An overview of the WordPress Yoast SEO plugin. This plugin is one of the most popular WordPress SEO plugins on the marked. It will automatically take care of the site’s technical SEO.
I have added articles to show the settings of a few SEO plugins. The All in One SEO plugin and The SEO Framework plugin. To give an overview of what features each offer.
There is also a Yoast SEO Premium plugin which contain these premium features.
– Optimize the site for the right keywords for your users.
– Avoid dead links.
– Previews before sharing posts on Twitter and Facebook.
– Quality and link suggestions.
– Full Access to Yoast SEO academy.
The Yoast SEO WordPress plugin settings overview
General, Integrations, Search Appearance, Social, Tools, Workouts and Redirects.
General
Dashboard, Features, Integrations, Webmaster Tools, Crawl settings (premium) and First-time configuration.
Dashboard
Problems – This section will list various problems that show up on the site that needs to be fixed.
Notifications – Various notifications to help improve the SEO on the site.
Features
Toggle to enable / disable some of the settings.
Such as SEO analysis – suggests ways to improve the SEO of your text.
How to use Yoast SEO’s content analysis tool.
Readability analysis – offers suggestions to improve the structure and style of your text.
Does readability rank? On ease of reading and SEO.
Inclusive language analysis (Premium and Beta)
Inclusive language
Cornerstone content – Lets you mark and filter cornerstone content (most important content) on your website.
What is cornerstone content?
Additional settings: Text link counter, Insights, Link suggestions (premium), XML sitemaps, Admin bar menu, Security, Usage tracking, Rest API, Enhanced Slack sharing and IndexNow.
Webmaster Tools
Add a Webmaster Tools verification for Baidu, Bing, Google and Yandex search engines.
Crawl settings (Premium)
Makes crawling more efficient.
Shortlinks, REST API links, RSD / WLW links, oEmbed links, Generator tag, Emoji scripts, Pingback, Powered by HTTP header. Many additional settings.
First-time configuration
A wizard to help Yoast SEO index the site.
Integrations
Yoast SEO integrations with third party products.
Disable / Enable the integrations.
Search Appearance
General, Content Types, Media, Taxonomies, Archives, Breadcrumbs and RSS.
General
Title Separator, Homepage & Post page, Knowledge Graph & Schema.org.
Content Types
Posts and Pages.
Media
Media & attachment URLs
Taxonomies
Categories, Tags, Formats and Category URLs.
Archives
Author archives, Date archives and Special pages.
Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs settings.
RSS
RSS feed settings and Available variables.
Social
Accounts – Organization’s social profiles, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest social media settings.
Tools
Import and Export, File editor, Bulk editor, Optimize SEO data.
Workouts (Premium)
Step by step workouts to tackle the most fundamental SEO challenges.
Redirects (Premium)
Redirects, Regex Redirects and Settings.
Additional information will be added along the way.
Original article was published 19 March 2015. Updated 9 April 2017.
