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The latest news in SEO and WordPress: September 2020

1 October 2020 | 10 Comments Davey Smeekens

Another month, another SEO news webinar at Yoast HQ! For the uninitiated, in these webinars, Jono Alderson and myself, run through the most important bits of news relevant to us and to you. We cover many SEO topics and expand on internet marketing and the state of the web itself. Plus, we’re having a ton …

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The latest news in SEO and WordPress: September 2020

Yoast SEO 15.0: Support for Arabic, plus a new table of contents block

29 September 2020 | 91 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re launching Yoast SEO 15.0. This release features some awesome new additions and enhancements. We’ve added full support for Arabic, made a new block for the block editor and made the Yoast SEO block editor sidebar fully-featured. So, high time to take a look at Yoast SEO 15.0! What to expect in Yoast SEO …

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Yoast SEO 15.0: Support for Arabic, plus a new table of contents block

Schema.org is hard, Yoast SEO makes it easy for you

9 September 2020 | 9 Comments Davey Smeekens

Getting a Schema.org implementation right on a website was always enormously painful. There was not enough documentation and no good tools to help you to make it truly simple. For years, even the best implementations were still just a fragmented mess. In the spring of 2019, we fixed that with Yoast SEO 11.0 — and …

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Schema.org is hard, Yoast SEO makes it easy for you

Yoast SEO 14.9: Polish word forms, Hebrew keyphrase recognition

1 September 2020 | 135 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 14.9 comes with a new round of improvements, plus two new language-based enhancements: Polish word form support in Premium and Hebrew keyphrase recognition in Free. Polish is the tenth language to get word form support and there’s a lot more coming. Let’s get started, shall we? Word forms in Yoast SEO Premium: now …

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Yoast SEO 14.9: Polish word forms, Hebrew keyphrase recognition

Yoast SEO 14.8: Related links block in Premium, a new Schema tab and Arabic keyphrase recognition

18 August 2020 | 18 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

Get ready for a brand new version of Yoast SEO! The 14.8 release is so full of remarkable free and premium features we’re having a hard time mentioning them all in this short introduction. So, to make everyone’s life easier, let’s start this post with a list of new features. In Yoast SEO 14.8, you’ll …

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Yoast SEO 14.8: Related links block in Premium, a new Schema tab and Arabic keyphrase recognition

Yoast SEO 14.6: New languages with word form support

We have a new release for you: Yoast SEO 14.6. This release has some pretty cool enhancements, plus new additions for Yoast SEO Premium users. We’re continuing our run of languages that get word form support with two new ones: Indonesian and Portuguese. Find what’s new in Yoast SEO 14.6! Word form recognition in Yoast …

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Yoast SEO 14.6: New languages with word form support

Yoast SEO 14.5: New internal linking blocks for Premium

Yoast SEO 14.5 is out today! In this release, we fixed a number of bugs, disabled the XML sitemaps that will arrive in WordPress 5.5 and added two new block editor blocks for our Premium users. These blocks help you with internal linking for hierarchical pages. Let’s find out more! Meet the new internal linking …

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Yoast SEO 14.5: New internal linking blocks for Premium

Yoast SEO 14.4: An improved publishing flow

Sometimes, you have releases that start out small and end up with a substantial improvement. Yoast SEO 14.4 is one such release. Initially plannend as a bug fix release, this turned into something that markedly improves the publishing workflow in WordPress. Plus, you can now mark your external links as nofollow or sponsored. You see, …

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Yoast SEO 14.4: An improved publishing flow

Yoast SEO 14.3: Italian word forms in beta

The biggest eye-catcher in Yoast SEO 14.3 is word form support for the Italian language in the Premium analysis. This makes it language number seven to make use of this awesome feature. Find out all about it! Plus, Yoast SEO 14.3 comes with improved French word form support and a number of bug fixes. Another …

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Yoast SEO 14.3: Italian word forms in beta

Yoast SEO 14.2: Russian word forms in beta

Our linguists are busy bees lately. Over the last couple of releases, we’ve launched word form support for Yoast SEO Premium users writing in Spanish and French. These languages follow the languages that already had word form support: English, German and Dutch. In Yoast SEO 14.2, we’re adding yet another language: Russian! And, once again, …

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Yoast SEO 14.2: Russian word forms in beta