Improving our database system • Yoast

In Yoast SEO 20.2, we’ve improved our innovative indexable technology. We have developed a faster and more reliable way to index your site’s data. In turn, we make better use of this data to improve your website’s SEO. In addition, this technology helps us do our best to make the web greener and lays the foundation for exciting future possibilities.

An improved indexing system

You may be wondering, “What exactly are indexables?” Well, think of them as a way to help search engines find and understand the content on your website. An indexable is any resource that a search engine can index via a URL.

When a search engine “indexes” your website, it creates a map of all the pages it knows about. The indexable framework enables Yoast SEO to make a similar map of your site, interact with it and manage important SEO-related information.

But what makes indexables so special? Essentially they allow Yoast SEO to handle different types of content on your website better than just traditional pages. This includes things like categories, archives, media files and much more. This can help large sites with many different content types. Plus, it helps us build features on top of it!

And the best part? The indexable technology means better performance and more efficient use of resources. This is a step towards making the web a bit greener as it reduces the amount of processing power required to manage SEO metadata.

So how does it work?

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