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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

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

New in Yoast SEO Free: the inclusive language analysis

13 December 2022 Camille Cunningham

Earlier this year, we added a new feature to our Premium plugin, the inclusive language analysis. Now we’re excited to say that we’re also bringing it to Yoast SEO Free. Why? Because we believe that using inclusive language is essential in making the web a better place. Taking a stance We believe that inclusive language …

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New in Yoast SEO Free: the inclusive language analysis

How to write naturally beyond exact keyword matching

23 November 2022 Marieke van de Rakt

Exact keyword matching used to be an important SEO tactic, but those days are long gone. Now search engines can understand when similar phrases and related terms mean the same thing. Adding too many exact match keywords might make Google think your post is just another piece of spam. We’ll explain how to write naturally …

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How to write naturally beyond exact keyword matching

Yoast SEO, Local SEO, and WooCommerce SEO updates

8 November 2022 Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re releasing updates for four plugins and add-ons: Yoast SEO 19.10, Yoast SEO Premium 19.5, Local SEO 14.7, and WooCommerce SEO 15.3. The updates mainly consist of enhancements and fixes, plus support for material structured data in WooCommerce SEO. Find out what else is new! Yoast SEO 19.10 and Premium 19.5 The overarching theme …

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Yoast SEO, Local SEO, and WooCommerce SEO updates

Yoast SEO: Enhanced support for Google Site Names

25 October 2022 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 19.9 and Yoast SEO Premium 19.4 are out now. In these releases, we’ve enhanced support for Google’s new Site Names in the mobile search results. Yoast SEO for Shopify also has this expanded support for site names. We’ve also improved our Premium analysis and did many fixes and enhancements — including some provided …

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Yoast SEO: Enhanced support for Google Site Names