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Yoast SEO Premium

Get Yoast SEO Premium Only $99 USD / year (ex VAT), including 1 year free updates and support
Risk-free: 30-day money back guarantee - No questions asked

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Save time and understand what search engines see when they crawl your pages
Get an easy-to-read overview of the SEO data that your pages output. You can quickly check this on the front end of your page. 


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Spend time searching for the SEO output of your pages
Use complex inspectors or source code viewers to understand how search engines crawl your content.
Generate high-quality SEO titles and meta descriptions with Yoast AI
Get optimized SEO titles and meta descriptions for search and social that match your content with a single click. 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.
Reach bigger audiences with your content more easily
Easily optimize content for both related keyphrases and synonyms of keyphrases. This makes it easier to rank for more keyphrases and reach a bigger audience.

Optimize for 1 keyphrase only
Potentially reach a smaller audience.

Save time and focus on your core business
Get help with routine SEO tasks, like finding unlinked content and 404s.
Manually set up your own workflows for routine SEO tasks
Spend time creating workflows to make sure you’re not making SEO mistakes.
Writing content that ranks is easier
Get more checks for both the SEO and readability analysis to improve your content further.
Write content that ranks is harder
Only get access to the standard readability and SEO analysis to improve your content.
Easily spot and utilize SEO opportunities
Find unlinked content, see if your important articles could rank higher, and spot internal linking structure opportunities.
Miss opportunities and manually keep your site clean
You’re more likely to make SEO mistakes and get a messy site, especially when your site gets bigger.
Make content findable for Google
Yoast automatically finds articles that are related to the article you’re writing. Easily link to these articles and build a linking structure that Google loves.
Manually find related pages yourself
Every time when you create a page, you need to manually go through your site to find related pages to link to.
Use Internal linking blocks to easily structure your site
Get access to smart internal linking blocks to create a solid internal linking structure in no time!
Manually add related links to every page
Spend more time finding all related content you want to link to. Plus, a high risk of forgetting important links.
Discover new high-performing keywords 
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
You can access the keyphrase data but you can’t add it to your post/page. That means you won’t get suggestions for optimizing that related keyphrase.
Be first to get new features & tools Wait until Premium features are released in Yoast SEO free

Full access to all Yoast SEO academy courses
Get access to all our SEO courses in Yoast SEO academy and become an SEO expert yourself!
Only get access to our free courses
Learn the basics of SEO.
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 in Elementor
Miss out on tools and features that will help you improve the pages you build in Elementor.
Get notified when you need to update your important pages
Yoast SEO Premium keeps an eye on your most important pages and gives a warning when these haven’t been updated for six months. Google likes fresh content.
Keep an eye on important pages manually
Manually check if your pages are in need of an update.
Stand out on social media with your content
Preview how your content looks when shared on Facebook and Twitter and improve when you’re not satisfied.
No control over how your content appears on social media
You can only guess and cross your fingers.
Prevent 404s when you delete a page
Easily create and manage redirects when you move or delete content and keep both your visitors and Google happy.
Manually 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.
Understand what search engines see when they crawl your content
Get an easy-to-read overview of the SEO data that your pages output. You can quickly check this on the front end of your page.
Spend time looking for the SEO output of your pages
Use complex inspectors or source code viewers to understand how search engines crawl your content.
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.
Get access to 24/7 support
Reach out to our 24/7 support and quickly get answers to all your questions related to Yoast SEO.
No 24/7 suppport
Search for help articles to get answers to your questions.
Get an ad-free plugin
Enjoy the Yoast plugin without any ads.
Have ads in the plugin

  • 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.

Get Yoast SEO Premium Only $99 USD / year (ex VAT), including 1 year free updates and support
Risk-free: 30-day money back guarantee - No questions asked
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Automate common SEO tasks, get more tools to improve your content, and enjoy a year of free support and updates.

Get Yoast SEO Premium Only $99 USD / year (ex VAT), including 1 year free updates and support
Risk-free: 30-day money back guarantee - No questions asked

What do you get in Yoast SEO Premium?

Become an SEO expert

FULL access to Yoast SEO academy.

Yoast SEO Premium now comes with FULL access to all courses of Yoast SEO academy. You haves the ultimate opportunity to become an SEO expert yourself!

  • 24/7 access to all our courses
  • Guaranteed access to future courses

Optimize pages for more keywords

Target extra keyphrases, synonyms, and related keywords.

Help your pages rank for more keyphrases, and, analyze your content for multiple keywords and their variations.

  • No more missing out on search traffic for synonyms or related terms.
  • Available in English, Dutch, German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Turkish, Czech, Slovak and Indonesian & more languages to come!

Preview your results

See how your snippets will look in search and social media.

Take control over how your pages show up in Google, Facebook and more. Attract more visitors by tailoring your titles, descriptions and images for each platform.

  • No more guessing what your social snippets will look like.

Get smarter content suggestions

Unlock more real-time analysis, tools and insights.

Identify more opportunities to improve your content and engage your readers, as we analyze your text in real-time. Get internal linking suggestions, as well as readability scores and recommendations.

  • Save time with automated suggestions

Automatically redirect URLs

Prevent 404s and broken links, without the headache.

We’ll help make sure that your visitors and search engines will never hit a dead-end, as we automatically create redirects when you move, alter or delete content.

Keep content fresh & findable

Get reminders to update cornerstone content, and avoid orphaned pages.

We’ll help you stop your most important pages from getting out of date, and let you know when you have content which you’re not linking to from anywhere in your site.

Get the help you need

Our support team is here for you, 24/7.

Our wonderful and knowledgeable team loves to personally help you with any questions you ask through email.

  • Get help over email and live chat
  • Access a knowledge database with over 580 articles

Get an ad-free experience

Thanks for your support!

We’ve removed the ads in our plugin so that you can focus on doing what you do best. Your support enables us to stay at the cutting edge of SEO, and to help you to compete online.

And that’s not all!
You also get…

  • A year of 24/7 support
  • Free updates every 2 weeks
  • Everything from our free plugin
  • Weekly tips and guides by email

Plus, all of your plugin settings will be automatically migrated. That means that you keep all of the work you’ve already put into optimizing your site.

What do our users say?

  • “Any company that has a web presence should not only be dedicated to and focused on SEO practices, but should also have a tool like Yoast in their arsenal.”
    David Hoffman David Hoffman
    Director of Marketing

    Proteus
  • “I highly recommend Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins Premium for its ease of use and built-in rank scoring system for optimizing keyphrases and content.”
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    Network admin

    Tripawds
  • “Yoast is the best SEO tool I've used for WordPress. It's great for everyone from SEO beginners […], to more advanced/technical editors.”
    Ben Rubenstein Ben Rubenstein
    Senior Marketing Manager

    HMX
  • “If you have a WordPress website/blog, you really need some type of SEO plugin and Yoast is the best one on the market.”
    Maddy Osman Maddy Osman
    SEO Content Strategist

  • “For those that truly want to improve the visibility of their website in search engines, I would suggest an investment in the (Yoast) premium plan, as it offers plenty of integrations and features.”
    Ayo Bamgbose Ayo Bamgbose
    Online digital business coach

  • “For beginner to intermediate users, Yoast is tough to beat. The installation and setup wizards are easy to follow too.”
    Jillyn Dillon Jillyn Dillon
    Founder & Executive Director

    Technology Aloha