Yoast SEO for Shopify changelog

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.

Bugfixes​

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

Bugfixes​

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

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.

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.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes overview screen introduction modal styling.

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​

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• Removes the questionnaire for new customers from the initial onboarding flow.

Enhancements​

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

Bugfixes​

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

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.

Enhancements​

• Adds review request modal after Site defaults settings save.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes an issue where existing schema would not be disabled when the context is set as http://www.schema.org.

Bugfixes​

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

Enhancements​

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

Bugfixes​

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

Enhancements​

• Removes loading animation from app initialization process.

Bugfixes​

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

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.

Bugfixes​

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

Bugfixes​

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

Bugfixes​

• Improves app load speed.

Bugfixes​

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

Bugfixes​

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

Bugfixes​

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

Bugfixes​

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

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".

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.

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.

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.

Other​

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

Enhancements​

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

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.

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.

Enhancements​

• Changes design of Integrations Settings page.

Other​

• Speeds up the app loading time.

Enhancements​

• Adds Semrush integration promotion banner inside app.

Bugfixes​

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

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.

Other​

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

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!

Bugfixes​

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

Enhancements​

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

Enhancements​

• Adds support for metaobject in custom page types.

Enhancements​

• Excludes separator and site title from SEO title width assessment and from the calculation in the SEO title progress bar.
• Updates the verification link to the Google Search Console in the Webmaster tools section in Site settings.

Bugfixes​

• Improves performance of the process of importing Yoast CSV files.

Enhancements​

• Adds redirection to welcome app after first successfull integration process.

Enhancements​

• Excludes separator and site title from SEO title width assessment and from the calculation in the SEO title progress bar.

Enhancements​

• Expands the list of HTML elements excluded from the content analysis.
• Introduces more robust HTML processing for the competing links, keyphrase in introduction, image alt text, image keyphrase, and images assessments.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a corrupted ImageObject would be in the Schema output when using an image in the content without a more specific Google / Facebook targeted image.

Other​

• Removes the new badge from the insights section.