🛑🛑🛑 This video is outdated, check out 2025 version: th-cam.com/video/x-U8clSUrtU/w-d-xo.html 🛑🛑🛑 Hey guys, if you're wondering, I personally don't use Yoast anymore on all my own and client websites. Check out this video where I compare the 3 biggest SEO plugins of the moment: 🔥th-cam.com/video/1ZyCXybC9GA/w-d-xo.html 🔥If you have any questions, just drop them down here and I'll be glad to answer them. Have a great day! 😊
Haha hey Shafen! Yeah I always do. Just like the interaction. I’m personally disappointed if the creator does not answer any questions or comments so that’s also why.
Hi there! Thanks for your kind words, really appreciate it. I’m glad the video was useful for you. I hope my other videos are also useful 🤩 have a great day and stay safe!
Hi Heidi! Thanks for your kind words! I’m happy I could help you out with this video. If you have any ideas for new videos, I can add them to the list ☺️ Have a great day and stay safe!
Hi Lando! You are very welcome, it makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time out of your day to write me! I'm glad I could help you out with your website, and this . I'm happy you like the style! Thanks for the sub 😃 Have a great day and take care, greetings
Hi Chinazo! Thanks for the kind words and the sub! I really appreciate that. I'm glad I could help you out with this tutorial! Have a great day and stay safe 😊
Hi there! You are very welcome, I'm glad the video was useful to you 😀 I hope my other video's will also add something to your skills and knowledge. Have a great day and stay safe!
Hi there! Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. You are very welcome! I hope my other video's will also add some value to your knowledge and skill set. Have a great day and stay safe 😁👍🏼
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Hi there! Thanks for the kind words, really appreciate it that you take some time out your day to send me a message. Thanks. I’m glad the video was useful! Have a great day and stay safe ☺️
Hi Anya! You are very welcome! Thank you for writing a comment. Yeah everybody can do it actually. Please consider a like and subscribe or maybe a share for my video, that would help me a lot! If you want a free website review / audit, check wpressdoctor.com/audit
Hi there and you are very welcome! It makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time to write me. I hope my other video's are also useful for you. Getting the word out there with your like and subscribe, and possibly a share would be much appreciated. If you want a free website review / audit, check wpressdoctor.com/audit
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Hi Jody! Thanks for your question! No I personally use Rank Math for all my websites. It has better functions and integrate better with Divi. Yoast doesn’t even try to integrate…
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Hi there! You are very welcome! I’m glad I could help you out with this video. Stay tuned, more awesome tutorials coming up! Have a great day and take care 😀👍🏻
Hi there! You are very welcome, it makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time out of your day to write me! I'm glad I could help you out with your website. Your 👍🏼 and subscribe would be very helpful if you haven't already done so. Have a great day and take care, greetings
¡Hola Matro! ¡Muchas gracias por tus amables palabras y el sub! Realmente lo aprecio. Si tienes alguna duda, házmelo saber y te ayudo a retomar el camino. ¡Que tengas un gran día y mantente a salvo! 😀
Man thanks a lot i am quite new in wordpress, was used to html and doing everything manually thanks a lot for your well documented video. I should tell you with this i'm already far with a bit of excercises❤🔥!
You are very welcome! It makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time to write me. I hope my other video's are also useful for you. Getting the word out there with your like and subscribe, and possibly a share would be much appreciated. If you want a free website review / audit, check wpressdoctor.com/audit
Hi there! Ah that’s really great to hear that, thank you so much! If all goes planned, tomorrow I will release another Yoast SEO optimization video. Stay tuned!
Hi there! You are very welcome! I’m glad I could help you out with this video. Stay tuned for more awesome videos coming soon 😀👍🏻 Have a great day and take care!
Hi Vincent! Thanks for the kind words! It makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time out of your day to write me! I'm glad I could help you out with your website. Your 👍🏼 and subscribe would be very helpful if you haven't already done so. Have a great day and take care, greetings
Ah I think you mean on the optimizing on the pages itself. I made a new video about that one here: th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html hope that helps?
@@WPressDoctor in the yoast settings, there's a section of advanced crawl settings that let's you enable disable comments, feeds, links, and much more... I don't know what is important for us to keep it enable and what should remain disable.. Anyway, the tutorial was great
A most helpful video for my website. Recently I have been facing problems with my page tab text, when I go to my author page or any important page I can see "classified ads" text on my tab after favicon logo. Can you tell me please how can I remove it.
Thanks for the video, I'm wondering if Yoast would work on an old version of wordpress that is 20% ecommerce 80% informative, build with custom fields, templates and the plugin formidable. 😵
Hi there! Haha who knows! If not, just download a older version from here: wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/advanced/ try if that works 🤣 Disclaimer: always update your site in case of hackingbots 😁
Hi Dean! Wow I really appreciate it. Thanks for the kind words and the sub! You might also like this video about Yoast: th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html
Hi Matt, Thank you for the outstanding overview. Can you place a FB Pixel on a blog post page using WP? I built the site with Elementor Pro and placed a pixel on every page but I am having a problem placing it on the Blog post page. Any help is appreciated.
Hi there! Thanks for your kinds words, really appreciate it. Yeah you could place it very easy using, no need to place it manually on every page / post. Go to 'Elementor' than go to 'Custom Code' press 'Add new custom code' and name it "Facebook Pixel". Chose the location "Head", paste in your code and press 'Publish' on the right side. Done! Hope that helps?
Hey, Thank you for brilliant content. My trouble is that the content comes from a PR agency and when I publish it, the seo and readability scores are red. I am able to make the seo score green, although, some of it still cannot be changed but there is no way I can make the readability score better as I would have to rewrite a lot. Any suggestions, please? Thanks
Hi there! Thanks for sharing your concerns. Well if you can force the PR company to share with you there “focus keyword” on their content. This way they can see for themselves if it works or not. And I don’t know if this content is created purely for SEO or for another reason? Sounds like you need to talk to the PR firm 😁
Thanks Matt, I have no idea about SEO and this video is the best so far, learned a lot. About the breadcrumbs though and where to set up the code or where to place it. If you could make a video about it, Just sub as well. Cheers mate
HI there and thanks for your comment. You are very welcome and yes if you have no clue than this video might help you out a bit. Well the breadcrumbs can be placed anywhere on your website where you want them to appear. It can be using a shortcode, that's very easy to do, just copy and paste the code somewhere on your page where you want it to be. Preferably on a theme / layout page.
