Yoast is THE tool for SEO
July 06, 2019
Yoast is THE tool for SEO
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins
I am personally using Yoast for promoting my personal website and my clients' sites. The SEO plugin (Yoast) is the tool I use to assure that Google and other search engines are detecting the keywords that I assign to a given site (either mine or a client's). I am a private web developer and offer services for SEO to clients. Yoast is the first plugin I began using many years ago for an individual client. When I saw the results that were showing in Google Analytics, I then used it for my site. As sites are developed, I have continued to provide the installation of Yoast, and I strongly encourage web clients to purchase the paid version in order to then have access to more tools within Yoast.
- It has a user-friendly interface.
- Directions for beginners to advanced users are provided.
- My phrases and/or search terms are easily placed in the form during setup.
- The installation is as simple as any other plugin, if not simpler.
- It shows to slow down the sites I have used it on - so it is slow loading on the end-users part which could discourage them from using the site. It makes a WP site more bloated than it may already be.
- The premium version is required for some of the simple items. I understand that the programmers have to be paid for the Premium, but more may use it if all or more of the basics were available to test it with.
- A subscription payment is a bit much in my opinion. The option for support payments would work better, I think. I could get more clients to use the premium if that were the case.
- Something that I have experienced is that other SEO techniques can't be used, as they often conflict with Yoast.
- If my client is pleased with their use of my services to optimize their site, I in turn receive more inquiries.
- My personal photography website receives a lot of recognition by search engines, and I then receive customers.
- The negative impact is the matter that not all sites can easily benefit from one plugin (i.e. Yoast), and a second or third plugin is an additional expense.
I have used a wide variety of SEO plugins for WordPress sites, and the difference that I have found are:
- The free products are free because of their limitations compared to Yoast.
- Yoast appears to be upgrading alongside WordPress upgrades, which makes it a better functional plugin.
- After many other plugins, Yoast was the only one that could do all that I wanted ... and more for that matter.