Yoast SEO 17.7: Introducing a free configuration workout
These past couple of months, we’ve brought you several innovative SEO workouts. Our workouts help break down specific SEO tasks so that you can follow a step-by-step process to fulfill these tasks. They are easy and practical, targeted at getting your work done without issue. In Yoast SEO 17.7, we’re introducing a new configuration workout […]
The post Yoast SEO 17.7: Introducing a free configuration workout appeared first on Yoast.
Cyber Monday sale at Yoast: 30% discount on all products!
It’s Cyber Monday, and the Yoast Black Friday deals are still going strong! Did you already claim your 30% discount on any of the Yoast products? If not, hurry! Your time is running out! Ready to go green? Do you want those red bullets to turn all green and outrank your competitors in Google? And are you looking to save […]
The post Cyber Monday sale at Yoast: 30% discount on all products! appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 17.6: Fixes, and new XML sitemaps in News SEO
Yoast SEO 17.6 is out today. This new release brings several fixes and enhancements to improve how the plugin works. We’re getting it ready for the upcoming WordPress 5.9 release and we also included a great new feature for the News SEO add-on: a new way of generating XML sitemaps for news sites. News SEO […]
The post Yoast SEO 17.6: Fixes, and new XML sitemaps in News SEO appeared first on Yoast.
Writing accessible content: 4 checks you can do with Yoast SEO and the block editor
Having an accessible website means that more people can use your website and the information that you share. There are a couple of checks you can do yourself before publishing an article to make sure your article can be read and understood by as many people as possible. Did you know Yoast SEO and the […]
The post Writing accessible content: 4 checks you can do with Yoast SEO and the block editor appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 17.5: Full Greek language understanding
In Yoast SEO 17.5, we’re proud to announce a new language getting full language support: Greek! Greek users can now use our cutting-edge language analysis tools to write better content for their readers. This includes the invaluable word forms features, where we take different grammatical forms of your keyphrase into account, making the process of […]
The post Yoast SEO 17.5: Full Greek language understanding appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 17.4: Performance, web stories and News SEO
Yoast SEO 17.4 is out today! This release comes with several fixes and enhancements for both Premium as well as free. These enhancements help database performance on larger sites by cleaning and streamlining data. In addition, we’re releasing News SEO 13.0 with a new way to pick news-specific structured data for all your background articles, […]
The post Yoast SEO 17.4: Performance, web stories and News SEO appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 17.3: Easier and more practical SEO workouts
Launched just a couple of months ago, the SEO workouts in Yoast SEO Premium turn out to be a real asset for many people. The two SEO workouts we have right now, help you enhance your internal linking structure and improve the quality and discoverability of your content. In Yoast SEO 17.3, we’ve drastically improved […]
The post Yoast SEO 17.3: Easier and more practical SEO workouts appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 17.2: Readability helps your audience understand
Did you know there are millions and millions of people with trouble reading? Did you know most people would probably read something that doesn’t strain their brain? The readability of content is an important factor for the success of that content. Yoast SEO comes with several tools that will help you improve readability. Plus, in […]
The post Yoast SEO 17.2: Readability helps your audience understand appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 17.1: an update on page titles
One of our core philosophies is keeping you and your site up to date with the latest changes in Google’s inner workings and policies. These last couple of weeks saw an interesting new development, with Google rewriting many titles in the SERPs. In Yoast SEO 17.1, we are making a couple of small changes that […]
The post Yoast SEO 17.1: an update on page titles appeared first on Yoast.
How to add your website to Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a must-have tool for all site owners as it gives you an incredible amount of information about how your site is doing in search. We strongly advise you to add your website to Google Search Console to fully benefit from all the insights. Yoast SEO can help you verify your site […]
The post How to add your website to Google Search Console appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 17.0: SEO in your mother-tongue
When we say SEO for everyone, we mean that. We’ve built our tools in such a way that everyone — from beginner to expert, and tiny one-person companies to huge companies — can get a fair chance in the search results. But there’s more because SEO for everyone also means helping you improve your content […]
The post Yoast SEO 17.0: SEO in your mother-tongue appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 16.9: An SEO workout to clean up your content
If you want your pages to rank high in the search engines you need to keep your website fit. One way to keep your site in shape is to clean it up regularly; get rid of old, outdated content, and brush up those hidden gems you might have forgotten about, and put them in the […]
The post Yoast SEO 16.9: An SEO workout to clean up your content appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 16.8: Supporting new languages with Slovak and Norwegian
Many writing tools are English-focused and don’t work properly with other languages. At Yoast, we’ve been making our innovative readability tools available in many languages from the beginning. Our team of linguists tailors our analyses to every language, making sure that it makes sense and delivers proper results. In Yoast SEO 16.8, we add language […]
The post Yoast SEO 16.8: Supporting new languages with Slovak and Norwegian appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 16.7: Extended headless support
Did you know Yoast SEO comes with a REST API that developers can use to access our metadata in a headless WordPress installation? By exposing this data, we help developers make sure that the SEO of the site you built in your headless CMS is top-notch. In Yoast SEO 16.7, we’re making more data available […]
The post Yoast SEO 16.7: Extended headless support appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 16.6: An internal linking workout for SEO fitness
SEO is just like staying healthy — you have to work at regularly it to keep fit. So be sure to give your site the love it needs. SEO is never a one-time thing but rather a process that will keep you busy for a long time. At Yoast, we often think about how we […]
The post Yoast SEO 16.6: An internal linking workout for SEO fitness appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 16.5: New Social Appearance Templates
Social media are essential tools in every site owner’s marketing toolkit. It is, however, hard to control how your URLs are being shared on Facebook and Twitter. The Social Previews feature in Yoast SEO Premium helps you make the best social post out there, but what about all your taxonomies and custom post types? The […]
The post Yoast SEO 16.5: New Social Appearance Templates appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 16.4: Full readability and word forms for Czech
Over the years, we talked a lot about the importance of readable texts. We want to offer everyone the chance to understand the message that you are trying to bring across. That’s why we invest so much in our language tools like the readability analysis and our word forms feature. For Yoast SEO 16.4, we’re […]
The post Yoast SEO 16.4: Full readability and word forms for Czech appeared first on Yoast.
Yoast SEO 16.3: Schema structured data improvements
Making sure search engines can understand your site is one of the top priorities in SEO. One of the most effective ways of getting that understanding is to add Schema.org structured data. This describes the different parts of a page to get what every piece is about. Yoast SEO adds structured data automatically, plus it […]
The post Yoast SEO 16.3: Schema structured data improvements appeared first on Yoast.
The readability checks in Yoast SEO: a closer look with our linguists
This month we are commemorating 5 years since the Yoast SEO readability check was first released! Since then, we’ve continued making improvements. We sat down with our Linguistics team lead, Manuel Augustin, and researcher-developer, Hanna Worku, to get a deeper view of how the readability check works and how they adapt the tool to add […]
The post The readability checks in Yoast SEO: a closer look with our linguists appeared first on Yoast.
5 years of writing readable content with Yoast SEO
Writing seems simple enough, but writing a compelling text that keeps the attention is quite hard. Especially online. To keep people on your page, you need to write quality content that’s easy to read. Easier said than done? You’re absolutely right. That’s why we introduced a readability analysis in our Yoast SEO plugin five years […]
The post 5 years of writing readable content with Yoast SEO appeared first on Yoast.