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Yoast SEO 4.8: Cornerstone content analysis

In this release, we’re fine tuning our algorithms to give cornerstone content articles the analysis they deserve. Articles you’ve marked as cornerstone content will now be judged on a different level, so we can make sure they have the quality and authority an article like that should have. Yoast SEO 4.8 helps you write better …

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Yoast SEO 4.8: Cornerstone content analysis

Yoast SEO 4.7: Introducing Italian

2 May 2017 | 7 Comments Joost de Valk

Yoast SEO now supports transition words for the Italian language so the content analysis feature can give you more detailed information about the readability of your post. This is the first step in providing full support for Italian. The Insights and Internal Linking Suggestion features will soon follow. We’ve also added a new check to …

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Yoast SEO 4.7: Introducing Italian

Yoast SEO 4.6: the cornerstone content update

11 April 2017 | 6 Comments Joost de Valk

Cornerstone content forms the foundation of your site. If you write a couple of authoritative articles about your chosen subject and keyword, you can link all your other posts to these articles. In doing so, you greatly enhance the chance of these articles ranking in the search engines. Build your site as the ancient Egyptians …

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Yoast SEO 4.6: the cornerstone content update


Yoast SEO 4.4

28 February 2017 | 14 Comments Joost de Valk

Today marks the release of the next version of our flagship WordPress plugin: Yoast SEO 4.4. In Yoast SEO 4.4 you’ll find many small changes and a couple of new features that make it even easier to work with the plugin. In this release post, we’ll give a brief overview of the changes that we’ve …

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Yoast SEO 4.4


Yoast SEO 4.2 adds another new language: Dutch

31 January 2017 | 6 Comments Joost de Valk

In our quest to speak more of the world’s languages, we’ve now added our mother tongue: Yoast SEO 4.2 premium supports Dutch in its entirety. Our Dutch users can now use all of our innovative features, like Insights and Internal linking suggestions, in their own language. More languages will follow soon. Insights into more languages …

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Yoast SEO 4.2 adds another new language: Dutch

Yoast SEO 4.1: Mobile snippets and German readability

17 January 2017 | 7 Comments Joost de Valk

As you might know, we’ve added quite a few new features to Yoast SEO over the last few months. Today marks the release of Yoast SEO 4.1, the first of many releases to come in the new year. Besides fixing some bugs, this version comes with two major new features: a mobile snippet preview and full …

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Yoast SEO 4.1: Mobile snippets and German readability

Yoast SEO 4.0: lightning fast internal linking

13 December 2016 | 83 Comments Joost de Valk

After months of hard work, we are ready to show Yoast SEO 4.0 to the world. In this version, we’re shipping an awesome Premium feature that many of you will find very, very helpful. We’ve figured out how to make the search for related posts to link to, fast and faultless. In this post, we’ll …

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Yoast SEO 4.0: lightning fast internal linking