Plugin / Yoast SEO

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Having an XML sitemap can be beneficial for SEO, as Google can retrieve essential pages of a website very fast, even if the internal linking of a site isn’t flawless. The sitemap index and individual sitemaps are updated automatically as you add or remove content and will include the post types you want search engines to index. Post Types marked as noindex will not appear in the sitemap. Learn more about XML Sitemaps.
It is straightforward to add your website to Google Search Console. 1. Create a Google Search Console account and login into your account. 1. Click ‘Add a property’ under the search drop-down. 1. Enter your website URL in the box and click ‘Continue’. 1. Click the arrow next to ‘HTML tag’ to expand the option. 1. Copy the meta tag. 1. Log in to your WordPress website. 1. Click on ‘SEO’ in the dashboard. 1. Click on ‘General’. 1. Click on the ‘Webmaster Tools’ tab. 1. Paste the code in the Google field and click ‘Save Changes’. 1. Go back to Google Search Console and click ‘Verify’. If you want more details steps, please visit our article on our knowledge base.
The steps below are a temporary solution as manual edits made to theme files may be overwritten with future theme updates. Please contact the theme developer for a permanent solution. We’ve written an article about the importance of breadcrumbs for SEO. To implement the [breadcrumbs]https://yoa.st/3qw) function in Yoast SEO, you will have to edit your theme. We recommend that prior to any editing of the theme files, a backup is taken. Your host provider can help you take a backup. Copy the following code into your theme where you want the breadcrumbs to be. If you are not sure, you will need to experiment with placement: ` ` Common places where you could place your breadcrumbs are inside your single.php and/or page.php file just above the page’s title. Another option that makes it really easy in some themes is by just pasting the code in header.phpat the very end. In most non-WooTheme themes, this code snippet should not be added to your functions.php file. Alternatively, you can manually add the breadcrumb shortcode to individual posts or pages: [wpseo_breadcrumb] If you need more details or a step by step guide, read our Implementation guide for Yoast SEO breadcrumbs.
Yoast SEO provides multiple options for setting a URL or group of URLs to noindex. Read more about how to do this in this guide.
If you’ve crafted nice meta descriptions for your blog posts, nothing is more annoying than Google showing another description for your site completely in the search result snippet. Possible causes could be: 1. wrong description in code 2. Google cache is outdated 3. Search term manipulation 4. Google ignored the meta description You can read more here on how to solve the issue with the wrong description.
Yoast SEO is updated every two weeks. If you want to know why, please read this post on why we release every two weeks!
As our free plugin is used by millions of people worldwide, we cannot offer you all one on one support. If you have trouble with the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin, you can get help on the support forums here at wordpress.org or by checking out or knowledge base at kb.yoast.com. The plugins you buy at Yoast are called ‘premium plugins’ (even if Premium isn’t in its name) and include a complete year of free updates and premium support. This means you can contact our support team if you have any questions about that plugin. Read more on how to get support
Your question has most likely been answered on our knowledge base: kb.yoast.com.

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4.9
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Version

12.5.1

First Released

02 Jan, 2009

Total Downloads

211,126,597

Wordpress Version

5.2 or higher

Tested up to:

5.3

Require PHP Version:

5.6.20 or higher

Tags

Content analysis Readability seo xml sitemap

Contributors

Yoast Joost de Valk Taco Verdonschot Omar Reiss Anton Timmermans Jip Moors

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