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15-12-2022 07:34

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where highlighting would not be removed from the text after the analysis is updated and the present highlighting has become irrelevant.
  • Only marks the subheading when a subheading text is too long in subheading distribution assessment.

14-12-2022 10:37

Enhancements

  • Adds an Inclusive language analysis for products, blog posts, blogs, collections and pages.
  • Improves the subheading distribution assessment by adding highlighting and also targeting long content before the first subheading.
  • Improves the transition words assessment for Arabic by removing some transition words.

Other

  • Removes the beta badge from the word complexity assessment.

12-12-2022 12:21

Enhancements

  • Adds support for Shopify standard review metafield to the aggregateRating schema output.

01-12-2022 11:49

Enhancements

  • Adds "seller" property to "offer" schema.
  • Add support for "checkoutPageURLTemplate" in "offers" schema.
  • Removed support for BlackFriday code.

17-11-2022 13:10

Enhancements

  • Adds the included trial days on the subscription offer when a merchant is still eligible for a trial.

14-11-2022 09:11

Enhancements

  • Enhances the discount code form with translated feedback.
  • Informs all free users about the removal of our free plan and provides the means to continue using the app.

10-11-2022 12:27

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the SKU variable would not be replaced in the Google Preview.

07-11-2022 10:30

Enhancements

  • Introduces a new page to show an order summary before Shopify’s subscription page.

26-10-2022 09:53

Enhancements

  • Introduced integration with generic Shopify APIs so that integration with third-party apps is easier, like translation apps.
  • Adds support for Shopify’s automatically generated page description as the meta description.
  • Adds the possibility to have page descriptions translated.

25-10-2022 09:20

Enhancements

  • Adds support for "Website name", "Alternate website name" and "Alternate organization name" settings for Schema generation.

20-10-2022 13:44

Enhancements

  • Enhanced the Shopify search engine preview by adding warnings when the title or description are not being used in the SEO output because of a missing (or removed) variable, which is set by default.

19-10-2022 07:56

  • Removes the free payment plan for Yoast SEO for Shopify, which means there’s only a paid plan available for users.

14-10-2022 08:44

Enhancements

  • Updated to the latest Shopify App Bridge version.
  • Adds support for the new Shopify admin domain admin.shopify.com .
  • Adds support for visiting and sharing the app url to go to specific pages inside the app.

10-10-2022 08:44

Bugfixes

  • Adds support of <br/> tags in content optimization editor.

07-10-2022 07:39

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where blog posts would no longer be loaded in the overview for a specific blog.

03-10-2022 10:43

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the assessments for related keyphrases did not take the replacements of variables into account.

15-09-2022 13:27

Enhancements

  • Adds the word complexity assessment for Spanish, German and French.
  • Enables full metatag and Schema.org output for Shopify's Policy pages.
  • Enables the SKU and Barcode assessments.
  • Improves sentence recognition for German by disregarding ordinal numbers as potential sentence boundaries.
  • Improves the readability analysis for English by adding a word complexity assessment.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the desktop preview would show a truncated title, while the title length progress bar and title width assessment would indicate that the title length was still within the limits.

14-09-2022 11:31

Enhancements

  • Improves Offers / priceSpecification Schema output to match Google’s recent changes to their guidelines.

09-09-2022 08:01

Bugfixes

  • Fixs a bug where after cancelling the App subscription, the page would not show that this succeeded correctly, although the subscription was cancelled succesfully.

08-09-2022 11:34

Enhancements

  • Improved the loading time of the pages of the app.

06-09-2022 09:57

Enhancements

  • Adds the "review" property to product schema when provided by Loox.

02-09-2022 12:26

Enhancements

  • Enhances the SEO output by adding a og:price:standard_amount for discounted products. This is something that Pinterest could use to enhance their product pins.

30-08-2022 11:16

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where a text starting with a double quotation mark followed by a space(s) broke the analysis.

22-08-2022 15:06

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where a non-breaking space in a sentence breaks the keyword density marking.

