Yoast SEO for Shopify changelog

Other​

• Fixes Optimize/Account spacing between content and navigation bar slightly reduced compared to Settings spacing.
• Translates the "Optimize with Yoast SEO" extension.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for generating and managing an llms.txt file to help large language models better understand online stores.

Enhancements​

• Adds star rating schema visibility.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where exporting new items to CSV did not including title and URL handle.

Enhancements​

• Enables product rating in snippet preview.

Enhancements​

• Refreshes the site features settings page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the theme modifications banner was displayed after modifications were already applied.

Enhancements​

• Adds sale pricing markup.

Enhancements​

• Adjusts the keyphrase distribution assessment's scoring criteria for texts that are shorter than 15 sentences.
• Adjusts the scoring criteria for the keyphrase density assessment for texts shorter than 100 words.
• Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the keyphrase distribution assessment.
• Makes the keyphrase distribution assessment available when no content or keyphrase has been added.

Enhancements​

• Adds search and sorting to the "Pages" content type.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where importing CSV files would show an error when any field contains new line in content.

Enhancements​

• Adds integration with Shopify contextual bar for better user experience.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the renewal date was calculated wrongly on the Subscription page.

Enhancements​

• Adds option to be notified about initial overview ready by email notification.

Enhancements​

• Updates the way how we display discounts in checkout and subscription page.

Enhancements​

• Introduces new Account section with extended subscription insights and management options.

Other​

• Improves the app performance for an improved user experience.

Enhancements​

• Improves the error handling messages for the AI Generate integration.
• Improves the handling of RTL languages for the positioning of the favicon in the Search snippet preview.
• Improves the handling of RTL languages for the tooltips in the related keyphrase suggestions modal.
• Improves the tooltips accessibility in the related keyphrase suggestions modal.
• Removes the breadcrumbs from the Search snippet preview in Mobile mode.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug that caused a timeout when exporting a large volume of data.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where discounts would not show when using the mobile checkout page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where development subscription would cause issues after migrating to a paid subscription.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with wrongly detected delimiters during CSV data import.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with welcome page not displaying after app install.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where customers was not redirected to welcome page after app installation.

Enhancements​

• Introduces new checkout page.

Enhancements​

• Introduces a new warning to explain that a duplicate slug is used in the product editor.

Enhancements​

• Changes welcome page limitation to display it for every user.

Enhancements​

• Fixes a bug when theme modifications was not applied fully due to Shopify API limitations.

Enhancements​

• Modifies theme modification progress component to adjust to new design.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where uninstall page would not update correctly after removing theme modifications.

Enhancements​

• Changes one of the feedback texts for the text length assessment to be consistent with the others.
• Improves the feedback of the competing links assessment by making it clearer.
• Makes the assessments single title and competing links available from the get-go in the SEO analysis.
• Renames the link keyphrase assessment to competing links.

Other​

• Improves the translatability of the feedback strings for the text length assessment.

Enhancements​

• Adds option to sort blog posts list.
• Adds option to sort blogs list.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where Page number string would not be correctly translated.
• Fixes an bug where metafields and data would not be removed when following any of the uninstallation processes.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where some navigation items would not be clickable when the FTC banner was visible.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the theme modifications banner would not disappear when the theme modifications have just been applied.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the theme modifications would run into the rate limits of some Shopify APIs.

Enhancements​

• Adds first time configuration wizard to help merchants walk through the essential app settings.
• Improves welcome dialog to guide merchants showcasing app pinning option and premium support.

Enhancements​

• Adds a feedback string for the image alt attributes and image keyphrase assessments for when no content and/or image has been added.
• Makes the keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment available when no content has been added.
• Renames image keyphrase assessment to keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment.
• Renames the image alt tags assessment to image alt attributes assessment.

Enhancements​

• Adds a feedback string for the image alt attributes and image keyphrase assessments for when no content and/or image has been added.
• Renames the image alt tags assessment to image alt attributes assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Improves the guidance on using the Shopify SEO title variable in our Full SEO title.

Other​

• Removes the "new" badge from the schema section for products.

Enhancements​

• Adds more phrases regarding disability to the inclusive language assessment.
• Improves the feedback for "lame" in the inclusive language assessment.
• Makes the following SEO assessments available in the analysis by default, even when no content has been added: keyphrase in introduction, keyphrase in meta description, keyphrase in SEO title, keyphrase in slug.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the template suffix of pages would be reset to the default when saving optimizations.

Enhancements​

• Improves the feedback texts for the passive voice and consecutive sentences assessments in case there is nothing to report.
• Makes the images, internal links, and external links assessments available when no content has been added.

Other​

• Improves the translatability of feedback strings for the keyphrase length assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with theme modifications apply in some stores due to Shopify API limits.

Enhancements​

• Adds a learn more link in the schema section of the product editor.
• Changes the applicability criteria of readability assessments so that they are shown even if there is little or no text.
• Improves recognition of function words for Farsi. Props to nshayanfar.
• Improves the recognition of transition words for Farsi.
• Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the consecutive sentences assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where function words with spaces were not recognised in Farsi.

Enhancements​

• Adds search feature to blogs list.

Enhancements​

• Adds pregnant women to the potentially non-inclusive phrases targeted by the inclusive language analysis.
• Improved our Product structured data by specifying the Offer.priceSpecification more specifically with the type UnitPriceSpecification.
• Improves the inclusive language analysis feedback for the potentially non-inclusive word exotic, and prevents the feedback from appearing when exotic is followed by words common in scientific contexts.

Enhancements​

• Adds productGroupID attribute in ProductGroup structured data.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for "search" feature in blog posts list.
• Moves all blog posts to one lists instead of grouped by blog.

Enhancements​

• Improves keyphrase recognition for keyphrases that contain verbs in Spanish.
• Improves the accuracy of assessments measuring character count for Japanese texts by removing common punctuation from the count.
• Updates “Edit with Shopify” link in editor to follow the move of the Blogs section from the Online Store app to the Content section of the admin.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes an issue where the AI intro modal would keep displaying when going back to the optimization overview.

Other​

• Improves the feedback strings of the subheading distribution assessment for better translatability.

Enhancements​

• Adds new Schema preview block in products editor.
• Add support for Google's rich result type Merchant Listing for product variants. Product variants and the related properties are based on Shopify's product categories and rely on the related product attributes.

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Enhancements​

• Add "Keyword Difficulty" and "Intent" to "Get related keyphrases" feature.

Enhancements​

• Changes content filters name from No focus keyphrase and Not enough content to Not analyzed
• Improves keyphrase recognition for German plural noun forms with an umlaut.
• Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the sentence length and paragraph length assessments.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the overall score for the Related keyphrase analysis would still be orange when all the individual assessment results were green.
• Fixes a bug where the overall SEO score for collections would still be orange when all the individual assessment results were green.

Enhancements​

• Introduces new, automated Site Connections settings feature.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with default value support inside canonical_url column during imports.