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Yoast SEO 20.8: Fixes, enhancements, and a new Premium feature

Here’s another release of our SEO plugin, Yoast SEO 20.8. We’ve improved our SEO analysis in this release and fixed several issues. In Yoast SEO Premium, we’ve added a new column in the post overview to quickly see your posts’ inclusive language scores. Improved language analysis Content is vital for successful SEO. Yoast SEO’s language …

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Yoast SEO 20.8: Fixes, enhancements, and a new Premium feature

Yoast SEO 20.7: Keep track of cornerstones in Premium

Every two weeks, we bring you a new release of Yoast SEO. Today is no different! In Yoast SEO 20.7, we bring you a round of fixes and enhancements. In this week’s Yoast SEO Premium release, we’ve added a new feature to help you discover your all-important cornerstone content articles in the WordPress post overview. …

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Yoast SEO 20.7: Keep track of cornerstones in Premium

Yoast SEO 20.6: Introducing a new readability assessment

26 April 2023 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

Get ready for another release of Yoast SEO! Our team has been working hard to bring you new features, enhancements, and bug fixes that help improve Yoast SEO. In Yoast SEO 20.6, we’re introducing a readability assessment that helps you avoid using center-aligned text in your content. Plus, we have other upgrades that enhance your …

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Yoast SEO 20.6: Introducing a new readability assessment

Yoast SEO 20.5: Improvements and security fixes

11 April 2023 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

We just released Yoast SEO 20.5, which has many enhancements and (security) fixes! Our team has been working hard to implement these changes to enhance your experience and help make your SEO journey smoother. In this post, we’ll tell you all about the latest release. Improvements in Yoast SEO 20.5 One of the main enhancements …

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Yoast SEO 20.5: Improvements and security fixes

Yoast SEO reduces your site’s carbon footprint with crawl optimization

We’re very excited to be releasing Yoast SEO 20.4. With this release, we’re bringing our crawl optimization feature to Yoast SEO Free. With this feature, you can improve your SEO and reduce your carbon footprint with just a few clicks. This blog post will tell you about this feature and why we’ve brought it to …

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Yoast SEO reduces your site’s carbon footprint with crawl optimization

Yoast SEO 20.3: Better highlighter and Portuguese language support

14 March 2023 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re making Yoast SEO 20.3 available to the world. This release comes with a long list of enhancements, bug fixes, and other improvements designed to help you improve your SEO experience. Improved highlighting in analyses One of the most significant updates in this release is an improved highlighting feature. Yoast SEO helps you quickly …

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Yoast SEO 20.3: Better highlighter and Portuguese language support

Proactive security fixes in Yoast SEO (update to v20.2.1)

6 March 2023 | 2 Comments Derek Herman

We take security seriously at Yoast and continually look for potential threats and vulnerabilities that could affect our products and customers. That’s why we were alarmed when security firm WordFence found XSS vulnerabilities in another SEO plugin. After carefully reviewing the issues, we found a similar but less severe vulnerability in Yoast SEO, which we …

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Proactive security fixes in Yoast SEO (update to v20.2.1)

Yoast SEO 20.2: Improving our database system

28 February 2023 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

In Yoast SEO 20.2, we’ve improved our innovative indexables technology. We’ve developed a faster and more reliable way of indexing your site’s data. In turn, we make better use of this data to improve your site’s SEO. Plus, this technology helps us do our best to make the web greener and lays the groundwork for …

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Yoast SEO 20.2: Improving our database system

Yoast SEO 20.1: Mastodon and inclusive language improvements

7 February 2023 Edwin Toonen

After successfully introducing a new settings interface in Yoast SEO 20.0, we have more exciting news! We have built an integration with Mastodon, the decentralized and open-source social network. Yoast SEO Premium users can now verify the link in their Mastodon profile with this integration. We’re also adding your profile to the structured data we …

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Yoast SEO 20.1: Mastodon and inclusive language improvements

Yoast SEO 20.0: A brand-new settings interface

24 January 2023 | 15 Comments Edwin Toonen

We are thrilled to announce the release of Yoast SEO 20.0. This release features a brand-new, state-of-the-art settings interface that takes your SEO work to the next level. We took great care to design an interface that’s logical and easy while simultaneously fully featured. This user interface brings Yoast SEO ahead of the curve and …

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Yoast SEO 20.0: A brand-new settings interface