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Yoast SEO Plugin 7.0 Bug Causes Ranking Drops

by jumanorbert
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Check whether your Yoast SEO settings for the redirect of attachment URL's are correct.

A major update to Yoast SEO fixes a bug that affected the rankings of certain websites. The founder of Yoast, Joost de Valk, personally offered an apology to victims of the error that may have suffered "Panda-like problems" and lost search rankings as a consequence.

Here's the post about the bug as reported by Search Engine Journal - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/...in-bug/255639/

Here's the warning post and apology by Joost De Valk - https://yoast.com/media-attachment-urls/
#bug #drops #plugin #ranking #seo #yoast
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  • Profile picture of the author Dokemion
    This prompted Google Console to give manual actions to webmasters and affects site-wide. With this Yoast bug Google Spam team considered this as schema markup spam.
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    Contact me for any SEO Services you need I'm glad to be of your service.

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  • Profile picture of the author sabayounis
    yeah I aslo have noticed this bug cause
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  • Profile picture of the author madamsba
    The best solution to the Yoast SEO bug is here... https://www.onlinegrowthguru.com/yoast-seo-bug-fix/
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  • Profile picture of the author crackhouse
    Yoast is pretty useless for SEO these days. It causes more over-opmitization issues and google penalties than any other plugin on WP.
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    I sell backlinks on some of the most lucrative editorial websites in the world.
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    • Profile picture of the author YourGoToWriter
      Originally Posted by crackhouse View Post

      Yoast is pretty useless for SEO these days. It causes more over-opmitization issues and google penalties than any other plugin on WP.
      How does over-optimization happen? I thought Yoast helps you control such thing to happen.
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      • Profile picture of the author wduarte24
        Originally Posted by YourGoToWriter View Post

        How does over-optimization happen? I thought Yoast helps you control such thing to happen.
        Well, I noticed the same.

        Google knows how those plugins works and I believe Google likes better more natural pges than those "optimized only for Google and not for people".


        I just deled my Yoast, I don't understand how did they dmaged such a great plugin
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  • Profile picture of the author madamsba
    Interesting comment crackhouse - are you able to give me some examples so I can make sure I'm not overoptimising my sites :-)
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