SEO Plugin for WordPress Comparison
WordPress is arguably best known for creating a website based on CMS platforms. These days, the website needs to be good at SEO best practices. SEO is vital for increase traffic, reach a wider audience, and also reach a higher rank in search engine results.
In speaking of that, WordPress provides so many SEO plugins that available to install and you can use them for your website. Yes there are so many, but you don’t need to install all of them, you only need one plugin to install, which suits your website’s needs.
In this article, I’ll give you some review and also compare the SEO plugin that most-commonly used to take the SEO job done.
1.Yoast SEO
Probably the most popular option for SEO plugin is Yoast SEO. With over 5 million installs on the WordPress website, this plugin is most easy to use even you only know a little about how SEO works.
The key point of Yoast SEO is to detect slug and permalink broken also generate XML sitemap so the search engine can ‘grab’ all your page and present it in search results.
This plugin is free although there is a premium version also. With not much update comparing to the free version, I recommend using the free version since that takes all the general SEO tasks done.
2. Rank Math
If you need a more advanced plugin for completing your SEO needs, this plugin has it. Rank Math is launched in 2018, but since that, there is so much improvement on the plugin.
The key point of Rank Math is super friendly UI with easy to understand the feature. Rank Math can customize meta title, description, and Open Graph metadata to your blog posts. not only that, but this plugin also can connect with Google Search Console.
For the advanced user, this plugin also provides htaccess editing built in the plugin. So you don’t need to access your website files via SFTP to edit htaccess
In our last project, Taskyinn, and Qudurati use this plugin for the SEO needs.
3. Semrush
Looking for content-based SEO? I think Semrush has the capability of it. this plugin has a lot of tools that you can use to improve your content to be SEO optimized.
This plugin can help you to research organic keywords dan search terms so you can apply it to your content and get better results at the search engine result.
Semrush comes with 30 days free trial, and after that, if you enjoy using it, it comes with the plan that starts from $99.95 per month. Quite expensive for personal use, but if your website is used for marketing tools to gain more audience and get better results on search engines, this plugin has full-fledged tools to achieve that.
4. All In One Seo Pack
This plugin is look-a-like with Yoast SEO, but it comes with more user-friendly UI and easy to understand the feature.
This plugin is suitable for small business and personal websites, who don’t need a complex setting and tools in completing SEO requirements.
The key point of this plugin is in interface and lightness. This plugin has complete tools for a beginner who seeks simple work to do on optimizing SEO.
This plugin comes with a free version and also a paid version. The paid version is best-used for multi-site and if need more tools like Advanced Google Analytics tracking.
Overall, this plugin name has said it all, this plugin is in one solution for your SEO needs.
5. The SEO Framework
A lightweight plugin with content focused tools and features. The SEO framework offers you the ease to manage your content to be SEO friendly. It comes with handy and UI friendly SEO recommendations next to your post on the WordPress dashboard.
It is suitable for personal and small business website use. This plugin is free and doesn’t have any paid plan.
With all that said, the best SEO plugin is the one that matches your needs, you don't need to install all of them, just pick one that suitable to your website SEO requirements.
SEO is all about strategies, and plugins are a tool to help it done efficiently, but after all, you need to know how the SEO works, and you have the goals that your website wants to achieve.
I hope this article can helped you decide the best plugin you need to install on your WordPress website.
Contributor: Rizki Masjahri
