Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin

April 1, 2017

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WordPress is an online, open source web creation tool written in PHP. WordPress community has become very large since it is open source. WordPress can be integrated with plugins that make it fast to start your website in a couple of days or hours. WordPress plugins have a wide range of variety including SEO.

SEO plugins are very helpful to ensure the content to be reached by more audience so that your website rank faster in search engines. They measure the strength of your content SEO and integration into global search engines including Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

Yoast SEO plugin is the best plugin for optimizing your WordPress website easily.

Yoast SEO Plugin Installation

You can easily install Yoast SEO plugin by going to Plugins -> Add New. Search for the following name Yoast SEO and when you find it, click Install and wait to finish. Click Activate when the installation is finished.

Yoast SEO Plugin Versions

Premium	Free
Keyword optimization Up to 5 keywords for each page.	Only 1 keyword
Preview of your page Google, Facebook, and Twitter previews.	Only Google preview
Readability check We analyze the readability of the copy you wrote and calculate the Flesch Reading Ease score.	[icon name=”check” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Check!
Full control over your breadcrumbs You can set a primary category for your post, and determine the taxonomy for every single page on your website.	[icon name=”check” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Check!
No duplicate content Avoid confusing Google with duplicate content, by setting canonical URLs.	[icon name=”check” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Check!
Technical stuff in the background It doesn’t matter whether you know about robots.txt, .htaccess files, clean permalink URLs or sitemaps – Yoast SEO makes sure your technical configuration rolls out the red carpet for search engines.	[icon name=”check” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Check!
Internal linking suggestions Get suggestions for links to other pages on your website, as you write.	[icon name=”times” class=”” unprefixed_class=””You have to manually look up related pages to create links.
Content insights We show you the 5 words or phrases you use the most on your page, to check if they’re a match with your chosen keywords.	[icon name=”times” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] You have to do your own content analysis, we’re afraid.
Redirect manager Easily redirect old URLs to new ones. So you don’t lose visitors because they get stuck on a 404 Not Found page.	[icon name=”times” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] You have to think of creating a redirect yourself each time you delete a page.
24/7 support Round the clock e-mail access to our wonderful and knowledgeable support team.	[icon name=”times” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] You can use our extensive FAQ section and knowledge base.
Ad-free In Yoast SEO Premium there are no ads.	[icon name=”times” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] You’ll see ads for our other awesome products and services.