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Pros
Seamless integration: Users have praised Yoast for its seamless integration into the WordPress platform, eliminating the need to switch between different pages or platforms for optimization. This convenience has been highly appreciated by numerous reviewers.
Real-time tips: Many users have found Yoast's real-time tips to be invaluable. The ability to receive immediate feedback and guidance on optimizing their pages or posts through live scans of page templates, links, and copy has been highly valued by a significant number of reviewers.
Training resources: Yoast's training resources have received great praise from users. These resources are considered helpful in making the complex topic of SEO easy to understand and implement. They enable users to improve their knowledge of SEO effectively, as mentioned by multiple reviewers.
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Yoast Reviews
13 Reviews
Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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Yoast SEO Plugins is a major plugin on our website which has replaced an SEO freelancer who failed to provide a transparent service. We saw no ROI from his work. Now we do all SEO optimization ourselves and regret we had not installed a pro Yoast plugin earlier. Content marketing combined with Yoast plugin is the best combination for your website.
Pros
SEO recommendations for content
Good scoring system for every post
Pays attention both to optimizing text and images\video content
Cons
Some automatic features would be helpful
Before and after score
More tutorials
Likelihood to Recommend
Yoast SEO plug-in is a must for WordPress websites. It is the best option to promote your site in search engines if you do not have funds for a SEO expert or you just have no time to learn how the SEO works. This plugin will guide you through the process. You just need to fill the fields and follow the recommendations
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.
Pros
Easy to use
Understandable
Time saver
Cons
Phrasing suggestions
Competitor Comparison
Tutorials/Lessons
Likelihood to Recommend
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 Wordpress SEO Plugins are being used in our organization to quickly optimize posts and pages for various search engines and social media. With the bundle of plugins for SEO it is easy much easier to optimize video content, news posts, and woocommerce products. It provides a user-friendly interface to add meta keywords on any page and see its score with a preview from search engines result.
Pros
Optimize any post, page, or product with the best keywords
Get previews of sharing on social media and search engine result
Gives SEO and readability score and ways to improve
Generates clean XML sitemap
Cons
$199 for an annual subscription is quite expensive in the WordPress ecosystem
The plugins can integrate features to add rich snippets
The suggestions shown by the plugins are not applicable all the time
Likelihood to Recommend
Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins automatically configures metadata and open graph information required by search engines and social media. It is always best practice to use its plugins to quickly make any WordPress site search engine friendly. If any website has very high-quality engaging content, then it is not necessary to use its plugins as the content likely will rank in the search engine results without its SEO.
My company has a few websites that are off our platform and using WordPress, so as their SEO analyst I had to become familiar with the software. The SEM department of the company uses Yoast and quite honestly it becomes useless when we are trying to target a handful of focused keywords.
Pros
Creates a redirect when I change permalinks, something most other redirect plugins don’t do.
It gives internal link suggestions.
Cons
The internal link suggested aren't always great suggestions.
I don’t need the content insights feature telling me what words I use most on a page.
Likelihood to Recommend
There are so many other software out there that give you so much more helpful information than Yoast SEO Plugins. If you're new to the digital scene this this is something that's great to start out with. But if you've been in the field for a while then Yoast can actually be really frustrating to use because you're smarter than the system.
We had used the Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins for our company’s website. Our website is not very dynamic but a decent one which gives information about what we do - our product line. Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins helped in showcasing the info in the manner we needed. It is easy to use and not very expensive
Pros
Easy to use
Reasonable price
Cons
Flexibility
More choices
Likelihood to Recommend
In any product-oriented industry, customers or the public will search based on the keywords or products, Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins helps website come in the search engine when the customer searches using those keywords. It specifically depends on the type of industry and the product line, based on my experience, one need to keep revisiting the SEO algorithms to make sure they are current.
We use Yoast for our marketing website, with the goal of making sure all our pages our structured optimally for search engines, and to flag any potential indexing issues. In particular, we use the snippet tool on individual pages to ensure that the right title and description shows for each page; we also use it to discourage search engine indexing across landing pages, or pages that are in development or for limited audiences only.
