YOAST SEO - Best Wordpress SEO Plugin v22.5

Yoast SEO Premium v20.7 - May 9, 2023
We've just released Yoast SEO 20.7. Packed with fixes and enhancements to help you boost your website. Yoast SEO Premium has a new feature that lets you quickly discover your cornerstone content articles on your WordPress post overview. Upgrade today and take your website to the next level! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.7 in our release post!
Enhancements

• Adds a column to the post overview page which shows whether a post has been marked as cornerstone content.
• Excludes the website home page from the Orphaned content workout in case the page is a static one.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where a console error would appear when opening a post on English sites.

Other

• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.6.
• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.7.
• Deprecates the Zapier integration.
• Sets the minimum supported WooCommerce version to 7.1.
• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.1.

Yoast SEO Premium 20.6
April 26, 2023
Yoast SEO 20.6, released today, has enhancements and fixes to help your SEO. The latest update incorporates a new readability analysis, an extremely useful feature that alerts you whenever you overuse center-aligned text. Of course, there's more to discover! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.6 in our release post!
Enhancements

• Adds a text alignment assessment to the readability analysis in Block editor.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where a wrong redirect preview URL would be shown when WordPress was installed in a subdirectory.

Other

• Adds a dismissible notification for the removal of the Zapier integration when the integration is enabled.
• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.6.

Yoast SEO Premium v20.5 - April 11, 2023
Yoast SEO 20.5 includes a host of exciting improvements and fixes. One of the most noteworthy updates is the improved Google SERP preview that aligns with Google's current styling for mobile and desktop. For more information about these updates, please read all about our latest release. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.5 in our release post!
Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where the highlighting for the word complexity assessment would not be applied to the first sentence of a paragraph when that paragraph contained a new line character.

Other

• Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.5.
• Drops compatibility with PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1.
• Fixes security issues.

Yoast SEO Premium v19.6 - December 13, 2022

Yoast SEO Premium 19.6 is out today. In this release, we've mostly focused on smaller improvements. We've also made the inclusive language analysis available to all users of Yoast SEO. Haven't tried it yet? Please do; it can help you expand your audience. Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.6 in our release post!

Enhancements

Adds the Internal linking suggestions collapsible to the Yoast metabox.
Removes a box in the Redirects page that prompts users to help with translating the plugin in their site language.
Bugfixes

Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be thrown in the Classic editor when Yoast SEO Premium is used in combination with plugins that misuse metabox hooks.
Fixes a bug where enabling the removal of unregistered URL parameters would trigger errors in the Block editor and would make the customizer and the Divi builder unusable.
Fixes a bug where the Internal linking suggestions collapsible would be displayed wrongly when editing posts through the Classic editor.
Other

Bumps the Yoast SEO minimum required version to 19.12.
Reduces noise from PHP 8.1 deprecations.
Improves compatibility with PHP 8.2.
Disallows setting or unsetting any dynamic properties on the Helpers_Surface.
Removes the beta badge from the word complexity assessment.
Removes the inclusive language analysis from Yoast SEO Premium as it has been moved to Yoast SEO.

v19.4 - October 25th, 2022
Yoast SEO Premium 19.4 is out now. In this release, we’ve improved our Premium analysis with a new check for site titles. We’ve also added a new option to the crawl settings to manage the crawling of internal site search URLs. Plus, we’ve added several enhancements, fixes, and other improvements. Check it out! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.4 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements:
Introduces a new toggle in the Crawl Cleanup settings to redirect “pretty” URLs for searches ( /search/term/ ) to the raw format (/?s=term).
Introduces the title assessment, which detects if the post is missing a title.

Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where screen options added by a plugin to the Redirects page would not be working correctly.
Fixes a bug where the copy of the notice in the related links block would be hardly visible when using a dark theme.

Other:
Bumps the Yoast SEO minimum required version to 19.9.
Ensures the permalink cleanup help article link opens in a new tab.
Moves Zapier instructions to the post publish sidebar.

v19.3 - September 20th, 2022

Today, we’re releasing Yoast SEO Premium 19.3. We’ve rolled out some general enhancements, bug fixes, and security improvements in this release. Update now! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.3 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements:
Adds an option to prevent the crawling of site search pages.
Adds an option to prevent the crawling of /wp-json/.

Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where the get_suggestions method would also return unrelated post types when you passed a post_type parameter.

v19.2 - August 31st, 2022

Other:

• Fixes compliance with the wordpress.org plugin guidelines.

Yoast SEO Premium 19.1 is out today! We’re introducing another new feature in this release: the front-end SEO Inspector. It’s a tool that lets you check your SEO settings and metadata, right from the front-end of your website. Try it out! And read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.1 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements:

• Adds the new front-end SEO inspector to Yoast SEO. Browse your website on the front-end and see at a glance the Yoast SEO analyses scores and Schema output of your posts and pages.
• Adds an edit button next to certain assessments when they show an orange or red bullet. Clicking the icon takes you to the field that needs to be edited in order to turn the bullet green (e.g. the keyphrase input field for the Keyphrase length assessment). The buttons are also added to the related keyphrase analysis.
• Excludes the Table of Contents block from the SEO and readability analysis.

Other:

• Replaces the Zapier icon with the Yoast icon in the Classic editor publish widget.

Enhancements:

• Improves the readability analysis for English by adding a word complexity assessment. This assessment provides a score based on how many complex words you’ve used in your text. Highlight complex words and replace them with words that are easier to understand! This feature is in beta, so we welcome your feedback!

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the keyphrase distribution assessment errors, or fails to mark the found keyphrases in the text, when using keyphrases that include some regular expression control characters, for example brackets.

Other:

• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 19.3.

v18.8 - June 28th, 2022

In Yoast SEO Premium 18.8, we’re expanding our recently introduced crawl settings with search spam blockers and URL parameters cleanup. In addition, we’re adding an integration with IndexNow to instantly ping search engines like Microsoft Bing whenever you publish or update content. Check it out! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.8 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements:

• Enhances the Crawl settings with new features which allow filtering out long phrases, emojis, special characters and other patterns from searches, to prevent search spam.
• Enhances the Crawl settings with new features which allow filtering out campaign tracking and unregistered parameters from URLs, to redirect visitors and crawlers to the cleaned-up permalink.
• Adds a feature that allows pinging IndexNow to make sure newly published and/or changed URLs are indexed by Bing, Yandex, Seznam and other search engines more rapidly.

Other:

• Bumps minimum required Free version to 19.2.