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Cyber Monday: 1 day left for a 30% discount on all products

28 November 2022 | Marieke van de Rakt

It’s Cyber Monday, and the Yoast Black Friday deals are still going strong. Have you claimed your 30% discount yet? If not, hurry! Time is running out. Get the advanced features of our Premium plugins and outrank your competitors in Google. Are you looking to save time and access easy tools and practical tips on boosting your rankings? …

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Cyber Monday: 1 day left for a 30% discount on all products

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

Yoast SEO 19.8: Schema improvements and enhancements

11 October 2022 | Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re releasing Yoast SEO 19.8 into the world. In this release, we’re focusing on general improvements and fixing several bugs. One of the main improvements this time concerns our Schema structured data output. Structured data helps search engines to understand your site, so they better get the right things to read! Schema structured data …

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Yoast SEO 19.8: Schema improvements and enhancements

New in Yoast WooCommerce SEO and Yoast SEO for Shopify: The product identifier check

20 September 2022 | Edwin Toonen

Do you have trouble getting your product to show up on Google? Are your competitors getting rich results, but the search results for your product are boring? It might be that Google doesn’t know every detail of your product. For instance, you might miss the product identifiers that Google uses to understand your products thoroughly. …

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New in Yoast WooCommerce SEO and Yoast SEO for Shopify: The product identifier check

Yoast SEO Premium 19.2: A new inclusive language analysis — in beta

23 August 2022 | Edwin Toonen

Non-inclusive language excludes people based on beliefs, gender, sexuality, or health, while inclusive language uses better alternatives to words that people might find harmful. Making your content inclusive helps you to reach a broader audience. But while writing, it is surprisingly easy to exclude people by accidentally using the wrong words. While inclusive language has …

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Yoast SEO Premium 19.2: A new inclusive language analysis — in beta

Open-source software, open Schema protocol!

18 August 2022 | Edwin Toonen

We’re massive advocates of using Schema structured data to help search engines understand website content. Our plugins automatically take care of anything Schema-related for you, but we know that we’re not the only ones to do so. It’s possible to use our Schema output in combination with other tools. Although, sometimes, things may not work …

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Open-source software, open Schema protocol!


Yoast SEO Premium 19.0: new emoji picker tool, word complexity feedback in more languages and Schema improvements

26 July 2022 | 4 Comments | Willemien Hallebeek

We’re always working to improve and refine the Yoast SEO user experience with every release. In this release, we’ve rolled out improvements to our Schema structured data implementation and fixed a couple of bugs. Aside from that, we’ve decided to include some exciting additions to our plugins, starting with a new emoji picker tool and …

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Yoast SEO Premium 19.0: new emoji picker tool, word complexity feedback in more languages and Schema improvements

Schema – why you NEED Yoast SEO to do it right!

20 July 2022 | Marieke van de Rakt

You might have heard that you need structured data on your website. Not only will Google understand your content better, but it will also increase your chances of getting those shiny rich results. In Yoast SEO, we output schema as a graph. This means it’s all tied together and the relationship between various elements is …

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Schema – why you NEED Yoast SEO to do it right!