Pros
Intuitive interface that makes it clear what elements of a page/site you need to address for search engine optimization.
Very customizable - You can choose whether you want a setting to apply to an entire category or just a single page.
Cons
The readability feature is nice in theory, but I feel like it should adapt to the content/ audience focus of your site (or have the ability to manually set the desired level). I work on a site that is more advanced, and the flags for readability can be distracting.
It seems as though more and more features are being moved to the Premium version, which is understandable but can be frustrating. For example, it'd be nice to be able to manage robots.txt files directly in Yoast.
Likelihood to Recommend
Yoast is the best SEO tool I've used for Wordpress. It's great for everyone from SEO beginners who just want to catch the low-hanging fruit, to more advanced/technical editors who appreciate things like breadcrumb customization and canonical URLs. The free version may be sufficient for most users, especially those teams who fall into the more novice category - there's definitely enough to make a difference without the cost.
Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins is easily the most popular SEO plugin for Wordpress, and it's no surprise that our marketing and creative teams rely on it to help us stay ahead of SEO and meta description and title tag best practices. It helps keep us relevant with organic traffic and ensure we are using the right keywords for our content.
Pros
Great for editing meta tags.
Helpful with content optimization.
Great for backend SEO.
Cons
Readability tab is sometimes misleading.
Can't always trust results from a focus keyword.
Requires a strong SEO mindset so that you don't just trust the algorithm.
Likelihood to Recommend
Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins will always be a good bet for your team if Wordpress powers your website. It's best paired with a smart SEO mind on your team to ensure that its green light system isn't being blindly followed, but rather reviewed and implemented based on best practices that keep you from accidental keyword stuffing.
We use Yoast SEO on all public websites of the organizations as well as installing it on nearly all customer projects. It is a quick and easy way to get the SEO set-up right for each page, article or feature we write. Yoast SEO allows us to focus on writing the content and indicates where we need to make corrections without us having to study SEO deeply ourselves - it has all the SEO knowledge built-in.
Pros
Shows a beautiful snippet preview of how this page would be seen on Google search engine - You can easily edit the snippet.
Simple color codes for SEO analysis - Red means we need to fix it, orange is a warning, green is ok. Very easy!
SEO total score is displayed on the Post/Page overview screen, so you don't need to open every post to check the score
Cons
Keyword suggestions based on article I'm writing would be nice to have.
Some scores are red but it really doesn't apply to a particular post/product, etc. Eg. when you only have a video in a post there is a lot of red scores. It would be nice to be able to turn individual scores off.
Likelihood to Recommend
Yoast Wordpress is perfect for a business that wants to improve their own SEO score on their website without hiring a professional copywriter. It's well suited for users that are not necessarily tech-savvy.
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Yoast is one of the first of the main five plugins I advise WordPress clients to purchase. Within the recent six months of writing this review, I developed a WordPress site for an organization that is unique in its product offerings for physical health/fitness/rehabilitation, etc. The client was willing to pay extra for my SEO services, and I ultimately found this scenario to be a bit challenging because "physical fitness" and "personal trainer" are commonly used phrases that my client preferred. Yoast helped me in expediting the process of testing search terms, phrases, descriptions of the site and services, etc. I highly recommend this product to any that are trying to boost their site.
We use Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugin in our blogs for 4 countries, because we need to improve SEO. It's only used by my team (marketing). Using this plugin is usually easy, but sometimes it does not work well. We use the Free version. When I add the keyword for a post, it does not recognize this word in Yoast, so I'm trying to update the page, but nothing happens, I need to close the session and then log in to make it work.
Pros
Yoast SEO identifies what it is that you need to improve in the whole page, it is very easy because it shows it with colors to facilitate recognizing errors
Yoast SEO helps you to write an article correctly, indicating the limit of each paragraph
Yoast SEO is perfect to increase the organic traffic in your site
Cons
sometimes it takes a long time to recognize that everyone is being met
Yoast SEO sometimes does not recognize the images and links on the page
The limit in the title and the description is outdated with what Google recognizes
Likelihood to Recommend
Use Yoast SEO to improve organic traffic, it's fine, but when you want to create a snippet it's better to use other techniques
