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Yoast SEO 14.0: The Indexables

9 April 2020 | 48 Comments | Tag

We launched one of the biggest updates in Yoast SEO history, Yoast SEO 14.0. This release, released on April 28th, is a huge rewrite of parts of our code. In our release post, you’ll find out all about Yoast SEO 14.0. In addition, we’re sharing technical details in developer posts on our developer blog this week, but we’ve also made a comic to try to explain to non-developers what we did. We have new super heroes, we call them the Indexables!

If you want to test, head on to this developer announcement post, test instructions are in there. For now, enjoy the comic:

Joost de Valk

Joost is an internet entrepreneur and the founder of Yoast. He has a long history in WordPress and digital marketing. On our blog, he has written a lot about SEO in general, technical SEO and important topics related to SEO.

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Discussion (48)

  • Would be the new version be able to see the difference between code and text in readability? That makes me nuts. To see that I am on the right track with SEO writing. My workflow, for now, is: open a draft page paste text in there to see if all is fine. That is a tad time-consuming! It would be nice if YOAST would be able to figure that out with Flatsome theme!

  • Wow, I can’t believe the negative responses in this thread. You guys are the business. The trouble you’ve taken to make this announcement fun is incredible. Yes, some of it goes over my head but the gist of it is clear. (And you provide more info on the Developers site: https://developer.yoast.com/blog/upcoming-release-yoast-seo-14-0-indexables/)

    To all the negative replies: remember, the free version of this plugin is incredibly effective, continually improved and … FREE!

    Thanks Yoast Team!

  • I am looking forward to this but with a little trepidation because of the error in version 7 of Yoast SEO that unfortunately I updated to before the notification of the bug came out.

    I only realised this problem a couple of months ago and so I am running the Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge plugin and plan to keep it running for six months, as advised.

    So my question is, how will the new version of Yoast affect this? Do I still keep the Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge plugin running?

    Also, I have Yoast WooCommerce – and I wonder how that will work with the new version Yoast SEO 14.0?

  • Why do u guys change versions so fast :) By 2024 we will be at version 46 :) Is that to do with marketing? Thanks.

  • Did anyone else lose their seo and readability analysis colored lights today?

  • Um, what?! What are you trying to say 14.0 will do… in English not cartoonish? Seems to be something about speed, but have no idea what this cartoon is trying to tell me.

  • I don’t get the cartoon. A more conventional explanation option would be greatly appreciated. I think you guys have a great company and this is really a very minor comment.

  • I’m reading the comic on a notebook and also find the text very small.

    More importantly, I’m sorry to say I really don’t know any more about the new release now, then I did before reading the comic.

    How about a bullet list of what’s new and what each of the new things means – how it we will benefit? Thanks

  • A couple of questions:

    1. Will it work OK with Yoast SEO: WooCommerce ?

    2. Will it work OK with the Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge plugin that deals with the bug in Yoast 7 that returned image IDs when it shouldn’t have?

  • I can’t read the comic! Too small for me.

  • Please don’t waste my time again with stuff like this comic book.

  • Hey Guys, I hope the Yoast update is better than the comic strip. The captions are very small and difficult to read. There doesn’t seem to be a back button either. As a non developer and not being tech savvy, I fear there will be instructions written in the same way. That’s to say full of jargon and consequently difficult read and understand. I ask you to please take into account that many people like myself run a site, but it’s not our full time occupation. Just like not everyone who drives a car is a mechanic . So I hope there will be instructions for dummies. Many thanks and best wishes, Sergio.

  • What’s with the comic. The website is unreadable!

  • I don’t get it. Tell me in plain English what it is

  • Hi:

    You forgot to add a Back arrow. Also, can this be downloaded, the font is way to small to read comfortably.

  • Thank you for creating this comic strip and working so hard on the new release!

  • Couldn’t grasp much from the comic, so, I’ll wait for the official introduction post instead. Keep up the great work! Been with yoast since years and probably for years 👌

  • if i replace my free to premium yoast. it show any problem on my page seo like keyprase meta tag and title etc?

  • I am very happy with your announcement. Thanks for informing me.
    if I am guessing it will be an indexer.

  • Lets wait & see what will be better ? 😉😉

  • Always great to see more innovation being done with your plugins. Looking forward to it!