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Yoast SEO 9.4: Help us beta test the new SEO analysis!

8 January 2019 | 54 Comments Edwin Toonen

Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about SEO. We felt the impact quality content and a technically flawless site has on a successful SEO strategy, so we built tools that help you to improve your own site. We’ve developed a strong set of defaults that can be applied to a broad spectrum of sites. …

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Yoast SEO 9.4: Help us beta test the new SEO analysis!

Yoast SEO 9.2: Getting ready for WordPress 5.0

20 November 2018 | 18 Comments Edwin Toonen

We are getting ready for WordPress 5.0 and the new Gutenberg editor — are you? In Yoast SEO 9.2, we’ve solidified our support for WordPress 5.0 to make sure nothing breaks when you update to the new version of the CMS. What’s more, we’re now using a brand-new WordPress API to get our eye markers …

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Yoast SEO 9.2: Getting ready for WordPress 5.0

Yoast SEO 9.1: The Hacktoberfest Edition

6 November 2018 | 7 Comments Edwin Toonen

October is Hacktoberfest month! Hacktoberfest is all about contributing to open source projects together. This year, we welcomed a nice crowd at Yoast HQ to help us improve our own and other peoples open source projects. Some of these fixes and enhancements made by this fine group of people made it into Yoast SEO 9.1. …

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Yoast SEO 9.1: The Hacktoberfest Edition

Yoast SEO 9.0: A much improved SEO analysis

23 October 2018 | 27 Comments Edwin Toonen

Welcome to the dawn of a new era. For ages, Yoast SEO has helped you optimize your content using a focus keyword. This works well but could be a lot more flexible. The plugin only recognized an exact match of your keyword and didn’t take plural forms into account, for instance. So, sometimes you had …

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Yoast SEO 9.0: A much improved SEO analysis

Yoast SEO 8.4: Helping you optimize taxonomies

9 October 2018 | 9 Comments Edwin Toonen

Most releases are all about incredible new features or fixing a gazillion bugs with the help of the community. But sometimes, there’s a small release that is unfortunately timed just before a big one. There may not be any new game-changers in Yoast SEO 8.4, but does that mean it shouldn’t get its own release …

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Yoast SEO 8.4: Helping you optimize taxonomies

Yoast SEO 8.0: Introducing the Yoast SEO Gutenberg sidebar & a revamped meta box

14 August 2018 | 24 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

Please welcome the Yoast SEO Gutenberg sidebar! Update to Yoast SEO 8.0 and you’ll see our first steps to the – Gutenberg – future. If you’ve activated the Gutenberg plugin you’ll find a brand new version of the Yoast SEO meta box, in the sidebar! Not on Gutenberg yet? We’ve got good news for you …

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Yoast SEO 8.0: Introducing the Yoast SEO Gutenberg sidebar & a revamped meta box

Yoast SEO 7.9.1: Dutch checks complete & improved keyword recognition

7 August 2018 | 12 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

At Yoast we’re convinced readability is essential if you want to rank high and give users a pleasant experience on your website. That’s why we’re so happy we’re now capable of fully analyzing content in yet another language: Dutch! Plus, if you write in a language with diacritics, i.e. marks on a letter that indicate …

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Yoast SEO 7.9.1: Dutch checks complete & improved keyword recognition

Yoast SEO 7.9: Getting rid of bugs in the summer

24 July 2018 | 30 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

Say hi to a brand new version of Yoast SEO! As it’s summertime, our hard-working developers went out on a collective bug hunt. Together with the community – we’re so happy to be part of – they’re giving their all to make our plugin work better for everyone using it. For instance, to make the …

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Yoast SEO 7.9: Getting rid of bugs in the summer

Yoast SEO 7.8: Synonyms and keyword distribution

Semantics is hard. What does a certain word mean in a specific situation? Which ‘mars’ are you talking about? Have you ever tried to discover all definitions of ‘run’? In most cases, context is everything. You can help humans and machines understand a text better by adding context. This is one of the reasons Yoast …

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Yoast SEO 7.8: Synonyms and keyword distribution