Comments on: WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast – Video Review

By: Leland

Leland — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:59:35 +0000

Keep in mind these plugins really only handle on-site SEO, there’s a lot more to SEO than just what these plugins can do for you.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:31:49 +0000

I’m using WordPress SEO on one of my blog and ALL in one SEO in the other. I do not know if I missed something but the other blog (the one with all in one seo) performed better. Maybe I just need to optimized further my blog with WP SEO to fully utilize it capabilities.

By: Mike Cadogan

Mike Cadogan — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:56:14 +0000

Thanks for the video overview – very helpful.
I had been using All in One SEO for the last 6 months, but found it a bit confusing and had a few conflict issues with other plugins. I had been wanting to try out Yoast and your video helped me make the move.
Certainly the transfer of data from All in On SEO was simple and the whole design of the Yoast plugin is very clean and easy to use.
The breadcrumb feature appears to link in well with the Genesis Child theme I am using, but I am a bit like @Dave in finding some of the SEO concepts quite difficult. Yoast is by far the best SEO plugin at ‘explaining’ some of the nuances surrounding META and nofollow descriptions. These are things I have always struggled with.
Overall very pleased so far, and look forward to your review when you make the move on ThemeLab
Mike

By: Leland

Leland — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:48:14 +0000

I'm not that familiar with Open Graph but that seems like a good suggestion. You may want to bring that up directly with Yoast since I'm not sure how much he's keeping track of the comments here.

By: Leland

Leland — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:45:56 +0000

Are you talking about modules? I believe there are a few already for video SEO, news SEO, and local SEO (some of which are paid).

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:35:55 +0000

May I make a feature request? It’d be wonderful if this plugin had options for Facebook’s Open Graph tags. I haven’t found a plugin that is particularly elegant to handle just the basic tags in the head of the document. Existing plugins either seem to be customizing the Like button or creating an entire Facebook application to plug into WordPress.

I really believe that the Open/Social Graph is going to be the next generation of SEO, from just robots scraping text to real semantic meaning.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph

By: Jesse McFarlane

Jesse McFarlane — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:55:53 +0000

I’ve been testing it since the first public beta, it’s quite good. Still has a little ways to go but I haven’t hesitated to implement it on a few smaller sites. Huge improvement over A-I-O on a number of fronts. Can’t wait to see what plugins for the plugin come out in the future (we need a better name for plugin plugins…inserts? adaptors? converters? Something!).

By: Leland

Leland — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:25:00 +0000

I actually haven’t switched it yet, but I wouldn’t expect any immediate SEO result if I did switch (probably hardly any at all).

If I did switch I would import all my custom titles and meta descriptions, plus I already use the RSS Footer plugin, so the onsite portion of the SEO would stay pretty much the same.

By: techntuts

techntuts — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:01:27 +0000

Then you said that you are using Yoast plugin on your blog? How is the result? Is it better than All In One SEO?

By: Andrew Edney

Andrew Edney — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:33:37 +0000

Thanks for this – I found out about the plugin over the weekend and was thinking of replacing All-In-One SEO, now I will!