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Yoast SEO 3.8

8 November 2016 | 3 Comments | Joost de Valk

In the latest release of our flagship plugin, Yoast SEO 3.8, we’ve made several enhancements and fixed some bugs. In addition to that, we’ve made some new strides in our continuing quest for better accessibility of our products. Our other plugins also received numerous updates, in particular, Video SEO. Accessibility first As we’ve said many times …

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Yoast SEO 3.8


Yoast SEO 3.6

27 September 2016 | 23 Comments | Joost de Valk

At Yoast, we love to make our work available for everyone. We try to develop products that follow accessibility guidelines to take away any technical hurdles people may stumble on. But we can always take an extra step to help the user navigate the front-end. That’s why we’ve added a wizard to Yoast SEO 3.6, …

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Yoast SEO 3.6


Yoast SEO 3.4: accessibility first

19 July 2016 | 11 Comments | Joost de Valk

Today we’re releasing Yoast SEO 3.4, a release mostly aimed at improving our accessibility. Which means you won’t see most of the changes, but they’ll make a world of difference to others. We’ve also improved our readability checks and how we deal with some languages, more on that below. Accessibility changes When we hired Andrea a …

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Yoast SEO 3.4: accessibility first

Yoast SEO 3.3: content analysis

14 June 2016 | 67 Comments | Joost de Valk

Today we’re very proud to release Yoast SEO 3.3! Yoast SEO 3.3 is a huge update, with many new features. The most important improvement is the new content analysis. As of today, Yoast SEO checks both the readability and the SEO-friendliness of your articles. But this update contains even more: we’ve expanded our help center …

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Yoast SEO 3.3: content analysis

The Yoast SEO readability analysis: methodological choices explained

14 June 2016 | 5 Comments | Marieke van de Rakt

In Yoast SEO, you’ll find readability checks which will help you making your text easy to read. Here we’ll explain the choices we made while developing all these checks. What was our methodology, why did we include these checks in the readability analysis? And how did we set them up? Want to know if the readability …

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The Yoast SEO readability analysis: methodological choices explained

Yoast SEO 3.2

20 April 2016 | 68 Comments | Joost de Valk

Today we’ve pushed out Yoast SEO 3.2. This release’s most notable feature is the addition of a help center to every settings page. You’ll remember we released tutorial videos a while back. These videos are now available right where you’d need them: on the tab that each video discusses. Other changes include accessibility improvements and tons of …

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Yoast SEO 3.2

Yoast SEO 3.1: Improved snippet editor and primary category

1 March 2016 | 119 Comments | Joost de Valk

Today we’re releasing Yoast SEO 3.1. It’s a release we’re truly very proud of in terms of functionality but also in the process we’ve gone through. Yoast SEO 3.0 was arguably our biggest release ever, with a lot of changes that needed to happen but it also lead to issues. Yoast SEO 3.1 aims to keep the …

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Yoast SEO 3.1: Improved snippet editor and primary category