Yoast SEO Premium

Yoast SEO Premium: the #1 WordPress SEO plugin

Optimize every page for up to 5 keywords

In the Yoast SEO Premium plugin, you can pick up to 5 focus keywords. These are the keywords you’d like your post or page to rank for in the search results.

We then run a check on your content to check whether you’re using the keywords often enough – but not too often – and in the right spots.

Yep, Yoast Premium makes it really easy to seduce search engines. In the free version, you can only set 1 focus keyword. That means you’ll have to choose between keywords.

Internal linking suggestions

Internal linking is extremely important because it helps search engines to understand your site structure.

But adding links by hand is slow, tedious and downright annoying. With the internal linking feature in Yoast SEO Premium, that’s a thing of the past.

This feature analyzes your text and suggests links to related posts – as you write. Taking all the hassle out of internal linking. Yeah, we’re pretty happy about it too.

Preview of your page in Google

Thanks to the snippet editor, you can see through the eyes of the Google user: what will your post or page look like in the search results? And on mobile screens? Would you click a link like that?

In the free version, you can only preview your link in Google, not in Facebook or Twitter.

Preview of your page in social media

Check what your page will look like if you share it on Facebook or Twitter. Do the title fit and the image match? Will it stand out? If you want people to click, your social media shares have to look the part.

If you don’t want to think about that for every single post, just set a template. Yoast SEO allows you to set those for all types of pages.

Readability check: increase the chances that people actually read your page

Online readers don’t read – they scan. Just like you are probably doing right now.

So you should write short sentences, add subheadings and use connecting words.

Do you think that’s a lot harder than it sounds? 

No worries. Yoast SEO will tell you exactly what to do, based on scientific research on readability, such as the Flesch Reading Ease score.

Full control over your breadcrumbs

Your breadcrumb can get messy because of several reasons. Some posts may be listed in several categories and appear with different breadcrumbs, for example.

With Yoast SEO you can set a primary category for your post, and determine the taxonomy for every single page on your website.

No duplicate content: avoid confusing Google

Your website can show the same content on various URLs, which might confuse Google: this is called a duplicate content issue.

Yoast SEO solves this by letting you indicate one URL as the original one – what techies like to call a canonical link. That way, Yoast SEO makes sure that your content is always found under the URL you want it to be found under. Simple.

Technical stuff in the background

Search engine robots crawl the web and create an index. And it doesn’t hurt to help them a bit.

Yoast SEO rolls out the red carpet for the search bots, making it super easy to crawl your site and find everything.

Basically, the plugin takes care of all the technical stuff for you.

But hey, if technical tweaking is your thing – more power to you. With Yoast SEO, you can edit your robots.txt and .htaccess files, clean up your URLs and generate and update your sitemaps.

Content insights

Our Insights functionality lists the 5 words or word combinations that appear most often on your page.

That way, you can check if the topics and keywords you’d like to rank for in Google, Bing and Yahoo are in line with what you’re actually writing about.

This is a Premium feature. In the free version, you’ll have to do your own content analysis, we’re afraid.

Currently, this feature is only available in selected languages.

Redirect manager: your visitors don’t get stuck on a 404 Not Found page

We all have to delete pages at some point, but when that old URL gets visitors, they bump into a 404 Not Found error. Aaaargh!

To avoid this, you can redirect them to a new page with relevant information. It’s important to do this systematically to keep your website healthy.

The Redirect manager allows you to do just that: after deleting a post or page, the plugin will ask you what to do with the old URL.

You can also go to the menu ‘Redirects’ to see and update all your redirected pages. And you can even set ‘REGEX redirects’ to indicate that all URLs containing a certain word or expression should redirect to the same page.

Focus keyword export

You no longer need to click around to find out what you should optimize next. In Yoast SEO Premium, you can download an overview of all the focus keywords you’ve used so far and of the pages that need more SEO care.

You get to choose what data you’d like to see – keywords, URL, readability score and/or title – and download your overview as a CSV file. And yes, this works for content with multiple focus keywords as well.

Always updated for Google’s algorithm

You might have heard about Google Panda and Google Penguin – two major updates to Google’s search algorithm.

Google also makes minor changes to its algorithm 500-600 times a year.

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