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WordPress SEO Premium 1.2

Joost de Valk 5 June 2014 38 , , , ,

As I announced yesterday on the Dradcast, we released a new version of WordPress SEO premium. This is another feature packed update with a lot of things people had been asking us for. Let me go through the list of new features:

Import redirects from your .htaccess file

If you have a lot of redirects in your .htaccess file and find it a hassle to manage, you can now import them into WordPress SEO, just go to SEO → Import & Export and you’ll see this:

redirects import

Just copy / paste your redirects and they’ll be imported!

Write redirects to .htaccess file

Once you’ve imported your redirects, you can then also write them back to that file using the plugin. This means you have the best of both worlds: your redirects are as fast as can be because they don’t need WordPress to load up, but you can manage them from inside WordPress!

Choose the redirect type

Up until now, every redirect you created with the plugin was automatically a 301 redirect, also known as a permanent redirect. We realize that sometimes you’d rather do a temporary redirect, (a 302 or a 307) so we allow you to choose the redirect type now:

redirect type

Catching post slug and category / tag slug changes

When you change the slug of a post, WordPress automatically creates a redirect for you from the old post URL to the new post URL. The issue is that it’s rather hard to change that redirect at that point, should you want to. So we intercept that and now we create the redirect in WordPress SEO premium, so you can change it should you want.

Even worse, if you change the URL for a category, tag or other custom taxonomy, WordPress does absolutely nothing to prevent users from getting 404s. WordPress SEO premium will now automatically add a redirect from the old URL to the new one for you.

Redirect when deleting posts / terms

Similar to when you change the URL, when you delete a post, tag or category, the old URL for that post, tag or category would at that point go to 404 not found page. WordPress SEO premium will now offer you the option of redirecting that URL to another one if you remove a post / page from the trash:

delete redirect notification

Miscellaneous bug fixes

Of course we’ve also asked some bugs to go away and we’ve updated the core WordPress SEO plugin to the latest version, so there’s lots of good stuff to play with!

If you haven’t bought WordPress SEO premium yet and this has convinced you that we’re doing cool things, go here and buy it!

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Joost de Valk

Joost is an internet entrepreneur and the founder of Yoast. He has a long history in WordPress and digital marketing. On our blog, he has written a lot about SEO in general, technical SEO and important topics related to SEO.

Discussion (38)

  1. The redirecting deleted posts sounds great, might actually upgrade to premium for this feature :)

  • Thanks for your great plugin. I love it. Could you add some new features or considerate them as :
    – 404 errors log to create 301 redirection because Google webmasters tools doesn’t index all pages sometimes and if we can have internal 404 logs as redirection plugin it would be very useful to complete the system
    – Maybe extend input size width for edition of URL and New URL (seems to be very small).

  • Plugin WordPress 1.5.3.3 has mistake: count of russian keywords in text of page is 0
    Complete text in russian:
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    Please use automatic translator!

  • It is already a great tool, the free one so why should I buy a premium version?
    I think this might work for big and popular blog owners. What do you think?

  • We use Yoast SEO plugins on all of our client sites, no matter what.

    So…do we NEED the premium for all clients at Mindbrew, or can we make it with the non-premium plugin?

    Convince me! I want to get it…but I feel like it is already such a great tool.

  • Yoast,

    You have never steered me wrong and in fact dissuaded me from buying your local plugin b/c you thought I didn’t need it.

    My business has an English site with about 200 posts that I use for biz, and a Spanish site with 150 or posts. Big business generators. Is it a no-brainer for me to buy this seo premium plugin?

    I have been using a plugin called 301 redirects for when I decide to delete a page but lately (thankfully) I haven’t used that plugin much.

    Also, your seo plugin in the snippet preview shows that the title tag is the proper length but google displays about 2 characters less than your plugin says is good. Thanks!

  • Hi Joost! When we redirect the “OLD URL” to “NEW URL” its the old url will gone in google result? or google will replace the old url to the new one? im not sure. Thanks

  • One reason I purchased the “WordPress SEO Premium iis to better manage slugs.

    However, I still cannot change a wrong slug or sub folder.

    For example: INCORRECT: http://www.homedestination.com/tips-twin-cities-homeowners/what-to-spend-your-money-on-during-a-kitchen-remodel.html SHOULD BE: http://www.homedestination.com/tips/what-to-spend-your-money-on-during-a-kitchen-remodel.html

    How may I change this?

  • These are good updates. However you seem to avoid your biggest issue which is lack of compatibility with Google Universal Analytics. When is this going to be addressed?

  • Do I need to make .htaccess file writable in order to import? I’m getting a “.htaccess import failed: No redirects found.” message.

  • Love this worth the price is salty was cheaper and would buy many more profits

  • Love the new features! Been using Redirection plugin for some time but these new features make it obsolete.

    I am seeing issue with Webmaster Tools > Date Detected, not listing URLs in chronological order – either earliest to latest, or vise versa.

    Thanks for the continued great work.

  • Yoast Seo premium creates redirects automatically when “Update” WooCommerce products even if the product links does not change..

  • It looks like premium is getting a nice boost in functionality. Expanding the footprint a few more features and I may have to splurge and spring for the Premium!

    Great job Joost, is there a product roadmap available or any inclination as to what will be added or improved next?

    Thanks!

  • Sounds interesting :) Cant wait to upgrade my Plugin now!

    Well, as Maneksh said..it would be great if your plugin has functionality to count hits on redirect so that we can keep track of visitors. Especially for affiliate product sites it would be useful!

    Thanks

  • I have always updated my yoast plug-in a soon there are a new update,, but after one of the new updates have caused a general error on all my pages on my website, so I am waiting in the future to update my yoast plug-in, until I am convinced it will also works well on my site.
    Otherwise a good product
    However, I think there comes a update to offen sometimes several times a week, that is to much.

  • For 301 redirect i am using Gocode. This plugin can track the redirect hits. Is there any option to track the redirect on your premium SEO plugin?