a vital part of a website for many businesses and organizations. So make it excellent! These examples will show you how.

Cumulative Layout Shift is a vital core web metric system. Following are some of the most important things to consider when improving CLS in WordPress.

There’s a crazy rumor in SEO that Google doesn’t like to rank category pages. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you search, you’ll find 100s or 1000s of examples that prove the opposite. What Google actually doesn’t like to rank are: “Thin” pages that offer little unique value Pages that are mostly duplicate of ... Read more

Google is coming out with a new ranking factor this year, and if you're not ready, you might fall behind everyone.

Publishers scramble to fix Core Web Vitals while WordPress, plugin and theme developers seemingly decline to address those needs

Today, we are announcing a new service to serve more than just the static content of your website with the Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) service. With this launch, we are supporting WordPress, the most popular website hosting solution serving 38% of all websites.

A page speed study of over 5 million webpages. Contains lots of interersting page loading speed stats.

This is a behind the scenes case study of speeding up WPBeginner where we made WordPress faster than static site generators and headless CMS platforms.

The best of Google tools, for your WordPress site.

Did you know that your forms and smart content strategy could hide gold from search engines? By the end of this post, you'd be able to identify these common SEO mistakes and avoid them.

In-depth website speed optimization guide that shows you how important it is to have a snappy website. DIY instructions and tricks to improve load times.

Aaron Gray gives beginners a basic overview of WordPress SEO to help your website get found online with ease.

If your website is built on WordPress, you have probably used the Yoast SEO plugin. Yoast SEO is the number one SEO helper plugin for WordPress, (and they also have a module for Drupal). Here's how it works. For each page or article you edit, you set a focus keyword phrase. Yoast SEO gives you an overall score for Readability and SEO. Green dots mean 'good', orange dots mean 'OK', red dots mean 'needs improvement'. You also get a breakdown of individual areas that fall under the red, orange, and green dots. (There will be a screenshot further down of

Wix SEO has improved greatly in recent years. Here's what you need to know when comparing the technical structure of Wix vs WordPress.

We discuss seven tips do minimize CPU usage in Wordpress

The main reason a website "hangs" or loads slowly usually results from trying to load a large resource. Resources like CSS, JavaScript, and images should Our expert on website speed offers his advice on how to make your website load fast on mobile. Improve the UX of your website today.

When it comes to adding social sharing buttons (e.g. “Share on Facebook”), I’m a big fan of Scriptless Social Sharing by Robin Cornett. The one thing I like to do when using it is add UTM parameters to the links that are shared. Here is the snippet I use to add UTM parameters to my URLs that are being shared.

Add ability to set a default Featured image for schema.org markup, an extension for the Schema plugin.

Get the next generation of Schema Structured Data to enhance your WordPress site presentation in Google search results.

For best SEO performance, the default schema provided by the Genesis Framework may not be the best thing to use. There Aare plugins created that does all of this.

Do Schema Markup at Scale, in minutes! Schema App is your end to end toolset for creating, managing, and measuring Structured Data, for any size website.

In this SEO webinar, I walked through the free Yoast SEO plugin to review setting options, usage within pages and posts, as well as common mistakes that can be easily fixed and eliminated.

In the wake of Gutenberg, Google have joined the WordPress community to bring canonical AMP to 30% of the web.

Yoast SEO 7.0 is out now! This is one of the biggest releases we have ever done. We've drastically simplified the interface and workflows. It's now easier than ever to determine how your site gets indexed. Find out more!

Let's be honest, diagnosing WordPress performance issues can be downright difficult sometimes. Check out our case study as we troubleshoot a unique issue. Bookmark our "Stuff Happens - WP Performance Checklist" for when you're in a jam.

Not sure how to use Yoast SEO? In this huge guide, we'll start with a beginner-friendly Yoast SEO tutorial. Then, we'll dig into the more advanced areas to satisfy both beginner and advanced Yoast SEO users. Everything you need to know about using Yoast to boost your WordPress site's SEO.

Today's article starts with a sad WordPress story, then explains why the sad story happened and what you can do to avoid it. There's also a video, which de

Far too often, a developer comes in to "modernize" a site---and ends up wrecking a thriving online business by ruining its SEO. It happens far too often th

Looking to improve your WordPress website's speed? To get results, you might be asked to change more than you think » Here's what to expect...

New to our plugin? Read this beginner's guide to Yoast SEO and be amazed at how little SEO knowledge it takes to optimize your website!