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MD Rafiul

Verified reviewer

Consumer Electronics, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Good SEO Tool

PROS

In the SEO community, Yoast is a well-known tool. On-page SEO is effective with them. I appreciate the fact that it offers guidance on title tags, meta headers, H1s, and other elements. This plug-in can perform just about anything and is nearly a jack of all trades. There are several great aspects about this plugin that I admire, not only because it is so simple to utilize, but also because it offers a lot of functionality.

CONS

The cost of Yoast SEO is an issue, and the premium edition costs much more than the free edition. I assume it's the same for everyone. For the price and many premium features free in Rank Math that's why I move on. That's why I move on to Rank Math, which has a low price and many premium features with the free version.

Anonymous

1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed February 2023

Yoast SEO is good for beginners but provide limited features in free

This SEO plugin helps me to calculate the overall quality of the page, and I can optimize many things, but free features are limited.

PROS

It helps me to optimize keywords and give suggestions for optimizing the content on a page based on a target keyword.It analyzes the content on a page and provides suggestions for making it more readable and engaging for users.It generates a sitemap automatically. You can also verify your search console, bing, by adding code on the Yoast plugin.Yoast SEO includes tools for optimizing content for social media sharing.I can optimize or customize my URL structure. And also index or deindex things easily.It provides insights into the overall quality of a page's content, making it easier to identify areas for improvement. This is the main feature.

CONS

I noted that its suggestions and analysis can be overly prescriptive and that there are limited options for customizing the plugin to fit their specific needs. You can't use it with some other plugins like schema generator.It offers a free version which is limited but good for beginners, but its paid version is expensive in comparison to other SEO plugins.

Markus

Financial Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Good Tool, but there are better Alternatives

I used the Yoast SEO Plugin over several Years for several Websites (my own Ones and also Client Websites. After a Comparison with another SEO Plugin we decided to change. One of the Reason was that the other Plugin delivered many Functions for free already in the Basic VErsion

PROS

That it is easy to implement. Under functional Aspects it deliver everything you need to set up your Website well under OnPage SEO Aspects

CONS

The Pricing for the Pro Version. There are other SEO Plugins that deliver for a lower Price more Functions

Reason for choosing Yoast SEO

We switched from Yoast SEO to Rankmath

Eldar

E-Learning, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2023

Yoast will help you to apply SEO elements in your site

I a good SEO tool for new websites, it let you start working for free with a good value.

PROS

1. Easy to set up and have general automatic SEO settings for every site page.2. Its scan your site pages and give them SEO score and insights, what is good and what you have to fix.3. Can be used to create a site and provide it to Google.4. Can be used to hide some pages from the search engines.

CONS

1. I didn't find the pro version with enough value compared to the free version except for the option to add keywords to your pages, also I know more SEO tools and free plugins that let you do it.

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jason

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2021

Yoast SEO

It's helped me better understand SEO techniques and how to get my content engaging.I will recommend this plugin, if you are a beginner to SEO.

PROS

based on my UX with yoast: -this plugin is one of the best SEO tool i have used this far. Yoast provides a high magnifying ranking boost score for my posts like keyword optimization, content look-ups, makes my content appear more friendly and clear for search engines to easily index my pages and rank my content as per user-intent. -It's a free tool (although has a priced plan) for everyone to use. - set up is very easy and simple thanks to the step-by-step set up assistant. -It's a trusted plugin with no negative behavioral characteristics. - cheap and affordable( costs just about 87 bucks despite it's great features) for 1 year license which is quite good as compared to other SEO tools. - 98/100 customer support. support service is very responsive.

CONS

-free version frequently displays ads that can be a nuisance sometimes.

Reasons for switching to Yoast SEO

limited to site's performance .

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Abid

Verified reviewer

Banking, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2021

Yoast SEO is the Best WordPress Plugin

I have very professional experience because I have improved the SEO of my WordPress website. I can see my website pages and articles are appearing in the search engines when people search for different keywords. This has been happened just because of this professional SEO plugin.

PROS

If you are running a business website, then obviously you can also see the websites of your competitors. You need a better ranking in the search engines, so you can get more visitors from Google, Bing, and other search engines. This is possible if you are using Yoast SEO in your WordPress website. Yoast SEO is a unique plugin that offers so many incredible SEO features. Even you can also attract more visitors from Social media. You can easily install and activate the plugin. After activation, you can analyze each page, post, and product of your website.

