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Yoast SEO 7.6: Shorter meta descriptions are back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, it was fun while it lasted. In Yoast SEO 7.6, we’re reverting the snippet length for meta descriptions in the snippet editor to follow Google’s latest change. That’s not all though, we’ve also updated our support for the Russian language, added transition words for Catalan, redirect support for WP-CLI and fixed several bugs. Find …

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Yoast SEO 7.6: Shorter meta descriptions are back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yoast SEO 7.5: Привет, Россия

The Russian language is huge; 265 million people have Russian as their first or second language, making it the world’s eighth most used language. What’s more, according to W3Techs Russian is the second most used language online — following English by a huge margin. As of today, all of the Russian language WordPress users can …

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Yoast SEO 7.5: Привет, Россия

Yoast SEO 7.4: Enhanced image support

Please welcome to the stage: Yoast SEO 7.4! In this release, we’ve squashed a number of bugs and focused on enhancing the way Yoast SEO works with Open Graph images. We also made some other enhancements that improve the way the plugin functions. Happy updating! Improved handling of images Images are very important for several …

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Yoast SEO 7.4: Enhanced image support





New release: Yoast SEO for TYPO3 2.0

14 February 2018 | 11 Comments Taco Verdonschot

It’s with great pleasure that we announce the release of Yoast SEO for TYPO3 2.0. This brand new version includes functional and technical changes, making the extension easier to use and more complete! It’s now available on the TYPO3 Extension Repository, on Packagist and Github. The new version has been a team effort, and many people …

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New release: Yoast SEO for TYPO3 2.0

Yoast SEO 6.3: Giving you more context

13 February 2018 | 19 Comments Edwin Toonen

Something’s brewing at Yoast HQ. There’s no sign of spring yet, but we feel the need for a spring clean-up. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking critically at the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin and its many features and thinking: what’s this doing here? And should we get rid of that thing? Some of …

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Yoast SEO 6.3: Giving you more context

Yoast SEO 6.2: Passive voice checks for French and Spanish

23 January 2018 | 16 Comments Edwin Toonen

Since launching the readability analysis way back when we’ve been steadily adding support for more and more languages. Today, with the release of Yoast SEO 6.2, we’re expanding our knowledge of languages again by introducing passive voice checks for the French and Spanish languages. Improving language checks At Yoast, we firmly believe that readability ranks. …

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Yoast SEO 6.2: Passive voice checks for French and Spanish