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Yoast SEO 6.0: More characters for your meta descriptions

20 December 2017 | 44 Comments Edwin Toonen

The end of the year is coming up fast. Today is the day we’re releasing the last update of Yoast SEO in 2017. It’s been a wild ride this year and we’re already working on big plans for 2018. But first, Yoast SEO 6.0. And yes, we’ve heard you loud and clear; we’ve extended the …

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Yoast SEO 6.0: More characters for your meta descriptions

Hot off the press: Yoast SEO for TYPO3 1.3

13 December 2017 | 1 Comment Edwin Toonen

While Yoast SEO is mostly known for its WordPress plugin, we are in the process of branching out. We support several plugins for other platforms, like Magento 2. One of those platforms, the large-scale open source CMS TYPO3, received a brand new version of Yoast SEO today. In Yoast SEO for TYPO3 1.3, you’ll find …

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Hot off the press: Yoast SEO for TYPO3 1.3

Yoast SEO 5.9: A more accessible content analysis

5 December 2017 | 16 Comments Edwin Toonen

A new release doesn’t always have to bring incredible features, as it can silently set the stage for bigger things to come. Yoast SEO 5.9, released today, is such a release. While this release doesn’t contain groundbreaking new features, it does provide an important new piece of the Yoast SEO puzzle for the future: we’ve …

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Yoast SEO 5.9: A more accessible content analysis



Yoast SEO 5.6: The orphaned content filter

10 October 2017 | 5 Comments Edwin Toonen

In these last few releases of Yoast SEO, we’ve been focusing heavily on internal linking. Linking your posts in a sensible manner helps build a solid site structure, which, in turn, makes your site easier to understand for both humans and machines. Yoast SEO 5.6 brings another new tool to help you find content to …

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Yoast SEO 5.6: The orphaned content filter



Yoast SEO 5.3: The community edition

22 August 2017 | 3 Comments Edwin Toonen

At Yoast, we greatly value our brilliant community. Hundreds of people voluntarily help us to improve our products by giving valuable feedback and insights into their usage of Yoast SEO. Contributors fix issues and suggest enhancements to make our work increasingly better. Today, with the release of Yoast SEO 5.3, we add another chapter to …

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Yoast SEO 5.3: The community edition

Yoast SEO 5.2: Accessibility, compatibility and bug fixes

8 August 2017 | 16 Comments Willemien Hallebeek

Today we’re releasing Yoast SEO 5.2. In this brand new version you’ll find some feature enhancements, accessibility improvements and a couple of bug fixes. In addition to that, we’ve laid some groundwork that will help us make Yoast SEO work well with the plugins our users use most. Read about all the improvements here! Accessibility Web accessibility …

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Yoast SEO 5.2: Accessibility, compatibility and bug fixes