SEO guidance for WordPress content
Yoast SEO Premium builds on the WordPress SEO plugin with advanced automation and AI-powered tools for optimizing content, technical settings, and site structure. It is intended for site owners and teams who want practical guidance while writing and more efficient ways to manage SEO across a larger collection of pages.
The plugin provides real-time content and readability analysis using the familiar traffic light approach. It helps identify changes before publication, including improvements related to focus keyphrases, content quality, readability, and inclusive language. Premium also adds tools for traditional search and AI-driven discovery.
AI tools inside the editor
Yoast’s AI features are available within the editing workflow, with suggestions waiting for approval before changes are saved. Yoast AI Generate creates five SEO-friendly titles and meta descriptions, with one-click regeneration for additional options. Yoast AI Optimize suggests improvements to keyphrase placement, including the introduction, distribution, and density.
Yoast AI Summarize produces a short summary that can be placed anywhere in the block editor. The Premium Content Planner suggests five site-specific post ideas and creates a structured starter draft when a new post is opened. These ideas are grounded in the site’s own content rather than only generic topics.
The bulk editor provides one workspace for reviewing titles, meta descriptions, and focus keyphrases across the site. With Premium, selected items can receive AI-drafted metadata, including social metadata. Search and status filters help organize the review process by content type.
Structured data and AI discovery
Yoast SEO Premium produces expanded Schema.org structured data so search engines and AI systems can better understand a site’s content. It includes more schema types, including E-E-A-T signals related to experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness.
Premium schema aggregation for NLWeb combines site structured data into a single, deduplicated graph. LLMs.txt management provides manual control over which pages are included for large language model interaction. The bot blocker can control AI crawlers such as GPTBot, CCBot, and Google-Extended. IndexNow integration helps search engines receive notice when content is updated.
Site structure and technical workflows
Smart internal linking suggestions help identify opportunities to connect related content. The orphaned content tools support finding pages that lack useful internal links. The redirect manager includes bulk tools, CSV import and export, and automatic prompts when content is moved or deleted.
Social previews for Facebook and X help review how shared pages may appear. Integrations include Elementor, Semrush, Wincher, Jetpack, Easy Digital Downloads, Mastodon, WooCommerce, and Algolia for workflows such as editing within Elementor, keyword discovery, position tracking, ecommerce schema, verification, and internal search.
Installation and setup
Install Yoast SEO Premium in WordPress and follow the step-by-step configuration wizard. The setup process helps generate structured data for the site. When moving from another SEO plugin, use the built-in import and export tools to bring across existing SEO data and settings, then review the available analyses and automation controls inside the editor.
