Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO

Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the Yoast SEO plugin.
Rating:
4.8
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Active Installations:
10000000+
Last Updated:
Jun 18, 2025
WordPress Version:
6.6 or higher
Tested up to:
6.8.1

Improve WordPress SEO: Optimize your site with Yoast SEO.

Enhance your WordPress site's search engine optimization by using the Yoast SEO plugin. This powerful tool helps you write better content and optimize your website for higher search engine rankings.

Get a Competitive Edge: Stand out in search results with Yoast SEO.

Navigate the complexities of SEO with Yoast SEO's user-friendly tools and guidance.

Write Better Content: Craft compelling content that resonates with readers and search engines using Yoast SEO.

Yoast SEO gives you the competitive edge in the SEO maze. With automatic updates, optimized schema markup, and guidance on on-site content optimization, you can empower search engines to fully understand your website and improve your rankings.

Simplify SEO Tasks: Save time and effort with Yoast SEO's automated features.

Setting up Yoast SEO is hassle-free and doesn't require any advanced knowledge. The step-by-step configuration walks you through the essentials, helping you get started quickly. Plus, transitioning from other SEO plugins to Yoast SEO is seamless, ensuring you don't lose critical data.

25.3.1

Release date: 2025-06-18

This is a maintenance release which is required to align with changes to Yoast SEO Premium 25.3.1.

25.3

Release date: 2025-06-10

New: Yoast SEO 25.3 introduces llms.txt support to help AI tools understand your site better. Read the full release post here!

Enhancements

  • Introduces the llms.txt feature, which gives site owners the opportunity to automatically generate an llms.txt file. This file helps LLMs to better understand the site’s content.

25.2

Release date: 2025-05-27

Yoast SEO 25.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

  • Makes the keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment available when no content has been added.
  • Renames image keyphrase assessment to keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug in the retrieval of post categories titles where a non-existent term might be referenced. Props to @bor0.
  • Fixes a bug where the Yoast introduction in the Elementor editor would not be positioned correctly when on Elementor version 3.30.0.

Other

  • Excludes gallery, embed and playlist shortcodes from the keyphrase in introduction analysis in Classic editor.

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on yoast.com.

Ya no tendríamos que usar Yoast para el SEO

By alprado on June 29, 2025

Aunque es un plugin decente y esta en millones de sitios web no considero que sea lo que la comunidad de Wordpress merece para gestionar el SEO.

Algunas funciones básicas están bloqueadas y disponibles solo para la versión premium, como las redirecciones.

Y las funciones de IA son poco útiles para la mayoría de personas.

Was great, now awful. Completely borked our site

By damonr on June 26, 2025

Recent updated stopped our news filters working by re-writing the query strings. No idea how or why. User for 10 years. Now in the bin.

ok-ok

By DIZE TECH IT SOLUTIONS (dizetech) on June 22, 2025

Some times lags, some codes issue after installing , otherwise ok

It's unfortunate, they're updating so you have to pay for it.

By miguel (miguelappstudio) on June 20, 2025

They're free to do whatever they want; it's their product.
However, they're not clear and honest; they confuse us with their support responses.
They're updating so you'll buy their premium version. Besides, they don't like negative reviews; they only like you to praise them.
Unfortunately, we can't praise you.

Yoast BROKE my OxygenBuilder site

By HudsonValleyWebDesign (jaycbrf) on June 20, 2025

After using Yoast to do SEO modifications on my website the template editor in the backend no longer works. Pages are missing from the edit list and were replaced with tags, categories, and posts.
DO NOT USE Yoast withOxygen Builder. It breaks everything.

Nice Bug Buggy as All Get Out

By ewl on June 18, 2025

This would be great if it worked, however it constantly provides false positives. For example, it's always claiming 3 consecutive sentences start with the same word. This is rarely, if ever, actually the case, I've even used AI to attempt to find the offenders. Since they don't exist it's impossible to fix the error.

This is all made worse by the fact that the highlighting feature that is supposed to show where it *thinks* the error is is completely non functional.

Content marked by Yoast as "AI optimized", but i do NOT use AI !!

By Hans Glyk (hansglyk) on June 18, 2025

Lots of problems since the last updates..

Today I discovered surprisingly that Yoast adds this code to every headline or paragraph in Classic Editor:

class=“ai-optimize”

Mind you, even if the text is not optimized with AI at all or only in some cases!!!
That has frightening consequences for Seo !!

You have to deactivate Yoast AI option completly to be safe for Google.

Obviously the support is not active and they are not longer testing the updates.

I've been a paying customer for many years (4x), but now it's time for something new.

Plugin throwing critical error on latest version 25.3

By Ms Bunny (hell0bunny) on June 13, 2025

Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: array_map(): Argument #2 ($array) must be of type array, null given in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/class-addon-manager.php:820


Please fix the code
From :

protected function map_site_information( $site_information ) {
return (object) [
'url' => $site_information->url,
'subscriptions' => array_map( [ $this, 'map_subscription' ], $site_information->subscriptions ),
];
}

To:

protected function map_site_information( $site_information ) {

return (object) [
'url' => $site_information->url,
'subscriptions' => array_map([ $this, 'map_subscription' ],
is_array( $site_information->subscriptions ) ? $site_information->subscriptions : []),];

}


Problems updating Version 25.2

By rodrigo376 on May 29, 2025

Version 25.2 After updating, the social media appearance function stopped working. I spoke to support and they did not solve the problem. I have been using Yoast for over 5 years and am disappointed with the support provided. The function is inactive due to an error in the last update.

The settings had changed on their own

By oraev on May 27, 2025

At one point, I found out that all the plug-in settings had gone awry on their own: the name of the pages and entries had changed; tags, categories, labels, and headings were marked for indexing, and as a result, all the "garbage" got into the search, and the site "sank" in the search results!

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