Hi there! You are very welcome! I’m glad the video was useful. I hope my other video’s will also add something to your knowledge and skillset! Getting the word out there with your like and subscribe, and possibly a share would be much appreciated. Have a awesome day! If you want a free website review / audit, check wpressdoctor.com/audit
I really learned a lot in this video and I am now a subscriber. My client is concerned that when she sends a link by email or by LinkedIn message it doesn't appear the way she wants it to. I am thinking that this has gotten me on the right track so l'm looking forward to completing the tasks you have outlined in the video and watching more of your content. Thanks.
Hi Mark! Thank you for your comment. Yeah when you send a link it’s using the social data from Yoast per page for this purpose. You can change the picture there and the texts. Really useful!
If you saves your changes on your website, then Google will update its SERP regularly but not actually instant. So it could take a few days / weeks (depending on search traffic) how fast your Title and Description will be changed inside of the search results page of google 😀 Hang in there!
@@WPressDoctor In your video don't discuss the crawl optimizations options because it's part of the paid version of Yoast. But now in 2023, it's included in the free version and I was hoping to see what all of it meant. But it's okay, it turns out Yoast has an entire video on the crawl optimization options. But your video great and I got a lot out of it. Thank you.
@@WPressDoctor Ha! I just noticed, sorry I had been though so many videos yesterday and I could have sworn yours was from 2021. I see the title "Tutorial for 2023." But ya, it's free in my version and I for sure didn't pay for it.
hi, because i saw video on Google Search center that delete old sitemap doesn't mean google forget the old sitemap you need te remove it from your site and return 404 after some attempts google will give up this link: th-cam.com/video/JlamLfyFjTA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=GoogleSearchCentral
Hi Alek! THanks for the question. Well if you have generated sitemap.xml it might be overwritten yes. I would personally only use the sitemap of your SEO plugin, because its just better up to date. Or you can rename your hand-made sitemap to something else 😊
I have a question...yoast has changed the name of my site in its settings and refuses to allow me to correct it. It's put numbers in the original site name. I can add the "real name" on it's add a name line under it but when I go to my pages they all say "joeys32%" then the rest of the website name. Should I just delete the plugin completely?
Hi Sarah! That’s a really odd situation, I have never encountered this before. Before uninstalling try to change the website title within WordPress itself under “settings” -> “general” if that does not work go to step 2: You could indeed try to delete the plugin entirely and clean its entries in the database: quadlayers.com/remove-yoast-seo-from-database/ than reinstall the plugin and start over. It should work then.
Hi, thank you so much for answering my question! I tried the plugin, but it didn't work. This is what the website name is listed as Joey&#;s039 .... I'm afraid to try the PHP version of removing it. Do you have any suggestions or should I just go to a different seo plugin?
You're an awesome teacher. I uninstalled it a second time and it once again gave the wrong name, so I once again deleted and reinstalled it. Then I noticed that it had pre installed information so I chose a tab that said first time installation and then I was able to change the name they chose. Thanks again! Hopefully if someone else comes up with the same issue you can explain it to them...much better than I can! Keep up the great work!
Hi there! Thanks for the question. I optimize a real page in this tutorial: Yoast SEO - How To Optimize a Page All Green Bullets 2023 th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html 👍🏻😀
My client is concerned about how the link to her website appears in a LinkedIn message or an email. She is looking for a specific title and image to appear with the link. I am continuing with this tutorial in hopes of finding an answer. So far this is very helpful. I wonder if it will be necessary to purchase the Premium version. Thanks.
need help.... we did domain name change..... yoast plugin not able to update new domain name in google search. hence currently 2 domain name are reflecting in google search because of google new schema name update..... what can be done?
Hi there! Well just redirect the old domain with 302 to new domain per URL. So Googlebot sees that the old website has a new domain. Then wait 2 weeks for all old URLS are removed from the SERP. Should work fine 👍🏻😀
Hey I have a question - Yoast SEO is acting up and it's not letting me click on the button that allows me to change any of my settings for that plugin. I just get an error 404 page or whatever it's called (the "you bad man" thing.) I have also tried disabling Yoast SEO plugin only and when I click view All Pages on my editor menu, I also get the error 404. I literally have not done anything to the website in several days and it's suddenly acting like this.... maybe Yoast SEO pushed an automatic update that's preventing me from using it? That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I have tried other troubleshooting steps suggested by various websites when I googled the problem like renaming my indexes on my host and none of that helped. I disabled all the plugins, and I still get the error.
Hi Jay! Yes you can, but the sitemap will be send to Google if you generate it with Yoast. I always do all the SEO setup after going live with the website.
Hi David Grey! Thanks for your good question. It totally depends. If I have a website that needs to live from SEO, than yes I optimise every single page. Not so much the contact page of course, but everything else should have a good score. If the website does not need SEO that bad, I don't optimize every page, only the most important ones. Does that answer your question?