09-08-2022 08:32

Enhancements

  • Introduces a free plan which can be used to try out the full experience of Yoast SEO for Shopify on 5 content pages.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where style tags with a type attribute in the content would result in an empty content editor in the Optimize module.

29-07-2022 10:00

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the Yoast theme modifications would remove site verification codes that are already present in the theme.

28-07-2022 10:00

Enhancements

  • Adds the word complexity assessment for Spanish, German and French.
  • Improves the text analysis by adding curly (“”) and angular quotation marks.
  • Improves the text analysis by filtering out all versions of the ampersand.

27-07-2022 09:25

Enhancements

  • Improves sentence recognition for German by disregarding ordinal numbers as potential sentence boundaries.
  • Improves the readability analysis for English by adding a word complexity assessment.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the desktop preview would show a truncated title, while the title length progress bar and title width assessment would indicate that the title length was still within the limits.
  • Fixes a bug where the keyphrase density and keyphrase distribution assessments error, or fails to mark the found keyphrases in the text, when using keyphrases that include some regular expression control characters, for example brackets.

19-07-2022 09:33

Enhancements

  • Introduces a bulk editor feature which makes it easier to improve the SEO data (e.g. SEO title & meta description) of multiple content pages at once. Users can make improvements by exporting and importing their content through a CSV file.

06-07-2022 12:18

Enhancements

  • Introduces the SEO data migration (beta) feature to let you easily import your SEO data (e.g., SEO title & meta description). With this, you're no longer bound to a specific SEO app on Shopify and it's easier to switch to Yoast SEO.

01-07-2022 07:37

Enhancements

  • Removes the date shown in the Google preview for products, collections and blogs.

15-06-2022 14:15

Enhancements

  • Enhances the Schema.org graph by adding the gtin property to the Offer piece to provide the product (variant) barcode.

15-06-2022 09:25

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where notifications about errors in the theme modifications would show multiple times and could not be dismissed.

09-06-2022 12:29

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug in our theme SEO improvement service by ignoring Liquid code in between {% raw %} and {% endraw %} tags.

08-06-2022 13:21

Bugfixes

  • Fixes inaccurate values being output for the Offer schema of a product without variants

30-05-2022 09:19

Enhancements

  • Ensures the storage of our metafield data uses the new metafield type system for Online Store 2.0.

23-05-2022 13:23

Enhancements

  • Updates the retrieval of our metafield data in theme files, to support the new metafield type system for Online Store 2.0.

23-05-2022 12:01

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the Yandex webmaster tool verification code would be considered invalid as it expected at least 20 characters instead of 16.

20-05-2022 10:19

Enhancements

  • Improves the Schema detection by adding subtype detection of Article and WebPage.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the wrong formatting would be used for Twitter metatags.
  • Fixes a bug where the wrong formatting would be used for webmaster verification metatags.

18-05-2022 08:24

Bugfixes

  • Adds support for product variants without SKU defined, inside Offers Schema.

16-05-2022 14:30

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where Offers Schema would be generated for variants when no SKU value was available.
  • Fixes a bug where Offers Schema would contain invalid names when the product or variant title included quotes.

12-05-2022 08:39

Enhancements

  • Removes penalising for H1 that is not at the beginning of the text body.

11-05-2022 12:07

Enhancements

  • Improves replacement variable naming to better reflect the Shopify fields we're sourcing the data from for Shopify page title and Shopify meta description.
  • Improves the Product Schema output, creating a list of offers instead of one aggregateOffer entry.

05-05-2022 10:02

Enhancements

  • Places the SEO analysis right below the focus keyphrase input field in the Optimize sidebar.

26-04-2022 13:12

Enhancements

  • Enhances the editor to allow for JavaScript attributes to be present on HTML elements.

20-04-2022 15:03

Enhancements

  • Changed the filtering for Collections to read "Availability" instead of "Visibility" to better match the Shopify UI.

19-04-2022 10:54

Enhancements

  • Adds information about the review app that is used as source of data inside AggregateRating section of our Product schema piece.
  • Adds integration with Judge.me Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.
  • Adds integration with Loox Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.
  • Adds integration with Ali Reviews to improve rich snippets.
  • Adds integration with Opinew Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.