Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI

Description

Yoast SEO is designed to enhance your website's SEO performance by providing real-time feedback and guidance. With built-in schema integration, it helps search engines better understand your content. The plugin offers advanced tools for content analysis and readability, ensuring your writing is engaging and user-friendly.

Setting up Yoast SEO is straightforward, thanks to its step-by-step configuration wizard. It also allows for seamless migration from other SEO plugins, ensuring you do not lose any existing SEO data. The premium version unlocks AI-powered tools that assist in generating SEO-friendly titles and meta descriptions, optimizing content placement, and summarizing content quickly.

Additionally, Yoast SEO takes care of technical SEO aspects, such as automated meta tag optimization and advanced XML sitemaps. Regular updates ensure the plugin remains compatible with the latest SEO standards. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced user, Yoast SEO equips you with the necessary tools to tackle your SEO challenges effectively.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin.

SEO

Content Analysis

Schema

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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.

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 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:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'yoast_breadcrumb' ) ) {     yoast_breadcrumb( '<p id="breadcrumbs">','</p>' ); } ?>

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.php at 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.