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Yoast SEO 15.9.1: WordPress 5.7 & FAQ schema patches

Today we released a patch release of Yoast SEO, 15.9.1, to prepare for some of the changes in WordPress core. There were two changes in WordPress itself that we needed to account for, one to do with updates and one to do with meta robots output. We also had to fix an issue with how …

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Yoast SEO 15.9.1: WordPress 5.7 & FAQ schema patches

Yoast SEO 15.9: Performance improvements

23 February 2021 | 15 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today sees the release of Yoast SEO 15.9 and Video SEO 13.7. In Yoast SEO 15.9, we focussed on performance improvements and general enhancements. In addition, we made Video SEO available in Elementor. Find out more! Performance improvements Improving the performance of our plugins is always on our radar. Sometimes, we do big changes that …

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Yoast SEO 15.9: Performance improvements

Yoast SEO 15.8: A free block for your breadcrumbs

10 February 2021 | 9 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 15.8 is out and it comes with a cool new gift: a breadcrumbs block for the WordPress editor. This makes it easy to just drop your breadcrumb in a page, without having to touch any code. Now available for everyone! We also have a cool new update for our Video SEO add-on that …

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Yoast SEO 15.8: A free block for your breadcrumbs

The latest news in SEO and WordPress: January 2021

Google’s new subtopics ranking, a page builder that’s also focusing on performance and a tool to easily rewrite and repost old content. These are a few of the news items that our SEO experts Joost de Valk and Jono Alderson discussed during our SEO news webinar on the 26th of January 2021. Missed it? No …

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The latest news in SEO and WordPress: January 2021

Yoast SEO 15.7: Helping you write better content

26 January 2021 | 6 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we’d like to welcome Yoast SEO 15.7. For this release, we thought we’d remind you of some cool stuff Yoast SEO does to help you write awesome content. For Premium users, we’ve added a new language with full readability and word form support: Turkish! Yoast SEO is your SEO expert and content editor It’s …

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Yoast SEO 15.7: Helping you write better content

Yoast SEO 15.6: Estimated reading time and Norwegian word forms

12 January 2021 | 55 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 15.6 is out today! This release comes with a lot of goodies, like support for the Norwegian language, a new estimated reading time feature and improved support for web stories. But that’s not all! We’ve added a brilliant new feature to the free Yoast Duplicate Post plugin to help you seamlessly rewrite and …

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Yoast SEO 15.6: Estimated reading time and Norwegian word forms


The latest news in SEO and WordPress: December 2020

17 December 2020 | 8 Comments Camille Cunningham

It’s December, the last month of the year and that means that we’ve also had our last webinar of 2020. In this month’s edition, our SEO experts Joost de Valk and Jono Alderson discuss the latest in Google, Facebook, WordPress and other SEO news. To give some spoilers, you can expect to hear more about …

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The latest news in SEO and WordPress: December 2020