Hi Tomas! Thanks for your question. Well it can take some time for the changes to be picked up. Also when your titles and descriptions are (according to Google) not relevant to the content, Google will still use the old original content. It can take up to a week or 2 to get all changes live 👍🏻😀
Hi, help please, I use Jetpack too, I did my site connections and site mapping over jetpack, after 2 years saw a video about jetpack saying if you use yeast don't activate mapping and connections by jetpack (wich I realize that jetpack search engine activation button is off and says you are using yoast) . Plus I just learned that to do yoast settings - they were staying as it it I add yoast . SO WHAT SHOULD İ DO : 1) cancel jetpack site mapping and site connections and add them over yoast - jetpack has extra Facebook and yoast has Baidu. 2) continue as it is now 3) choose jetpack from importing other seos at yoast - if I do this should I do what I said at " 1 " . 4) lastly if i must do " 1 " , at google should I delete my settings and new for yoast settings. because can't see html on current google settings to add toast . Thanks
Hi there! Thanks for your question. My answer is short, don’t use Jetpack at all. It only slows your website down and really does not provide any value that you need… Just use WP Rocket for speed and Rank Math for SEO. Your all set 😎
@@WPressDoctor i am writting travel blog for a hobby at my free times. I dont earn money. Pay to wp rockets, shorpixel, host … those monies are expensive for me as my county’s dollar exchange rate ;( . I found free unlimited image optimize site forexample. -- Jet pack have contact form, subscription, comment form… my webhost is from wordpress, cheapest. i wanted a nice subscription form with name box , i gave up ; just want a form that connects to my subscribers list and they get my new posts. (On my phone my friends e mail stucks in subscription form ;)) )) -- I need help about fastening my web site, i messed up something today about adding site verification to yoast from jetpack, now its very slowe. --- I gave up, going use wordpress as how its now ; people asks money when i write on youtube
Hello WP Doctor, your channel makes the best WP content out there. Thank you for the tutorial. I only have one issue. My website is not blog post related meaning I have no posts, also I cannot optimize my home page because it is saved in templates, not pages tab. Can you help me with this?
Hi Tvoja Mama! Thanks for the kind words! Well you can still optimize your homepage a little bit with texts. Just focus on landingspages then, check out my newest video to do this; th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html
Hi Muaz! Yeah there are some interesting features like multiple keywords for example. But it all gives you just meer information and analytics, it’s not “pay to win in Google” that does not work 😀👍🏻
Hi Jasmin! Thanks for your comment! I make my videos as long as they are, I want to get a point across 👍🏻😀 cutting it or making it longer for the sake of the length is not my style 🤭
Hi Edgar! Hard to tell. AI is not yet cable of doing simple tasks without my input or check afterwards…. Giving it controle over a ad budget would be really… interesting 🤓
Hii there, I think he means how to prevent spam/ virusses onto your website🙂 I would like to know that please. Since many plugins make your website prone for spam..
Hello, please help me. I want you to show me how to add multiple synonyms to a keyphrase so that the plugin identifies them as separate words or synonyms. Thank you in advance.
Hi SanArt! That’s no problem at all, just make sure the multilingual plugin integrates with Yoast 👍🏻😀 I know TranslatePress does this excellent. What plugin are you using?
Hi Christian, thank you for asking about Yoast SEO vs Rank Math. I have created a video about this, just for this specific question: th-cam.com/video/1ZyCXybC9GA/w-d-xo.html 😀
@@WPressDoctor both BE and FE. I'd love to give it a whirl and find out which toggle, did what, but even a back reverse process and back up restoration has not resolved it. So, I guess the only option is to re-do the entire translated pages - ie. delete, and reintrothem. So what exactly happened. I have polylang, elementor and a premium yoasr running on a kadence template. Prior to crawler optimisation, i had two menus. Primary in ENG and secondary in another lingo, with a flag to switch from one to another. After the toggle switch the secondary langauge menu dissapeared., though all polylang settings remained the same. restoration to a previous backup copy, has left me with a menu where once I switch to 2ndary langauge but there is no 2ndary menu. Instead i have the english primary menu, and if i want to view the contact from in 2ndary language I need to first select it in primary english, and then clock to 2ndary language. so the php is properly fucked. If I have to place a bet I would say it was something from the "Disable unwanted content formats". Anyways thats a couple of days of work in the shitter, as i need to revwrite the entire tag and keyword section. Will keep a txt copy of everything from now on.
Hi there! Thanks for the question! Well it must be my accent. Fun fact; Yoast is actually a Dutch guy. So in my country his name is Joost and pronounced with a J. I tried to say Y, but sorry, must be my accent 😄
Hi there! Yeah almost all of them. Check out my comparison with Yoast vs Rank Math vs A1OSEO: Yoast SEO vs Rank Math vs All In One SEO | FREE versions comparison 2023 th-cam.com/video/1ZyCXybC9GA/w-d-xo.html
Hi, explanation are slaking be forward do as you say in the video please give examples am puzzled. good beginning and weak ending. Truth is madder than fiction!!!
While I appreciate your effort, this guide doesn't explain much besides "listing" all the options of the Yoast SEO plugin, which makes it pretty dull and generic. There are no examples or explanations of how and where each option will reflect someone's website, which should be the point of a guide like this one. No matter what anyone thinks, website building, and especially SEO, is a "science" and a highly complex process, and it takes a long, long time for someone to master it. Instead of giving a "sense of false hope" and trying to depict this as something easy to do, you could at least mention that there is much more to learn about SEO before using a plugin like Yoast.
Hi there! Thanks for the comment and feedback! Very valuable. I totally agree with you, competitive SEO is on the long run a complex matter. This video is aimed at the absolute beginner. Its true that it misses practical steps, that's why I created another video about how to optimize pages for a specific website using Yoast 😁. In another tutorial about Rank Math I included these steps inside one tutorial. So sorry it wasn't what you expected 🤷🏼♂️, I'm getting better every day 😀 Thanks again and have a great day!
Hi there! Thanks for this valuable feedback! English is not my native language, so I really have to learn to speak clearly and finish my sentences stronger. Sorry for the inconvenience, I hope the subtitles will help 😀👍🏻 Have a great day and take care!
Hi there! You are very welcome! Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. I’m glad I could help you out with this video. Stay tuned, more awesome tutorials coming up! Have a great day and take care 😀👍🏻
I am facing an issue with the SEO data optimization step on my server. Whenever I try to access the URL '/wp-json/yoast/v1/indexing/prepare' through a POST request, I receive a 403 status code and an error message saying 'Cookie check failed'. Can someone please provide a solution or any guidance on how to resolve this issue? Error details Request URL /wp-json/yoast/v1/indexing/prepare Request method POST Status code 403 Error message Cookie check failed
🛑🛑🛑 This video is outdated, check out 2025 version: th-cam.com/video/x-U8clSUrtU/w-d-xo.html 🛑🛑🛑 Hey guys, if you're wondering, I personally don't use Yoast anymore on all my own and client websites. Check out this video where I compare the 3 biggest SEO plugins of the moment:
🔥th-cam.com/video/1ZyCXybC9GA/w-d-xo.html 🔥If you have any questions, just drop them down here and I'll be glad to answer them. Have a great day! 😊
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Hi Rakib! Thanks, really appreciate it! You are very welcome and stay tuned for more interesting SEO video’s!
