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Yoast Google Analytics plugin acquired by Awesome Motive

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Brian Krogsgard

AwesomeMotive -- the company lead by Syed Balkhi -- has acquired Yoast's Google Analytics plugin, which boasts over one million active installs of the free plugin, plus a commercial version that was generating revenue that was at least low six…

If you use Yoast SEO for…

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If you use Yoast SEO for WordPress, you might be interested to know that Yoast has made free Yoast SEO plugin tutorials for every tab on every page of the Yoast SEO configuration pages.

The team at Yoast is looking…

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The team at Yoast is looking to add to their WordPress core contributions, and have three projects specifically they would love help on. They are also interested in hiring a full time developer contributor for core work, if you think…

Yoast SEO 3.1 has a release…

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Yoast SEO 3.1 has a release candidate out, and they are taking a lot of the feedback they got in 3.0 into consideration. The biggest changes are a rollback on the snippet preview (though it's still more than it was…

Partner deals, and Black Friday deals

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Brian Krogsgard

Howdy! So, Post Status site partners offer deals to you, members, year round! I figured, to remind you, I'd share them here before Black Friday. If you're in the buying mood, use these if they match up well. Gravity Forms:…

Dave Warfel has a pretty in-depth…

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Dave Warfel has a pretty in-depth post about the issues some folks had with the Yoast SEO 3.0 update, and gives the whole thing a fair analysis.

Yoast SEO 3.0 is in the…

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Yoast SEO 3.0 is in the release candidate stage, and there are quite a few new features. It's worth testing if you run a complicated install or are just curious what's going on. Here's a link to the changelog, but…

Yoast to expand to Drupal with SEO product

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Brian Krogsgard
It makes sense, given Yoast SEO's recent API changes and adjustment to a real-time Javascript driven SEO analysis, that they can now create a cross platform SEO product. And today they announced that Yoast SEO for Drupal 7 will be available…

Five years of Yoast

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Brian Krogsgard
Joost de Valk sent a newsletter this morning noting that Yoast has been in business for five years. It's hard to believe just five years ago he had a job working for someone else. Now they are a team of…

A few follow-ups on recent news

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Brian Krogsgard

There are a few items from the last few days I'd like to follow up on, so figured I'd just lump them in here together. First off, Jetpack had a bit of a rocky update to 3.4. Version 3.4.1 came…

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

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Brian Krogsgard
Yoast released a new version of the WordPress SEO plugin in the last 24 hours, which fixes a blind SQL injection vulnerability. According to a post mortem by Joost de Valk, the bug wasn't caught in security audits, but was…
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