WPML Yoast SEO is a plugin that allows you to optimize your WordPress website for search engines in each language. It is a combination of two popular plugins, WPML, and Yoast SEO. WPML is a plugin that enables users to create and manage multilingual websites, while Yoast SEO is a plugin that helps users improve their website’s SEO.

With WPML Yoast SEO, you can easily optimize your website for search engines in different languages. It allows you to translate SEO content, such as meta titles, meta descriptions, and focus keywords, using WPML.

This way, you can ensure that your website is fully optimized for search engines in each language.

To get started with WPML Yoast SEO, you need to install and activate three plugins: Yoast SEO, WPML core plugin, and WPML String Translation add-on. They also need to download the WPML SEO add-on, which serves as a “glue” plugin that makes it possible to translate SEO content using WPML.

Once these plugins are installed and activated, you can translate global SEO texts by setting how your content looks in search results through Yoast SEO → Settings.

You can also translate page SEO attributes by clicking on the plus icon in the Language box and using the Advanced Translation Editor to translate the SEO attributes along with the page’s content.

WPML Yoast SEO also allows you to synchronize non-text settings when translating a page, such as the option to disallow search engines from crawling images. You can do this by clicking the spinning arrows icon or the Update button.

To enable breadcrumbs for your theme, you can go to the Yoast SEO → Settings page, expand the Advanced tab, and click on Breadcrumbs.

Once enabled, the page titles added to breadcrumbs will automatically appear in the appropriate language. The anchor text for the homepage can be translated by going to WPML → String Translation and searching for texts in the admin_texts_wpseo_titles domain.

Finally, WPML Yoast SEO creates XML sitemaps for each language version of the website when you use WPML’s “A different domain per language” option.

You can find the default language sitemap by going to yourdomain/sitemap_index.xml and the sitemap in the secondary language by going to your-secondary-language-domain/sitemap_index.xml.

Overall, WPML Yoast SEO is a powerful plugin that allows WordPress users to optimize their website for search engines in each language, ensuring that their website is fully optimized and searchable in different languages.