Top WordPress plugins like Yoast, All-in-One SEO, RankMath, SEOPress, and The SEO Framework provide a simplified way to inject custom canonical URLs for each post and page. It’s as simple as editing each page and adding your custom canonical URL on its custom field box.

However, there’s an elegant way to edit your canonical URLs so you can mass update them in bulk. No need to manually updating each post or page one by one. By simply exporting everything to CSV, you can edit them using your preferred spreadsheet editor and import them back to WordPress.

Mass Update Canonical URLs in Yoast, AIOSEO, RankMath, SEOPress, and The SEO Framework

Smart SEO CSV Import/Export provides a tool that helps you export your site’s SEO data into CSV so you can edit and import them in one go. Managing your site’s SEO titles, descriptions, and canonical is as easy as exporting and editing them in Google Sheet.

Your done! Your canonical URLs should then be updated in seconds.

SEE ALSO: Exporting Focus Keyphrases with All In One SEO and Yoast

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Normally you’ll have to supply your content’s focus keyphrase in the dedicated field when writing a post. Once added, Yoast or All In One SEO scans your content and returns feedback in real-time. Areas like content, title, and headings are evaluated, giving you an idea if your post or page is well-optimized.

Smart SEO CSV Import/Export provides a tool that helps you export your existing focus keyphrases so you can quickly import and move them to a new site. This is especially useful if you’re rebuilding your site from scratch and you want to retain your website’s existing focus keyphrases.

How To Export Focus Keyphrases to CSV with All In One SEO and Yoast

Wrapping it up

While both All In One SEO and Yoast still lack the flexibility to move focus keyphrases between websites, you can use Smart SEO CSV Import/Export to accomplish that. Not only can you export focus keyphrases, titles, and descriptions, you can also move other custom fields and even featured images.

SEE ALSO: How to Bulk Edit Canonical URLs in Yoast, AIOSEO, RankMath, SEOPress, and TSF

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And that’s where Yoast WooCommerce SEO comes in handy. It’s an add-on to Yoast SEO that does all the heavy lifting for you. It provides fields for GTIN/ISBN/MPN info and automatically merges them to your product schema to get that attractive rich snippet results.

Managing GTIN information to WooCommerce products

Yoast WooCommerce SEO makes it easy to add, manage GTIN/ISBN/MPN info to your products. The plugin nicely integrates with WooCommerce’ product editor page so you can manage those info with ease.

However, if you’re dealing with hundreds of products it would be a good idea to just export those GTIN info to CSV so you can easily alter and import them in one go (or push them to a third-party app)

Exporting WooCommerce GTIN/ISBN/MPN to CSV for Bulk Editing

WooCommerce export tool unfortunately won’t let you export these data by default. So we’ll have to rely on plugins to achieve that. In this post, we’ll be using Smart SEO Data CSV Import/Export.

You’re done. Now, navigate back to Settings > SEO Import/Export > Export to export product’s SEO meta data together with GTIN/ISBN/MPN info.

SEE ALSO: Bulk Update WP Featured Images By URL via CSV Export and Import

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• Export/import of additional custom fields with ease
• Improved CSV file upload handling and more

Export additional custom fields for bulk editing with ease

Starting from version 7.6.0, it is now much easier to export additional custom fields for bulk editing. No need to write custom codes to extract additional data as previously demonstrated here.

For instance, if you want to export Facebook Open Graph data for Yoast for bulk editing, you can just specify the names of custom fields (separated by a comma) like this:

Two new columns will then be created inside the exported CSV: %%_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title%% and %%_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description%%. The double percent (%%) symbols that wrapped the custom field names tell the plugin to automatically process them during CSV import. So it’s essential to leave those headings as is. Otherwise, those extra custom fields won’t be processed during CSV import.

You can export as many as you like, including custom fields created by ACF plugin. If you want a more advanced meta data extraction, you can still use our filter/hook smart_seo_export_fields and smart_seo_import_update.

Improved CSV file upload handling & more

A malformed CSV is now better detected before processing it for bulk-editing. This mitigates the frustration of data not being successfully imported during CSV import as a result of invalid file encoding.

Also, CSV files generated during imports & exports are now moved to /uploads/smart-seo-csv-import-export/.

And finally, Import by slug is now automatically disabled if the current install is a sub-site of a multi-network install. The WP function get_page_by_path() only works on standard WP install.

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The exported spreadsheet containing the above information gives you a simplified look at your posts, making it easy to identify SEO optimisation opportunities.

Now if for some reason you want to export the associated categories and tags for each post, Smart SEO CSV Import/Export lets you do that as well. By simply adding a small lines of code, you can have your CSV containing tags and categories.

