Yoast SEO for Shopify changelog

Bugfixes​

• Changes "Webmaster tools" page name to "Site connections".

Enhancements​

• Adds так to the words recognized by the transition words assessment in Russian. Props to @pavelmai83.
• Improves the transition words assessment for Turkish and English by expanding the relevant lists of transitions words.
• Improves the word complexity assessment by not flagging the focus keyphrase or related keyphrases as complex words.
• Increases the spacing between the assessment copy and the highlight buttons.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where Arabic keyphrases containing certain function words were not correctly matched..

Enhancements​

• Improves feedback when trying to use AI suggestions while offline.

Bugfixes​

• Changes the label on the Shopify SEO title variable to match the connected Shopify SEO title field.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with newsletter modal redisplaying on Safari browser.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for "Product.brand" Schema, based on vendor value.

Enhancements​

• Optimize AI-powered suggestions for collections & blogs.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the AI suggestions modal would already show briefly when consent was still required.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where indefinite discounts were given.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for hasMerchantReturnPolicy Schema when return policy is configured for the Shop.

Enhancements​

• The Google preview now shows a meta description based on the item's content, when no specific meta description is added.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the AI Generators would not work on shops with a custom domain.
• Fixes a link to an incorrect help article in the AI Generators.

Enhancements​

• Allow for generating titles and descriptions with AI.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the "go to your apps section" link on "Uninstall Yoast SEO" settings page had an incorrect link, which would not allow going back to the app easily.

Enhancements​

• Combines the search appearance and the search engine listing sections into a single coherent search appearance editor.
• Moves the social media appearance to follow the new placement of the search appearance section.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with wrongly rendered aggregateRating Schema when product have no reviews added.

Enhancements​

• Adds a wider gap between assessment result list items.
• Fixes detection for "product | structured_data" Schema generation inside Shopify theme to fix duplicated Schema.

Enhancements​

• Modify the 'Ask For Review' banner design to make it more user-friendly for customers.

Enhancements​

• Adds 3D models to the product structured data, to help search engines show them as 3D images in mobile search.

Bugfixes​

• Changes "Bulk edit" link label and header for better understanding.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the "Save changes" button was missing on the Settings page Integrations.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the article:author OpenGraph tag would incorrectly be output without containing the URL of the profile page of the author.

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.