At Yoast we’re convinced readability is essential if you want to rank high and give users a pleasant experience on your website. That’s why we’re so happy we’re now capable of fully analyzing content in yet another language: Dutch! Plus, if you write in a language with diacritics, i.e. marks on a letter that indicate the pronunciation, like in mot-clé in French, we have some good news for you: Yoast SEO is now able to identify those keywords too.
Leesbare teksten in het Nederlands
In Yoast SEO 7.9.1 we’ve completed all Yoast SEO content checks for Dutch. By adding the final assessment: the passive voice check, we’re now able to fully check all assessments that belong to the readability and SEO analysis. We’ve added Dutch to the list of completed languages, as we’ve already done for English, Spanish, French, Russian, German an Italian. Dutch might not be the most-used language on the planet, but it’s dear to our heart being the native language of most Yoasters. We’re so glad we can now ban passiveness from our mother tongue too!
Improved keyword recognition
In addition to the above language enhancement, we’ve smashed some linguistic bugs. Our content analysis sometimes had trouble recognizing the keyword in the slug while it was there, leading to some frustration among users. It often happened in languages that use special diacritics (e.g. Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish). From now on, Yoast SEO will recognize them much better! Also, it would have difficulties to find the keyword if it was flanked by a Spanish inverted exclamation and question mark. All these issues are solved now: ¡Con mucho gusto!
Contributions
Together with some skilled developers of our beloved WordPress community we’ve also took on some performance issues and other bugs to make our plugin run smoother. We humbly thank Piero Bellomo and Jaska120 for contributing to the quality of Yoast SEO.
What’s ahead?
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12 Responses to Yoast SEO 7.9.1: Dutch checks complete & improved keyword recognition
Donald Whitaker1 • 6 years ago
There are not multiple users and also JetPack (got suggested by one of your youtube videos) blocks malicious attempts.
techingreek.com • 6 years ago
Yaaaay! Great news, just updated to latest update. Is there any beta channel or way to check out bleeding edge changes?
^ Post author
Willemien Hallebeek • 6 years ago
Hi! You sure can :-) Please subscribe here to become a Beta tester: https://yoa.st/beta Much appreciated!
Diana K Hoskins • 6 years ago
I saw that someone had this exact problem a month ago. I have updated to latest version of SEO Yoast. I am using Divi Theme. When I try to go in and manually type in the title and hit the letter ‘o’ my divi settings pop up. Very frustrating.
chandrajeet rajbhar • 6 years ago
Hi! Does it have meta tag keywords tab active for every pages or post.
Hello,
I am using your free version of Yoast SEO. I really wanted to buy the premium version but the prices are way too high for my budget. I just started building my website and I can’t afford your prices. Can you please help me on this?
Saxena
Iris Guelen • 6 years ago
Hi Saxena! If you subscribe to our newsletter, you’ll be notified of any discounts! You can subscribe here: https://yoast.com/newsletter/. Hope that helps and good luck with building your website!
Kosi • 6 years ago
I decided to try out Yoast after several of my colleagues adviced me to.. so I installed the free version to have a test run first.. then it messed my social media metadata,, Displays random images from random posts in my site as my Facebook default image,,
I used to Fb debug sharing tool to scrape the images but it just wouldn’t fix.. Please is this a bug with this particular version of Yoast or is it just from my site?
I’d appreciate a swift response to this asap
^ Post author
Willemien Hallebeek • 6 years ago
Hi Kosi, So sorry you’re experiencing trouble with this. Unfortunately issues with Social media can have many causes. Please create a new thread for this here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo
biuro40 • 6 years ago
Language grammar is a pain on Yoast (in Polish) since it’s often impossible to use words in the same form in key words and in text so none of it gets recognized.
I wouldn’t cray over not ticking green boxes it if I’d new that google handles it better but does it really?
When a keywords is “zawias meblowy” and in text I have “zawiasu meblowego”, “zawiasy meblowe”, “zawiasom meblowym” and many, many more forms, how does it influence SEO?
It’s not possible to write meaningful, real texts with generic forms that are used as key words.
^ Post author
Willemien Hallebeek • 6 years ago
Hi Biuro, Thanks for your comment! I understand that indeed some languages have difficulties because of the morphology words have in that language. My advice would always be to use the words in forms people use! Don’t try to trick the search engine, even if this would mean a red bullet in Yoast. Not sure how well Google is able to understand Polish, to be honest. I do know that we are working on getting our readability checks working in Polish and that we’re also working on getting morphology recognition in Yoast SEO, but that will be for English first.
There are not multiple users and also JetPack (got suggested by one of your youtube videos) blocks malicious attempts.
Yaaaay! Great news, just updated to latest update. Is there any beta channel or way to check out bleeding edge changes?
Hi! You sure can :-) Please subscribe here to become a Beta tester: https://yoa.st/beta Much appreciated!
I saw that someone had this exact problem a month ago. I have updated to latest version of SEO Yoast. I am using Divi Theme. When I try to go in and manually type in the title and hit the letter ‘o’ my divi settings pop up. Very frustrating.
Hi! Does it have meta tag keywords tab active for every pages or post.
Hi Chandrajeet, Do you mean meta keywords? We’d advise not to use them: https://yoast.com/meta-keywords/
Hello,
I am using your free version of Yoast SEO. I really wanted to buy the premium version but the prices are way too high for my budget. I just started building my website and I can’t afford your prices. Can you please help me on this?
Saxena
Hi Saxena! If you subscribe to our newsletter, you’ll be notified of any discounts! You can subscribe here: https://yoast.com/newsletter/. Hope that helps and good luck with building your website!
I decided to try out Yoast after several of my colleagues adviced me to.. so I installed the free version to have a test run first.. then it messed my social media metadata,, Displays random images from random posts in my site as my Facebook default image,,
I used to Fb debug sharing tool to scrape the images but it just wouldn’t fix.. Please is this a bug with this particular version of Yoast or is it just from my site?
I’d appreciate a swift response to this asap
Hi Kosi, So sorry you’re experiencing trouble with this. Unfortunately issues with Social media can have many causes. Please create a new thread for this here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo
Language grammar is a pain on Yoast (in Polish) since it’s often impossible to use words in the same form in key words and in text so none of it gets recognized.
I wouldn’t cray over not ticking green boxes it if I’d new that google handles it better but does it really?
When a keywords is “zawias meblowy” and in text I have “zawiasu meblowego”, “zawiasy meblowe”, “zawiasom meblowym” and many, many more forms, how does it influence SEO?
It’s not possible to write meaningful, real texts with generic forms that are used as key words.
Hi Biuro, Thanks for your comment! I understand that indeed some languages have difficulties because of the morphology words have in that language. My advice would always be to use the words in forms people use! Don’t try to trick the search engine, even if this would mean a red bullet in Yoast. Not sure how well Google is able to understand Polish, to be honest. I do know that we are working on getting our readability checks working in Polish and that we’re also working on getting morphology recognition in Yoast SEO, but that will be for English first.