Yoast SEO for Shopify changelog

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.

Enhancements​

• Adds Shopify title and Shopify slug to CSV export files.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issues with exporting data requests.

Enhancements​

• Adds a cancellation explainer on the subscription page.
• Adds a clear purchase intent to the buy-button on the subscription page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Bulk Edit and Import/Export features would not be available when a merchant is still in the trial period of their subscription.

Enhancements​

• Remove optional checkboxes from upgrade checkout to reduce clutter.

Enhancements​

• Improves keyphrase recognition for word forms ending in -er in English.
• Improves the transition words assessment for Portuguese and English by updating the relevant lists of transition words.
• Moves Terms and Conditions and Newsletter subscription to subscription upgrade page.

Other​

• Improves the translatability of feedback for the paragraph length and the sentence length assessments.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes an issue where the focus keyphrase requirement would not be scrolled into the screen for subsequent AI Generate usage attempts.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where navigation groups would close automatically when navigating across pages.

Enhancements​

• Improves AI SEO title and description generation for Collections.

Enhancements​

• Improve consistency of the feedback colors used across the app.

Bugfixes​

• Hides insights statistics for blogs content type.
• Removes Semrush token when integration is deactivated.

Bugfixes​

• Improves the Shopify meta description field to allow wrapping onto multiple lines for easier editing.

Enhancements​

• Adds information about issues with custom metafields type definition during content saving.
• Collect user feedback after usage of the AI Generators.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with inclusive language settings not reflected in SEO scoring.

Bugfixes​

• Changes "Webmaster tools" page name to "Site connections".

Enhancements​

• Adds так to the words recognized by the transition words assessment in Russian. Props to @pavelmai83.
• Improves the transition words assessment for Turkish and English by expanding the relevant lists of transitions words.
• Improves the word complexity assessment by not flagging the focus keyphrase or related keyphrases as complex words.
• Increases the spacing between the assessment copy and the highlight buttons.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where Arabic keyphrases containing certain function words were not correctly matched..

Enhancements​

• Improves feedback when trying to use AI suggestions while offline.

Bugfixes​

• Changes the label on the Shopify SEO title variable to match the connected Shopify SEO title field.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with newsletter modal redisplaying on Safari browser.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for "Product.brand" Schema, based on vendor value.

Enhancements​

• Optimize AI-powered suggestions for collections & blogs.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the AI suggestions modal would already show briefly when consent was still required.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where indefinite discounts were given.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for hasMerchantReturnPolicy Schema when return policy is configured for the Shop.

Enhancements​

• The Google preview now shows a meta description based on the item's content, when no specific meta description is added.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the AI Generators would not work on shops with a custom domain.
• Fixes a link to an incorrect help article in the AI Generators.

Enhancements​

• Allow for generating titles and descriptions with AI.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the "go to your apps section" link on "Uninstall Yoast SEO" settings page had an incorrect link, which would not allow going back to the app easily.

Enhancements​

• Combines the search appearance and the search engine listing sections into a single coherent search appearance editor.
• Moves the social media appearance to follow the new placement of the search appearance section.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with wrongly rendered aggregateRating Schema when product have no reviews added.

Enhancements​

• Adds a wider gap between assessment result list items.
• Fixes detection for "product | structured_data" Schema generation inside Shopify theme to fix duplicated Schema.

Enhancements​

• Modify the 'Ask For Review' banner design to make it more user-friendly for customers.

Enhancements​

• Adds 3D models to the product structured data, to help search engines show them as 3D images in mobile search.

Bugfixes​

• Changes "Bulk edit" link label and header for better understanding.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the "Save changes" button was missing on the Settings page Integrations.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the article:author OpenGraph tag would incorrectly be output without containing the URL of the profile page of the author.

Bugfixes​

• Changes Pinterest field field description to be more correct and easier to understand.
• Fixes a bug where the modifications we made to the theme were not disabled when the Yoast SEO for Shopify app is uninstalled.

Bugfixes​

• Fixed issue with leftover metafields after theme modifications removal during app uninstallation.

Bugfixes​

• Improves logic behind alert about imported indexables on overview page.

Enhancements​

• Improves the keyphrase detection in SEO title for Arabic and Hebrew. For example, when the keyphrase is "باندا حمراء" and the SEO title starts with "الباندا الحمراء", we now recognize this as an exact match and give a good result for the keyphrase in SEO title assessment.

Enhancements​

• Adds new "Not enough content" readability filtering option in optimize module.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the availability of collections would be shown as unavailable on online store when the collection actually would be available.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes overview screen introduction modal styling.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where Indonesian words with hyphens would be incorrectly treated as multiple words during keyphrase matching when the locale was id or a custom locale starting with id_.
• Fixes a bug where Turkish keyphrase forms containing the characters İ or ı would not be recognized when the locale was tr, tr_CY or a custom locale starting with tr_.

Other​

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• Removes the questionnaire for new customers from the initial onboarding flow.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the structure of the menu for optimizing content.
• Introduces a new overview dashboard to help with optimizing content.

Bugfixes​

• Improved theme modifications removal to remove all Yoast file leftovers from active theme.

Enhancements​

• Improve clarification on how Yoast SEO for Shopify overrides some Shopify settings.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where new content would not be available for bulk editing.

Enhancements​

• Adds review request modal after Site defaults settings save.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes an issue where existing schema would not be disabled when the context is set as http://www.schema.org.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the file upload element inside bulk edit and import/export would have strange text alignment in several languages.

Enhancements​

• Makes the section headings stand out visually in the SEO, readability and inclusive language analysis tabs.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with twitter:image URL generation, when adding "https" schema.