Technical SEO
Dive into the technical side of Yoast SEO features. This category covers crawling, indexing, schema, sitemaps, canonical URLs, redirects, and all the behind-the-scenes elements that help search engines properly understand your site.
Error: Yoast SEO cannot create database tables
Error: Yoast SEO cannot create database tables For Yoast SEO to work, it needs to be able to create tables…
Warning: No outbound links appear in this page, consider adding some as appropriate.
Warning: No outbound links appear in this page, consider adding some as appropriate. Outbound links are links that point to some…
Warning: No internal links appear in this page, consider adding some as appropriate
Warning: No internal links appear in this page, consider adding some as appropriate It’s crucial for SEO to regularly evaluate…
Yoast internal linking meta box is not working
Yoast internal linking meta box is not working Requirements Problems? Blinking Yoast logo or Analyze content button remains The cause…
Yoast XML sitemaps on Apache servers
Yoast XML sitemaps on Apache servers Our plugin generates sitemaps dynamically when you enable the sitemap feature. In some cases,…
Missing Yoast internal linking meta box
Missing Yoast internal linking meta box Requirements REST API required Languages Custom post types Problems? Blinking Yoast logo Analyze content…
Sitemap error: Unexpected publication name
Sitemap error: Unexpected publication name You may see the following error in your sitemap. Unexpected publication name According to the…
Submit your sitemap to search engines
Submit your sitemap to search engines Our plugin can create sitemaps for the various sections of your website. That makes…
Error: the following file is blocking your XML sitemaps
Error: the following file is blocking your XML sitemaps The following file(s) is/are blocking your XML sitemaps from working properly:…
Common XML sitemap errors
Common XML sitemap errors Are you getting an error on or about your XML sitemap? In this article, we’ve listed…
No content on admin pages
No content on admin pages The admin pages are showing up as blank. The site isn’t completely down, but there’s…
How to fix the Missing required hCard / hEntry error
Are you getting the Missing required hCard “author” or similar hEntry / microformat error in Google’s structured data testing tool…
Page redirects or loops unexpectedly
Page redirects or loops unexpectedly You can redirect posts or pages using our Yoast SEO plugin. If a page redirects…
Search Console crawl error: Submitted URL blocked by robots.txt
Search Console crawl error: Submitted URL blocked by robots.txt In this article, we’ll take a look at the Google Search…
Sitemap error: Unsupported format HTML
Sitemap error: Unsupported format HTML You may see the following error in your sitemap. Unsupported format. Your file appears to…
My sitemap is blank, what’s wrong?
My sitemap is blank, what’s wrong? Do you see a white screen with no text when you open your sitemap?…
Can I change the sitemap change frequency?
Can I change the sitemap change frequency? This is an optional sitemap field to describe how often a URL is…
Sitemap error: Missing XML tag
Sitemap error: Missing XML tag A sitemap is a page on your website that leads search engines to important pages…
Sitemap Error: Incorrect namespace
Sitemap error: Incorrect namespace The error: Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn’t properly declare the namespace. This error appears…
How to find JavaScript errors with your browser’s console
How to find JavaScript errors with your browser’s console Yoast SEO relies more and more on JavaScript. This allows the…
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