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09-08-2022 08:32

Enhancements

  • Introduces a free plan which can be used to try out the full experience of Yoast SEO for Shopify on 5 content pages.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where style tags with a type attribute in the content would result in an empty content editor in the Optimize module.

29-07-2022 10:00

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the Yoast theme modifications would remove site verification codes that are already present in the theme.

28-07-2022 10:00

Enhancements

  • Adds the word complexity assessment for Spanish, German and French.
  • Improves the text analysis by adding curly (“”) and angular quotation marks.
  • Improves the text analysis by filtering out all versions of the ampersand.

27-07-2022 09:25

Enhancements

  • Improves sentence recognition for German by disregarding ordinal numbers as potential sentence boundaries.
  • Improves the readability analysis for English by adding a word complexity assessment.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the desktop preview would show a truncated title, while the title length progress bar and title width assessment would indicate that the title length was still within the limits.
  • Fixes a bug where the keyphrase density and keyphrase distribution assessments error, or fails to mark the found keyphrases in the text, when using keyphrases that include some regular expression control characters, for example brackets.

19-07-2022 09:33

Enhancements

  • Introduces a bulk editor feature which makes it easier to improve the SEO data (e.g. SEO title & meta description) of multiple content pages at once. Users can make improvements by exporting and importing their content through a CSV file.

06-07-2022 12:18

Enhancements

  • Introduces the SEO data migration (beta) feature to let you easily import your SEO data (e.g., SEO title & meta description). With this, you're no longer bound to a specific SEO app on Shopify and it's easier to switch to Yoast SEO.

01-07-2022 07:37

Enhancements

  • Removes the date shown in the Google preview for products, collections and blogs.

15-06-2022 14:15

Enhancements

  • Enhances the Schema.org graph by adding the gtin property to the Offer piece to provide the product (variant) barcode.

15-06-2022 09:25

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where notifications about errors in the theme modifications would show multiple times and could not be dismissed.

09-06-2022 12:29

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug in our theme SEO improvement service by ignoring Liquid code in between {% raw %} and {% endraw %} tags.

08-06-2022 13:21

Bugfixes

  • Fixes inaccurate values being output for the Offer schema of a product without variants

30-05-2022 09:19

Enhancements

  • Ensures the storage of our metafield data uses the new metafield type system for Online Store 2.0.

23-05-2022 13:23

Enhancements

  • Updates the retrieval of our metafield data in theme files, to support the new metafield type system for Online Store 2.0.

23-05-2022 12:01

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the Yandex webmaster tool verification code would be considered invalid as it expected at least 20 characters instead of 16.

20-05-2022 10:19

Enhancements

  • Improves the Schema detection by adding subtype detection of Article and WebPage.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the wrong formatting would be used for Twitter metatags.
  • Fixes a bug where the wrong formatting would be used for webmaster verification metatags.

18-05-2022 08:24

Bugfixes

  • Adds support for product variants without SKU defined, inside Offers Schema.

16-05-2022 14:30

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where Offers Schema would be generated for variants when no SKU value was available.
  • Fixes a bug where Offers Schema would contain invalid names when the product or variant title included quotes.

12-05-2022 08:39

Enhancements

  • Removes penalising for H1 that is not at the beginning of the text body.

11-05-2022 12:07

Enhancements

  • Improves replacement variable naming to better reflect the Shopify fields we're sourcing the data from for Shopify page title and Shopify meta description.
  • Improves the Product Schema output, creating a list of offers instead of one aggregateOffer entry.

05-05-2022 10:02

Enhancements

  • Places the SEO analysis right below the focus keyphrase input field in the Optimize sidebar.

26-04-2022 13:12

Enhancements

  • Enhances the editor to allow for JavaScript attributes to be present on HTML elements.

20-04-2022 15:03

Enhancements

  • Changed the filtering for Collections to read "Availability" instead of "Visibility" to better match the Shopify UI.

19-04-2022 10:54

Enhancements

  • Adds information about the review app that is used as source of data inside AggregateRating section of our Product schema piece.
  • Adds integration with Judge.me Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.
  • Adds integration with Loox Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.
  • Adds integration with Ali Reviews to improve rich snippets.
  • Adds integration with Opinew Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.

19-04-2022 09:00

Enhancements

  • Enhances the Google Preview to show the URL of the item in the shop.

08-04-2022 13:15

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the content for online store pages would be stored in an undesired format when saving from the Optimize module.

