Something has to be readable for machines and humans to understand it, right? Easy-to-read content has a greater chance of success as more people tend to understand it quickly. The same goes for machines — search engines rely on structured data to help them understand the meaning of your pages. In Yoast SEO 19.3, we’re …
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Today is a good day. The next batch of Yoast SEO releases comes with a ton of new stuff that helps your site get noticed by search engines. We’re launching an IndexNow integration, expanded our crawl settings with advanced features, and added a WordProof integration to help timestamp privacy pages on the blockchain. Read up …
Read: "Yoast SEO 19.2: IndexNow, crawl settings, and WordProof"
As we’ve said many times, crawlability is an important aspect of SEO. Your site has to do away with technical hurdles that can hinder crawling while keeping the number of crawlable URLs in check. Crawlers are eager to crawl everything they can find on your site — even if you have a small site with …
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One of the most important aspects of SEO is optimizing the crawlability of your site. Search engines have near-endless resources, so they have the power to crawl everything they find — and they will. But, that is not the way it should be. Almost every CMS outputs URLs that don’t make sense and that crawlers …
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We’re launching an updated first-time experience for new Yoast SEO users. In Yoast SEO 18.9, we’re making it easier for users to set up the essentials that search engines need to make sense of your site. The first-time configuration takes you by the hand and guides you in properly setting everything up. A new first-time …
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Earlier today, Google announced some changes to how they read and support XML sitemaps. And just a few hours later, we’ve already released an update to our plugins. Our users can stay right at the cutting edge simply by upgrading to the latest version. Stay on top of best practice The SEO landscape is always …
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Continuing our run of maintenance releases, we bring you Yoast SEO 18.7. We’re fixing several bugs in this release and adding a couple of enhancements. There are quite a few improvements to our Schema structured data implementation this time. Read on to find out what’s new in Yoast SEO 18.7. Structured data is where it’s …
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Working in the software industry isn’t easy. A lot of the time, fixing bugs in software is overlooked in favor of new features and code. But, bug fixing is important. Bugs become a huge problem if they are not promptly fixed. Additionally, fixing bugs ensures that future bugs and glitches in the program are avoided. …
Read: "Yoast SEO 18.6: Continuing with fixes and enhancements"
Yoast SEO 18.5 and Yoast SEO Premium 18.3 are out today. These last couple of releases have all been focused on fixing issues and adding improvements that enhance the performance of the plugin. In today’s releases, we’re keeping with that trend and adding another round of fixes and enhancements. Find out more! Fixes and improvements …
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Today, we planned to release a new integration in Yoast SEO for the WordProof service. Unfortunately, we had a couple of hiccups and had to revert that addition to stabilize Yoast SEO. The WordProof feature will be moved to a future date. For Yoast SEO, we’ve now released 18.4.1 for the free version and 18.2.1 …
Read: "Yoast SEO 18.4.1: Available now"