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Yoast SEO 15.6: Estimated reading time and Norwegian word forms

12 January 2021 | 55 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 15.6 is out today! This release comes with a lot of goodies, like support for the Norwegian language, a new estimated reading time feature and improved support for web stories. But that’s not all! We’ve added a brilliant new feature to the free Yoast Duplicate Post plugin to help you seamlessly rewrite and …

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Yoast SEO 15.6: Estimated reading time and Norwegian word forms

Yoast SEO 15.5: Support for the Hungarian language

15 December 2020 | 20 Comments Edwin Toonen

The year is drawing to a close and we are ready for our final release of 2020. In Yoast SEO 15.5, you’ll find support for the Hungarian language — including word forms in Premium. In addition, you’ll find a number of enhancements and fixes. Let’s meet Yoast SEO 15.5! Improve your content Having great content …

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Yoast SEO 15.5: Support for the Hungarian language

Free access to all SEO courses with Yoast SEO Premium!

18 November 2020 | 29 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

We have very exciting news to share with you: we’re combining Yoast SEO Premium with Yoast SEO Academy! If you buy Yoast SEO Premium, you’ll now also get free access to all of our SEO training courses in Yoast SEO Academy. So the price of Yoast SEO Premium hasn’t changed, but what you’re getting has! …

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Free access to all SEO courses with Yoast SEO Premium!

Yoast SEO 15.3: Zapier integration and Hebrew word forms

17 November 2020 | 21 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re launching Yoast SEO 15.3. In this release, we have the regular round of improvements and enhancements, plus a couple of awesome additions for Premium users. We’ve added another language to our roster: Hebrew. And, we’ve partnered with the popular automation platform Zapier to help you improve your publishing flow. Find out more about …

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Yoast SEO 15.3: Zapier integration and Hebrew word forms

Yoast SEO 15.2: Swedish word forms, Slack URLs, performance

27 October 2020 | 40 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we are releasing Yoast SEO 15.2 into the wild. For this release, we’ve focussed on providing word form support for another language: Swedish. We have also added an interesting improvement for Slack users — better visibility for your content when your URL is shared on Slack. Last but not least, we improved the performance …

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Yoast SEO 15.2: Swedish word forms, Slack URLs, performance

Yoast SEO 15.1: Keyword research with SEMrush

14 October 2020 | 74 Comments Edwin Toonen

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could get keyword data while working on your content in Yoast SEO? Well, we asked ourselves that same question and now we have an answer! Yes, you can now find related keyphrases inside the post editor. And it’s not any old data — no, it’s powered by our good …

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Yoast SEO 15.1: Keyword research with SEMrush

Yoast SEO 15.0: Support for Arabic, plus a new table of contents block

29 September 2020 | 91 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re launching Yoast SEO 15.0. This release features some awesome new additions and enhancements. We’ve added full support for Arabic, made a new block for the block editor and made the Yoast SEO block editor sidebar fully-featured. So, high time to take a look at Yoast SEO 15.0! What to expect in Yoast SEO …

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Yoast SEO 15.0: Support for Arabic, plus a new table of contents block

Yoast SEO 14.9: Polish word forms, Hebrew keyphrase recognition

1 September 2020 | 135 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 14.9 comes with a new round of improvements, plus two new language-based enhancements: Polish word form support in Premium and Hebrew keyphrase recognition in Free. Polish is the tenth language to get word form support and there’s a lot more coming. Let’s get started, shall we? Word forms in Yoast SEO Premium: now …

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Yoast SEO 14.9: Polish word forms, Hebrew keyphrase recognition

Yoast SEO 14.8: Related links block in Premium, a new Schema tab and Arabic keyphrase recognition

18 August 2020 | 18 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

Get ready for a brand new version of Yoast SEO! The 14.8 release is so full of remarkable free and premium features we’re having a hard time mentioning them all in this short introduction. So, to make everyone’s life easier, let’s start this post with a list of new features. In Yoast SEO 14.8, you’ll …

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Yoast SEO 14.8: Related links block in Premium, a new Schema tab and Arabic keyphrase recognition

Yoast SEO 14.7: Smarter and faster internal linking suggestions in Premium

5 August 2020 | 33 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

Say hi to Yoast SEO 14.7, chock-full of enhancements to help you with your site’s SEO. Have you heard about the addition of XML sitemaps in WordPress 5.5? The Yoast SEO plugin is completely prepared for this. We also have some great news for users of the Web Stories plugin. But most importantly, we’re releasing …

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Yoast SEO 14.7: Smarter and faster internal linking suggestions in Premium