The amazing thing is you really replied every comment 😍
Haha hey Shafen! Yeah I always do. Just like the interaction. I’m personally disappointed if the creator does not answer any questions or comments so that’s also why.
Perfect and to the point without lag. Thank you.
Hi there! Thanks for your kind words, really appreciate it. I’m glad the video was useful for you. I hope my other videos are also useful 🤩 have a great day and stay safe!
This video is VERY Helpful! Looking forward to your other videos. - Heidi 🤩
Hi Heidi! Thanks for your kind words! I’m happy I could help you out with this video. If you have any ideas for new videos, I can add them to the list ☺️ Have a great day and stay safe!
thank you so much matt it was really helpfull and believe me it was much much much better then the yoast seo website .
Hi there! Thanks for the kind words, really appreciate it that you send me a message. You made my day 😀👍🏻 Have a great day and stay safe!
Very nice and helpful video which was nicely presented and enjoyable to listen to.
Hi Lando! You are very welcome, it makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time out of your day to write me! I'm glad I could help you out with your website, and this . I'm happy you like the style! Thanks for the sub 😃 Have a great day and take care, greetings
Thank you Matt! Beast Mode!
Hi Dennis 😂😂 you got it! 😎😎
This was a really good video! You went through every link in the sidebar and you took your time. I learned a lot.
Hi there and thanks for your kind words! I’m glad you learned a bunch and you like the style. Have a great day and stay safe!
Matt, this is A M A Z I N G. Thank you!!!
Hi Joes Di! Thanks a lot for your kind words, really appreciate it! I'm glad the video was useful for you 😀 Have a great day and stay safe!
Helo Matt, thank you for the outstanding overview and wish you happy 2024!!!!!!!
You are very welcome! I’m glad you liked the tutorial 😀 Have a great day and also a wonderful 2024!!
Great!!! I enjoyed this video
Hi Chinazo! Thanks for the kind words and the sub! I really appreciate that. I'm glad I could help you out with this tutorial! Have a great day and stay safe 😊
Thanks Matt great video
Hi there! You are very welcome, I'm glad the video was useful to you 😀 I hope my other video's will also add something to your skills and knowledge. Have a great day and stay safe!
Thanks for the video , looking forward for more SEO videos :)
Hi there! Thanks, really appreciate it! You are very welcome and if all goes well, another video will be released within 24 hours about SEO 👍🏻😀
Thanks. Really great video
Hi there! Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. You are very welcome! I hope my other video's will also add some value to your knowledge and skill set. Have a great day and stay safe 😁👍🏼
good doctor
Thanks! I’m glad the video is useful for you 😀
Thank you Matt
Hi Stephanie! I’m glad I could help you out with this video. Keep up the good work and stay safe!
Great video bro, thanks for your explanation, I'm so grateful 😊
You are very welcome! I’m glad you liked the video. Have a great day and stay safe! 😀👍🏻
Thank you bro for hard work
Yes we love to see more videos how to rank pages
Hi Abo! Thanks for your compliment. That video will be released tomorrow if all goes according to plan 👍🏻😀
@@WPressDoctor ya sure waiting for it 🙂
@@WPressDoctor subscribed already
Thanks!!
It’s here! th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html hope you enjoy it 😀
Thank you Matt!
Hi there! You are very welcome! I’m glad the video was useful. I hope my other video’s will also add something to your knowledge and skillset! Getting the word out there with your like and subscribe, and possibly a share would be much appreciated. Have a awesome day and take care!
Great job, Matt. Thanks a lot for the clear explanation.
Hi there! Thanks for the kind words, really appreciate it that you take some time out your day to send me a message. Thanks. I’m glad the video was useful! Have a great day and stay safe ☺️
Thank you for this intuitive yoast seo guide👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hi there! Thanks, really appreciate it! You are very welcome and stay tuned for more interesting SEO video’s!
Thanks Matt
Hi again Mauro! I'm grateful you also liked this video and thanks for all the comments, really appreciate it.
Thank you so much, this video is quite useful.I was concerned about SEO, but after seeing your video, I feel lot more at ease❤
Hi Anya! You are very welcome! Thank you for writing a comment. Yeah everybody can do it actually.
Please consider a like and subscribe or maybe a share for my video, that would help me a lot! If you want a free website review / audit, check wpressdoctor.com/audit
Thanks Matt! It was reallu useful! Wish you all the best!
Hi Guto! Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad it was useful! Keep up the good work.
Just what was needed for the answers I was searching for Matt.
Gratitude for the content and supporting the community.
Hi Russ and thanks for the kind words! Really appreciate it 😀 I’m glad I could help you out with this video. Have a great day and stay safe!
Great tutorial! Thank you very much!
Hi there and you are very welcome! It makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time to write me. I hope my other video's are also useful for you. Getting the word out there with your like and subscribe, and possibly a share would be much appreciated. If you want a free website review / audit, check wpressdoctor.com/audit
bro you have one of the best channel, Thank you for all the great informations that you are providing
Hi Quikrest! Thank you for the kind words, really appreciate it! Have a great day and stay safe 👍🏻😀
Thank You, Matt!
Hi Varsha! Thank you for your kind words! Really appreciate that! I am glad the video was helpful to you. I hope my other video’s might also help you on your adventures. Please consider a 👍🏼 and subscribe or maybe a share for my video, that would help me a lot! Have a great day and take care. Greetings
Thanks for the 2023 tutorial on Yoast SEO. Do you think it is the best option?
Hi Jody! Thanks for your question! No I personally use Rank Math for all my websites. It has better functions and integrate better with Divi. Yoast doesn’t even try to integrate…
Hi Matt, great tutorial, thank you very much!
Hi Naomi! Thank you for your comment! You are very welcome 🤗 Have a great day and stay safe!
