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Yoast SEO 17.9: Track the performance of your keyphrases with Wincher

Today, we’re launching Yoast SEO 17.9. In this release, we have an awesome new feature to share with you. We’ve partnered up with SEO tool Wincher to bring you keyphrase performance tracking. This new feature will allow you to get a better understanding of how your posts are ranking over time. Let’s find out more …

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Yoast SEO 17.9: Track the performance of your keyphrases with Wincher




Yoast SEO 17.8: fixes and enhancements

14 December 2021 | 8 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we present you Yoast SEO 17.8! While not the most exciting update in the history of Yoast SEO, we do want to get these fixes and enhancements out the door. With the holidays around the corner, this release should make sure that your favorite SEO plugin will function without issue into the new year. …

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Yoast SEO 17.8: fixes and enhancements

Yoast SEO 17.7: Introducing a free configuration workout

30 November 2021 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

These past couple of months, we’ve brought you several innovative SEO workouts. Our workouts help break down specific SEO tasks so that you can follow a step-by-step process to fulfill these tasks. They are easy and practical, targeted at getting your work done without issue. In Yoast SEO 17.7, we’re introducing a new configuration workout …

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Yoast SEO 17.7: Introducing a free configuration workout

Yoast SEO 17.6: Fixes, and new XML sitemaps in News SEO

16 November 2021 | 3 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 17.6 is out today. This new release brings several fixes and enhancements to improve how the plugin works. We’re getting it ready for the upcoming WordPress 5.9 release and we also included a great new feature for the News SEO add-on: a new way of generating XML sitemaps for news sites. News SEO …

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Yoast SEO 17.6: Fixes, and new XML sitemaps in News SEO

Writing accessible content: 4 checks you can do with Yoast SEO and the block editor

4 November 2021 | 5 Comments Carolina Nymark

Having an accessible website means that more people can use your website and the information that you share. There are a couple of checks you can do yourself before publishing an article to make sure your article can be read and understood by as many people as possible. Did you know Yoast SEO and the …

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Writing accessible content: 4 checks you can do with Yoast SEO and the block editor

Yoast SEO 17.5: Full Greek language understanding

2 November 2021 Edwin Toonen

In Yoast SEO 17.5, we’re proud to announce a new language getting full language support: Greek! Greek users can now use our cutting-edge language analysis tools to write better content for their readers. This includes the invaluable word forms features, where we take different grammatical forms of your keyphrase into account, making the process of …

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Yoast SEO 17.5: Full Greek language understanding

Yoast SEO 17.4: Performance, web stories and News SEO

19 October 2021 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 17.4 is out today! This release comes with several fixes and enhancements for both Premium as well as free. These enhancements help database performance on larger sites by cleaning and streamlining data. In addition, we’re releasing News SEO 13.0 with a new way to pick news-specific structured data for all your background articles, …

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Yoast SEO 17.4: Performance, web stories and News SEO