Well it REALLY doesn’t work. Their latest update bricked my website, causing me to run and restore from a backup.

Now the patches they’ve put in to fix this HAS NOT WORKED. They keep copypasting this same message about the majority of people being fine after the patches, but it is SO not the case.

I need stability in my life and Yoast is no longer that company. I paid a lot of money for Yoast and the Woocommerce add on and now I feel like I’m throwing them away cause of shoddy testing.

After lots of searching we found that YOAST’s latest update let Google index all of our Media Attachments as their own pages. Which in fact forced Google to put a penalty against the site

Why did Yoast enable this setting automatically? Should we be worried that this will happen again in the the next update?

I realized too late, my rankings have dropped 10 per cent. Never Ever Yoast again!

A quick look at the most recent reviews reveals a plethora of complaints, errors and terrible experiences with the V14 update.

I have a test setup for my live sites and while sometimes I feel like it’s overkill and outdated to be that cautious, even well established developers like Yeost prove, that that kind of caution is correct over and over again. V14 rendered more than 50% of the test sites ineffectice in development environement – how low can you go with a live product?

The complaints prove that Yeost didn’t take beta testing seriously enough IMHO and felt like V14 was good enough to put out banana software to their users and let them do the troubleshooting.

It’s free after all, isn’t it?

…way to destroy confidence and trust in a product.

I’m super disappointed in the way this was published & handled.

…and at the same time greatful about how you’ve proven how important it is to be cautious and rely on one’s own instincts as a person who’s responsible for other people’s websites (directly related to their income + in a time of crisis).

We’re now swapping to another SEO plugin.

All in all, a shambles.