Upgrade to Yoast SEO Premium
How does Yoast SEO Premium compare to the free version?
Yoast SEO Premium |
Yoast SEO free |
| Optimize for keywords, keyphrases, synonyms, related keywords and all word forms of those Help your page rank better by taking synonyms and related keywords into account. We’ll also show you how these are distributed over your page! Word forms are available in English, Dutch, German, French, Russian, Italian and Spanish & more languages to come! |
Only 1 keyword or keyphrase per page You might be missing out on search traffic for synonyms or related terms. Check manually if you use all synonyms and related words you’d like to rank for often enough in your text. |
| Tell Google exactly what your page is about Make sure that Google, Bing, Pinterest and other platforms all know exactly what your page is about, by adding schema.org data the right way. Faster indexing, rich results! |
In premium and in free As this really makes the internet as a whole better, we put it in both our paid and free plugin! |
| Know when to update your most important pages! We’ll keep an eye on your most important pages and warn you when these haven’t been updated for six months. Google likes fresh content! |
Keep an eye on all pages manually You’ll need to check manually if there are any outdated pages that might need to be updated. |
| Preview your page in Google, Bing, Facebook and Twitter You’ll get a good idea of how your page may look in search results, and you get full control over how your page appears on Facebook and on Twitter. So you’re sure it convinces people to click through. |
No preview of your page in Facebook and Twitter You know what your page might look like in Google and Bing, but as for Facebook and Twitter? You can only guess and cross your fingers. |
| Get real-time suggestions for internal links You get suggestions for links to other pages as you write. Google loves these internal links and might reward you with a better ranking. You’ll be able to add Yoast Internal Linking blocks as well! |
You have to look up related pages yourself Don’t forget to reserve extra time for looking up related pages to link to. For every single page you create … and all the current pages on your website. If you don’t structure your site well, Google might not be able to understand your site properly. |
| We’ll ask what you want us to do with every deleted page This way, old pages are seamlessly redirected to new ones. So you keep both your visitors and Google happy. |
You have to create a redirect every time you delete a page If you forget to redirect, your visitors get stuck on a 404 page. And Google doesn’t like those “Page not found” messages. |
| Be sure your content can be found by search engines Get an overview of all pages that have no other pages linking to them. Search engines need at least one link to find and index a page, before they can show it in the search results. |
You have to search for these pages yourself You’ll need to check manually if there are links to all relevant pages on your website. |
| 24/7 support Our wonderful and knowledgeable support team loves to personally help you with every question you ask through email. |
No support You can help yourself with our extensive knowledge database. There are over 580 articles, so your question is definitely in there. |
| No ads We’ve removed the ads for you. We love your support! Thanks! |
Ads You’ll see ads for our other awesome products and services. |
| Get an overview of your SEO scores and focus keywords You can automatically generate a CSV file that gives you an overview of your keywords, URL, readability score and/or title. So it’s easy to see what you should optimize next. |
No dashboard You’ll have to click around your website and compile this Excel dashboard yourself. |
- Free updates every 2 weeks
- Includes all features from the free plugin like:
- Readability check
- SEO analysis
- Full control over your breadcrumbs
- Always updated for Google’s algorithm
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.
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