yoast seo premium for wordpress

Drive more traffic to your website

Automate technical SEO and make optimizing content a breeze with the most popular WordPress SEO plugin.

Get Yoast SEO PremiumOnly $99 / year (ex VAT)

Or try out the Yoast SEO free plugin


What does Yoast SEO Premium do?

Yoast SEO Premium includes all the features of the free version, plus many additional benefits. After installation, Yoast SEO Premium simplifies site optimization, boosts organic traffic, and saves you time on SEO tasks.

Watch how Yoast SEO Premium helps you rank higher

Unlock the power of Yoast SEO Premium! Watch this 2-minute video to see how Yoast SEO Premium helps you rank higher by making your site irresistible for both users and search engines.


I have been using Yoast SEO Premium on my websites and client websites for many years. I love how it points out orphaned content and suggests linking to specific articles and pages on my website. I also like the automatic redirect when I delete or change the permalink for blog posts or pages. Very helpful and saves a great deal of time!”

Dotty Scott – Premium Websites, Inc

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  • Yoast Video SEO
$229 / year (ex. VAT)
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  • Full access to the Yoast SEO Academy
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Yoast SEO Premium in detail

Yoast SEO Premium helps you grow organic traffic to your site and gives you access to all these exclusive features.

Reach a wider audience with the same content

Creating captivating content is only half the battle; the next challenge is getting people to see it. Yoast SEO Premium is your secret weapon!

Optimize for up to 5 keywords per page
Why limit yourself to a single keyword when you can cast a wider net? With the ability to target up to 5 keywords, you’re speaking the language of your diverse audience. This strategic move allows you to appear in a broader range of search results, capturing the attention it deserves.

Speed up and automate day-to-day SEO tasks with AI

Yoast SEO Premium means less manual work and more consistent, high-quality content all throughout. 

Use generative AI to create SEO titles & meta descriptions
Why spend hours crafting perfect titles and descriptions when you can automate it? Yoast SEO’s AI feature empowers you to create effective, engaging titles and meta descriptions at the click of a button. It combines advanced AI technology with Yoast’s linguistic expertise, saving you time and kickstarting your SEO processes.

Get AI-powered suggestions to optimize your content
Optimizing content for SEO is tedious, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Use Yoast SEO’s AI feature and get suggestions to improve your content at a click. It helps you ensure your content is search engine-friendly while making your life easier. This feature is in beta.

Get help while working on your SEO

With Yoast SEO Premium, you’re never alone in your SEO journey.

24/7 support
Whenever you hit a roadblock, expert assistance is just a click away. Get answers, advice, and guidance for Yoast SEO on demand.

Improve your SEO skills with the SEO Academy
Learn vital SEO skills in the Yoast SEO Academy, the online learning environment. Take your pick of the SEO-related, on-demand courses ranging from beginner level to advanced level.

24/7 Premium support

Make fewer SEO mistakes

Experience fewer hiccups on your SEO journey with Yoast SEO Premium. Navigate with ease and reduce common SEO errors.

No more dead links or 404 errors
Enhance user experience by eliminating dead ends. The redirect manager highlights broken links, helping you create seamless navigation even when content shifts.

Freshen up outdated content
Quickly identify and fix unlinked pages, also known as “orphaned content”. This helps you stay relevant and helpful for users and improves your internal linking structure.

Easily create content that ranks

Frustrated by content that doesn’t rank? Let Yoast SEO Premium be your guide.

Unlock the Premium SEO analysis
With Yoast SEO Premium, you get an extra thorough analysis, including extra SEO checks and related keyword & synonym recognition.

Internal linking tools
You get smart suggestions for links to other pages as you write. Google loves internal links and will reward you with a better ranking. Simply follow the guided internal linking workflow.

* Available in English, Dutch, German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Turkish, Norwegian, Slovak, Czech, Indonesian, Greek, and Japanese

Internal Linking Structure

Get more clicks on your social posts

Social media appearance preview
Make a lasting first impression with the social appearance preview. Sample and tweak content for social platforms, ensuring it’s eye-catching, share-worthy, and generating clicks to your site.


Yoast SEO Premium helped me realize how to better understand the rules of optimized content and help boost visibility rankings! I highly recommend it to everyone, who wishes to get high search engine results.