Awesome and easy to understand tutorial. Very helpful . Thx Matt
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Very informative. I learned a lot. Thank you!
Hi there! Thanks for your comment, I really appreciate it! I’m glad the video was informative. Have a great day and stay safe 👍🏻😀
Up to date and very clear tutorial, thanks a lot!
Hi Cengiz! Thank you very much for your kind words, really appreciate it 😀👍🏻 Have a great day and keep safe!
Thank you matt, i really found this piece very interesting and informative
Hi there! You are very welcome! I’m glad I could help you out with this video. Stay tuned, more awesome tutorials coming up! Have a great day and take care 😀👍🏻
thanks matt this was so helpful
Hi Hazem! You are very welcome, I'm glad I could help you out with this video. Have a great day and take care!
Thank you mate
Hi there! You are very welcome, it makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time out of your day to write me! I'm glad I could help you out with your website. Your 👍🏼 and subscribe would be very helpful if you haven't already done so. Have a great day and take care, greetings
Una explicación muy inteligente y sin palabrería innecesaria. ¡Respeto! + suscripción
¡Hola Matro! ¡Muchas gracias por tus amables palabras y el sub! Realmente lo aprecio. Si tienes alguna duda, házmelo saber y te ayudo a retomar el camino. ¡Que tengas un gran día y mantente a salvo! 😀
Thank You! This was extremely helpful.
Hi AK! Thank you very much for your kind words! I really appreciate it. Have a great day and stay safe!
Man thanks a lot i am quite new in wordpress, was used to html and doing everything manually thanks a lot for your well documented video. I should tell you with this i'm already far with a bit of excercises❤🔥!
You are very welcome! It makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time to write me. I hope my other video's are also useful for you. Getting the word out there with your like and subscribe, and possibly a share would be much appreciated. If you want a free website review / audit, check wpressdoctor.com/audit
Thank you Matt! It's a very useful tutorial. I also like your style :) I will check rest of your videos, a specially about SEO. Thanks a lot!
Hi there! Ah that’s really great to hear that, thank you so much! If all goes planned, tomorrow I will release another Yoast SEO optimization video. Stay tuned!
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!!
Hi there! Thanks, really appreciate it! You are very welcome and stay tuned for more interesting SEO video’s!
Thanks!!!
Hi there! You are very welcome! I’m glad I could help you out with this video. Stay tuned for more awesome videos coming soon 😀👍🏻 Have a great day and take care!
Great tutorial and very easy to follow. Thanks!
Hi there! Thanks, really appreciate it! You are very welcome and stay tuned for more interesting SEO video’s!
helpful video thanks bruh 🥰😃
Hi Muhammad! Thanks man, really appreciate it! Have a great day and stay safe 😀
thanks this helped me configure some stuff.
Hi there! Thanks, really appreciate it! You are very welcome and stay tuned for more interesting SEO video’s!
you are god send
Hi There! Thanks for the kind words. I’m glad you liked the video and I could help you out with this video 👍🏻😀 Have a great day and take care 🥳
Thank you!
Hi Gustavo! You are very welcome! I’m glad you liked the video 😀👍🏻 have a great day and stay safe!
wow i love your video just finding you out damn
Hi Vincent! Thanks for the kind words! It makes me happy to read your comment, thank you for taking some time out of your day to write me! I'm glad I could help you out with your website. Your 👍🏼 and subscribe would be very helpful if you haven't already done so. Have a great day and take care, greetings
شكرا
أهلاً! انت مرحب بك. أنا سعيد لأنك أحببت الفيديو! أتمنى لك يومًا رائعًا واعتني بنفسك.
👏Thank You ! 🙏
You are very welcome! I’m glad I could help you out 👍🏻😀 Stay safe and have a great day!
was waiting for advanced setting and you just by passed them
Hi there! Thanks for your question. What do you mean exactly? I don’t know if I’m following. On what timecode in the video do I pass by them?
Ah I think you mean on the optimizing on the pages itself. I made a new video about that one here: th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html hope that helps?
@@WPressDoctor in the yoast settings, there's a section of advanced crawl settings that let's you enable disable comments, feeds, links, and much more...
I don't know what is important for us to keep it enable and what should remain disable..
Anyway, the tutorial was great
I See! Just keep it all like it is! 😀
A most helpful video for my website. Recently I have been facing problems with my page tab text, when I go to my author page or any important page I can see "classified ads" text on my tab after favicon logo. Can you tell me please how can I remove it.
Thank you very much! I’m glad the video was useful for you 👍🏻😀 Have a great day and stay safe!
thank you but recently edited the comment with one problem issue after your comment @@WPressDoctor
Thanks for the video, I'm wondering if Yoast would work on an old version of wordpress that is 20% ecommerce 80% informative, build with custom fields, templates and the plugin formidable. 😵
Hi there! Haha who knows! If not, just download a older version from here: wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/advanced/ try if that works 🤣 Disclaimer: always update your site in case of hackingbots 😁
Nicely presented and very easy to follow, you just got a new subscriber.
Hi Dean! Wow I really appreciate it. Thanks for the kind words and the sub! You might also like this video about Yoast: th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html
Hi Matt, Thank you for the outstanding overview. Can you place a FB Pixel on a blog post page using WP? I built the site with Elementor Pro and placed a pixel on every page but I am having a problem placing it on the Blog post page. Any help is appreciated.
Hi there! Thanks for your kinds words, really appreciate it. Yeah you could place it very easy using, no need to place it manually on every page / post. Go to 'Elementor' than go to 'Custom Code' press 'Add new custom code' and name it "Facebook Pixel". Chose the location "Head", paste in your code and press 'Publish' on the right side. Done! Hope that helps?
@@WPressDoctor Thanks Matt. REALLY APPRECIATE IT! YES, I’ M YELLING!
Hahaha you are very welcome 👍🏻😀
Hey,
Thank you for brilliant content. My trouble is that the content comes from a PR agency and when I publish it, the seo and readability scores are red. I am able to make the seo score green, although, some of it still cannot be changed but there is no way I can make the readability score better as I would have to rewrite a lot. Any suggestions, please?
