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Rating: 9.6 out of 10
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9.6 out of 10

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Pros

Seamless integration: Users have praised Yoast for its seamless integration into the WordPress platform, eliminating the need to switch between different pages or platforms for optimization. This convenience has been highly appreciated by numerous reviewers.

Real-time tips: Many users have found Yoast's real-time tips to be invaluable. The ability to receive immediate feedback and guidance on optimizing their pages or posts through live scans of page templates, links, and copy has been highly valued by a significant number of reviewers.

Training resources: Yoast's training resources have received great praise from users. These resources are considered helpful in making the complex topic of SEO easy to understand and implement. They enable users to improve their knowledge of SEO effectively, as mentioned by multiple reviewers.

Reviews

60 Reviews

Yoast Just Works

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Yoast with every WordPress site I work with. It's the ultimate SEO integration for everyone from first-time content users to full-blown experts. And since the free plan is relatively robust, there's really no reason a WordPress website <i>shouldn't</i> use Yoast. I've used it now across more than 20+ sites, and I've never found a better SEO tool.

Pros

  • On-page SEO optimization
  • Improving readability
  • Scoring my pages
  • Helping avoid duplicate/cannibalizing content

Cons

  • Integrations with other CMS platforms
  • Stronger back-end SEO solutions

Likelihood to Recommend

I'd recommend Yoast to any website — seriously, any site. Obviously, it'll get more use if you're regularly publishing new pages or blog posts, but it'd be a valuable tool even if you only had a dozen core pages. And since the free plan is exceptional, it's worth it for even a single, static page website.

In this race there are two competitors, Yoast is 1st

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Yoast on all my websites. <a href="http://www.academy.thereach.ai">www.academy.thereach.ai</a>, <a href="http://www.thereach.ai">www.thereach.ai</a> and <a href="http://www.vividatelier.pl">www.vividatelier.pl</a> . Amazing insights, I can tailor the blog posts properly and understand how I can make my websites grow organically over time. Great tool and I think most people recommend it.

Pros

  • good insights
  • reliable information
  • trusted by many

Cons

  • Better tier plan

Likelihood to Recommend

I write almost daily blog posts on my news website. A plugin like Yoast basically tells you what you need to improve if you hope that the article will rank organically on google: better title, better keywords, phrases, subtitle a ton of various things. What it can do better, and what other tools already do, is using Gen AI to suggest alternatives. Example: my choice of title is extremely bad for some reason, but give me 2-3 other alternatives that Yoast thinks will be better.

Best Plugin For WordPress SEO Optimization

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Yoast helps us to optimize posts and tell us where we are lacking. I can say that this plugin is best for SEO the best thing in Yoast is focus keyword through which you can optimize the post according to your target keyword.

Pros

  • On Page Optimization
  • Help to rank on SERP
  • Best Plugin to add meta tags

Cons

  • I think they have to add more schrma.org features so that use can target specific page for schema

Likelihood to Recommend

Yoast suggested to me to add internal/external links to tell me the best opportunity to optimize content as per reading grade and last but not the least Yoast provides rank author pages as well.

Best Plugin For WordPress SEO

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Yoast SEO is best for SEO on page optimization it helps me to add schema like FAQs. One of the best parts of it is the updated version of Yoast. if you add FAQs by using the Yoast widget you don't need to add FAQs schema it will add automatically. Also, Yoast suggests the optimal meta tags limit so that you won't forget to optimize.

Pros

  • On Page Optimization
  • Allow to setup bulk meta tags

Cons

  • Yes, I have one major concern with Yoast Seo, I see that if I didn't update the plugin for a long time then it has created a breach and allowed bots to publish the bots website. I request the team please work on it.

Likelihood to Recommend

It helps me to suggest the keyword density on the page. Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins provides me the reading score and many on-page things that help me to rank my content on the top of the page.

Yoast do not deliver to its promise

Rating: 5 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[In my experience,] Yoast Premium

does not function to its fullest potential if you use WP Bakery Page Builder.

When I purchased the Premium version, I did not know it. It works well with

other page builder plugins. I think that somewhere before committing to the Premium

version, it should be made clear

Pros

  • the basic version is sufficient

Cons

  • [...]

Likelihood to Recommend

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SEO is not magic, anyone can do it with Yoast SEO plugin

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Yoast SEO Plugins is a major plugin on our website which has replaced an SEO freelancer who failed to provide a transparent service. We saw no ROI from his work. Now we do all SEO optimization ourselves and regret we had not installed a pro Yoast plugin earlier. Content marketing combined with Yoast plugin is the best combination for your website.

