Today marks the release of the next version of our flagship WordPress plugin: Yoast SEO 4.4. In Yoast SEO 4.4 you’ll find many small changes and a couple of new features that make it even easier to work with the plugin. In this release post, we’ll give a brief overview of the changes that we’ve made, starting with Yoast SEO Premium.
New features in Yoast SEO Premium
If you’re an avid user of Yoast SEO and Google Search Console, you’ve probably connected these together so that they can work in tandem. Your crawl errors will show up in Yoast SEO so you can work on them from there. It was always possible to redirect 404 error pages using a 301, but with Yoast SEO 4.4 you can now use every type of redirect that Yoast SEO supports. These include 301, 302, 307, plus the 410 and 451 redirects. This makes it even easier to tell crawl bots exactly what should be done with the specific content.
You can find the second cool new feature in the internal linking tool. Yoast SEO Premium shows you the links that have already been added to the text. You can quickly discern the different links because they have a different icon, namely a checkmark. Of course, you’re still free to copy that link if you need to add it to the text again.
Changes in Yoast SEO 4.4
Besides fixing a number of bugs, we’ve been working on some enhancements to improve the flow of the plugin. To start off, we’ve improved the styling of tables, so they are viewable on mobile. In addition to that, we’ve moved the option to disable the keyword and content analysis from the general tab to the features tab.
The newest release of Yoast SEO is now live, so head on to your WordPress install and hit that update button. We hope you enjoy this new release. If you need more information on this release, you can check out the changelog on WordPress.org. Thanks!
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.
February 20 - 22, 2025
Team Yoast is at Attending, Sponsoring, Yoast Booth Wordcamp Asia 2025! Click through to see who will be there, what we will do, and more!
See where you can find us next »
16 January 2025
Learn how to start your SEO journey the right way with our free webinar. Get practical tips and answers to all your questions in the live Q&A!
All Yoast SEO webinars »
14 Responses to Yoast SEO 4.4
Wilder Taype • 8 years ago
That’s a lot of help, thanks for your work
Kale Alarm • 8 years ago
Thanks for sharing your nice experiences. My cms is wordpress and I use wp-smush to optimize images. I pay attention keyword density and I write related keywords to header and content. But my organic hits doesn’t increase.
Derek • 8 years ago
Any thoughts on the blog post if you read it?
Suco Verde • 8 years ago
That´s a good information!
I’ll update my version …
Thanks for the plugin.
Carol
Adrienne • 8 years ago
Yoast redirects are very helpful indeed. Thank you for a great plugin!
Nicola Blackwell • 8 years ago
Just updated to 4.4, but now I dont have a focus keyword box. Just the snippets and analysis….
wayne szabo • 8 years ago
the update won’t update is this you or is it godaddy.com
i have been struggling with this app since we started.
can you please advise
Derek • 8 years ago
You should email the support team on Yoast for support on the plugin.
wellington beltrão • 8 years ago
infelizmente o meu plugin Yoast parou de funcionar após a atualização
Steffi • 8 years ago
Using other redirects is a fabulous facility! I love it!
Gaurav Heera • 8 years ago
Awesome Plugin……. Yoast plugin is really helpful in SEO. I use free version and it is amazing, and I hope premium version will be great. Really you have described everything in descriptive, simply yet effective too. You’ve done a great job with this.
Thanks to share this informative article.
Anthony Brooks • 8 years ago
I love your plugin! Thanks for continuing to improve it. Very excited to check out the new changes.
Luis A. • 8 years ago
Good work! I love your SEO plugin. Just waiting for internal links in Italian.
amir • 8 years ago
im so love yoast plugin..im use this for three week rank my keyword..thank you so much
That’s a lot of help, thanks for your work
Thanks for sharing your nice experiences. My cms is wordpress and I use wp-smush to optimize images. I pay attention keyword density and I write related keywords to header and content. But my organic hits doesn’t increase.
Any thoughts on the blog post if you read it?
That´s a good information!
I’ll update my version …
Thanks for the plugin.
Carol
Yoast redirects are very helpful indeed. Thank you for a great plugin!
Just updated to 4.4, but now I dont have a focus keyword box. Just the snippets and analysis….
the update won’t update is this you or is it godaddy.com
i have been struggling with this app since we started.
can you please advise
You should email the support team on Yoast for support on the plugin.
infelizmente o meu plugin Yoast parou de funcionar após a atualização
Using other redirects is a fabulous facility! I love it!
Awesome Plugin……. Yoast plugin is really helpful in SEO. I use free version and it is amazing, and I hope premium version will be great. Really you have described everything in descriptive, simply yet effective too. You’ve done a great job with this.
Thanks to share this informative article.
I love your plugin! Thanks for continuing to improve it. Very excited to check out the new changes.
Good work! I love your SEO plugin. Just waiting for internal links in Italian.
im so love yoast plugin..im use this for three week rank my keyword..thank you so much