Thanks
Hi there! Thanks for sharing your concerns. Well if you can force the PR company to share with you there “focus keyword” on their content. This way they can see for themselves if it works or not. And I don’t know if this content is created purely for SEO or for another reason? Sounds like you need to talk to the PR firm 😁
Thanks Matt, I have no idea about SEO and this video is the best so far, learned a lot. About the breadcrumbs though and where to set up the code or where to place it. If you could make a video about it, Just sub as well. Cheers mate
HI there and thanks for your comment. You are very welcome and yes if you have no clue than this video might help you out a bit. Well the breadcrumbs can be placed anywhere on your website where you want them to appear. It can be using a shortcode, that's very easy to do, just copy and paste the code somewhere on your page where you want it to be. Preferably on a theme / layout page.
i can not thank you enough!!
Hi there! You are very welcome! I’m glad the video was useful. I hope my other video’s will also add something to your knowledge and skillset! Getting the word out there with your like and subscribe, and possibly a share would be much appreciated. Have a awesome day! If you want a free website review / audit, check wpressdoctor.com/audit
I really learned a lot in this video and I am now a subscriber. My client is concerned that when she sends a link by email or by LinkedIn message it doesn't appear the way she wants it to. I am thinking that this has gotten me on the right track so l'm looking forward to completing the tasks you have outlined in the video and watching more of your content. Thanks.
Hi Mark! Thank you for your comment. Yeah when you send a link it’s using the social data from Yoast per page for this purpose. You can change the picture there and the texts. Really useful!
I made the edits for the homepage like 19:17 - 23:00 but it still looks the same on google
I wonder if I'm missing something when will be updated for google
Hi Ates! Thanks for your question. I think your cache is not emptied? Also check the cache on your hosting company, it might do the trick!
@@WPressDoctor Hi thank you, I edited as in the video, cleared the cache and cache in wordpress, but it still looks the same as before for google
@@WPressDoctor Litespeed i use
If you saves your changes on your website, then Google will update its SERP regularly but not actually instant. So it could take a few days / weeks (depending on search traffic) how fast your Title and Description will be changed inside of the search results page of google 😀 Hang in there!
Hello,
Is there any way in the free version at Yoast by Seo under breadcrumbs in the category at /category/blog, to get the category out of the URL?
Hi Xa! Yes there is a way for that, pretty easy actually: yoast.com/help/how-to-remove-the-categories-prefix/
Solid video thank you, however I sat through the hole video to get to Crawl optimizations, it's available in my free version here in 2023.
Hi there! Thanks for your comment and you are very welcome! What do you mean with “crawl optimizations”?
@@WPressDoctor In your video don't discuss the crawl optimizations options because it's part of the paid version of Yoast. But now in 2023, it's included in the free version and I was hoping to see what all of it meant. But it's okay, it turns out Yoast has an entire video on the crawl optimization options. But your video great and I got a lot out of it. Thank you.
Ah ok thank you for letting me know! The videoing actually only 3 months old, so they definitely had this option recently released 👍🏻😀
@@WPressDoctor Ha! I just noticed, sorry I had been though so many videos yesterday and I could have sworn yours was from 2021. I see the title "Tutorial for 2023." But ya, it's free in my version and I for sure didn't pay for it.
Thanks for this video
please tell me how to delete the old sitemap from the website not from Google Search Console because
Hi LW! How can there be a old sitemap? Can you explain to me please 👍🏻😀
hi,
because i saw video on Google Search center
that delete old sitemap doesn't mean google forget the old sitemap you need te remove it from your site and return 404 after some attempts google will give up
this link:
th-cam.com/video/JlamLfyFjTA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=GoogleSearchCentral
If I already have XML Sitemap, does it mean that Yoast SEO feature will overwrite it?
Hi Alek! THanks for the question. Well if you have generated sitemap.xml it might be overwritten yes. I would personally only use the sitemap of your SEO plugin, because its just better up to date. Or you can rename your hand-made sitemap to something else 😊
Joast? Damn bro. You've killed it xD. Helpfull video though.
Hi there! Thanks man, really appreciate it 😀👍🏻 Have a great day and stay safe!
I have a question...yoast has changed the name of my site in its settings and refuses to allow me to correct it. It's put numbers in the original site name. I can add the "real name" on it's add a name line under it but when I go to my pages they all say "joeys32%" then the rest of the website name. Should I just delete the plugin completely?
Hi Sarah! That’s a really odd situation, I have never encountered this before. Before uninstalling try to change the website title within WordPress itself under “settings” -> “general” if that does not work go to step 2:
You could indeed try to delete the plugin entirely and clean its entries in the database: quadlayers.com/remove-yoast-seo-from-database/
than reinstall the plugin and start over. It should work then.
Hi, thank you so much for answering my question! I tried the plugin, but it didn't work. This is what the website name is listed as Joey&#;s039 .... I'm afraid to try the PHP version of removing it. Do you have any suggestions or should I just go to a different seo plugin?
I doubt if that will fix this problem… but you could deactivate it and see if you can now change the Site Title
You're an awesome teacher. I uninstalled it a second time and it once again gave the wrong name, so I once again deleted and reinstalled it. Then I noticed that it had pre installed information so I chose a tab that said first time installation and then I was able to change the name they chose. Thanks again! Hopefully if someone else comes up with the same issue you can explain it to them...much better than I can! Keep up the great work!
I’m so glad you got it fixed 👍🏻😀 keep up the good work!
how to add meta tags in this plugin? kinda watched mby i skipped but didnt see
Hi there! Thanks for the question. I optimize a real page in this tutorial: Yoast SEO - How To Optimize a Page All Green Bullets 2023
th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html 👍🏻😀
My client is concerned about how the link to her website appears in a LinkedIn message or an email. She is looking for a specific title and image to appear with the link. I am continuing with this tutorial in hopes of finding an answer. So far this is very helpful. I wonder if it will be necessary to purchase the Premium version. Thanks.
Nope it’s not necessary to purchase the premium version to do this (if I remember correctly) 👍🏻😀
need help.... we did domain name change..... yoast plugin not able to update new domain name in google search. hence currently 2 domain name are reflecting in google search because of google new schema name update..... what can be done?
