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Yoast SEO 19.0: Optimize crawling and Bing discoverability

One of the most important aspects of SEO is optimizing the crawlability of your site. Search engines have near-endless resources, so they have the power to crawl everything they find — and they will. But, that is not the way it should be. Almost every CMS outputs URLs that don’t make sense and that crawlers …

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Yoast SEO 19.0: Optimize crawling and Bing discoverability

Our first-time configuration helps Google understand your site!

When you started your business, what were the first steps you took to establish yourself in the market? You probably thought of a name and created a logo to go with it. Who knows, maybe you also created a few social accounts to introduce your business to potential customers right away. But like most businesses, …

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Our first-time configuration helps Google understand your site!

Premium SEO analysis: As smart as Google

23 May 2022 | 22 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Yoast SEO Premium comes with a great functionality that will help you write SEO-friendly texts. We put a lot of work and care into developing it, and the software and our techniques are really smart and advanced. So, at Yoast, we’re very proud of our Premium SEO analysis. But why do YOU need this? Will it …

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Premium SEO analysis: As smart as Google

Yoast SEO 18.9: Updating the first-time experience

17 May 2022 Edwin Toonen

We’re launching an updated first-time experience for new Yoast SEO users. In Yoast SEO 18.9, we’re making it easier for users to set up the essentials that search engines need to make sense of your site. The first-time configuration takes you by the hand and guides you in properly setting everything up. A new first-time …

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Yoast SEO 18.9: Updating the first-time experience



Yoast SEO 18.6: Continuing with fixes and enhancements

19 April 2022 Edwin Toonen

Working in the software industry isn’t easy. A lot of the time, fixing bugs in software is overlooked in favor of new features and code. But, bug fixing is important. Bugs become a huge problem if they are not promptly fixed. Additionally, fixing bugs ensures that future bugs and glitches in the program are avoided. …

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Yoast SEO 18.6: Continuing with fixes and enhancements


Yoast SEO 18.3: More fixes and enhancements

8 March 2022 Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re releasing version 18.3 of Yoast SEO. For this release, we did another round of fixes and improvements. We’ve improved the importer, enhanced the HowTo blocks, and fine-tuned an assessment. Ready to update to Yoast SEO 18.3? Also, don’t forget to read about the feature that should have been in this release. Fixes and …

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Yoast SEO 18.3: More fixes and enhancements

Indexing in Yoast SEO: What pages to show in Google’s search results

14 February 2022 Edwin Toonen

You probably want Google and other search engines to show most of your content in the search results. But most websites also have a few pages or posts that don’t need to be featured in those search results. So how do you tell Google what pages to show and which ones not to? This is …

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Indexing in Yoast SEO: What pages to show in Google’s search results