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Help us test Yoast SEO 7.0

22 February 2018 | 55 Comments | Joost de Valk

We have got something special for you, but before we release it for real, we need your help testing it: Yoast SEO 7.0. This is one of the biggest releases we have ever done, hence the jump from version 6.3 to 7.0. We’ve greatly simplified the interface, deprecated unused features and combined others into smarter features. …

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Help us test Yoast SEO 7.0


Yoast SEO 6.3: Giving you more context

13 February 2018 | 19 Comments | Edwin Toonen

Something’s brewing at Yoast HQ. There’s no sign of spring yet, but we feel the need for a spring clean-up. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking critically at the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin and its many features and thinking: what’s this doing here? And should we get rid of that thing? Some of …

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Yoast SEO 6.3: Giving you more context

Yoast SEO 6.2: Passive voice checks for French and Spanish

23 January 2018 | 16 Comments | Edwin Toonen

Since launching the readability analysis way back when we’ve been steadily adding support for more and more languages. Today, with the release of Yoast SEO 6.2, we’re expanding our knowledge of languages again by introducing passive voice checks for the French and Spanish languages. Improving language checks At Yoast, we firmly believe that readability ranks. …

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Yoast SEO 6.2: Passive voice checks for French and Spanish


Yoast SEO 6.0: More characters for your meta descriptions

20 December 2017 | 44 Comments | Edwin Toonen

The end of the year is coming up fast. Today is the day we’re releasing the last update of Yoast SEO in 2017. It’s been a wild ride this year and we’re already working on big plans for 2018. But first, Yoast SEO 6.0. And yes, we’ve heard you loud and clear; we’ve extended the …

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Yoast SEO 6.0: More characters for your meta descriptions

Yoast SEO 5.9: A more accessible content analysis

5 December 2017 | 16 Comments | Edwin Toonen

A new release doesn’t always have to bring incredible features, as it can silently set the stage for bigger things to come. Yoast SEO 5.9, released today, is such a release. While this release doesn’t contain groundbreaking new features, it does provide an important new piece of the Yoast SEO puzzle for the future: we’ve …

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Yoast SEO 5.9: A more accessible content analysis