The Yoast SEO admin bar menu

The Yoast SEO admin bar offers shortcuts to your notifications and the Yoast SEO settings. If you open the menu while you’re previewing a page on the front-end, you will notice that the menu contains a lot more options. For example, you will find links to tools and resources. Let’s go through the options one by one.

The admin bar in the back-end 

Notifications

If Yoast SEO detects issues that affect the SEO of your site, we will notify you via the Yoast SEO Dashboard. The menu item Notifications in the Yoast admin bar menu will lead you directly to them.

SEO Settings 

Clicking SEO Settings takes you to the standard Yoast SEO Settings.

The admin bar on the front-end

When you are logged in to your WordPress account and view or preview a page on the front-end, you will additional items in the Yoast SEO admin bar menu.

Front-end SEO inspector

If you’re using Yoast SEO Premium, the menu gives you access to the front-end SEO inspector. With this tool, you can easily check the SEO data on your pages.

Focus keyphrase

Here, you will find the focus keyphrase you set for this page.

SEO score

The first traffic light shows the overall SEO score for the page.

Readability score

The second traffic light shows the overall readability score for the page.

Analyze this page

• Check links to this URL: Clicking on this link takes you to Google Search Console. More specifically, it takes you to the section in Google Search Console where you can check the number of links that point to your pages. 
• Google Rich Results Test: Structured data is crucial for getting rich results. The Google Rich Results Test lets you check which rich results can be generated by the structured data the page contains.
• Facebook Debugger: Yoast SEO takes care of your page’s appearance on Facebook. Sometimes, Facebook does not pick up the changes correctly. In such cases, it is helpful to go to the Facebook Debugger and check if there are any bugs you can fix. 
• Google Page Speed Test: Google PageSpeed Insights provides valuable insight into the speed of your pages. It also gives you tips on how to optimize your page’s speed.

SEO Tools

• Semrush: The Semrush platform offers a wide range of tools for SEO and keyword research.
• Wincher: You can easily track your rankings with the Wincher tool.
• Google Trends: Explore and compare search terms with Google Trends.

How to

• Learn more SEO: Our online learning platform Yoast SEO Academy covers all SEO topics, from beginner to advanced. We have free courses as well!
• Improve your blog post: In this post, you will find 10 tips for an awesome and SEO-friendly blog post.
• Write better content: In this post, we’ll give you 5 tips for writing readable posts.

Help

This link takes to to the Support page on the back-end, containing frequently asked questions, additional resources such as the Help center, and if you have Yoast SEO Premium, you can contact our support eam.

SEO Settings

• Settings: this takes you to the standard Yoast SEO Settings.
• Tools: this take you to the Yoast SEO Tools menu
• Plans: this takes you to the available Yoast SEO subscriptions

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