set up yoast

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  donnaskolnick · Member · Sep 4, 2015 at 12:26 pm

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  Hi I feel very stupid but I can’t figure out how to add Yoast as a tool to the blogs I manage. I’ve googled the topic and even checked on YouTube. Can you please point me to documentation so I can load Yoast?

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  Donna Skolnick
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  donnaskolnick · Member · Sep 4, 2015 at 12:33 pm

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  Figured it out

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  happytobefound · Member · Sep 4, 2015 at 3:06 pm

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  I’m curious Donna, how were you able to do this? Thanks for any and all help that you can give.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 4, 2015 at 4:28 pm

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  https://needalawyerblog.wordpress.com/ is a wordpress.COM hosted blog. It is not a wordpress.ORG software install so you cannot upload and run the Yoast SEO plugin or any other blogger installed plugins on it.

  WordPress.com hosted blogs are optimized for Search engines. Please read:
  https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  Blogger installed plugin capability does not exist on WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.

  For that type of functionality you’d need a self-hosted WordPress.ORG software install running on a paid web hosting service.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins (passwords), features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  You can hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting and move your content into a WordPress.ORG install https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-to-a-self-hosted-wordpress-site/

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there.