Word form recognition
Write naturally and use different word forms of your keyphrase in your copy
A feature of the Yoast SEO Premium plugin for WordPress
What does the word form recognition do?
Yoast SEO Premium’s word form recognition helps you write more naturally. Because, if you’re writing on-topic, you’re probably already using various grammatical forms of your keyphrase (e.g. tenses, plurals). Google does this as well! So no need to stuff in your keyphrase in a way that feels forced. Just focus on writing great content for your users!
Write and optimize naturally
- Recognizes the plural form of the words in your keyphrase
- Recognizes various tenses of the words in your keyphrase
- No need to force in your keyphrase in your body copy
- Tells you where to use the exact match
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Use different word forms to improve the natural flow of your text
If you write in one of our supported languages, you’ll love this feature! Yoast SEO Premium recognizes different grammatical forms of your keyphrase. We currently support English, German Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Arabic, Hebrew, Norwegian, Turkish, Czech and Spanish and are working hard on adding more languages. This means the plugin will recognize singular and plurals, but also different tenses of verbs. This is awesome because it will allow you to write in a natural and free way and get green bullets too!
So, if your focus keyphrase is [dog game], it will recognize Read about these games for dogs too. Or, if you want to optimize for [play flyball] it will recognize the sentence, I love playing flyball with my dog as well.
This infographic summarizes the entire concept of synonyms, related keywords and word forms, all part of the Yoast SEO Premium analysis. A great tool that lets you write rich and optimized content in a natural way!
Learn more about this feature
In the video below, we explain all about how the Yoast SEO premium analysis works. Check it out!
Pretty nifty right? And you can have this too! Check out if this Premium analysis is available for your language.
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Also available in Yoast SEO for Shopify
This feature is also available in Yoast SEO for Shopify. Read more on this feature and how it is adapted for use in online stores.
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