Yoast SEO archives

Users often ask us why we don't include a og:image:alt tag in the SEO and social tags that we add to pages. Alt attributes are good for accessibility, so sharing them with Facebook must be a good thing, right? Well, it turns out that it's not that simple! We actually removed support for the og:image:alt …

It is April 2021 and amidst a global pandemic, we are about to embark on our greatest venture yet: developing an SEO app for Shopify. For a development department so focused on WordPress for so long, this is both a dream and a nightmare. Starting fresh on a new platform offers endless possibilities, but even …

In a previous article, I’ve told you the story of how we fixed the problem of sentence tokenization in RTL languages. If it’s only this specific technical problem you were interested in, read no further! I’m not going into more detail about the technical solution. But there’s also a bigger lesson to be learned here, …

In this article, we'll outline a solution to a problem we faced when splitting up a text into sentences in RTL languages. These are languages with a right-to-left written script such as Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Hebrew. You’ll learn about the technical implementation of sentence tokenization in the Yoast text analysis, and how we expanded …

Yoast SEO 14.0 was a release that needed quite a few patches so far. We're sorry about that. In building Yoast SEO 14.0 we made a mistake: we bypassed wpdb. That caused issues and errors for some users when they tried to upgrade, which we're very sorry about. This post explains the mistakes we made, …

Last September, we released our first digital story; Diversity, inequality, and prejudice; a sociological exploration. This is the first in what will, hopefully, become a small series of stories that really define our mission, company culture, and broader vision. With these stories, we want to explore the possibilities the WordPress block editor has to offer …

The content analysis is a staple of our SEO plugin. We do our best to provide you with the best insights on how you could make your texts more readable and search-engine-friendly. In order to be able to give you this valuable feedback, we need to do a lot of computations. A logical solution would …

As WordPress developers, we're busy with developing features most of the time. Developing functionalities is awesome, but a lot can go wrong too, unfortunately. One way to help prevent things going awry is having your own blog. Here, I'll explain how writing for my own blog helped me understand WordPress users better and improved my …

WordPress plugins and themes need to make sure the PHP dependencies they need to use do not conflict with other versions of the same dependency.

Today, we are releasing a new Premium feature for doing internal linking suggestions. Last week, I wrote a post on the SEO blog explaining how we can do this fast and without using up a lot of resources on the server side. Building this would not have been possible without much of the work we …