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Yoast SEO: Enhanced support for Google Site Names

25 October 2022 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 19.9 and Yoast SEO Premium 19.4 are out now. In these releases, we’ve enhanced support for Google’s new Site Names in the mobile search results. Yoast SEO for Shopify also has this expanded support for site names. We’ve also improved our Premium analysis and did many fixes and enhancements — including some provided …

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Yoast SEO: Enhanced support for Google Site Names

Yoast SEO Premium 19.2: A new inclusive language analysis — in beta

23 August 2022 Edwin Toonen

Non-inclusive language excludes people based on beliefs, gender, sexuality, or health, while inclusive language uses better alternatives to words that people might find harmful. Making your content inclusive helps you to reach a broader audience. But while writing, it is surprisingly easy to exclude people by accidentally using the wrong words. While inclusive language has …

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Yoast SEO Premium 19.2: A new inclusive language analysis — in beta

Open-source software, open Schema protocol!

18 August 2022 Edwin Toonen

We’re massive advocates of using Schema structured data to help search engines understand website content. Our plugins automatically take care of anything Schema-related for you, but we know that we’re not the only ones to do so. It’s possible to use our Schema output in combination with other tools. Although, sometimes, things may not work …

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Open-source software, open Schema protocol!


Yoast SEO Premium 19.1: new front-end SEO inspector

9 August 2022 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

If you’ve been following our releases, you might notice that we’ve been pumping out a lot of new features recently. Continuing that momentum, we’re releasing yet another feature: the front-end SEO inspector. This tool allows you to quickly and intuitively view your SEO settings, without leaving the front end of your website. Besides that, we’re …

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Yoast SEO Premium 19.1: new front-end SEO inspector

How to use emojis in your page title and meta description?

29 July 2022 Willemien Hallebeek

With the rise of social media and smartphone adoption, emojis have gone from cute icons we add to our text messages to becoming an integral part of our day-to-day communication. For many people, emojis belong to social media and text messages, as we mostly use them in these contexts. But did you know that you …

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How to use emojis in your page title and meta description?

Yoast SEO Premium 19.0: new emoji picker tool, word complexity feedback in more languages and Schema improvements

26 July 2022 | 4 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

We’re always working to improve and refine the Yoast SEO user experience with every release. In this release, we’ve rolled out improvements to our Schema structured data implementation and fixed a couple of bugs. Aside from that, we’ve decided to include some exciting additions to our plugins, starting with a new emoji picker tool and …

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Yoast SEO Premium 19.0: new emoji picker tool, word complexity feedback in more languages and Schema improvements

You can now buy Yoast SEO Premium on WordPress.com

19 July 2022 Edwin Toonen

Something to celebrate! WordPress.com customers with a paid plan can now buy Yoast SEO Premium straight from the backend. Yoast SEO is the first premium plugin to offer paid services to customers on WordPress.com. It doesn’t matter if you have a Starter, Pro, ecommerce, or business plan — all paying plans are eligible. Now, everyone …

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You can now buy Yoast SEO Premium on WordPress.com

Yoast SEO 19.3: Schema improvements, new word complexity assessment

12 July 2022 Edwin Toonen

Something has to be readable for machines and humans to understand it, right? Easy-to-read content has a greater chance of success as more people tend to understand it quickly. The same goes for machines — search engines rely on structured data to help them understand the meaning of your pages. In Yoast SEO 19.3, we’re …

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Yoast SEO 19.3: Schema improvements, new word complexity assessment

Yoast SEO 19.2: IndexNow, crawl settings, and WordProof

28 June 2022 Edwin Toonen

Today is a good day. The next batch of Yoast SEO releases comes with a ton of new stuff that helps your site get noticed by search engines. We’re launching an IndexNow integration, expanded our crawl settings with advanced features, and added a WordProof integration to help timestamp privacy pages on the blockchain. Read up …

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Yoast SEO 19.2: IndexNow, crawl settings, and WordProof