Yoast SEO archives

1 billion downloads of Yoast SEO. That’s a milestone worth celebrating. But behind that number are the people who made it possible: the bloggers who wanted more people to find their content, the businesses working to grow online, the agencies helping their clients succeed, and the countless people who simply wanted a little help with …

If you’ve been setting up MCP connections or agentic workflows, this release is for you. You ask an AI tool to check your site’s SEO. It comes back with real findings: a product page that’s telling Google it’s a recipe, a link still pointing to an old test version of your site. Helpful, but useless …

The Yoast SEO Bulk Editor already gave you one place to update titles and meta descriptions across your whole site. Now it does much more. This release adds focus keyphrases to the editor, new search and status filters, a dedicated view for every content type, and AI-drafted metadata with Yoast SEO Premium. In short: you …

Elementor recently introduced a new way to build pages, called the atomic editor. If you’d switched to it, you may have noticed something annoying: Yoast SEO couldn’t see your content. Your text length, keyphrase checks, and readability results came back empty, even on a page full of content. We’ve fixed that. Yoast SEO now reads …

With our latest 27.8 release, we introduced performance optimizations that should reduce loading times throughout the plugin’s functionalities, especially noticeable in large sites with lots of posts and users. Note: This post contains technical content and implementation details. Offering well-tuned software with minimal overhead in servers and fast loading times is always at the forefront …

If you’ve ever opened a new post and immediately closed it again because you had no idea what to write, this one’s for you.  Yoast AI Content Planner is now available for Yoast SEO Premium users. Open a new post in your WordPress editor and you’ll find five relevant post ideas waiting for you, built from your existing site content. Pick one and …

From today, your AI tools, dashboards, and automated workflows can now talk directly to Yoast SEO, thanks to a new connector to the WordPress Abilities API, built to work hand in hand with WordPress 6.9. As WordPress evolves, we evolve with it, and the release of the Yoast SEO Abilities is an extension of these new capabilities.  …

We launched the Yoast SEO Task List in December to give you a clear, actionable to-do list for your site’s SEO. In this update, we’ve added two new tasks, improved how you navigate to fixes, and resolved a bug that was showing tasks in the wrong language.  A quick recap: what does the Task List do?  The …

In November 2025, Yoast announced a collaboration with NLWeb, an open web protocol developed by Microsoft designed to simplify building conversational interfaces for the web. Today, we are proud to introduce the first major result of that work: Yoast SEO Schema Aggregation. This is an opt in feature that brings your website’s structured data together …

Selecting an SEO plugin for your WordPress site is one of the most important decisions you’ll make for your online presence. It’s not just about installing software; it’s about choosing a long-term partner that will grow with your business, adapt to changing search algorithms, and support you in the age of AI. While the market offers several options, understanding what truly matters is …