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New: Track your brand visibility in Claude with Yoast AI Brand Insights

28 May 2026 Beth Parker

Yoast AI Brand Insights, part of the Yoast SEO AI+ plan now lets you scan how your brand appears in answers generated by Claude. You can see your Claude data alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, all in one dashboard.  Why Claude is worth paying attention to Think about how your own customers are making decisions …

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New: Track your brand visibility in Claude with Yoast AI Brand Insights

Security patch: Yoast SEO Premium 27.6.1

26 May 2026 Beth Parker

Yoast SEO Premium 27.6.1 is out now. This release contains a security fix affecting the Redirect Manager in Yoast SEO Premium. The good news: the vast majority of users are not impacted. If you’re a customer of Yoast SEO Premium, Yoast WooCommerce SEO, or Yoast SEO AI+, please read on.  Are you affected?  The vast majority of customers are not impacted. Your site is only potentially …

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Security patch: Yoast SEO Premium 27.6.1

New: Yoast AI Content Planner turns a blank post into a structured draft

12 May 2026 Beth Parker

If you’ve ever opened a new post and immediately closed it again because you had no idea what to write, this one’s for you.  Yoast AI Content Planner is now available for Yoast SEO Premium users. Open a new post in your WordPress editor and you’ll find five relevant post ideas waiting for you, built from your existing site content. Pick one and …

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New: Yoast AI Content Planner turns a blank post into a structured draft

New: Yoast SEO Content Analyses scores can now chat with “AI” through new API

28 April 2026 Beth Parker

From today, your AI tools, dashboards, and automated workflows can now talk directly to Yoast SEO, thanks to the new Abilities API, built to work hand in hand with WordPress 6.9 .As WordPress evolves, we evolve with it, and the release of the Yoast SEO Abilities API is an extension of these new capabilities.  What does that …

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New: Yoast SEO Content Analyses scores can now chat with “AI” through new API

Three new tasks, better navigation, and a bug fix in the Yoast SEO Task List 

14 April 2026 Beth Parker

We launched the Yoast SEO Task List in December to give you a clear, actionable to-do list for your site’s SEO. In this update, we’ve added two new tasks, improved how you navigate to fixes, and resolved a bug that was showing tasks in the wrong language.  A quick recap: what does the Task List do?  The …

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Three new tasks, better navigation, and a bug fix in the Yoast SEO Task List 

See how your brand appears in AI-generated answers, for free

7 April 2026 Beth Parker

Eligible Yoast customers can now run a free Yoast AI Brand Insights scan and get a personalized report showing how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini see your brand. Your brand is part of the AI conversation whether you’re monitoring it or not. Yoast AI Brand Insights, part of the Yoast SEO AI+ plan gives you visibility into what AI tools say about you, how often you appear, and whether the …

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See how your brand appears in AI-generated answers, for free

Introducing llms.txt to Shopify: Give AI a map to your best products 

31 March 2026 Beth Parker

You’ve worked hard to build your product catalog. The last thing you want is AI tools like ChatGPT or Google Gemini describing your products inaccurately to potential customers.  AI tools don’t browse your whole store the way a search engine does. They grab what they can find, quickly, and fill in the gaps. For a store with a large catalog, …

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Introducing llms.txt to Shopify: Give AI a map to your best products 

New: Yoast Duplicate Post 4.6

9 March 2026 Beth Parker

Version 4.6 of Yoast Duplicate Post is here, and it’s all about making your editing experience feel more natural in WordPress’s Block Editor, and making sure “Rewrite & Republish” works reliably every time you need it. A more modern editing experience Everything where you’d expect it. The Duplicate Post controls now sit in the Block …

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New: Yoast Duplicate Post 4.6

New: Futureproof your website for the agentic web with Yoast SEO Schema Aggregation 

3 March 2026 Beth Parker

In November 2025, Yoast announced a collaboration with NLWeb, an open web protocol developed by Microsoft designed to simplify building conversational interfaces for the web. Today, we are proud to introduce the first major result of that work: Yoast SEO Schema Aggregation. This is an opt in feature that brings your website’s structured data together …

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New: Futureproof your website for the agentic web with Yoast SEO Schema Aggregation 

New: Track brand visibility in Gemini with Yoast AI Brand Insights

13 January 2026 Beth Parker

Yoast AI Brand Insights now lets you track how your brand appears in Google’s Gemini. You can see your Gemini data alongside ChatGPT and Perplexity, all in one dashboard.  With a single analysis, you can see how different AI platforms describe your brand with the Yoast SEO AI+ plan. You’ll see which sources they use and how sentiment compares across …

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New: Track brand visibility in Gemini with Yoast AI Brand Insights