Pros

  • SEO recommendations for content
  • Good scoring system for every post
  • Pays attention both to optimizing text and images\video content

Cons

  • Some automatic features would be helpful
  • Before and after score
  • More tutorials

Likelihood to Recommend

Yoast SEO plug-in is a must for WordPress websites. It is the best option to promote your site in search engines if you do not have funds for a SEO expert or you just have no time to learn how the SEO works. This plugin will guide you through the process. You just need to fill the fields and follow the recommendations

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7 years of experience

GREAT!...if you have the time

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I utilized Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins when I managed our main website to assist in optimization for our local catering and event venue business. It helped me craft written content to appear higher in search results so we were able to reach our customers more efficiently, based on their search keywords. Mainly it was only me using the tool, as I was a dept of one, but it saved me a lot of time doing keyword research.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Understandable
  • Time saver

Cons

  • Phrasing suggestions
  • Competitor Comparison
  • Tutorials/Lessons

Likelihood to Recommend

Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins is really great for any application - home pages, blogs, etc. It saves a lot of time researching keywords, but it is time-consuming crafting content, which I think is a necessary evil. I wasn't really seeing the immediate results I had hoped for, but there could be a variety of reasons for that (cookies, caches, etc.). Overall, if you have the time to dedicate and utilize the tool, it's awesome!

YoastSEO does all of the Heavy Lifting for you

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Yoast helps us maximize the SEO efforts of our company blog and website. It takes what would normally be done with meta-tags and HTML and puts it in a very intuitive and easy-to-use format.

Pros

  • Intuitive
  • Alerts to help stay on top of meta data
  • Really good support

Cons

  • Sometimes it will break other plugins
  • Sometimes it breaks itself
  • Constantly needs updating

Likelihood to Recommend

Yoast is great if you have a Wordpress Blog that is constantly being used to publish new content. In the SEO game, content must be 'fresh' as well as properly indexed. It won't help much if the website isn't updated frequently.

Yoast does SEO for Wordpress better than anyone else

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<div>We use Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins in our content and digital development groups. The

content team says "we can't work effectively without the SEO plugin". Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins provides a number of important features our writers rely on:</div><div><ol><li>Internal links to other content. We have over 40,000 posts and this feature makes it simple to link to relevant content.

</li><li>Readability analysis. Our writers require this to ensure their work is consistent and reads well.

</li><li>Overall SEO score. Our editors

</li></ol>The digital group relies on Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins for the following:</div><div><ol><li>Oversight of writers SEO tasks. The posts screen provides an overview of SEO scores of content as it's being produced.</li><li>Yoast News plugin. This handles the publishing of content to Google News.</li><li>Social media integration with Twitter and Facebook.</li><li>Manage

what types of content appears (and how) in search engines. Wordpress

makes just about everything indexable and we use Yoast to tame some of

that, especially custom post types.

</li></ol></div>

Pros

  • Readability analysis is often overlooked but a poorly written article can turn visitors off. Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins helps with that to the extent we don't need a bunch of full-time editors.
  • Helps to build accurate meta data. Though not as important as it once was on its own, metadata is still important for Knowledge Graphing and Schema.org. Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins handles all of that without the need of developers.
  • The Insights section provides important data about content itself, including prominent words, internal links and link suggestions. Our writers rely on these features to provide the best content possible.

Cons

  • Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins does many things and does them well; however, there may be a need for a separate Schema.org plugin if you require finer control when it comes to metadata and which schemas you may want to use. Same applies to XML sitemaps.
  • In a recent upgrade (version 14), Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins added a new indexable feature that combined all metadata for objects on a site into a couple of new tables. For small to medium sites, this wasn't an issue. For larger sites (40,000 posts or more), it caused more problems than it solved to the extent we reverted to a previous version (13.5) and remained there until well after version 15 was released. Be aware that your database will grow more rapidly in size as a result.
  • We disabled the built-in XML sitemap generator as it caused excessive database usage when creating new maps. For now, we're using a different plugin for that function until the issue has been addressed with Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins.

Likelihood to Recommend

For very small sites, the free version of Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins is sufficient. For small and medium sites, one should opt for the premium version. Not saying Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins doesn't work well on larger sites; it certainly does, but be advised there could be some performance headaches along the way. I really cannot think of a scenario where you wouldn't want to use Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins, but if you really don't care that much about SEO, there are a few alternatives that will provide SEO functions but without the depth of control available in Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins.

Best SEO Plugin for Wordpress

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I [have been] using Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins for the last few years to Optimize the Contents for search engine which ensures a better ranking in google and other popular search engine. Actually, it is the most popular and advanced SEO tool available in the market. Choice of target keywords and send a signal to the search engine.

Pros

  • Better Ranking in the Search Result
  • Target a particular keywords
  • Target related keywords
  • Add meta description

Cons

  • Although this tool is user friendly, i think there is scope of improving the color combination and visual outlook.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is suitable for Wordpress platform rather than any other available platform like bogger. This plugin is suitable for beginner to advanced level users to rank a particular keyword in the search engine. For the free version, one target keyword can add but for the premium user, you can add multiple keywords which is the attractive section of this plugin.