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New feature: Yoast AI Generate released on Yoast SEO for Shopify!

1 October 2024 Beth Parker

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: today, Yoast AI Generate launches on Yoast SEO for Shopify! Yoast SEO’s AI features are designed to ensure all our customers can benefit from smarter SEO solutions that save time and effort. The tool is perfect for adding finishing SEO touches to your content.  What does Yoast …

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New feature: Yoast AI Generate released on Yoast SEO for Shopify!

New feature: Introducing Yoast AI Optimize

6 August 2024 | 2 Comments Beth Parker

Today, we’re welcoming Yoast AI Optimize to our family of AI features. These features are designed to make SEO tasks easier than ever by harnessing the power of AI. The tool is perfect for marketing professionals, freelance writers, and content strategists. This brand-new feature ensures your carefully crafted content is search engine friendly. What does …

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New feature: Introducing Yoast AI Optimize

Yoast SEO 22.6 brings more enhancements

30 April 2024 Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 22.6 is out today! This release has many performance and quality-of-life fixes to improve your favorite SEO plugin. Plus, we’re asking you to update your PHP versions. Find out what’s new in this post! Performance enhancements We’ve upgraded the processing of user metadata in this release, leading to improved performance, especially in generating …

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Yoast SEO 22.6 brings more enhancements

Yoast SEO 22.5 delivers improvements and fixes

16 April 2024 Beth Parker

Continuing the theme of optimization and refinements, our Yoast SEO 22.5 release includes general maintenance updates across the plugin. We also improved guidance around best practices for taxonomies and a more effortless user experience overall.  Fine-tuning for taxonomy pages Taxonomy pages, including categories and tags, are crucial in structuring website content, especially for e-commerce platforms. …

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Yoast SEO 22.5 delivers improvements and fixes

Yoast SEO 22.4: Better performance and product schema update

3 April 2024 | 2 Comments Beth Parker

Get ready for a smoother ride with Yoast SEO 22.4! This update packs a punch, improving performance, fixing bugs and enhancing your overall user experience. Say goodbye to pesky ‘elementor’ slugs and enjoy seamless navigation. Plus, thanks to Yoast WooCommerce SEO 16.2, our ecommerce customers will better control how their product variants show to shoppers …

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Yoast SEO 22.4: Better performance and product schema update

Yoast SEO 22.3: Introducing AI for category and tag pages

19 March 2024 Beth Parker

Yoast SEO 22.3 introduces a highly-requested AI feature exclusively for our Yoast SEO Premium customers. AI-generated titles and descriptions—simply input your keyphrase for SEO-optimized suggestions. Effortlessly enhance category and tag pages, save time, and stay ahead in SEO. Yoast SEO 22.3 also includes additional refinements and fixes, enhancing the user experience from which all our …

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Yoast SEO 22.3: Introducing AI for category and tag pages

Yoast SEO 22.2: Fine-tune your content for maximum impact

5 March 2024 | 2 Comments Beth Parker

Here at Yoast, we want to ensure your carefully-crafted content is well-received by the widest possible audience. Yoast SEO 22.2 brings more enhancements to our inclusive language analysis feature. You can expect to see more accurate keyphrase recognition, to ensure your keyphrase strategy is spot on every time! Additionally, we’ve introduced fresh translation enhancements for …

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Yoast SEO 22.2: Fine-tune your content for maximum impact

Yoast SEO 22.1: AI update and better language support

20 February 2024 Beth Parker

In our most recent update, Yoast SEO 22.1, we are pleased to announce significant enhancements in our generative AI features. This improvement allows our Yoast SEO Premium customers to benefit from more advanced AI-generated meta descriptions and titles. This also means that you, our customers, will benefit from better support for languages other than English. …

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Yoast SEO 22.1: AI update and better language support

Yoast SEO 22.0: Supporting Organization schema

6 February 2024 | 6 Comments Edwin Toonen

Recently, Google announced an update on how it uses business details in search. To help you make the most of that, we are happy to announce Yoast SEO 22.0, which expands support for Organization structured data. Here, you’ll find how we help Google understand everything about your company. Expanded support for Organization schema Yoast SEO …

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Yoast SEO 22.0: Supporting Organization schema

Yoast SEO 21.9: Maintenance and more optimizations

23 January 2024 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

As a site owner, you understand the significance of SEO in driving organic traffic and increasing visibility. Keeping your SEO efforts up to date is essential to stay ahead of the competition. The same goes for developing an SEO plugin — to keep you at the top of your game, we need to be at …

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Yoast SEO 21.9: Maintenance and more optimizations