WooThemes chooses WordPress SEO
WooThemes once again showed that they are at the forefront of WordPress development today: they deprecated their WooFramework’s SEO functionality and recommend their users to switch to WordPress SEO by...
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Video not showing in search results: why?
In helping out people who are using my Video SEO plugin, I’m finding that some sites get “hit” by what I now call the “Not really a video page” effect. While it’s a pretty rare phenomenon I thought it...
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Why & how we sell premium WordPress plugins
About 2 months ago I released my first premium plugin for WordPress, my Video SEO plugin. A lot of people have asked me about the how and why of the selling and I thought it’d be a good idea to outline...
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Jetpack and WordPress SEO
The Jetpack plugin for WordPress has quite a few nice bits and pieces. There’s one issue: the developers at Automattic seem to think they’re alone in the world. In their last release, they enabled...
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WordPress SEO, more secure than ever before.
One of the benefits of making money on paid plugins is that you can more easily spend money for other people to look at and even better, review your plugins. Today is the first result of what might...
View ArticleWhy we don’t support old WordPress versions
For all sorts of reasons, some people have a problem with updating WordPress installs properly. I will state now that for both our free and premium plugins we do not support anything but the latest and...
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The future of SEO plugins for WordPress
I find myself becoming more and more defensive of WordPress SEO plugins, my own in particular. When people make jokes about them I tend to get angry, which is perhaps a stupid reaction, but it made me...
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WordPress SEO Community & Roadmap
Our WordPress SEO plugin has been getting more and more downloads, bringing it to the top of the most downloaded plugin chart on WordPress.org fairly regularly. With that comes more interest from other...
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Social Media Optimization with WordPress SEO by Yoast
Our WordPress SEO plugin handles optimization of your WordPress site for search engines and we dare say it does a very good job of it. Most of that is technical optimization, like our XML sitemap...
View ArticleHelp us by helping others!
The WordPress.org forums for our WordPress SEO plugin are rather busy. Unfortunately, there’s no way for us to keep up with all the questions there as we have millions of users, which leads to a few...
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Content Analysis with the WordPress SEO plugin
We’ve been rather busy with the WordPress SEO plugin the last few days. We did a release yesterday and a quick follow up today to fix a few collisions with other plugins. Loads of cool small fixes in...
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WordPress Stats Infographic
My Google Analytics plugin recently hit 3 million downloads and my WordPress SEO plugin hit its first million downloads. I thought those stats were cool and I decided to have an infographic made with...
View ArticleNew license options
In response to a growing demand from people who wanted “bigger” licenses, we’ve added a couple of license options for our plugins. All of them now have a 50 site and a 100 site license option too, at a...
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A major update to our Local SEO plugin
Today we’re releasing a major update to our Local SEO plugin, bringing it to version 1.2. This new version has functionality that quite a few of you requested, most important of them is a new store...
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The Snippet Preview: what it means and how to use it.
Our WordPress SEO plugin has come with a snippet preview from day 1. This snippet preview mimics what the current page would look like in the search results, by our best “guesstimation”. In this post...
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Regular security audits: taking our responsibility
Today, we’re announcing that we have partnered with Sucuri, in the interest of pro-actively securing our plugins. As our plugins run on more and more sites, we have a responsibility towards our users...
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Google Analytics by Yoast, V5: Universal Support
We’ve been working hard on our Google Analytics plugin and are proud to release version 5.0, with universal support, today. With all the changes Google had made to Analytics and with our improved...
View ArticleWordPress SEO Security release
This morning we released an update to our WordPress SEO plugin (both free and premium) that fixes a security issue. A bit more details follow below, but the short version of this post is simple:...
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Changing URLs in search results
Yesterday Google announced that they’ll change the way they represent URLs in mobile search results. This post explains what is changing, what this means for you and how our WordPress SEO plugin will...
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Feature highlight: WP SEO Premium redirect manager
One of the things we are understanding more and more, is that we have failed to explain why our WordPress SEO Premium plugin is awesome. Today, I’d like to tell you about the redirect manager that’s...
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