CONS

The internal links suggestion options should tell more options. No doubt there are a lot of incredible features and I never faced any complicated issue or technical cons during the use of Yoast SEO features.

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Akshay

Verified reviewer

Legal Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2023

Best On-Page Seo Wordpress Plugin

I think premium version is not so useful for me as free version has everything a SEO content writer requires. Overall I am satisfied with free version

PROS

It's free version has lot of features. It helps in keyword optimization any blog or post. Changes are Realtime. Most amazing feature is it highlights the text with needs improvement and rank blog as you make changes. It is a good SEO software for all bloggers.

CONS

Yoast does not work effectively with Elementor plugin, have no idea whether it is Elementor plugin issue or Yoast . My only concern is its high premium price. When I write 10000 words article, number of focus keywords can go up to 15 to 18 which can be over optimized by google algorithm.

Andrea

Furniture, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2023

Perfect with WordPress

I like it, I find it simple and intuitive. Sometimes, however, the stringency of some parameters that indicate non-existent problems should be reviewed.

PROS

I use it daily. It allows me to better index all the web contents of the company I work for. The features are different, perfectly integrated into the administration panel of the page/post.

CONS

Sometimes the software doesn't recognize when a page is built the way it does for a certain reason and reports non-existent errors.

Sagar

Information Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Best SEO companion since I started my digital journey

It helps me to understand the holistic vision of SERP ranking factors and gives appropriate suggestions to stand on top in this competitive digital world.

PROS

It gives regular updates according to new updates in search engine algorithms which makes us tension free about any changes in ranking factors by search engines.

CONS

We must be wise while using it because it suggests the exact keyword that we use as a focus keyword, which leads to the keyword being over-optimized.

Ellen

Fund-Raising, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Yoast SEO - really user friendly, making SEO management part of maintaining your website.

The traffic light system is an easy visual way to see where areas of your website could be improved. The proof of Yoast SEO's effectiveness is in our website traffic data, the people that need to find us are and those that don't quite know what they are looking for also manage to find us. It is well built in to the behind the scenes of the website and sit seamlessly with the host and other plug ins we use for our website.

PROS

I love how built in Yoast SEO is to every step of creating and maintaining/updating our website.

CONS

As a perfectionist I don't love that I can never get all the traffic light icons to green! XD

Anonymous

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

"One of the Best SEO Tool on the Market"

My entire SEO experience has always been profitable, I mean great, and this SEO tool is excellent for bloggers.

PROS

For every website we create for a client, we use Yoast. It handles all of your SEO needs and is easy to use. The ability to integrate with Google Search Console is fantastic. Additionally, it offers the choice of pinging and submitting your updates to GSC for quicker indexing. The category slugs, SILO, and Meta Data are all added to each page using Yoast.

CONS

Actually, there isn't much to dislike. The majority of the functions either contain instructions to assist you to comprehend the selections or are rather simple. They do an excellent job of linking out to well-written documentation clarifying the topic for those alternatives that are very complex. The business also offers no-cost training on a variety of subjects.

Rosie

Design, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed April 2022

Yoast was my go to

Overall it was better than nothing, and honestly had it not been for other new to the market plugins that were better, I would most likely be still using it. Yoast was for my company a great option for getting clients to look into their organic website traffic.

PROS

When I used yoast, it was about the only recommended SEO plugin on the market. It did the job but it was very limited on the free version and was constantly prompting you to get the paid version. I have to say that it did its job and helped with some of the SEO needed to get a site in better shape than having no tools at all.

CONS

The biggest negative was how "heavy" it was considering it was not the full version of the plugin. It also left out some really vital components of basic SEO, which was justified by the fact that we were using the free version.

Reason for choosing Yoast SEO

I chose Yoast at the time because it was the best SEO plugin for the needs of my clients and in spite of their free version not being as robust as some of the newer plugins, it gave a great deal of value.

