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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

Schema – why you NEED Yoast SEO to do it right!

20 July 2022 Marieke van de Rakt

You might have heard that you need structured data on your website. Not only will Google understand your content better, but it will also increase your chances of getting those shiny rich results. In Yoast SEO, we output schema as a graph. This means it’s all tied together and the relationship between various elements is …

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Schema – why you NEED Yoast SEO to do it right!

Things we don’t do in Yoast SEO and why

13 July 2022 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

We take pride in our products and our company history here at Yoast. We’ve been around since 2010 and we’ve helped to optimize millions of websites across numerous industries. Throughout our existence, we’ve introduced many new features and made countless improvements to our plugins. The Yoast SEO plugins that you’ve come to know and love …

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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

Yoast SEO 19.1 & Premium 18.7: More crawl settings

14 June 2022 | 3 Comments Edwin Toonen

As we’ve said many times, crawlability is an important aspect of SEO. Your site has to do away with technical hurdles that can hinder crawling while keeping the number of crawlable URLs in check. Crawlers are eager to crawl everything they can find on your site — even if you have a small site with …

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Yoast SEO 19.1 & Premium 18.7: More crawl settings


Yoast SEO 19.0: Optimize crawling and Bing discoverability

One of the most important aspects of SEO is optimizing the crawlability of your site. Search engines have near-endless resources, so they have the power to crawl everything they find — and they will. But, that is not the way it should be. Almost every CMS outputs URLs that don’t make sense and that crawlers …

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Yoast SEO 19.0: Optimize crawling and Bing discoverability

Our first-time configuration helps Google understand your site!

When you started your business, what were the first steps you took to establish yourself in the market? You probably thought of a name and created a logo to go with it. Who knows, maybe you also created a few social accounts to introduce your business to potential customers right away. But like most businesses, …

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Our first-time configuration helps Google understand your site!

Premium SEO analysis: As smart as Google

23 May 2022 | 22 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Yoast SEO Premium comes with a great functionality that will help you write SEO-friendly texts. We put a lot of work and care into developing it, and the software and our techniques are really smart and advanced. So, at Yoast, we’re very proud of our Premium SEO analysis. But why do YOU need this? Will it …

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Premium SEO analysis: As smart as Google