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The Yoast traffic light

is not (your) problem
Brief intro: The jargon
✓ SEO: Search Engine Optimization

✓ SERP: Search Engine Results Page

✓ Crawler (Bot, Spider): Software SE use 

to navigate the web and capture the links

✓ Index: Gigantic database 

✓ Rank: Position in SERP
Jargon
Yoast SEO: What’s that?
Plugin for WordPress,

helps websites optimize 

for Search Engines
Google
Google’s mission
To organize the world’s
information and 

make it universally

accessible and useful.
How Google works
Google
Links
Crawlers
Search
Index
Algorithm SERP
• Follow links from one web page to another

• Save the all pages (HTML) in the Index 

• Match search queries with web pages indexed

• Return results in SERP
How Google (and SE) works
INDEXING
≇
RANKING
SEO basics
 SEO:

practice of optimizing your web
pages to make them reach a high
position in the search results of
Google or other search engines.
SEO focuses on improving 

the rankings in the organic 

– that means non-paid – 

search results.
Google determines the ranking
in SERP through a secret
algorithm. However, the
experience makes us pretty 

sure about SEO practice.
• Technical aspects

(e.g. quality of the code, speed, accessibility)

• Content related aspects

(e.g. site structure, copy, key phrases)
On-page SEO factors
(all the elements of SEO you can control best)
• Links from other websites

• Traffic from social media

• Other marketing activities getting traffic 

to the website
Off-page SEO factors
(factors more difficult to manage)
Yoast SEO: How it works
• Allows you to set up all the SEO technical
elements 

• Guides you to set up the On-page factors 

(eg Internal linking count)

• Gives you advices on how to improve your content
Yoast SEO
Settings:

• General 

(Yoast Features, 

Webmaster Tools)
Settings:

• Search Appearance
Output

• snippet
• structured data
The scores
SEO analysis

(Keyphrase-based
assessments)
• Keyphrase in introduction
• Keyphrase length
• Keyphrase density
• Keyphrase in meta description
• Keyphrase in subheadings
• Link focus keyphrase
• Keyphrase in image alt
attributes
• Keyphrase in title
• Keyphrase in slug
• Previously used keyphrase
SEO analysis

(Other SEO
assessments)
• Text length
• Outbound links
• Internal links
• SEO title width
• Meta description length
• Text length for taxonomy
pages
Readability
analysis
• Subheading distribution
• Paragraph length
• Sentence length
• Consecutive sentences
• Passive voice
• Transition words
• Flesch Reading Ease
• Text presence
• Single H1
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So, what should I do, then?
To organize the world’s
information and 

make it universally

accessible and useful.
Google’s mission
Holistic SEO
SEO is not a trick.
Make an awesome website, useful
for the users and become the 

best result people like to have.
• Properly set the technical aspects

• Build a clear site structure

• Choose the right key phrases

• Write awesome content
In short
CONTENT 

IS KING

(and the secret
to winning)
Manage your site

(and write your content)

with your user in your mind
Takeaway
• SEO is not a magic nor a trick. It’s a strategy
with a lot of hard work under the hood.

• Build a strong and clear site structure.

• Take care of On-page and of Off-page factors

• Properly set up all technical elements

(Yoast is your friend for a lot, but not for all)
Holistic SEO
Yoast SEO is a tool, an awesome, useful and
powerful tool, but only a tool.



Write GREAT content with your readers in mind 

and use the plugin for improving, but don’t focus
on turning all bullets green. ;-)
But, most important
Laura Sacco

Support Engineer @ Yoast
Mentore Digitale®
@lasacco
@lausacco
(or its variations)
Thank you :-)

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