What you need

• Smart SEO CSV Import/Export
• FTP access

Be sure you have Smart SEO CSV Import/Export installed & activated and add the code below to your themes’ functions.php file:

Once done, go to Settings > SEO Import/Export and under Export tab, select Post and hit Export to CSV button.

The exported CSV file should now contain tags and categories columns (view demo file)

SEE ALSO: How To Export Custom Fields to CSV in WordPress for Bulk Editing

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Moving your featured images from old site to new site by CSV export/import

Moving your existing featured images from old site to your new WP site doesn’t really have to be that tedious. You can use Smart SEO CSV Export/Import to export your featured images’ URLs into CSV and import them to your newly-rebuilt site. No need to manually download featured images and attach them to each post. Here’s how:

The plugin will attempt to programatically download those images from your old site and import them as featured images. This can take a few while depending on the size of those images & total number of posts.

Conclusion

Smart SEO CSV Export/Import is the first SEO meta data bulk editing tool that supports major WP SEO plugins including Yoast, All-In-One SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, and The SEO Framework. The add-on comes with powerful hooks & filters you can exploit to bulk update virtually anything such as custom fields created by Advanced Custom Field (ACF).

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Importing by ID

This is the default setting and we highly suggest you leave it as is. Importing by ID offers this performance advantage: it will be a lot faster for your site to process the import.

Importing by Slugs

As mentioned above, use this if you’re trying to reuse your old SEO meta data settings from an old site to your newly-rebuilt site and there are changes on IDs. Importing by slug might be a little slower as this add-on will search through your entire posts and pages with matching post_slug and return the ID. We use WordPress’ get_page_by_path() to accomplish this.

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I found this interesting work from Phil Kurth & Jason Schuller and thought of sharing it with you.

These guys have been brewing this plugin in the last few months, teasing its unique functionality of mapping custom domains to your WordPress pages which got my attention. And thankfully, the plugin, which they named WP Landing Kit, is finally now on its initial rollout.

Being a WordPress developer myself, I sometimes get confronted with situations where our client wants a separate sales pages for her eBooks and make them accessible in another domain. Yep, she has an existing WordPress site and wanted to clone the overall look-and-feel of her site for her eBooks but, for a separate domain. Which means another cost for the web hosting + setup fees just for her sales pages.

Now, WP Landing Kit wants to change that. Rather than doing a separate install, you can just create your landing page on your main WP site and just assign a domain name for that particular page. And WP Landing Kit will cleverly serve that page as content to that add-on domain. 

Here’s a short explainer video how it works

SEE ALSO: Exporting Yoast SEO’s Facebook Open Graph Tags into CSV for Bulk Editing

As mentioned in that video, WP Landing Kits requires a hosting environment where you can add additional domains aka add-on domains. Also, you’ll need to update your DNS and add A Record for the new domain.

Final Verdict

While not everyone will likely need it, WP Landing Kit is an extremely powerful tool especially for those who sell digital products like eBooks, apps, tickets, etc. There’s no need for a separate WordPress installation. Just create your marketing pages and assign a unique domain to it.

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If you’re considering amplifying your social media reach and referrals, setting custom Open Graph titles and descriptions for Facebook just makes a lot of sense. Facebook has a different word count requirements for both title and descriptions. So you need to ensure your posts look good when shared on Facebook to get the much-needed clicks.

While you can define your own Facebook meta title and description under Share tab on a post editor, you can always skip this and just export your Facebook Open Graph data into CSV so you can edit them in one go by CSV import.

Once you’re done with editing, you can navigate back to the Import tab to bulk update your Facebook’s Open Graph metadata.

SEE ALSO: How to Export Yoast WooCommerce GTIN Data to CSV for Bulk Import

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It’s a feature first introduced by Yoast back in September last year which makes it easy to exploit FAQPage schema and improve your Google Search visibility in the process.

A well-structured FAQPage tells search engines that your content has a set of questions and corresponding answers. This helps search engines understand your content better and if properly marked up, your page may be qualified to have a rich result on Google Search or Action on Google Assistant.

See Also: How To: Bulk Update Yoast SEO Meta Data or All-In-One SEO Pack Using CSV

Yoast’s FAQ block already works out-of-the-box, no action required from your end. It automatically generates the needed JSON-LD markup for Google’s consumption. 

Here’s how Yoast’s FAQ block looks like in the frontend:

Nothing fancy right? 

Add Collapsible Headers or Accordion to Yoast FAQ Schema

Now, if you want to go fancy and enhance it with collapsible headers (or accordion), where answers are hidden which can only be revealed by clicking on the question, here’s a tiny line of Javascript and CSS to achieve that:

Once the above CSS and Javascript are added, refresh your FAQ page.

Your Yoast FAQ page should now be upgraded to something like this:

See Also: How To: Load Third-Party Scripts Without Hurting Your Site Speed

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