Hi there! Well just redirect the old domain with 302 to new domain per URL. So Googlebot sees that the old website has a new domain. Then wait 2 weeks for all old URLS are removed from the SERP. Should work fine 👍🏻😀
Hey I have a question - Yoast SEO is acting up and it's not letting me click on the button that allows me to change any of my settings for that plugin. I just get an error 404 page or whatever it's called (the "you bad man" thing.) I have also tried disabling Yoast SEO plugin only and when I click view All Pages on my editor menu, I also get the error 404. I literally have not done anything to the website in several days and it's suddenly acting like this.... maybe Yoast SEO pushed an automatic update that's preventing me from using it? That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I have tried other troubleshooting steps suggested by various websites when I googled the problem like renaming my indexes on my host and none of that helped. I disabled all the plugins, and I still get the error.
Hi Kate! That’s a annoying problem. Try this first: go to “settings” and then go “permalinks” and then save it TWICE. Let me know if that works!
@@WPressDoctor Woah! That fixed the problem. How did you know to do that? O_O thank you so much!!!
That’s great Kate! Well I’m not by accident called “the WPress Doctor” 😊👍🏻 Have a great day!
@@WPressDoctor thanks!! At least now I know what to do if it happens again! I subscribed to your channel and I'm gonna watch a bunch more videos.❤️
Thanks!!!
Why is Google showing my footer in search engine results pages? What can I do about it?
Hi there! That's not very nice indeed. What theme are you using?
can you do this if your site is not live yet?
Hi Jay! Yes you can, but the sitemap will be send to Google if you generate it with Yoast. I always do all the SEO setup after going live with the website.
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Thanks for letting me know that you liked the video! Have a great day and stay safe! 😀👍🏻
Do you seo every page and post?
Hi David Grey! Thanks for your good question. It totally depends. If I have a website that needs to live from SEO, than yes I optimise every single page. Not so much the contact page of course, but everything else should have a good score. If the website does not need SEO that bad, I don't optimize every page, only the most important ones. Does that answer your question?
@@WPressDoctor Thank you
How long does it take for changes to be shown on google?
Hi Tomas! Thanks for your question. Well it can take some time for the changes to be picked up. Also when your titles and descriptions are (according to Google) not relevant to the content, Google will still use the old original content. It can take up to a week or 2 to get all changes live 👍🏻😀
Hi, help please, I use Jetpack too, I did my site connections and site mapping over jetpack, after 2 years saw a video about jetpack saying if you use yeast don't activate mapping and connections by jetpack (wich I realize that jetpack search engine activation button is off and says you are using yoast) . Plus I just learned that to do yoast settings - they were staying as it it I add yoast . SO WHAT SHOULD İ DO : 1) cancel jetpack site mapping and site connections and add them over yoast - jetpack has extra Facebook and yoast has Baidu. 2) continue as it is now 3) choose jetpack from importing other seos at yoast - if I do this should I do what I said at " 1 " . 4) lastly if i must do " 1 " , at google should I delete my settings and new for yoast settings. because can't see html on current google settings to add toast . Thanks
Hi there! Thanks for your question. My answer is short, don’t use Jetpack at all. It only slows your website down and really does not provide any value that you need… Just use WP Rocket for speed and Rank Math for SEO. Your all set 😎
@@WPressDoctor ;) thanks 🙏 .
@@WPressDoctor i am writting travel blog for a hobby at my free times. I dont earn money. Pay to wp rockets, shorpixel, host … those monies are expensive for me as my county’s dollar exchange rate ;( . I found free unlimited image optimize site forexample.
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Jet pack have contact form, subscription, comment form… my webhost is from wordpress, cheapest. i wanted a nice subscription form with name box , i gave up ; just want a form that connects to my subscribers list and they get my new posts. (On my phone my friends e mail stucks in subscription form ;)) ))
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I need help about fastening my web site, i messed up something today about adding site verification to yoast from jetpack, now its very slowe.
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I gave up, going use wordpress as how its now ; people asks money when i write on youtube
In My yoast seo Tool - File editor is missing. What should I do????
Please tell me as soon as possible
Hi Aiman! What do you mean with file editor… the plugin or theme file editor?
@@WPressDoctor I found it how to enable File or theme editor. Thanks for replying
That’s great! Well done 👍🏻😀
Hello WP Doctor, your channel makes the best WP content out there. Thank you for the tutorial. I only have one issue. My website is not blog post related meaning I have no posts, also I cannot optimize my home page because it is saved in templates, not pages tab. Can you help me with this?
Hi Tvoja Mama! Thanks for the kind words! Well you can still optimize your homepage a little bit with texts. Just focus on landingspages then, check out my newest video to do this; th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html
Assalam o Alaikum! Sir , Sir is there any unique thing about premium version
Hi Muaz! Yeah there are some interesting features like multiple keywords for example. But it all gives you just meer information and analytics, it’s not “pay to win in Google” that does not work 😀👍🏻
For personal blogs, what should be the Name.Right now it has my email id
Hi Ashwin! Which name do you mean where?
Failed to retrieve media !!!!
i have this error when i upload my website logo, any suggestion, i've checked the format and the size but nothing change
Hi there! Thanks for the question. It sounds like a error with wordpress rights on your hosting… can you upload other pictures?
@@WPressDoctor yes i can upload other images, the problem only when i try to upload my logo in SOE
I see! Than make sure that the sizes of your logo are exactly as the plugin wants. Could be that it is way to big or to small 😀
sir , yaost not work in elementer , it posible please i waiting for your response
Hi Piyara! Thank you for your question. What do you mean “Yoast not work in Elementor”? What do you see when activating the plugin?
Love your video but please try to keep it to 10 minutes. so many this to learn to make a website. short videos will help alot. thank u
Hi Jasmin! Thanks for your comment! I make my videos as long as they are, I want to get a point across 👍🏻😀 cutting it or making it longer for the sake of the length is not my style 🤭
@@WPressDoctor ok. Unsubscribed! ❤️
No problem Jasmin! You can’t control everything in your life 😂
How soon do you think AI will replace advertising managers?
