Yoast Alternatives

[TREBOR8]

Hi Chaps/esses

I'm looking for good alternatives to Yoast - just to try out and see which one I like. Is there a good one you use? I'm using Wordpress

Thank you

 

[zigojacko]

Rank Math

Squirrely

SEO Press

Generally in that order but depends on how much 'assistance' you require with your onsite SEO and how knowledgeable you are already.

 

[TREBOR8]

Thank you Zigojacko. Squirrely looks interesting

 

[Tin]

Another vote for Rank Math here

 

[madeads]

Back when Wordpress was just becoming popular, there were 2 big boys on the block for managing the SEO aspect of the blogs.

They were Yoast and SEOPress, so if you are not happy with Yoast for whatever reason, then SEOPress is the only other decent choice.

 

[zigojacko]

They were Yoast and SEOPress, so if you are not happy with Yoast for whatever reason, then SEOPress is the only other decent choice.

No it was Yoast and All In One SEO. They were the two big players years ago.

I believe SEOPress launched much later on.

 

[Aileen B]

I moved all my sites from All in one SEO to Yoast a few years back. But now Yoast are releasing buggy updates I'm jumping ship to Rank Math gradually. Seems easy enough to import my settings.

 

[madeads]

No it was Yoast and All In One SEO. They were the two big players years ago.

I believe SEOPress launched much later on.

Sorry, yes - you're totally right. I must've confused All in One SEO with SEOPress.

How is All in One SEO nowadays? Is it still doing well or no longer the best choice?

 

[ukbf0001]

As pointed out by someone else on here recently rank math - seems to have many security flaws - some wide open.
On a different point - I wonder if either yoast or rank math have had any sort of penetration testing done ?

 

[Ian J]

As pointed out by someone else on here recently rank math - seems to have many security flaws - some wide open.

Weren't they fixed the day after they were reported to Rank Math?

 

[Nick Walsh Studios]

Sorry, yes - you're totally right. I must've confused All in One SEO with SEOPress.

How is All in One SEO nowadays? Is it still doing well or no longer the best choice?

All in one SEO reported vulnerabilities this week by WordFence 2 million site affected

 

[Nick Walsh Studios]

Rank Math is great, takes a bit more work but pages can get 90% + SEO score and you can test H1, page content etc to see SEO immediately

 

[money road]

RankMath provides more than seo by yoast (free version). I've tried both and was fan of yoast for years, yet now I've moved to RankMath and more than happy with that.

 

[fisicx]

I've just installed RankMath and run a test on one of my sites. It gave me a score of 58. But as the site ranks #1 for all my target keywords I don't think I'm going to stress about it too much.

 

[Alan]

In reality Yoast, Rank Math, Squirrely, SEO Press are self serving bloat designed make you think they are adding value.

There are a few fundamental things that WP misses like a sitemap ( I believe that will be built in in 5.5 ), titles and setting opengrah images for social media.

I find the lighter weight 'The SEO framework' does a perfect job.

Stressing over SEO plugin traffic lights or scores is as much a was of time as stressing over performance scores. It is results that matter, not scores.

 

[fisicx]

There are a few fundamental things that WP misses like a sitemap ( I believe that will be built in in 5.5 ), titles and setting opengrah images for social media.

Sitemap appears to be in 5.5 but not titles and descriptions

 

[money road]

Sitemap appears to be in 5.5 but not titles and descriptions

When all these features will be in the core of WordPress, there will be no reason to use extra SEO plugins

 

[fisicx]

When all these features will be in the core of WordPress, there will be no reason to use extra SEO plugins

There’s no real reason to use any of them. Or to be more accurate, if you have the means to edit the page titles and descriptions you don’t need an seo plugin.

 

[Darren_Ssc]

When all these features will be in the core of WordPress, there will be no reason to use extra SEO plugins

Which is why they won't be. Sitemaps only became an issue because google were pushing for it. Nobody of any influence is going to be rattling any cages to bring an end to the yoast s***show.

 

[fisicx]

Yoast is like contact form 7 and jetpack. All very popular but not very good.

 

[Darren_Ssc]

Yoast is like contact form 7 and jetpack. All very popular but not very good.

These are 3 great examples of services that originally offered something useful and eventually became the opposite, yet still remain popular because of that initial traction.

 

[money road]

There’s no real reason to use any of them. Or to be more accurate, if you have the means to edit the page titles and descriptions you don’t need an seo plugin.

What about other features e.g. rich snippets, 404 monitoring, URL redirections and other which is included in RankMath? I personally find that useful.

 

[fisicx]

Very little to do with SEO. Useful but not really needed.

 

[Ali9000]

Rank Math is the best

 

[Ian J]

Rank Math is the best

Would you care to explain why or are you just post count padding?

 

[Ali9000]

Would you care to explain why or are you just post count padding?

I have used Paid Yoast for 3 years and lately, I have changed to Rank Math. because most of the features available in Paid Yoast already offered for free in Rank Math like (Targeting more than 1 keywords, redirection). Further, Rank Math has a database of a keyword so there is autosuggestion, and this decreases the human error in typing the keywords.

 

[fisicx]

Further, Rank Math has a database of a keyword so there is autosuggestion, and this decreases the human error in typing the keywords.

If you are doing keyword research like this you are doing it wrong.

 

[Ali9000]

If you are doing keyword research like this you are doing it wrong.

I am using ahrefs in keywords analysis. However, at the end, you have to distribute your keywords precisely in the article and then write your focus keywords using any plugin like Rank Math or Yoast.

 

[fisicx]

I am using ahrefs in keywords analysis. However, at the end, you have to distribute your keywords precisely in the article and then write your focus keywords using any plugin like Rank Math or Yoast.

No, that's how it used to be. Things have changed you don't need a focus keyword. What you have to do is create informative and interesting content that adds value. If a page best answers a search query Google will reward you. Google also looks holistically at the whole website not just each page. This is another reason why focus keywords are a red herring.

 

[Ali9000]

Content is one of the factors to rank higher, google needs websites to write high-quality content.
However, your answer means that Plugin like Rank Math, Yoast, etc are useless and people must focus on the quality of content only.

 

[fisicx]

However, your answer means that Plugin like Rank Math, Yoast, etc are useless and people must focus on the quality of content only.

Most of the stuff in those plugins is useless. Yoast in particular is very misleading and RankMath's SEO analysis is flawed.

Focusing on the quality of content is pretty much key to everything. Google has been saying this since the beginning.

 

[HostXNow]

I use Rank Math. So another vote for that.