Koveos Konstantinos – Athens Coast Hotel

Compare Yoast SEO Premium to the free version

Yoast SEO Free
No AI
You have to manually optimize all your content yourself.
No AI
You have to manually write and optimize all your SEO titles and meta descriptions yourself.
Only 1 keyword per page
Optimize for one keyword per post or page.
No redirect manager
If you forget to redirect, your visitors get stuck on a 404 page. And Google doesn’t like those “Page not found” messages.
You need to guess which links would work best
You need to guess which pages you should link to for a better ranking. For every single page you create … and all the current pages on your website.
No preview of your page on social media
No preview of your social snippets. You can only guess and cross your fingers.
No support
You can help yourself with our extensive knowledge database.
Manually edit robots.txt file
Manually edit your robots.txt file to block AI bots, at the risk of making mistakes.
Yoast SEO Premium vs Yoast SEO Free
(Beta) Get AI-powered suggestions to optimize your content
Get suggestions to optimize your content and apply changes at a click! Yoast’s artificial intelligence features save you time while ensuring your content is search engine-friendly. This feature is in beta.
No AI
You have to manually optimize all your content yourself.
(Beta) Generate high-quality SEO titles and meta descriptions with Yoast AI
Get optimized SEO titles and meta descriptions for search and social to increase your click-through-rates. Yoast’s Artificial Intelligence functionality saves you time and makes your life easier.
No AI
You have to manually write and optimize all your SEO titles and meta descriptions yourself.
Optimize for up to five keyword synonyms by adding variants
Add up to four related synonyms of your keyword to expand your possibilities. You get the full SEO analysis for each.
Only 1 keyword per page
Optimize for one keyword per post or page.
Automatic redirects: so no more dead links or 404 errors
Old and renamed pages are seamlessly redirected. So you keep both your visitors and Google happy.
No redirect manager
If you forget to redirect, your visitors get stuck on a 404 page. And Google doesn’t like those “Page not found” messages.
Get real-time suggestions for internal links
You get suggestions for links to other pages as you write. Google loves internal links and will reward you with a better ranking.
You need to guess which links would work best
You need to guess which pages you should link to for a better ranking. For every single page you create … and all the current pages on your website.
Preview your page on Facebook and Twitter/X
You get full control over how your page appears on social media. So you can be sure it convinces people to click.
No preview of your page on social media
No preview of your social snippets. You can only guess and cross your fingers.
24/7 support
Our wonderful and knowledgeable support team loves to personally help you with every question you ask via email or live chat.
No support
You can help yourself with our extensive knowledge database.
Safeguard your content from being used to train AI bots
Effortlessly safeguard your intellectual property, uphold data privacy, and maintain control over your valuable content by blocking AI bots from secretly scraping it with a toggle.
Manually edit robots.txt file
Manually edit your robots.txt file to block AI bots, at the risk of making mistakes.

Frequently asked questions about Yoast SEO Premium

How to install & activate Yoast SEO Premium?

When you buy Yoast SEO Premium, we’ll take you through a clear installation flow.
If you’ve already bought Yoast SEO Premium, you can find clear step-by-step instructions for installing the plugin in the Yoast Help Center!
If you’d like some extra help, just contact our expert support team at support@yoast.com. They are available 24/7 to guide you through the installation process!

What will happen to my Yoast SEO free settings when I upgrade to Premium?

All plugin settings will be automatically migrated to Yoast SEO Premium for you. So you keep all the work you’ve already put into your free plugin.

What if I have more than 1 website?

1 Yoast SEO Premium subscription can be used on 1 website or domain.
You can use Yoast SEO Premium on multiple websites by purchasing more than one subscription. You can choose how many sites you need it for on the check-out page.
And of course, you get a discount.

Can I transfer my Yoast SEO Premium subscription from one site to another?

Absolutely! That’s easy to do. Just remove the subscription on one site and then add it to another site. 
We have a clear step-by-step guide in the Yoast Help Center to help you out.

Can I use Yoast SEO Premium in different languages?

Yes, you can! Yoast SEO Premium is available in English, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Arabic, Hebrew, Norwegian, Turkish, and Czech.

Can I use Yoast SEO Premium on my staging site?

Yes! You can use your Yoast SEO Premium on your staging site.
Simply add both your live and staging site in MyYoast and transfer subscription(s) between the live and development site. We have a clear step-by-step guide in the Yoast Help Center to help you out.

Will my subscription to Yoast SEO Premium renew automatically each year?

Yes, your subscription will automatically renew itself. You also get a 10% discount on your renewal! We’ll send you a reminder email 2 weeks before the renewal date. Of course you can cancel at any time!