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Yoast SEO for Shopify changelog

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04-09-2024 11:11

Enhancements

  • Combines the search appearance and the search engine listing sections into a single coherent search appearance editor.
  • Moves the social media appearance to follow the new placement of the search appearance section.

22-08-2024 08:24

Bugfixes

  • Fixes issue with wrongly rendered aggregateRating Schema when product have no reviews added.

19-08-2024 08:24

Enhancements

  • Adds a wider gap between assessment result list items.
  • Fixes detection for "product | structured_data" Schema generation inside Shopify theme to fix duplicated Schema.

08-08-2024 09:57

Enhancements

  • Modify the 'Ask For Review' banner design to make it more user-friendly for customers.

05-08-2024 08:05

Enhancements

  • Adds 3D models to the product structured data, to help search engines show them as 3D images in mobile search.

Bugfixes

  • Changes "Bulk edit" link label and header for better understanding.

22-07-2024 08:21

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the "Save changes" button was missing on the Settings page Integrations.

27-06-2024 09:55

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the article:author OpenGraph tag would incorrectly be output without containing the URL of the profile page of the author.

11-06-2024 06:01

Bugfixes

  • Changes Pinterest field field description to be more correct and easier to understand.
  • Fixes a bug where the modifications we made to the theme were not disabled when the Yoast SEO for Shopify app is uninstalled.

29-05-2024 12:16

Bugfixes

  • Fixed issue with leftover metafields after theme modifications removal during app uninstallation.

28-05-2024 09:16

Bugfixes

  • Improves logic behind alert about imported indexables on overview page.

28-05-2024 07:18

Enhancements

  • Improves the keyphrase detection in SEO title for Arabic and Hebrew. For example, when the keyphrase is "باندا حمراء" and the SEO title starts with "الباندا الحمراء", we now recognize this as an exact match and give a good result for the keyphrase in SEO title assessment.

24-05-2024 08:35

Enhancements

  • Adds new "Not enough content" readability filtering option in optimize module.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the availability of collections would be shown as unavailable on online store when the collection actually would be available.

13-05-2024 08:21

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where Indonesian words with hyphens would be incorrectly treated as multiple words during keyphrase matching when the locale was id or a custom locale starting with id_.
  • Fixes a bug where Turkish keyphrase forms containing the characters İ or ı would not be recognized when the locale was tr, tr_CY or a custom locale starting with tr_.

Other

07-05-2024 07:58

Enhancements

  • Enhances the structure of the menu for optimizing content.
  • Introduces a new overview dashboard to help with optimizing content.

25-04-2024 05:17

Bugfixes

  • Improved theme modifications removal to remove all Yoast file leftovers from active theme.

04-04-2024 08:10

Enhancements

  • Improve clarification on how Yoast SEO for Shopify overrides some Shopify settings.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where new content would not be available for bulk editing.

25-03-2024 07:57

Enhancements

  • Adds review request modal after Site defaults settings save.

11-03-2024 08:57

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the file upload element inside bulk edit and import/export would have strange text alignment in several languages.

05-03-2024 08:10

Enhancements

  • Makes the section headings stand out visually in the SEO, readability and inclusive language analysis tabs.

28-02-2024 09:33

Bugfixes

  • Fixes issue with twitter:image URL generation, when adding "https" schema.

23-02-2024 10:12

Enhancements

  • Removes loading animation from app initialization process.

20-02-2024 08:13

Bugfixes

  • Adds loading state in theme integrations page during wait for api response.

16-02-2024 08:22

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where ImageObject schema would have empty width and height values.
  • Fixes a bug where "x.com" was not allowed to be used in Twitter profile URL configuration.

07-02-2024 06:53

Bugfixes

  • Fixes issue with displaying "Inclusive language analysis" feature in Optimize content editor.

06-02-2024 10:48

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where conflicting <title> tags with attributes would not be cleaned up when integrating with a theme.

25-01-2024 09:55

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where a <title> element would be disabled in a theme when it appeared inside an <svg> element.

23-01-2024 08:21

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where highlighting would be applied incorrectly when keyphrase occurrences contained different types of apostrophes than ' in the keyphrase distribution assessment.

04-01-2024 08:36

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where a banner would be briefly showing a warning about an incomplete theme integration when actually having completed the integration.

28-12-2023 08:06

Bugfixes

  • Improves theme integration progress bar to reflect more realistic status.

19-12-2023 09:50

Enhancements

  • Improves the accuracy of the word complexity assessment for French by recognizing more plural forms of non-complex words. For example, the plural form "résidences" is not marked as a complex word anymore, just like the singular form "résidence".

18-12-2023 08:10

Bugfixes

  • Fixes issue with welcome back view for users who reinstall the app.
  • Fixes a bug where the default settings for search appearance would not be applied when optimizing a content item.

13-12-2023 09:36

Enhancements

  • Improved performance of the app.
  • Remembers last used country when retrieving related keyphrases with Semrush, and selects the country by default on subsequent usage.

22-11-2023 08:47

Enhancements

  • Introduces the possibility to have the Yoast SEO subscription billed annually.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the the current page in the breadcrumb block would use an <a> tag without an href attribute.

01-11-2023 08:57

Other

  • No longer highlight the Semrush integration card with a "new" badge.

26-10-2023 07:20

Enhancements

  • Allows opening the details view in a new browser tab or window natively.

24-10-2023 08:55

Enhancements

  • Improves keyphrase matching in Japanese by being able to match keyphrase occurrences that contain upper case characters.
  • Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the keyphrase density and single H1 assessments.
  • Updates the list of HTML elements that should be excluded from the content analysis.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where highlighting was not applied to keyphrase occurrences that contained different types of apostrophes than '.
  • Fixes a bug where the single title assessment would be triggered when adding a H1 without text.

19-10-2023 13:01

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the subscription page would not have the right styling applied.
  • Fixes a bug where the welcome back page would not have the right styling applied.

13-10-2023 07:27

Enhancements

  • Changes design of Integrations Settings page.

Other

  • Speeds up the app loading time.

11-10-2023 10:30

Enhancements

  • Adds Semrush integration promotion banner inside app.

26-09-2023 13:10

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the keyphrase in introduction assessment would fail to find the first paragraph.

25-09-2023 12:12

Enhancements

  • Clarifies notice about the connection to Semrush when facing issues in the connection.
  • Merges Facebook preview and Twitter preview collapsibles into Social media appearance.
  • Renames Google preview collapsible to Search appearance.

15-09-2023 05:28

Other

  • Introduces a questionnaire to new customers about their reasons for installing.

23-08-2023 11:20

Enhancements

  • NEW: Adds an integration with Semrush. It enables you to find related high-performing keywords and keyphrase insights right in the Shopify editor and write relevant high-quality content!

15-08-2023 06:32

Bugfixes

  • Fixes issues with list of blogs limited to 20 records.

14-08-2023 08:46

Enhancements

  • Improves copy about the follow-up steps after finishing the bulk import process.