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The readability checks in Yoast SEO: a closer look with our linguists

14 May 2021 | 6 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

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 …

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The readability checks in Yoast SEO: a closer look with our linguists

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 …

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5 years of writing readable content with Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO 16.2: Getting your technical SEO in shape

28 April 2021 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

One of the focal points of Yoast SEO is getting out of your way. If we look at the technical aspects of SEO, Yoast SEO gets stuff done. Plus, most of it happens in the background, without you noticing it. But whenever you need to dive deeper and customize your setup for specific use cases, …

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Yoast SEO 16.2: Getting your technical SEO in shape

Yoast SEO 16.1 & News SEO 12.7: enhancements and fixes

6 April 2021 | 8 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we’d like to welcome another release: Yoast SEO 16.1. In this release, you’ll find a list of fixes and enhancements. That’s not all, as we’re also releasing News SEO 12.7. News SEO now comes with an improved user experience and a new spot in the WordPress sidebar. Read on! Enhancements Yoast SEO 16.1 comes …

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Yoast SEO 16.1 & News SEO 12.7: enhancements and fixes

SEO news in March 2021: A rise in Google’s zero-click searches

There was quite a bit of discussion about a study that said that nearly 65% of Google searches in 2020 did not result in a click. This is one of the topics that our resident SEO experts Joost de Valk and Jono Alderson talked about in this month’s webinar. Want to know what they had …

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SEO news in March 2021: A rise in Google’s zero-click searches




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