In Yoast SEO, we’ve improved our innovative indexables technology. We’ve developed a faster and more reliable way of indexing your site’s data. In turn, we make better use of this data to improve your site’s SEO. Plus, this technology helps us do our best to make the web greener and lays the groundwork for exciting future possibilities.
An improved indexing system
You might be wondering, “What exactly are indexables?” Well, think of them as a way to help search engines find and understand the content on your website. An indexable is any resource a search engine can index via a URL.When a search engine “indexes” your website, it creates a map of all the pages it knows about. The indexables framework allows Yoast SEO to make a similar map of your site, interact with it and manage important SEO-related information.
But what makes indexables so special? Essentially, they allow Yoast SEO to better handle different types of content on your website beyond just traditional pages. This includes things like categories, archives, media files and far beyond that. This can greatly help larger sites with many different content types. Plus, it helps us build features on top of it!
And the best part? The indexables technology means better performance and more efficient use of resources. It’s a step towards making the web a little bit greener, as it reduces the amount of processing power needed to manage SEO metadata.
So, how does this work?
When you create a website, you like stuff to be easily accessible online. Indexables help Yoast SEO understand your website, so it can help search engines like Google understand your website better. Yoast SEO stores information about your website in a unique database table that we use to uncover and use your data — and speed up your database.To put indexables to work, you need to optimize your website’s SEO data. You can do this when you set up Yoast SEO or at a later date. When you optimize your SEO data, Yoast SEO will store information about your website’s pages in a unique table. This can take some time, especially for large websites, but you only need to do it once. After the initial optimization, Yoast SEO will automatically update the indexables table whenever you change something on your website.
Today, we’re launching improvements to this system for Yoast SEO and WooCommerce SEO.
Features
- Content insights
- No duplicate content
- Keyword optimization
- Focus keyword export
- Preview of your page
- Works in the block editor and classic editor
- Full control over your breadcrumbs
- Tell Google exactly what your page is about
- Readability check
- Technical stuff in the background
- Redirect manager
- No outdated content
- Internal linking suggestions
- Always updated for Google’s algorithm
Changelog
v.21.0 - August 22, 2023
- Introduces the AI title & description generator. You can now speed up your workflow with high-quality suggestions for titles and descriptions for your search and social appearance, at the click of a button.
- Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 21.0.
- Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.3.
- Introduces the Yoast\WP\SEO\redirects_options_autoload filter, which can be used to override the default setting of having the redirect options autoloaded.
- Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.13.
- Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.3.
- Adds an edit button to the SKU and Product identifier assessments on product pages if the Yoast WooCommerce SEO plugin is installed (version 15.8 or higher).
- We've made it easier to select a value for the site policies.
- Fixes a bug where a heading would not be included in the table of contents when it was created by transforming a paragraph block.
- Bumps the minimum required Free version to 20.12.
- Adds support for structured data about a site's policies and publishing principles.
- Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.11.