Hi Edgar! Hard to tell. AI is not yet cable of doing simple tasks without my input or check afterwards…. Giving it controle over a ad budget would be really… interesting 🤓
Please sir how can we do about this spam update please
Hi NaijaLanded! What do you mean with “spam update”? Can you explain this to me?
Hii there, I think he means how to prevent spam/ virusses onto your website🙂 I would like to know that please. Since many plugins make your website prone for spam..
Well there is comment spam, you can fix this with Akismet or do you mean something else ?
why you choose yoast over rank math ?
Hi iad! I didn’t! In the video I literally say 2 times that I’m going to use Rank Math on this website 😂
Hello, please help me. I want you to show me how to add multiple synonyms to a keyphrase so that the plugin identifies them as separate words or synonyms. Thank you in advance.
Hi there! Thanks for your question. That’s only possible with the Yoast SEO Pro plugin. So that’s a paid version 🙂. Have a great day and stay safe!
My website is multilingual. how can i apply keyword in other languages?
Hi SanArt! That’s no problem at all, just make sure the multilingual plugin integrates with Yoast 👍🏻😀 I know TranslatePress does this excellent. What plugin are you using?
@@WPressDoctor hi. İ m using gtranslate pro plugin. But ı want also translated page keywords use. U dont know how.
I don’t know how that works with GTtanslate Pro, sorry! You could ask them?
Can you help me to configure my website for me
Hi Alex! Sure thing. But because of my clients and work I charge $100 per hour, paid up front 👍🏻😀
Do you use Yoast or Rank Math SEO?
Hi Christian, thank you for asking about Yoast SEO vs Rank Math. I have created a video about this, just for this specific question: th-cam.com/video/1ZyCXybC9GA/w-d-xo.html 😀
Watch out for the advaced settings part. If you got polylang - crawler optimisation is going to annihilate your menu.
HI Rihards! That's a interesting discovery. How did it annihilate the menu? On the backend or the frontend?
@@WPressDoctor both BE and FE. I'd love to give it a whirl and find out which toggle, did what, but even a back reverse process and back up restoration has not resolved it. So, I guess the only option is to re-do the entire translated pages - ie. delete, and reintrothem.
So what exactly happened. I have polylang, elementor and a premium yoasr running on a kadence template. Prior to crawler optimisation, i had two menus. Primary in ENG and secondary in another lingo, with a flag to switch from one to another. After the toggle switch the secondary langauge menu dissapeared., though all polylang settings remained the same. restoration to a previous backup copy, has left me with a menu where once I switch to 2ndary langauge but there is no 2ndary menu. Instead i have the english primary menu, and if i want to view the contact from in 2ndary language I need to first select it in primary english, and then clock to 2ndary language. so the php is properly fucked. If I have to place a bet I would say it was something from the "Disable unwanted content formats". Anyways thats a couple of days of work in the shitter, as i need to revwrite the entire tag and keyword section. Will keep a txt copy of everything from now on.
Ah thats not good. Thanks for sharing!
is it pronounced "J" oast? or is that a language thing?
Hi there! Thanks for the question! Well it must be my accent. Fun fact; Yoast is actually a Dutch guy. So in my country his name is Joost and pronounced with a J. I tried to say Y, but sorry, must be my accent 😄
Ha it doesn't matter I was just curious thanks!@@WPressDoctor
we need premium to do all this. most features are locked.
Hi there! Yeah almost all of them. Check out my comparison with Yoast vs Rank Math vs A1OSEO: Yoast SEO vs Rank Math vs All In One SEO | FREE versions comparison 2023
th-cam.com/video/1ZyCXybC9GA/w-d-xo.html
Hi, explanation are slaking be forward do as you say in the video please give examples am puzzled. good beginning and weak ending. Truth is madder than fiction!!!
Hi Sempa Lennox. Don’t be to quick on judging, it’s all here in a seperate tutorial: th-cam.com/video/JRNB7NsRtUA/w-d-xo.html ☺️ Good luck!
While I appreciate your effort, this guide doesn't explain much besides "listing" all the options of the Yoast SEO plugin, which makes it pretty dull and generic. There are no examples or explanations of how and where each option will reflect someone's website, which should be the point of a guide like this one. No matter what anyone thinks, website building, and especially SEO, is a "science" and a highly complex process, and it takes a long, long time for someone to master it. Instead of giving a "sense of false hope" and trying to depict this as something easy to do, you could at least mention that there is much more to learn about SEO before using a plugin like Yoast.
Hi there! Thanks for the comment and feedback! Very valuable. I totally agree with you, competitive SEO is on the long run a complex matter. This video is aimed at the absolute beginner. Its true that it misses practical steps, that's why I created another video about how to optimize pages for a specific website using Yoast 😁. In another tutorial about Rank Math I included these steps inside one tutorial. So sorry it wasn't what you expected 🤷🏼♂️, I'm getting better every day 😀 Thanks again and have a great day!
why is this guy whispering? he swallows half the words.
Hi there! Thanks for this valuable feedback! English is not my native language, so I really have to learn to speak clearly and finish my sentences stronger. Sorry for the inconvenience, I hope the subtitles will help 😀👍🏻 Have a great day and take care!
This video was great and I just subscribed. If this video was helpful to you as well,please make sure to like comment and subscribe to his channel
Hi there! You are very welcome! Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. I’m glad I could help you out with this video. Stay tuned, more awesome tutorials coming up! Have a great day and take care 😀👍🏻
Thanks!
Hi Yury! Wauw thanks a lot for the tip! Really appreciate it! It made my day. Have a great day and stay safe!
I am facing an issue with the SEO data optimization step on my server. Whenever I try to access the URL '/wp-json/yoast/v1/indexing/prepare' through a POST request, I receive a 403 status code and an error message saying 'Cookie check failed'. Can someone please provide a solution or any guidance on how to resolve this issue?
Error details
Request URL
/wp-json/yoast/v1/indexing/prepare
Request method
POST
Status code
403
Error message
Cookie check failed
Hi Srikanth! Well this is a dev question so you should really ask it to Yoast SEO support. 👍🏻😀 Let me know how that works!