What is the best SEO Plug-in for Wordpress?What is the best SEO Plug-in for Wordpress?
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I manage a Wordpress site and I am interested to get the community's views on the best SEO plug-ins around? We are looking at using Yoast. Should I be looking at anything else?
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Another vote for Yoast SEO Plugin, there is a premium version now, but dont think this means the free is in some form a limited plugin it is still a full featured polished product that works well. (Premium offers better support, and redirect module, which can be used free by another plugin)
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Yoast is better for a number of reasons. The main one is being able to really nail down custom category titles, which is important if you organise your blog this way. AIOSEO is a very good plugin but yeah, Yoast wins.
Also, see a full test just recently completed by a top Moz contributor, Dan Shure:
http://www.evolvingseo.com/2014/02/14/all-in-one-vs-yoast-seo-test-drive/
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I also vote for Yoast.
Plugins are all about ease of use and efficient features, it has it all.
I love that we can see how the page will look on Google, and I love how it gives advices on : you may turn on or off this feature.
Let me know what you choose
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Thanks
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I knew you would! Good luck with your project (s).
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Thanks Travis. I'll be sure to review the SEO manually as well.
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Thanks Patrick that's really helpful. I'll be sure to check it out.
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I also use Yoast for every website. I tried a few other plugins but i switched back to Yoast a few month ago because of the very good XML sitemap and breadcrumbs implementation.
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My vote goes to Yoast. I do urge you to manually review the SEO of your site as well since any plugin cannot optimize your site entirely.
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Conor,
Yoast is a good plugin and I know a lot of people use it, but honestly, I find the All In One SEO Pack to be awesome! We use it on almost every website we develop. Check it out and install it to play around with the setup. Here are some resource links to review. We love it and hope this helps in your search! - Patrick
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/users-guide-for-all-in-one-seo-pack/
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