GREAT!...if you have the time
September 14, 2021

GREAT!...if you have the time

Emily Hammell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins

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.
  • Easy to use
  • Understandable
  • Time saver
  • Phrasing suggestions
  • Competitor Comparison
  • Tutorials/Lessons
  • Time Efficiency
  • Improved writing
  • More website traffic
Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins was a little easier to understand and offered a real-time guided plugin that helped me write throughout my drafting process. Semrush was much more helpful as a reporting tool, not so much in content creation. Both tools are useful in different ways, it is just a matter of knowing each one's strengths and weaknesses.

Do you think Yoast delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Yoast's feature set?

Yes

Did Yoast live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Yoast go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Yoast again?

Yes

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!

Yoast Feature Ratings

8.0
Keyword analysis
8
Backlink management
7
SERP ranking tracking
7
Page grader
9
Competitive analysis
7
Site audit / diagnostics
9
Site recommendations
9
Local SEO
7
Social SEO
9
Mobile SEO
7
Global SEO
7
Multi-domain support
Not Rated
Integration with web analytics tools
6