Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin
Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using Yoast SEO plugin.
WordPress out of the box is already technically quite a good platform for SEO, this was true when Joost wrote his original WordPress SEO article in 2008 (and updated every few months) and it's still true today, but that doesn't mean you can't improve it further! This plugin is written from the ground up by Joost de Valk and his team at Yoast to improve your site's SEO on all needed aspects. While this Yoast SEO plugin goes the extra mile to take care of all the technical optimization, more on that below, it first and foremost helps you write better content. Yoast SEO forces you to choose a focus keyword when you're writing your articles, and then makes sure you use that focus keyword every
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Sites running Yoast SEO, click to open one
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Usage of Yoast SEO over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 472 to 263 — down 209 (-44.3%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 263 | -35 |
| June 2024 | 298 | -12 |
| May 2024 | 310 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 310 | +3 |
| March 2024 | 307 | -12 |
| February 2024 | 319 | -26 |
| January 2024 | 345 | -20 |
| December 2023 | 365 | -12 |
| November 2023 | 377 | +2 |
| October 2023 | 375 | -37 |
| September 2023 | 412 | -32 |
| August 2023 | 444 | -20 |
| July 2023 | 464 | -8 |
| June 2023 | 472 | — |
Themes used with Yoast SEO
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Vantage |
| 2 | Boss |
| 3 | Quickpress |
| 4 | Sahifa |
| 5 | Twentytwelve |
| 6 | Avada |
| 7 | Genesis |
| 8 | Canvas |
| 9 | Business-news |
| 10 | Newspaper |
| 11 | Divi |
| 12 | Vantage-child |
| 13 | X |
| 14 | Boss-child |
| 15 | Bunchy |
| 16 | Kleo |
| 17 | Mesocolumn |
| 18 | Socialize |
| 19 | Twentythirteen |
| 20 | Wplms |
Sites running Yoast SEO
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