Zephyr

Food & Beverages, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2021

Perfect for learning SEO

I installed the Yoast SEO plugin on my website in an effort to start ranking on Google. I run a small business in my local community and would write a few articles here and there for my website but nothing ever showed up on the first page of Google. I started using Yoast and learned about SEO by following their checklist and suggestions to improve my articles. I am definitely still a newbie when it comes to SEO but I've learned a lot since installing Yoast. I think it's great for anyone just learning SEO.

PROS

Yoast is really easy to use even for someone who is completely new to SEO like me. The plugin ranks your articles and shows you where you can improve by adding more keywords, increasing your word count, etc. It takes all the guesswork out of SEO because it lays it all out for you in an easy-to-understand list. I really like how it provides the "why" behind each category it ranks you on. Under each category, there are links to articles explaining why and how Google ranks you on each category for SEO and what you can do to improve. I really learned most of what I know about SEO through Yoast.

CONS

I had a few problems when I initially installed the Yoast plugin. I had to reinstall it several times before it worked properly. It may have been a problem with an interaction between other plugins I had installed at the time as I had to uninstall several other plugins to get Yoast to finally work.

Umair

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2021

Increase SEO in Different Search Engines

My overall experience with Yoast SEO is very professional because I have taught this Plugin to my WordPress students in the United Arab Emirates.

PROS

Good ranking in the search engines is the need of Marketing and Optimization. This is only possible just because of the Yoast SEO. Because this plugin gives you so many incredible features regarding search engine optimization. You can check the SEO score of your web pages.

CONS

According to my point of view, when a plugin allows you to make your SEO better, then how you can find any cons or issues in it. Because there are no cons, therefore Yoast SEO is awesome.

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2021

It was once the best SEO plugin

Once it was the best plugin, but now it is a lot bloated, and it has also failed to implement AI, unlike new tools like Squirrly SEO. I have stopped using it and went with Squirrly SEO.

PROS

It is a full-feature SEO plugin best suited for a newbie. It has loads and loads of integration, most of them are not required by most of the users. it has multi-lingual support that helps you cater to an international audience.

CONS

I have been using SEO Yoast for more than 10 years, and back in the days, it was the most lightweight and versatile SEO tool in the market. It took on the number one seat throwing then-leader All In One SEO out of the number one seat, but after a couple of years, it started getting bulkier and bulkier with a lot of useless nuisance added to it.

Reasons for switching to Yoast SEO

Yoast Was better than the All In One SEO

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2022

Very Useful

I really enjoy the product, will continue to use it and recommend it.

PROS

I love how it scans the page and gives you feedback on its quality for ranking and how it allows you to create meta titles and descriptions for each page. Great for SEO!

CONS

I do wish it offered more in-depth schema markup capabilities.

Anonymous

1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

Awesome but pricey. Good things comes with a price, right?

Really a fantastic tool, but not the most affordable piece of software.

PROS

The powerful on-page SEO tool is by far one of the best on the market. Just on par with Rankmath.

CONS

The price. The pricing is way too expensive as compared to several other tools available on the market.

Shawn

Design, 1 employee

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Yoast is the single best investment you can make in your online presence

I have installed this on every website I've ever made, for myself or a client. I think it's wonderful and easy to use software which everyone should install the free version to give it a try.

PROS

It gives you everything you need for your on-page SEO. There's nothing else, you write your article and it gives you all of the things you'll need to change - with a score, so that you can rank. It's simple, but effective.

CONS

There should be more to it, such as more keyword tracking and research features. Right now, it's simply a tool to increase on-page seo rankings.

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Haris

Verified reviewer

Chemicals, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2021

Increase Ranking of your Website with Yoast SEO

I started using Yoast SEO a few years ago and I found it so incredible when I saw the ranking of my website after few days. Because I saw a major change of traffic on my website. Therefore I really like this WordPress Plugin and I am satisfied with the performance of my websites now.

PROS

You can use Yoast SEO without having to worry even if you have less knowledge of SEO. Because when you are adding a page or post, you can see below a SEO box, where you can add Title and Description. When you focus a single keyword, it also tells you where and how many times in your paragraphs you should use this keyword.

CONS

As a professional SEO plugin, we can find each and everything in this Plugin. According to my search engine optimization experience, I never found any cons in this amazing plugin. I think it's perfect.

Jerome "Jay"

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING: