Must Have for WordPress Users!
January 06, 2016

Must Have for WordPress Users!

Marilyn Mead | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins

The Yoast WP plug in has been a HUGE help in driving more qualified traffic to our site with minimal effort/changes. The plug in provides easy, practical step by step recommendations for how to optimize the content you already have, so that you don't have to be an SEO genius to optimize your website.
  • Highlights what's missing from your website so that you know exactly why a page might not be performing as well as you'd like, allowing you to fix the problem (missing links, page titles, image alt text, low kw density, etc.) to generate more qualified traffic.
  • Takes the guesswork out of writing effective website copy. When writing a blog post, for instance, you just tell Yoast the keyword you'd most like to leverage and it will grade you on how well you've incorporated it - in the headline, the copy, and the URL...
  • Amazingly easy to use - simple integration with your WordPress interface so that you can log into WordPress while Yoast "checks" your work as you're doing it.
  • Within three months of installing Yoast, traffic to our website had a significant boost according to Google Analytics. The tool allowed us to add meta data, tighten up our keyword focus and calibrate our copy with Yoast's "Page Grader" - all of which I attribute our improved traffic to.
  • Improved efficiency - when you are in marketing at a small company, you don't want to bother tech which is already overwhelmed! I was able to gain direction without bogging down our developers so they could focus on our product.
My experience with Yoast applies to a business website that had fairly significant traffic to begin with, Yoast just helped me optimize the content better, but I don't think there's any reason it wouldn't work equally well for someone just starting out!

Yoast Feature Ratings

9.3
Keyword analysis
10
Backlink management
10
SERP ranking tracking
Not Rated
Page grader
10
Competitive analysis
8
Site audit / diagnostics
10
Site recommendations
10
Task management
7
Local SEO
8
Social SEO
9
Mobile SEO
10
Global SEO
Not Rated
Multi-domain support
Not Rated
Integration with web analytics tools
9