SEO News
There are two “really popular” SEO plugins that we find on the Blogs we support.
1. WP SEO from Yoast
2. All In One SEO Pack from Michael Torbert
Both are great plugins, both work well on most sites and both play well with other plugins. Their approach to SEO optimization is similar so it usually comes down to personal preference as to which is the best SEO plugin for your Site.
… and which plugin makes it easier to make your content search engine friendly!
The one thing that is certain that with both of these popular plugins there we are providing our Blog Support clients with constant updates to their plugins. These updates contain bug and quick updates and sometimes like today. New features!
Today is Yoast’s turn to upgrade the SEO plugin that we use on our sites.
If you are a WPBlog Support Client Running Yoast’s Plugin Your Site Has Already Been Updated!
Here’s a quick update with the new features and fixes you’ll find inside version 2.0 of Yoast’s WP SEO
Release Date: March 26th, 2015
- Simplified and revised Admin menu’s:
- Moved all advanced functionality to one “Advanced” submenu page.
- Moved the bulk editor, the export functionality and the file editor to one “Tools” submenu page.
- Improved consistency and usability of settings pages by having them use exactly the same, tab-based, styling.
- Made it easy to output structured data for social profiles, person and company profiles, for use in Google Knowledge Graph.
Enhancements:
- Makes sure the user is redirected to the last active settings tab after saving.
Bugfixes:
- Fixes a bug where custom field variables were no longer working in the snippet preview.
- Fixes a bug where the $post global was emptied by our Frontend class, causing conflicts with other plugins.
- Fixes a bug where variables weren’t replaced in the og:description meta tag.
- Fixes a bug where the breadcrumbs caused an undefined variable notice.
Under the hood:
- Contains an incredible amount of code style improvements, making the code cleaner and more readable.
- Makes sure every function in the plugin is documented using PHPDoc by having it checked automatically by the Codesniffer.
- Refactored a lot of legacy code in the admin, mainly with regard to the way output is rendered. Provides for a better separation of concerns, making the code more comprehensible and re-usable.
- Deprecated a large amount of form methods and moved them to the Yoast_Form class.
- Deprecated a large amount of utility functions and moved them to the WPSEO_Utils class.
What does this update mean to you?
Search Engine Optimization is hard work! It takes time and SEO Best Practices to Get Ranked First On Google. This recent update has changes to the interface allowing you the blogger to enter and present your content the way google likes to see it.
Not using the plugin is the one thing that can’t be controlled by either of these developers you have add good content for their plugins to work… This update makes that a bit easier.
