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Yoast SEO… for Drupal

Joost de Valk 9 September 2015 28 ,
Yoast SEO Drupal

Today I’m proud to announce the first step in Yoast SEO going cross-platform. We’ll release the first version of Yoast SEO for Drupal on September 23, 2015. This brings the core functionality of Yoast SEO to the users of Drupal 7. This core functionality includes management and optimization of content and meta data (like titles and meta descriptions).

Content analysis on other platforms

We’ve written a couple of times about our content analysis becoming real time. To achieve this, we’ve rewritten the whole content analysis in JavaScript. One of the main goals we had when doing that was making it platform independent. This means the experience will be similar whether you’re optimizing content on WordPress or on Drupal.

GoalGorilla

GoalGorilla

We’ve built Yoast SEO for Drupal together with our partners at GoalGorilla. GoalGorilla is, just like we are, Dutch, and we share a liking for illustrations as well as SEO. We’ve enjoyed working with them so far and will continue to partner on building out this Drupal module.

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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 (28)

  1. Whoa !!! great news !! , I just started learning Drupal and was searching something like this which can be helpful with seo . Congrats !!! Can’t wait for the launch . Cheers :)

  • Sounds great for Drupal users, but I do wonder why waste so much resources to support product that is on decline? You’ll also lose focus. I think it would be much better to offer hosted SEO with freemium model (which would also be offered as a plugin for WP, Drupal and many others) – this way you wouldn’t be locked to any CMS. Based on your work, this would be a homerun. I really like moz.com, but freemium model would work much better – integrated with WP and all others.

  • Great news for Drupal users!

  • Great news to share! Eagerly waiting for its launch. Cheers!

  • Great news this! Any plans yet for expanding to other platforms we use like Typo3 or Magento?

  • Hi! Good news for Drupal users!
    Can you tell us what your existing modules will be better?
    Already there are modules for Drupal as: Metatag, Redirect, Schema.org and so on…
    What we will Yoast?
    –
    ps. Sorry for my English

  • Good news ! Impatient to get it, let’s go to the mail list.

  • I *think* this is good news. But I wonder what Yoast will bring that existing modules don’t already offer, and also how well it will integrate with Drupal, e.g. token support.

    I like the UI for Yoast, and some of the things it does that the existing Drupal modules (primarily metatag) don’t already do, but I remain to be convinced that it’s a game changer for Drupal.

    I also have two concerns.

    First, why aren’t Yoast aren’t working with the developers of existing modules to make them better.

    Second, which probably answers the first, is whether they will introduce a premium version. This normally goes down like a lead balloon in the Drupal world (see the first question). And looking at the “extra features” of the premium version, the only functional extra described is a redirect manager … which Drupal already has.

  • Excellent! I gravitated away from Drupal and toward WordPress a few years ago because of WP plugins such as Yoast SEO. I’ve built websites for clients in both, and I still maintain some Drupal 7 sites. Now I’ll be gravitating back! Thank you, Joost, for making a big difference in the website engineering world!

  • How’s the plugin affect performance with heavy traffic? Some Drupal sites I’m working on have periods of extremely heavy traffic and my dev guys yell at me everyime I want to add a new plugin lol

  • Interesting news. I’ve always thought you’d be WP only. Any plans to expand to other platforms as well? Would love to see Yoast tackle Craft as well.

  • Now Drupal might get a lot of attention from many people, for me i would start considering it as one of the choice for site building since there is Yoast for it!

    However, in any case that you think Drupal is a better choice? Or in SEO aspect does Drupal has any advantage?

  • Drupal users for great. Thank you.

  • As the SEO-guy in a mainly Drupal agency I can’t wait until we can use this plugin. Really great news!

    *checks calendar to see if it isn’t april 1* ;-)

  • Yuuuusss this will make Drupal less painful for SEO :)

  • Can’t wait! Fabulous, looking so forward to the Drupal integration, thank you :)

  • Really great to see that the support for the yoast seo has been extended to the nest blogging platform, drupal as well. Really looking forward to the updates, and making drupal community better and more search aware.

  • Great news for Drupal users!