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Yoast SEO 21.9: Maintenance and more optimizations

23 January 2024 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

As a site owner, you understand the significance of SEO in driving organic traffic and increasing visibility. Keeping your SEO efforts up to date is essential to stay ahead of the competition. The same goes for developing an SEO plugin — to keep you at the top of your game, we need to be at …

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Yoast SEO 21.9: Maintenance and more optimizations


Yoast SEO 21.8: Seamless highlighting in Elementor

9 January 2024 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

We’re excited to roll out Yoast SEO 21.8. This release is about refining your experience and enhancing your website’s performance. We’ve zapped some bugs for our users, making your SEO journey smoother and more reliable. But the real headline here is for our Yoast SEO Premium users – a feature we know you’ve been asking …

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Yoast SEO 21.8: Seamless highlighting in Elementor

How to use the readability analysis in Yoast SEO

3 January 2024 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

If you’re a user of Yoast SEO for WordPress or Shopify, then you’re familiar with the traffic lights in our plugin. Three parts of Yoast SEO use this system: our content analysis, readability analysis, and inclusive language analysis. The first checks whether your post or product pages are SEO-proof, while the readability one checks if …

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How to use the readability analysis in Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO helps you navigate all Google Schema updates

14 December 2023 Edwin Toonen

Google has announced a couple of updates to its Schema structured data support. These enhancements will improve discussion forums, profile pages, and organizations’ appearance in search engine results pages. Let’s review these changes. So you’ll see how the Yoast SEO Schema framework can help you leverage them to their fullest potential. About the discussion and …

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Yoast SEO helps you navigate all Google Schema updates

Yoast SEO 21.7: Global identifiers in WooCommerce SEO

12 December 2023 | 3 Comments Edwin Toonen

Ready to elevate your website’s SEO to new heights? Yoast SEO 21.7 has plenty of enhancements designed to give you the edge you need to thrive online. We’re also launching a new version of WooCommerce SEO, with an option to import and export global identifiers for your online store! Find out more about these great …

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Yoast SEO 21.7: Global identifiers in WooCommerce SEO

Yoast SEO 21.6: Generative AI now available for WooCommerce SEO

28 November 2023 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 21.6 helps you rethink how you approach search engine optimization. With the power of generative AI integrated into our SEO tools, crafting compelling titles and meta descriptions was never faster or more effective. We added generative AI to Yoast SEO a while back, but now you can also improve your products in WooCommerce …

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Yoast SEO 21.6: Generative AI now available for WooCommerce SEO

Yoast SEO 21.5: Helping you block AI bots in Premium

31 October 2023 Edwin Toonen

We are pleased to announce Yoast SEO 21.5, packed with valuable features to elevate your optimization efforts. This release introduces a highly requested option allowing you to block AI web crawlers. Now, you can effortlessly control access to your content and ensure it remains where you want it to be. Blocking bots used to train …

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Yoast SEO 21.5: Helping you block AI bots in Premium

Why you should use your focus keyphrase in your introduction

24 October 2023 | 2 Comments Cindy Paul

When you write a post or page, we advise you to use your focus keyphrase in your introduction. Why? In short: Mentioning your focus keyphrase in your introduction makes it easier for readers and search engines to find your content. And figure out what it’s about. In this post, we’ll explain in depth why mentioning …

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Why you should use your focus keyphrase in your introduction

Yoast SEO 21.4 brings more enhancements

17 October 2023 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

We are excited to announce the latest release of Yoast SEO, helping you optimize your website’s performance in search engine results. This update improves our features and brings enhancements that will take your SEO efforts to the next level. Get ready for Yoast SEO 21.4! More assessment improvements At Yoast, we understand the importance of …

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Yoast SEO 21.4 brings more enhancements