This is a super important video for anyone of the over 5 million people that are using
Yoast on their website there was a bug when going from a prior version of Yoast to version
7 and it is causing people to lose rankings on their website which also if you're doing
e-commerce and stuff like that you're probably losing revenue to go over that in this video
hi my name is Adam from WPCrafter.com or make WordPress tutorial videos for non-techies
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notifications okay I'm in a jump right on into it if you're not familiar with Yoast
I don't know what rock you hope of it under here is on the WordPress.org page we've got
Yoast hereunder popular plug-ins and if you if these are in order it would be the second
most popular plug-in in the WordPress plug-in directory with over 5 million active installations
essentially as an SCO plug-in and what it allows you to do is create meta descriptions
site maps and have more granular control over how a search engine when they come to your
website will interpret all the information is very powerful plug-in in fact it's a plug-in
that I'm using on my website however I'm strongly considering and I have been thinking about
not using it anymore because of repeated problems that I've read about speed issues that I've
read about but I haven't been able to test myself but this just might be the icing on
the cake this is an article that is now trending on social media it's dated June 2 today's
June 3 so this is a very fresh it's only less than 24 hours old and basically it's an article
bringing attention to a bug that was introduced into Yoast of version 7 so if you were on
a prior version when you version 7 came out mind you it came out in March right now were
in June so it came out months ago so if you are using a prior version of Yoast and you
updated when version 7 or 7.0.1 and I believe 7.0.2 came out if you updated or upgraded
in that point this bug may be affecting you in there steps you have to take regardless
of what version that you're on now in order to resolve those and that is what this article
is going to go into I'm going to put a link to this in the video description box down
below if you have Yoast it's very crucial that you look at this article is not my website
it's a search engine Journal if you have a website this is probably a good website to
follow anyway but basically this article goes over how what happened when the update came
out it essentially when a major plug and update usually happens or theme update there's usually
this conversion process of old data in the way it was stored to the new way the data
would be stored and that's where the bug came in and says right here this bug is been alive
since March 6 is a been a very long time and here's an explanation of what went wrong and
here's some other things right here you're going to want to read but especially right
here it says affected Yoast SCO users are upset so what ended up happening in this situation
and it is people that are SCO's they have their websites have multiple websites that
are constantly monitoring traffic rankings and all that they picked up on this bug right
after it happened and they were trying to get Yoast's attention on it and that took
a few months so here's some of people that are using Yoast in the writing of really what
the consequences are and that's what's kind of driving me to make sure I put this video
video out is you know it's costing people a lot of traffic a lot of money and I don't
want to see you be affected by its ear and have to go here you're going to have to go
through the various steps to see if it is affecting you and then there's instructions
on what you need to do if you are being affected now yesterday I took this article and in the
WP craft Facebook group yeah I put a link to that down below to I put this article in
there and at that time I was in thing and I was gonna make a video then I saw how people
responding to it and then I saw some people say that all my gosh I just checked and I'm
one of the people that this is affecting and that's what really drove me to make this video
out because I think maybe this problems a little bit more widespread so here's the steps
to do it now here is the problem that I have and why I don't think I trust Yoast I don't
see how I can trust Yoast even though I want to I think there good people of course about
how I'm having a tough time trusting them so here's a link to the official announcement
on the Yoast website now I was actually very shocked when I came across this article because
I follow Yoast on Facebook I follow Yoast on Twitter and I look I see everything in
my twitter feed so I'm plugged in to them having a way of notifying me of something
so here's the title of this okay Yoast SCO plug-in bug causes rankings the drop what
what do you immediately think when you read that you like oh my gosh I need to read this
this is important this is urgent to me in my website let me show you the article this
official announcement on Yoast's website here it is right here media attachment URL what
to do with them so it not only is they are they saying right here this this official
announcement of the bug how would you even see this title in social media and say all
you know this is kind of important I should I should check this out instead it's like
trying to be married and I I believe in this case it was intentional now here's what makes
matters worse Mike my trust having an issue even more is that I didn't even see this with
this type of the post title and content I didn't see this on their Facebook feed on
their twitter feed it's like they they put everything else there except this it's almost
like they didn't want people to know but here's the problem this is really affecting people
you should want to get everybody to know this so people are not harmed and I can understand
when you make a mistake you kind of don't want to advertise it but when there such a
huge base of users I think I would trust them if they made a bigger deal of this if they
actually had an appropriate title they push it out on all of their social media they got
it on WP Tavern certain places like that where it could get more and more attention so people
can at least know there is a bug it might've affected them and then they can go in and
fix it but instead the official announcement is in this blog post right here and you notes
to me it's kind like false transparency the other there addressing it right here but they
didn't really publish this article as I double checked their Facebook as I was shocked I
was shocked when I saw this on Mike how could I have not known about this I am following
all of these developers and companies for this information I'm following all of them
and I'm checking on them how on earth could I have missed an official announcements and
the reason I missed the official announcement is because it did not go on their social media
I looked I didn't find it I even look today double double check it and find it and it
was kind of buried under some title that doesn't say you might want to check your Yoast plug-in
and they also have a notification system within the plug-in in WordPress and there's no notification
there so it's just kinda swept under the rug a bit and the sad part is yes this is affecting
people and it's been painful for those people that it affected however when you read actually
read the problem to me doesn't seem like it was this huge huge failure but where I see
the failures the reaction it took months to address it and and then to announce that you
kinda bury it in some other piece of content that sounds totally unrelated it's just all
of that that kind of kind of causes me to not want to use Yoast anymore and you know
what there's plenty of alternatives to Yoast it's not like they're the only show in town
there is all-in-one SCO which has millions of users as well there is the SCO framework
which is also the both of these are free others the SCO framework which people rave about
because it doesn't slow down your website any there is also a just up a paid one called
SCO press I think it's free and then it's probably the most affordable paid SCO plug-in
last I looked it was only $40 and that's unlimited per year but that's unlimited websites where
Yoast is like savings $80 per website per year so you you deftly get a better deal out
of the SCO press so anyways those are just a couple that I'm throwing out there also
anyways I just want to get this news information out there I think it's crucial that people
are aware of this so they can at least check their websites check their settings on the
put a link to this article down below just go through it and I felt free to share their
article you don't have to share this video to share that article on various social media
so more people can be aware of this so they can at least have the opportunity to check
and see if they're susceptible to this problem what I want to do is ask you in the comment
section down below to add whatever feelings you might have about maybe how this was handled
whether it's a big deal or not a big deal and also feel free to make some other SCO
plug-in suggestions in the comment section down below I think when you read this it's
not the biggest mistake but I think the way it was handled and if you were certainly someone
that is negatively effective it's a massive mistake but I think more ouch is kind of buried
and kinda swept under the rug when there are clear steps that people need to follow in
order to have it to be a wood to know about the problem and fix the problem I just kinda
feel saddened by that so anyways that's all that I have for you in this video check your
website get your friends your colleagues to check their websites as well thanks for watching
this video and I'll see you in the next one
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