Yoast SEO free WordPress plugin
Description
Yoast SEO free WordPress plugin
Yoast SEO: the #1 WordPress SEO plugin
Since 2008 Yoast SEO has helped millions of websites worldwide to rank higher in search engines.
Yoast’s mission is SEO for Everyone. Our plugin’s users range from the bakery around the corner to some of the most popular sites on the planet.
Yoast SEO Free contains everything that you need to manage your SEO, and the Yoast SEO Premium plugin and its extensions unlock even more tools and functionality.
GET AHEAD OF THE COMPETITION
To rank highly in search engines, you need to beat the competition. You need a better, faster, stronger website than the people who sell or do the same kinds of things as you.
Yoast SEO is the most-used WordPress SEO plugin, and has helped millions of people like you to get ahead, and to stay ahead.
TAKING CARE OF YOUR WORDPRESS SEO
Yoast SEO is packed full of features, designed to help visitors and search engines to get the most out of your website. Some of our favourites are:
Automated technical SEO improvements, like canonical URLs and meta tags.
Advanced XML sitemaps; making it easy for Google to understand your site structure.
Title and meta description templating, for better branding and consistent snippets in the search results.
An in-depth Schema.org integration that will increase your chance of getting rich results, by helping search engines to understand your content.
Full control over site breadcrumbs, so that users and search engines always know where they are.
Faster loading times for your whole website, due to an innovative way of managing data in WordPress.
[Premium] E-mail support for our Yoast SEO Premium users.
[Premium] The possibility to expand Yoast SEO with the News SEO, Video SEO, Local SEO and WooCommerce SEO extensions.
[Premium] New! Yoast SEO Premium comes with wide-ranging crawl settings that help you improve how search engines crawl your site.
[Premium] New! Yoast SEO Premium comes with an IndexNow integration to ping search engines like Microsoft Bing whenever you publish or update content.
WRITE KILLER CONTENT WITH YOAST SEO
We know content is king, that’s why Yoast SEO is famous for its state-of-the-art content and SEO analysis. Yoast SEO gives you:
SEO analysis: an invaluable tool while writing SEO-friendly content with the right (focus) keyphrases in mind.
Readability analysis: ensures that humans and search engines can read and understand your content.
Full language support for: English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese, Arabic, Swedish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Turkish, Czech, Norwegian, Slovak and Greek.
A Google preview, which shows what your listings will look like in the search results. Even on mobile devices!
Innovative Schema blocks for the WordPress block editor, so that your FAQ and HowTo content can be shown directly in the search results. Plus a breadcrumbs block to guide your users.
[Premium] Internal linking blocks to easily improve the structure of your content. Easily add a table of contents block, a related links block, a subpages block, or siblings block! Plus, we’ll keep adding these easy-to-add blocks to improve your site structure.
[Premium] Social previews to show you how your content will be shown on Twitter and Facebook. Plus: Social Appearance Templates to guarantee a consistent look.
[Premium] The Insights tool that shows you what your text focuses on. This way you can keep your article in line with your keyphrases.
[Premium] Optimize your content for synonyms and related keyphrases.
[Premium] Optimize your article for different word forms of your keyphrases, as the singular and plural. But also different verb forms, synonyms, and related keyphrases. This makes for more natural content!
[Premium] Automatic internal linking suggestions: write your article and get automatic suggested posts to link to!
[Premium] An orphaned content filter to detect posts that have no links pointing towards them!
[Premium] SEO workouts to make working on your site as easy as ABC. These SEO workflows will get your site into shape in no time!
[Premium] New! Yoast SEO Premium comes with a new word complexity feature that gives you actionable feedback on using difficult words. This feature is in beta and English only for now.
New! Yoast SEO Free and Premium come with a new inclusive language analysis that helps you write inclusive content. This feature is opt-in and English-only for now.
KEEP YOUR SITE IN PERFECT SHAPE
Whether you are an online entrepreneur, blogger or content creator, a developer, a (WordPress) SEO expert or a business owner, Yoast SEO helps you keep your website in perfect shape by:
Tuning the engine of your website, so you can work on creating great content!
Giving you cornerstone content and internal linking features to help you optimize your site structure in a breeze.
Translating your content to structured data where possible, to help search engines understand your website.
Helping you manage your team: with our SEO roles you can give colleagues access to specific sections of the Yoast SEO plugin.
[Premium] Automatically creating redirects when URLs change or when pages are deleted, and providing tools to manage or create redirects.
[Premium] Showing you social previews to manage the way your page is shared on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
TRUST THE EXPERTS
Yoast is powered by a team of expert developers, testers, software architects, and SEO consultants. They work constantly to stay at the cutting edge of WordPress SEO, and to improve the plugin with every release.
Yoast SEO is the only WordPress SEO plugin made by world-renowned SEO experts.
GET PREMIUM SUPPORT
The Yoast team offers regular support on the WordPress.org forums. But we hope you understand that we prioritize our Premium customers. This one-on-one email support is available to people who have purchased Yoast SEO Premium.
Did you know that Yoast SEO Premium contains a lot of extra features:
A redirect manager that prevents “404: page not found” errors
Optimize without worrying about over-optimization with intelligent word form recognition available in multiple languages.
Internal linking blocks to structure your site easily.
Internal linking suggestions while you’re writing.
Preview your content to see what it will look like in the search results and when shared on social media using the Google preview and social preview.
Cornerstone content checks that point search engines to your most important pages.
Connect Yoast SEO to Zapier to easily create zaps that instantly share your published posts with 2000+ destinations like Twitter, Facebook, and much more.
If you are serious about your WordPress SEO, install the Yoast SEO Premium plugin! Costs a little, saves a lot of time!
OUR EXTENSIONS TO FURTHER IMPROVE YOUR WORDPRESS SEO
Check out these SEO add-ons by Yoast:
Yoast Local SEO optimizes your website for a local audience.
Yoast Video SEO ensures that Google understands what your video is about, increasing the chances of ranking in the video results.
Yoast News SEO for news websites that want to improve their visibility and performance in Google News.
WooCommerce SEO for all online shops that want to perform better in the search results and social media.
These extensions work fine with the free version of Yoast SEO. Of course, the premium extensions also include 24/7 support.
Oh, don’t forget: our Yoast Academy is for all entrepreneurs, bloggers, and anyone who wants to learn more about optimizing websites, improving your WordPress SEO, and if you want to take your content to the next level!
INTEGRATIONS
Yoast SEO integrates seamlessly into a range of themes and plugins. We work particularly well with:
The WordPress block editor (or ‘Gutenberg’ editor).
The official AMP plugin, which changes your templates to use the ‘AMP’ HTML format.
Google’s Web Stories plugin, which helps you to create ‘web stories’.
The Advanced Custom Fields plugin, when you also activate the ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO plugin.
The Elementor website builder.
Zapier, which helps you automate your publishing flow.
Algolia integration to improve the quality of your site search.
WordProof, which helps you prove ownership by adding timestamps.
BUG REPORTS
Do you want to report a bug for Yoast SEO? Best to do so in the WordPress SEO repository on GitHub. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum and issues will be closed if they don’t meet the bug requirements.
READ MORE
Want more information on search engine optimization and Yoast SEO? Have a look at:
The Yoast SEO Plugin official homepage.
The Yoast SEO Help center.
WordPress SEO – The definitive Guide by Yoast.
Other WordPress Plugins by Team Yoast.
Also follow Yoast on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter.