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Yoast AI features
Apply AI-powered suggestions for your meta descriptions and content at the click of a button. Our features save you time and proactively optimize your content for search engines.
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What the Yoast AI features do
Perfect for marketing professionals, freelance writers, and content strategists, Yoast AI features enable customers of all technical levels to apply SEO best practice to their content at the click of a button.
Yoast AI Generate
Circumnavigate brain freeze with ease with our Yoast AI Generate features.
Designed specifically for ideation, these features generate multiple titles and meta descriptions from which you can take your pick! If you don’t like them, no worries, you can easily generate more or apply and tweak.
New feature released August 2024
Yoast AI Optimize
Receive AI-powered suggestions to optimize your existing copy for SEO at a click.
Yoast AI Optimize highlights suggested changes for certain assessments in the Yoast SEO Analysis, allowing you to easily apply or dismiss them. This ensures that the final decision always remains in your hands.
Apply optimized suggestions powered by AI with one click
Yoast AI Optimize
You finished your copy, great! Until you realise you now need to complete manual tweaks to achieve green lights on the Yoast SEO Analysis.
Not a problem when you have Yoast SEO Premium, Yoast AI Optimize brings solutions to you!
Combining in-house expertise with AI
Yoast AI Optimize benefits
- AI-powered suggested edits for your posts and pages
- Flexible results. Start with the AI-generated feature, then adjust it to fit your requirements
- Easy dismiss or apply options, ensuring the human element is not lost
- Easy to use, seamless integration into Yoast SEO Premium.
- Optimize three of the assessments in the Yoast SEO Analysis; Keyphrase in introduction, Keyphrase distribution and Keyphrase density
Yoast AI Optimize highlighting suggestions for keyphrase distribution throughout the text.
Limitations of Yoast AI Optimize
Yoast AI Optimize, like all other AI features, is currently in beta. This means you may experience limitations when using the tool. For transparency, these are listed below.
- Yoast AI Optimize is only available for texts up to around 1000 words. For longer texts, the button will be inactive.
- Yoast AI Optimize is only available for the Block editor. It can optimize content in the following blocks: Paragraph, Heading, List, and Table block. Content from other blocks cannot be optimized.
- Yoast AI Optimize currently is available for the following SEO checks: Keyphrase in Introduction, Keyphrase Density, Keyphrase Distribution. For keyphrase density, we only support the case in which the keyphrase is underused. If the keyphrase is overused, we do not provide the Yoast AI Optimize feature.
- You can only accept or reject all suggestions. It is not currently possible to accept parts of a suggestion.
- For longer texts, it might take up to a minute for AI Optimize to produce a result.
Providing feedback to help shape our AI features
Yoast AI Optimize is currently in beta, and we value your feedback to make it even better. Your insights and suggestions will help us refine and enhance the AI-powered title and meta description generation feature. To help shape this tool’s future and contribute to your SEO strategy’s success, please provide feedback here.
Apply optimized titles and meta descriptions with one click
Yoast AI Generate
Titles and meta descriptions are often among the first things your customers see so they need to be enticing to encourage your customers to click.
All of the following are available when you have Yoast SEO Premium:
SEO-optimized titles and descriptions
Generate title and meta descriptions for blog posts, pages and category pages.
Shareworthy social titles and descriptions
Generate social titles and descriptions using the social preview tool.
Product metadata at a click
With Yoast WooCommerce SEO, you can generate product titles and meta descriptions for your product range.
Combining in-house expertise with AI
Yoast AI Generate benefits
- Highly relevant, AI-generated tailored titles and meta descriptions for your posts and pages
- Multiple options for titles and meta descriptions. If you don’t like them, just click to generate more options
- Customizable output. Use the AI generate feature to get you started then tweak to suit your needs
- Easy to use, seamless integration into Yoast SEO Premium
- Preview how your generated titles and meta descriptions appear in the organic search results
- Continuously updated guidance to ensure you always have the most up-to-date advice.
The AI title generator displaying five suggestions.
Pro tip!
Make sure the introduction mentions the main topic of your page’s content in order to optimize meta descriptions and titles. The introduction is where most of the information for your generated results is collected, so this is one more reason to ensure it is well-written. If you need a refresher on how to write a good introduction, check out this article.
Marina Koleva & Agnieszka Szuba – Linguistics department
Our AI features are industry-recognized
Global search awards 2024
Our AI generated meta descriptions and titles are industry-recognized
We are pleased to announce that Yoast has been shortlisted in the Best Global Search Software Tool category for the Global Search Awards 2024. The awards celebrate search agencies and teams who are transforming businesses through engaging campaigns and innovative cutting-edge software.
Can’t wait to get started with our AI features?
Upgrade to Yoast SEO Premium to unlock the full potential of our AI features! Gain access to all our advanced tools, including the award-nominated Yoast AI Generate and the powerful Yoast AI Optimize. Streamline your processes and receive SEO-ready suggestions at a click when you upgrade to the latest version.