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Yoast SEO Premium
Yoast SEO Premium is a WordPress SEO plugin by Team Yoast for site owners, content creators, and marketers.
Product facts
- Version
- 28.8
- Released
- 27 October 2026
- Type
- Plugin
- Licence
- GPL
- Included in
- Every plan, or $15.99 / year on its own
Overview
The plugin analyzes content for SEO and readability, with suggestions available as you write. It can help you optimize for keyword variants using synonyms and related terms, and its AI features offer content suggestions along with generated SEO titles and meta descriptions. These tools suit blogs, business sites, and eCommerce stores that need guidance while preparing pages and posts.
Yoast SEO Premium also helps manage how pages connect and appear elsewhere. Internal linking suggestions can point you to relevant pages on your site while you write, and social previews let you check how pages may appear on Facebook and Twitter/X. Its redirect manager can redirect URLs for renamed or deleted pages, helping visitors avoid dead links.
Features
- Content optimization guidance: Get AI-powered suggestions as you write, alongside SEO and readability evaluations for your content and the keyword variants you include.
- SEO title generation: Generate SEO titles and meta descriptions with AI to prepare search snippets for your pages.
- Keyword variants: Add synonyms and related terms to target up to five keyword variants in your content.
- Automatic redirects: Redirect old URLs when pages are renamed or deleted, helping visitors avoid dead links.
- Internal link suggestions: See suggestions for links to other pages on your site while writing, so you can connect related content.
- Social media previews: Preview how your pages may appear when shared on Facebook and Twitter/X before sharing them.
- Content protection: Toggle content protection features intended to prevent AI bots from scraping site content for training.
Best for
- WordPress blogs and editorial sites
- Business websites managing page content
- eCommerce stores optimizing product content
Changelog
Version 28.8 — 27 October 2026
- New Enhances the Yoast ability that updates Site representation settings with Premium fields, like additional organization info and organization identifiers.
- New Enhances the Yoast ability that updates Site representation settings with Premium fields, like additional organization info and organization identifiers.
- Improved Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 7.0.
- Improved Improves the SEO analysis required error notice in the bulk editor, to include how to turn the SEO analysis on when it is disabled in the user profile.
- Improved Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 28.8.
Earlier versions
- 28.7 (13 October 2026): 1 improved, 2 fixed
- 28.6 (29 September 2026): 1 improved
FAQ
Is Yoast SEO Premium free?
The code of Yoast SEO Premium is licensed under the GPL, so anyone may use, change and share it. GPL 247 is a paid service: a plan or a purchase of Yoast SEO Premium gives you the download and its updates. The developer's own support, licence key and online services are not included.
Which version of Yoast SEO Premium is this?
Version 28.8, released 27 October 2026. New versions appear here when the developer publishes them.
How do I update Yoast SEO Premium?
Install GPL 247 Updater on your site and paste your key from My Account. It installs new versions of Yoast SEO Premium for you.
