SEOPress just released the latest version of their top-notch WordPress SEO plugin. Version 3.8.9 comes with oEmbed for LinkedIn, better onboarding, and a new design for the configuration wizard. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » SEOPress 3.8.9 oEmbed For LinkedIn LinkedIn no longer uses Open Graph metadata in favour of the oEmbed JSON feed when the oEmbed feature is enabled on your WordPress site (enabled by default). SEOPress will now add your custom Open Graph title and image to this feed. New Configuration Wizard Design SEOPress has been largely inspired by WooCommerce for the new modern and simple design of the installation wizard. The SEOPress logo has also been removed to improve the white label. Disable Automatic Schemas Per Post With the latest update it is now possible to further refine the display conditions of your automatic schemas. At Structured Data Types > Automatic, you can deactivate all automatic schemas for the current post or turn off a specific schema. There is no longer any need to use a hook to exclude […]
The folks at SEOPress have just released version 6.6 of their SEO plugin for WordPress, which also powers our blog. They have introduced the third iteration of the Google Search […]
SEOPress has just released version 6.1 of their powerful WordPress SEO plugin. The latest updated introduced support for Google Site Names and link attributes for the Classic Editor. Google Site Names Titles & Metas Settings ©SEOPress Google recently introduced an option for users to specify a site name and an alternative name used for mobile search results. In SEOPress, you will find these new settings at SEO > Titles and Metas > Home. Both titles are automatically added to the schema on the homepage. Link Attributes for Classic Editor Link Attributes ©SEOPress By popular demand, SEOPress now finally lets you add […]
SEOPress recently released version 5.9 of their WordPress SEO plugin, introducing Google Analytics 4 statistics in the WordPress dashboard, a new HTML Sitemap block and AMP compatibility. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » New GA4 Stats Dashboard Widget GA4 Statistics ©SEOPress With the latest update, you can finally view your Google Analytics 4 stats directly in your WordPress dashboard. Navigate to SEO > Analytics > Google Analytics > Stats in Dashboard section to enter your GA4 Property ID. Once this is done, you will see your site visitors, sessions, page views and more. Note that these statistics […]
SEOPress recently released version 5.8 of their WordPress SEO plugin, introducing primary category support for Gutenberg, automatic cleaning of media file names, and much more. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » Primary Category For Block Editor Primary Category ©SEOPress Following the launch of the universal SEO metabox, SEOPress is fully integrated into all page builders, including the Block Editor aka Gutenberg. However, until now it was not possible to select a primary category for posts. This is finally a thing of the past, as you can now select it directly in the categories panel of the editor. In a future update, they will also support this for the Classic Editor, especially for WooCommerce products. Better Image SEO Automatic Cleaning Of Media File Names ©SEOPress To improve your image SEO, SEOPress now automatically cleans up the filename of your media when you upload it to the media library. For example, spaces, accents and capital letters are removed and UTF-8 encoding is enforced. For example, the file name “ExãMple 1 cópy!.jpg” will be rewritten as: “example-1-copy.jpg”. The “Cleaning media filename” option can be enabled at SEO > Advanced > Image SEO. Risk-Free htaccess Editing Edit Your htaccess Risk-Free ©SEOPress With the Pro version, you can edit your htaccess file directly from your WordPress admin. However, even the smallest […]
SEOPress just released Insights version 1.4 introducing a competitor tracking, support for two more search engines, and more to the off-site SEO plugin. Get The Off-Site SEO Plugin For WordPress » Competitor Rankings Competitors ©SEOPress In the latest SEOPress Insights update, an exclusive new feature was introduced that allows you to find out which of your competitors is in the top position for each keyword tracked. Quickly find out who your direct competitors are so you can find ways to outrank them. This new data is available now at no additional cost and is updated daily. New Search Engines Search Engines List ©SEOPress Due to popular demand, SEOPress Insights now also supports the following two search engines: Google.ie (Ireland / English), Google.com.hk (Hong Kong / Chinese) Simply head over to Insights > Settings, choose your search engine and start tracking your rankings in no time. Improved Email Notifications Email Alerts Settings ©SEOPress SEOPress has made several improvements to the ranking email […]
Benjamin from SEOPress has just announced the release of version 7.6 of their SEO plugin for WordPress, introducing an AIOSEO redirect import, Google Analytics consent mode v2, an improved UI, […]
Benjamin from SEOPress has just announced the release of version 7.1 of their SEO plugin for WordPress, introducing automatic alt text for images, support for GPT-4, and more. Automatic Image Alt Text & GPT-4 OpenAI & Alt Text ©SEOPress You can now select the GPT-4 model instead of GPT-3.5 Turbo by navigating to SEO > PRO > AI. There you will also find a new option that allows you to automatically set the alternative text using AI. So every time you upload an image file to your WordPress site, OpenAI will analyse your image file and provide you with an alt text. SEOPress now also offers a bulk action to generate alt texts from the list view of the WordPress media library. In other news, SEOPress now passes the target keywords to the prompts sent. This should improve the results for OpenAI generated meta titles and descriptions. Improved Wizard Assistant & More Indexing Steps ©SEOPress Based on user feedback, SEOPress now allows you to set author, date and search archives as “noindex” directly from the wizard. In addition, they have further improved the UX and responsive design. In SEO > PRO > robots.txt you can easily block the Google Bard AI bot from crawling your content. Finally, they’ve also removed keyword density and word count from the content analysis as […]
SEOPress just released the latest version of their awesome WordPress SEO plugin. Version 3.8.8 comes with Google Enhanced Ecommerce Analytics, multi-domain robots.txt file, and redirects to htaccess. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » SEOPress 3.8.8 Google Analytics Ecommerce Options ©SEOPress Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce (Beta / Pro) Being one of the most requested features, it allows you to measure purchases, additions to and removals from shopping carts. Currently it only works with WooCommerce, but the SEOPress team hopes that they can support Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) in the future as well. Multi-Domain robots.txt File (Pro) You can now have a robots.txt file per site for multisite and multidomain installations. Export Redirects For .htaccess File (Pro) You are now able to export redirects in a txt format at SEO > Tools > Redirections and copy and and paste it into your .htaccess file. In other news, they have improved compatibility with Elementor, WooCommerce, Permalink Manager, Admin Columns Pro, WPML, Polylang, and […]
SEOPress just introduced various new features for their top-notch WordPress SEO plugin including Facebook preview, a revised pixel counter, and new cookie bar customization options. Optimize The SEO Of Your WordPress Sites » New Features Find Out How Your Post Will Look Like On Facebook ©SEOPress The latest SEOPress version 3.7.8 comes with the following new features: Facebook Preview is now available at SEO Metabox > Social tab Pixel counter for titles and meta descriptions now works with every language and alphabet New cookie bar customization allows you to change background, colours, and buttons at SEO > Google Analytics > Cookie Bar / GDPR tab New checks to content analysis for social networks (Open Graph / Twitter cards) will now detect duplicated tags and conflicts SEOPress is now fully […]
