Yoast SEO Premium GPL Full Features Overview

We’ve always treated Yoast SEO Premium as a separate plugin from Yoast SEO. While that made sense in the past, we’ve concluded that providing it as an add-on to Yoast SEO is a much better proposition. For one, it makes it easier to maintain because all products now share the same codebase. But, more importantly, it’ll help us get ready to offer you a much more seamless experience buying and installing Yoast SEO Premium in the future.

Yoast SEO Premium GPL Features

In Yoast SEO GPL you can enter the keyword or keyphrase you’d like your post or page to rank for in the search results. We then run a check on your content to check whether you’re using the keywords often enough – but not too often – and in the right spots. In Yoast SEO Premium, we take this one major step further. We will not only check for the keyword or keyphrase you enter, but we will analyze your text on all variations of that word or phrase. If the key phrase is “room decorating ideas” and the synonym is “apartment decorating ideas” all the possible word forms of each word are taken into account: ‘apartments’, ‘rooms’, ‘room’s’, ‘decorate’, ‘decorates’, ‘decorated’, ‘idea’, etc. This way, you are truly optimizing your text. With this addition in Yoast SEO Premium, we can guarantee that no other WordPress plugin comes closer to how Google will see your text*!

Compare the Yoast Premium and the Yoast free version:

Yoast SEO Premium	Yoast SEO free
Keyword optimization Our intelligent word forms recognition automatically takes plurals and other word forms into account. Add synonyms and related keyphrases to write totally natural content. No more stressing over green bullets!	Only 1 keyword or keyphrase
Available in multiple languages Word forms recognition is available in English, Dutch, German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Indonesian & more languages to come!	Manually research, adjust and improve your content
Tell Google exactly what your page is about Make sure that Google, Pinterest, and other platforms all know exactly what your page is about, by adding schema.org data the right way. Faster indexing, rich results!	Check!
Indexable Yoast SEO 14.0 introduced a revolutionary way of gathering data in WordPress, creating a faster, safer, and better experience. For you, the web, and the world.	Check!
No outdated content We’ll keep an eye on your most important pages and warn you when these haven’t been updated for six months.	Keep an eye on all pages manually
Preview of your page  Google, Facebook, and Twitter previews.	Only Google preview
Readability check  We analyze the readability of the copy you wrote and calculate the Flesch Reading Ease score.	Check!
Full control over your breadcrumbs  You can set a primary category for your post, and determine the taxonomy for every single page on your website.	Check!
No duplicate content  Avoid confusing Google with duplicate content, by setting canonical URLs.	Check!
Mark your links as no-follow or sponsored  Immediately mark your links as no-follow or sponsored while you’re writing!	Check!
Works in the block editor and classic editor  No matter how you like to write your posts in WordPress, Yoast SEO works in both the classic editor and the block editor!	Check!
Technical stuff in the background  It doesn’t matter whether you know about robots.txt, .htaccess files, clean permalink URLs or sitemaps – Yoast SEO makes sure your technical configuration rolls out the red carpet for search engines.	Check!
Internal linking suggestions  Get suggestions for links to other pages on your website, as you write.	You have to manually look up related pages to create links.
Internal linking blocks Quickly add proper (hierarchical) internal links with Yoast Internal linking blocks to improve your site structure.	You have to add links manually: a time-consuming task with the risk of forgetting a few links here and there.
Content insights  We show you the 5 words or phrases you use the most on your page, to check if they’re a match with your chosen keywords.	We’re afraid you have to check your text very thoroughly yourself to make sure it’s focused enough.
Redirect manager  Easily redirect old URLs to new ones. So you don’t lose visitors because they get stuck on a 404 Not Found page.	You have to think of creating a redirect yourself each time you delete a page.
Focus keyword export  Get a clear overview of your focus keywords and SEO scores (CSV export)	No exports. You’ll have to click around your website and compile this Excel dashboard yourself.
1-year free access to 24/7 support  Round-the-clock email access to our wonderful and knowledgeable support team.	You can use our extensive FAQ section and knowledge base.
Ad-free  In Yoast SEO Premium there are no ads.	You’ll see ads for our other awesome products and services.