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Yoast SEO 11.1: Even more Schema enhancements!

30 April 2019 | 10 Comments Edwin Toonen

You’ve probably noticed we’re doubling down on our Schema structured data implementation. In Yoast SEO 11.0, we rewrote what we output and how we do that. Not only that, we put every piece of structured data in a neat, interconnected graph. We’re not done yet! In Yoast SEO 11.1, we’re introducing proper image markup and …

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Yoast SEO 11.1: Even more Schema enhancements!

A story about Schema, structured data and robots

17 April 2019 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

Once upon a time, there was a little robot who came to a website to try to figure out what it was all about. The robot read some words and followed some links and thought: “Well, there are a lot of mentions of this particular word, so the page must be about that!” She sent …

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A story about Schema, structured data and robots

Yoast SEO 11.0: Structured data awesomeness

Structured data is incredibly important. Many of the current and future search enhancements are — or will be — powered by structured data. While search engines are good at reading content, structured data can help them to understand. Yoast SEO has supported some basic Schema markup for ages, but now we’re going much further. Yoast …

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Yoast SEO 11.0: Structured data awesomeness

Yoast SEO 10.1: Wortformen auf Deutsch

2 April 2019 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

A while back we released Yoast SEO 9.0. This was a huge release for us, as we made our SEO analysis smarter. Thanks to something called stemming, i.e. breaking words down to their smallest form to do complex analysis on, we can now detect word forms. Since then, improving your content has become a much …

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Yoast SEO 10.1: Wortformen auf Deutsch

Yoast SEO 10.0: Meet the new SEO analysis

12 March 2019 | 38 Comments Edwin Toonen

It’s been in production for many months, capped off with two months of beta testing, and now it’s finally here: Yoast SEO 10.0! Yoast SEO 10.0 features a new SEO analysis, based on thorough research and fine-tuned with your feedback. More than 100.000 people helped us test this release to make it our best yet. …

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Yoast SEO 10.0: Meet the new SEO analysis

Yoast SEO 9.7: Fixes and enhancements

26 February 2019 | 11 Comments Edwin Toonen

Do you know what’s inching closer? The release of Yoast SEO 10.0, featuring a new and improved SEO analysis! If you’ve participated in our beta test, you know what to expect. If you haven’t, please stay tuned! It’s only a couple of weeks away. In the meantime, we’re keeping up with our two-week release schedule, …

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Yoast SEO 9.7: Fixes and enhancements


Live indexing for Bing & Google coming to Yoast SEO

7 February 2019 | 41 Comments Davey Smeekens

As we announced at YoastCon, we’re working together with Bing and Google to allow live indexing for everyone who uses Yoast SEO — free and premium. In the coming months, we’ll allow users to connect their sites to MyYoast, our customer portal. After that we’ll roll out live indexing, which means every time you publish, …

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Live indexing for Bing & Google coming to Yoast SEO


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!