Yoast SEO for Shopify changelog

Enhancements​

• Improves Offers / priceSpecification Schema output to match Google’s recent changes to their guidelines.

Bugfixes​

• Fixs a bug where after cancelling the App subscription, the page would not show that this succeeded correctly, although the subscription was cancelled succesfully.

Enhancements​

• Improved the loading time of the pages of the app.

Enhancements​

• Adds the "review" property to product schema when provided by Loox.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the SEO output by adding a og:price:standard_amount for discounted products. This is something that Pinterest could use to enhance their product pins.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the app would continuously reload.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a text starting with a double quotation mark followed by a space(s) broke the analysis.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a non-breaking space in a sentence breaks the keyword density marking.

Enhancements​

• Introduces a free plan which can be used to try out the full experience of Yoast SEO for Shopify on 5 content pages.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where style tags with a type attribute in the content would result in an empty content editor in the Optimize module.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Yoast theme modifications would remove site verification codes that are already present in the theme.

Enhancements​

• Adds the word complexity assessment for Spanish, German and French.
• Improves the text analysis by adding curly (“”) and angular quotation marks.
• Improves the text analysis by filtering out all versions of the ampersand.

Enhancements​

• Improves sentence recognition for German by disregarding ordinal numbers as potential sentence boundaries.
• Improves the readability analysis for English by adding a word complexity assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the desktop preview would show a truncated title, while the title length progress bar and title width assessment would indicate that the title length was still within the limits.
• Fixes a bug where the keyphrase density and keyphrase distribution assessments error, or fails to mark the found keyphrases in the text, when using keyphrases that include some regular expression control characters, for example brackets.

Enhancements​

• Introduces a bulk editor feature which makes it easier to improve the SEO data (e.g. SEO title & meta description) of multiple content pages at once. Users can make improvements by exporting and importing their content through a CSV file.

Enhancements​

• Introduces the SEO data migration (beta) feature to let you easily import your SEO data (e.g., SEO title & meta description). With this, you're no longer bound to a specific SEO app on Shopify and it's easier to switch to Yoast SEO.

Enhancements​

• Removes the date shown in the Google preview for products, collections and blogs.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the Schema.org graph by adding the gtin property to the Offer piece to provide the product (variant) barcode.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where notifications about errors in the theme modifications would show multiple times and could not be dismissed.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug in our theme SEO improvement service by ignoring Liquid code in between {% raw %} and {% endraw %} tags.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes inaccurate values being output for the Offer schema of a product without variants

Enhancements​

• Ensures the storage of our metafield data uses the new metafield type system for Online Store 2.0.

Enhancements​

• Updates the retrieval of our metafield data in theme files, to support the new metafield type system for Online Store 2.0.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Yandex webmaster tool verification code would be considered invalid as it expected at least 20 characters instead of 16.

Enhancements​

• Improves the Schema detection by adding subtype detection of Article and WebPage.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the wrong formatting would be used for Twitter metatags.
• Fixes a bug where the wrong formatting would be used for webmaster verification metatags.

Bugfixes​

• Adds support for product variants without SKU defined, inside Offers Schema.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where Offers Schema would be generated for variants when no SKU value was available.
• Fixes a bug where Offers Schema would contain invalid names when the product or variant title included quotes.

Enhancements​

• Removes penalising for H1 that is not at the beginning of the text body.

Enhancements​

• Improves replacement variable naming to better reflect the Shopify fields we're sourcing the data from for Shopify page title and Shopify meta description.
• Improves the Product Schema output, creating a list of offers instead of one aggregateOffer entry.

Enhancements​

• Places the SEO analysis right below the focus keyphrase input field in the Optimize sidebar.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the editor to allow for JavaScript attributes to be present on HTML elements.

Enhancements​

• Changed the filtering for Collections to read "Availability" instead of "Visibility" to better match the Shopify UI.

Enhancements​

• Adds information about the review app that is used as source of data inside AggregateRating section of our Product schema piece.
• Adds integration with Judge.me Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.
• Adds integration with Loox Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.
• Adds integration with Ali Reviews to improve rich snippets.
• Adds integration with Opinew Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the Google Preview to show the URL of the item in the shop.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the content for online store pages would be stored in an undesired format when saving from the Optimize module.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the text markers were unable to mark text containing special characters.

Enhancements​

• Changes the price for Yoast SEO for Shopify subscriptions from $29 dollars per month to $19 dollars per month. Why? In our short endeavors in Shopify-land, we came to the conclusion that our pricing was on the higher end of the spectrum of the existing apps. While we think we provide a great product, we’ve decided to lower the price and give you in effect more bang for your buck.
• Improves error handling related to the maximum length of input fields.

Enhancements​

• Adds an app-wide banner telling that the theme modifications have been removed, with the option to reapply them easily.

Enhancements​

• Adds Price: Maximum (%%price_max%%) replacement variable to products.
• Adds Price: Minimum (%%price_min%%) replacement variable to products.
• Adds Price (%%price%%) replacement variable to products.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where we're stripping script and style tags from the HTML of the content.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the Webmaster validation code checks to catch more invalid codes from being entered.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the file upload by providing clearer feedback when an unusable file is attempted to be used.

Enhancements​

• Relocates the toast notifications from the right top corner to the top center.
• Improves feedback strings for the Keyphrase Length assessment by making it explicit that we only count content words for languages with function word support.

Enhancements​

• Adds a welcome back screen to enable returning users to remove theme modifications without needing a subscription.

Enhancements​

• Adds a new replacement variable for the product barcode.
• Improves the meta robots tags of product variants to now behave as per the main product.
• Adds a new replacement variable for the product availability.
• Adds a new replacement variable for the product SKU.

Enhancements​

• The Facebook and Twitter Preview now uses image instead of a background image.

Enhancements​

• Adds more detailed comments inside modified theme files, about the way of reverting automated changes.
• Enhances the App by adding logic which will disable all Yoast SEO frontend output automatically when the App is uninstalled - this functionality requires an additional scope to be accepted on for the App: write_script_tags .

Enhancements​

• Changes the default for showing collection and product archives in search results to be enabled, so they are shown in the search results.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the link to learn more about the no-index setting would not redirect to the correct Yoast.com help page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a primary domain other than the myshopify domain would not be displayed in the Social previews.

Enhancements​

• Improves the text of the Uninstall settings to make the buttons and text more understandable.
• Adds a theme modification page to the advanced settings to reapply and remove theme modifications.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Yoast-markings would be persisted to the item in Shopify.

Enhancements​

• The Yoast SEO breadcrumbs on the default product view no longer show the default variant.
• Improves the %%title%% replacement on the default product view to no longer include the default variant.
• Allows the WebPage and Website schema parts to be managed by Yoast even if the Organization part is not being managed by Yoast.