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How does Yoast SEO Premium compare to the free version?
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| New: Full access to all Yoast SEO academy courses Get access to all our SEO training courses in Yoast SEO academy and become an SEO expert yourself! |
Get access to our free courses Get up to speed on all basic SEO knowledge |
| Find & add high-performing keywords right in Yoast SEO Find data about your keyphrases in Yoast SEO. Boost the relevance of your content by optimizing for related keywords people actually use. Available for 100+ countries & powered by Semrush. |
Manually add related keyphrases Access the keyphrase data, but optimize for different keyphrases yourself |
| Optimize without worrying about over-optimization! Our intelligent word form recognition automatically takes plurals and other word forms into account. Add synonyms and write totally natural content. No more stressing over green bullets! |
Only 1 keyword or keyphrase per page Spend hours shuffling words to make sure you are giving your users a natural text to read, which is also optimized for Google. |
| Available in multiple languages Word forms recognition is available in English, Dutch, German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Turkish and Indonesian & more languages to come! |
Manually check your content Manually research, adjust and improve your content and keywords |
| 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! |
| Automate your publishing flow in Yoast SEO With the Zapier tool in Yoast SEO Premium you can easily send out your published posts to any of its 2000+ destinations. Right at the push of a button! [Beta] |
Spend a lot of time distributing your content Make sure that you don’t forget to post on every social media yourself. |
| Seamless integration of Yoast SEO in Elementor Are you one of the 6+ million users of Elementor? Good news! The Yoast SEO plugin now fully integrates with the Elementor page builder! |
Limited access to Yoast SEO tools Miss out on handy tools and features that will help you improve the pages you build in Elementor. |
| 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. |
| Use Internal linking blocks to structure your site easily You’ll get access to the Yoast Internal Linking blocks for the Block editor. With these smart blocks, you’ll be able to create a solid internal linking structure in no time! |
You’ll have to add links manually to every page You’ll run the risk of forgetting certain links. Plus, it’s a time-consuming task that never ends. Whilst proper internal linking is crucial for both your visitors and Google. |
| 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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