Account management

Everything you need to know about accessing and managing your Yoast account. Find help with subscriptions, billing, licenses, logins, updates, the Yoast SEO Academy and moving your subscription between sites or users.

You can also find information about managing your WordPress account, security and updates.


Yoast and your privacy (GDPR)

Yoast and your privacy (GDPR) As of the 25th of May 2018, EU citizens have more control over what data…
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How to add, change or remove a user from your Google Search Console property

How to add, change or remove a user from your Google Search Console property In rare cases, we may ask…
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Where can I find the Changelog for my Yoast plugin?

Where can I find the Changelog for my Yoast plugin? You can find the changelog for all of our plugins…
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How to add and remove sites in MyYoast

How to add and remove sites in MyYoast In MyYoast, you can add and remove sites, manage your Yoast products,…
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How to update your PHP version

How to update your PHP version The single most important reason to update your PHP version is security. Older versions,…
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Does Yoast SEO work with WPML?

Does Yoast SEO work with WPML? We work closely with The WordPress Multilingual Plugin team to ensure our plugins are…
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How to view the page source of your site

How to view the page source of your site Yoast SEO outputs most of the SEO data behind the scenes…
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Why did you charge me when my purchase failed?

Why did you charge me when my purchase failed? Our payment provider (Adyen) sends a request to the issuing bank for…
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Common purchase errors

Common purchase errors Our payment options are credit cards (processed by Adyen) and PayPal (credit, debit, echeck, etc). In some…
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Why is my VAT number rejected?

Why is my VAT number rejected? In our checkout process, we immediately validate your VAT number. To do so, we…
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How to add a new WordPress administrator user

How to add a new WordPress administrator user If the management of your site changes, you also need to update…
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Common subscription issues

Common subscription issues A subscription key is no longer needed to use our premium plugins because we launched a customer…
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File automatically unzips when downloaded

File automatically unzips when downloaded Are you downloading one of the Yoast plugins and, instead of a .zip file, you…
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How to clear your browser’s cache

How to clear your browser’s cache Internet browsers are trying to give you the best and smoothest experience on the…
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Plugin requirements

Plugin requirements Like most software, Yoast SEO has specific requirements to be able to run properly. Here, we list those…
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How to change the permalink structure

How to change the permalink structure A permalink – short for permanent link – is the full URL for a…
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How to update the Yoast SEO free plugin

How to update the Yoast SEO free plugin After you’ve installed Yoast SEO free, you want to update your plugin…
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How to update the Yoast SEO plugin

How to update the Yoast SEO plugin After you’ve installed Yoast SEO, you want to update your plugin regularly to…
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Is my cURL up-to-date?

Is my cURL up-to-date? Running an outdated cURL version may cause subscription activation errors. cURL is used to verify the…
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Does my plugin expire?

Does my plugin expire? If you’ve downloaded and installed our Yoast premium plugins for WordPress, they are yours to keep…
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