Yoast SEO 4.2 plugin feature list
Focus keyword and content analysis
In the Yoast SEO metabox you can set a focus keyword. This is the keyword you’d like your post or page to rank for in the search results. The plugin then runs a check on your content to check whether you’re using the keyword often enough – but not too often – and in the right spots. Themeforest Top 10 WordPress Theme
Post titles and meta descriptions
In the Yoast SEO meta box you can completely optimize your post or page title and meta description, using the snippet editor functionality to see what it would look like in Google. Don’t want to think about that for every single post? Yoast SEO also let’s you set templates for titles and meta descriptions for all types of pages
Robots meta configuration
If you want Google not to index your page, or a set of pages, you can do so with Yoast SEO. It’s also possible to tell Google not to follow the links on your page. You can set this for single posts or pages or, for instance archives
Readability check
Apart from checking the SEO friendliness of your post, Yoast SEO now also analyzes the readability of the copy you wrote! It checks the length of your sentences and paragraphs, and whether you use transition words or sub headings. Moreover it assesses if you don’t use passive voice too often. On top of that it calculates the Flesch Reading Ease score. At this moment it’s fully available for English and German, and partly available for all other languages.
XML Sitemaps
XML Sitemaps are an essential part of current day SEO, and can thus not be excluded from a complete Yoast SEO plugin. While there are other WordPress XML Sitemap Generators out there, they don’t talk to your Yoast SEO 4.2 plugin. Meaning that if you noindex a page, preventing it from showing up in Google, it might still be in your sitemap. They also don’t allow you to keep certain taxonomies out of your sitemap. This plugin does. And, to boot, it makes your XML Sitemaps look good by using an XSLT stylesheet on them, so humans can read them too.
Yoast SEO 4.2 allows you to create and manage redirects from within your WordPress install, allowing you to easily redirect old URLs to new ones, and solve common issues. This is especially powerful because of the combination with the Google Search Console (Webmaster Tools) integration.
Built for scale, this redirect module can either handle the redirects for you or generate a redirect file that you can include in your Apache or NGINX server config.
With this feature, you’ll be able to optimize a post for two completely different terms, or for two synonyms. This means you no longer have to choose between terms you’d like to rank for!
With this feature, you’ll be able to check what your Facebook or Twitter post will look like when you share your post! Check, while working on your post, whether your image has the right size for Social Media sharing!
We’ve made it possible to directly add related links to other articles from within the post editor. Yoast SEO Premium looks for the most common words in your post, analyzes these and presents related posts from your site that use the same words. This way you can add links to relevant articles on the fly instead of having to manually search for them, thus saving you valuable time and money. Currently this feature is only available for English content.
As part of our content analysis, we check the readability and SEO-friendliness of your text. On top of that, Insights shows you the 5 words or word combinations that appear most often in your text. With this feature, you can check if the topics you discuss in your text line up with what you’re aiming to write about. Currently this feature is only available for English content.
Possibly even more important, buying Yoast SEO Premium (formerly known as WordPress SEO by Yoast Premium) gives you access to our support team. You can email them your questions about usage of the plugin or your problems in setting it up and they’ll assist you!