06-04-2022 08:38

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the text markers were unable to mark text containing special characters.

31-03-2022 09:16

Enhancements

  • Changes the price for Yoast SEO for Shopify subscriptions from $29 dollars per month to $19 dollars per month. Why? In our short endeavors in Shopify-land, we came to the conclusion that our pricing was on the higher end of the spectrum of the existing apps. While we think we provide a great product, we’ve decided to lower the price and give you in effect more bang for your buck.
  • Improves error handling related to the maximum length of input fields.

28-03-2022 09:06

Enhancements

  • Adds an app-wide banner telling that the theme modifications have been removed, with the option to reapply them easily.

24-03-2022 13:04

Enhancements

  • Adds Price: Maximum (%%price_max%%) replacement variable to products.
  • Adds Price: Minimum (%%price_min%%) replacement variable to products.
  • Adds Price (%%price%%) replacement variable to products.

15-03-2022 14:42

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where we're stripping script and style tags from the HTML of the content.

15-03-2022 11:45

Enhancements

  • Enhances the Webmaster validation code checks to catch more invalid codes from being entered.

10-03-2022 13:00

Enhancements

  • Enhances the file upload by providing clearer feedback when an unusable file is attempted to be used.

10-03-2022 08:57

Enhancements

  • Relocates the toast notifications from the right top corner to the top center.
  • Improves feedback strings for the Keyphrase Length assessment by making it explicit that we only count content words for languages with function word support.

09-03-2022 07:42

Enhancements

  • Adds a welcome back screen to enable returning users to remove theme modifications without needing a subscription.

07-03-2022 15:46

Enhancements

  • Adds a new replacement variable for the product barcode.
  • Improves the meta robots tags of product variants to now behave as per the main product.
  • Adds a new replacement variable for the product availability.
  • Adds a new replacement variable for the product SKU.

03-03-2022 10:07

Enhancements

  • The Facebook and Twitter Preview now uses image instead of a background image.

28-02-2022 10:52

Enhancements

  • Adds more detailed comments inside modified theme files, about the way of reverting automated changes.
  • Enhances the App by adding logic which will disable all Yoast SEO frontend output automatically when the App is uninstalled - this functionality requires an additional scope to be accepted on for the App: write_script_tags .

22-02-2022 15:41

Enhancements

  • Changes the default for showing collection and product archives in search results to be enabled, so they are shown in the search results.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the link to learn more about the no-index setting would not redirect to the correct Yoast.com help page.

21-02-2022 09:16

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where a primary domain other than the myshopify domain would not be displayed in the Social previews.

18-02-2022 11:31

Enhancements

  • Improves the text of the Uninstall settings to make the buttons and text more understandable.
  • Adds a theme modification page to the advanced settings to reapply and remove theme modifications.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the Yoast-markings would be persisted to the item in Shopify.

16-02-2022 09:08

Enhancements

  • The Yoast SEO breadcrumbs on the default product view no longer show the default variant.
  • Improves the %%title%% replacement on the default product view to no longer include the default variant.
  • Allows the WebPage and Website schema parts to be managed by Yoast even if the Organization part is not being managed by Yoast.

11-02-2022 15:14

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where relative URLs would be stripped of their starting slash in the Optimize content editor.
  • Fixes a bug where the Image Keyphrase assessment would only analyze the first word in image alt-attributes.

11-02-2022 10:49

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the Google Preview was not showing "In stock" when Inventory Tracking was disabled for a product

11-02-2022 08:49

Enhancements

  • Introduce new replacement variables for the SEO title and description configured in the search engine listing preview inside Shopify.
  • Introduce new replacement variable for the product vendor.

10-02-2022 09:00

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the myshopify domain instead of the primary domain was used in the internal links assessment and the Google preview.
  • Excludes URLs from the characters count in Japanese.
  • Improves stemming of Turkish word forms with an apostrophe.

09-02-2022 10:54

Bugfixes

  • Fixes our template control structure to not use the "include" method from Liquid as this was causing problems on specific theme implementations.

03-02-2022 12:19

Enhancements

  • Makes the editor in the Optimize module use your theme language when you are working on optimizing a content item.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes the problem when disabling Schema parts in the Yoast SEO settings, the Schema defined for these parts in the theme is not being output on the page.

27-01-2022 11:49

Bugfixes

  • Fixes the replacement of the "Title" variable by preferring the existing SEO title that was already filled within the Shopify admin.