Yoast is the gold standard for SEO
March 15, 2017

Yoast is the gold standard for SEO

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins

Our company uses Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins for our website to ensure that all backend marketing content is structured perfectly and optimized for search engines and mobile devices. It provides an excellent guide for keyword density, meta descriptions, title tags and H1 through H4 headers. Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins are used by myself and our website developer.
  • When writing meta descriptions and title tags, Yoast WordPress SEO plugins provide a real-time snippet that lets you see exactly how it will appear in search.
  • Yoast WordPress SEO plugins have a color-coded guide that lets you know the SEO "strength" of content on each page of your website. Green is good, yellow is ok, and red is poor. Seeing these helps you easily identify web pages that need to be fixed for optimum SEO.
  • A huge benefit of Yoast WordPress SEO plugins is their ability to generate XML sitemaps of your website to submit to search engines.
  • I sometimes have questions about our website's mobile pages' SEO, and the Yoast WordPress SEO plugins don't have enough mobile information. It would be great if the plugins showed improvements that might be needed for better search results on mobile devices and tablets.
  • Some of the website setup areas in the Yoast WordPress SEO plugins can be difficult to understand. The recommended settings are good, but I often search the Yoast recommendations on Google to see what other SEOs are doing just to make sure.
  • With the help of Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins, I have worked more efficiently and ensured that all website pages and blog posts are optimized.
  • Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins have helped me quickly identify website pages and posts that need improvement, which saves the hassle of going through pages one at a time to try and identify problem areas.
  • Our website's SERP rankings (for our targeted keywords and long-tail keywords) and page rank have improved dramatically since we started using Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins.
Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins are the best-in-class tools. They are better than what we have used before because they are more robust and have greater capabilities. In today's fast-paced business world, our company doesn't have time to utilize a bunch of different SEO tools and plugins. Not only might they conflict with each other and cause problems with our website, it would entail running multiple reports and wasting valuable content writing time. With Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins, I get everything I need with a link on our website's backend.
Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins are the "gold standard" for website optimization. I feel they are ideal for everyone involved in SEO and website development, from novice content writers to seasoned website designers and developers. Yoast WordPress SEO Plugins provide you with the roadmap you need to have a content-rich website with word counts, page titles, meta descriptions and keyword density that follow best practices for Google and the other search engines. It probably wouldn't be appropriate for a website or blog without any text, but instead is comprised of pictures and/or videos.

Yoast Feature Ratings

7.3
Keyword analysis
8
Backlink management
5
SERP ranking tracking
5
Page grader
10
Competitive analysis
5
Site audit / diagnostics
10
Site recommendations
10
Task management
5
Local SEO
8
Social SEO
8
Mobile SEO
7
Global SEO
10
Multi-domain support
10
Integration with web analytics tools
10