How to use the import and export functionality in Yoast SEO

With the import and export functionality of Yoast SEO, Yoast SEO Premium, and Yoast SEO for Shopify you can easily export and import your SEO data, like your SEO titles, meta descriptions, and focus keyphrases. This can be useful if you want to switch SEO plugins or apps and if you want to execute bulk edits. In this article, we’ll explain how to use this feature.

Yoast SEO for WordPress
- Yoast SEO (free)
- Yoast SEO Premium
Yoast SEO for Shopify

Yoast SEO for WordPress

In the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin, you can find the import and export functionality in the Tools menu. Follow the steps below to find it.

There are multiple options for importing data into the Yoast SEO plugin.

Log in to your WordPress website.
When you’re logged in, you will be in your ‘Dashboard’.
Click on ‘Yoast SEO’.
On the left-hand side, you will see a menu. In that menu, click on ‘Yoast SEO’.
Click on ‘Tools’.
The ‘Yoast SEO’ settings will expand providing you with additional options. Click on ‘Tools’.
Click on ‘Import and Export’.

Yoast SEO (free)

You will see the following import and export options for the free version of Yoast SEO:

Import Yoast SEO settings
Export Yoast SEO settings
Import from other SEO plugins
- All in One SEO
- Greg’s High Performance SEO ⁵
- HeadSpace2 SEO
- JetPack‘s SEO module
- Platinum SEO Pack ⁵
- Premium SEO Pack ⁵
- SEO Framework ⁵
- SEOpressor
- SEO Ultimate
- Smartcrawl SEO ⁵
- Squirrly SEO ⁵
- WooThemes SEO Framework
- WP Meta SEO ⁵
- wpSEO.de
- Rank Math ⁷

Yoast SEO Premium

You will see additional import and export options for Premium plugins:

All Yoast SEO options above, plus
Import redirects
- Redirection
- Safe Redirect Manager ¹
- Simple 301 Redirects ¹
- CSV file ³
- .htaccess file
Export redirects ²
Export keyphrases ⁴
Local SEO ⁶

¹ Requires Yoast SEO Premium 4.0 or newer
² Requires Yoast SEO Premium 5.3 or newer
³ Requires Yoast SEO Premium 5.4 or newer
⁴ Requires Yoast SEO Premium 5.5 or newer
⁵ Requires Yoast SEO (free or premium) 7.3 or newer
⁶ Requires Yoast SEO: Local any version
⁷ Requires Yoast SEO (free or premium) 12.3 or newer

Yoast SEO for Shopify

Yoast SEO for Shopify also comes with import functionality. It allows you to import your SEO data from a CSV file. This makes it easy to switch from or to another SEO app, without losing all your hard work.