Which SEO plugin do we choose?

relemedf5w023 · Post by **relemedf5w023** » Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:21 am

Comparison of All in One SEO Pack and Yoast SEO plugins
Editing tags
Characteristic All in One SEO Pack Yoast (WordPress SEO)
Editing Headlines + +
Editing meta keywords + +
Editing meta description + +
Custom tags in <head> + -
noindex and nofollow tags For all pages, all posts, all media files,
author archives. For individual posts.
Links, categories
Omitting /category/ from category URL. - +
Redirect from a page without “/” - +
Robots.txt and Sitemap.xml
robots.txt +
Special editing form - makes it harder to make a typo. +/−
Text editor.
You can live if you find it deep in the menu.
Selecting a Sitemap.xml update schedule + -
Exclusion from the sitemap by object types All pages, all posts,
all filter pages by categories and tags. All pages, all posts,
all filter pages by categories and tags.
Excluding specific entries from the sitemap by URL by ID from the database
Frequency of updates to the main page, post, taxonomy + -
Homepage, Post, Taxonomy Priority + -
There's a tough fight going on. Which plugin will win?
There's a tough fight going on. Which plugin will win?
Social Media Meta Tags
Title, description, image for OpenGraph
(VK, Facebook) + +
+ +
Meta Tag Facebook Profile Link — +
Separate meta title tags, description for Twitter + +
Article Type for Twitter + +
Meta Tag Twitter Profile Link + +
Meta tag Link to G+ profile + +
Integration with SEO's favorite services

Simplified Google Analytics / Universal Analytics code insertion + +
Inserting Yandex.Metrica code — —
Integration with Google Search Console (webmaster.google.com) + +
Integration
with Yandex.Webmaster + —
wrestling07

We use All in One SEO Pack more - that's the way it's historically worked out. But even if we had to choose, we would continue using it.

Yes, Yoast SEO initially amazed me with its helpfulness - with what social networks it didn't offer to integrate! How many validators and debuggers it concealed!

What services Yoast doesn't offer!
What services does Yoast SEO not know!
But All In One Seo Pack turned out to be more flexible in configuring Sitemap.xml and robots.txt, as well as when working with noindex and nofollow tags.

What Yoast SEO is missing
Both plugins are self-sufficient. But if they architect phone number data features, it would be even better.

Yoast SEO lacks more flexibility in handling Sitemap.xml and noindex/nofollow tags.

What All in One SEO Pack Lacks
There are og tags, but no twitter tags.
This is for bloggers who like their article to look good on social networks.

All in One SEO Pack is careless about tags of different social networks - it only works with OpenGraph tags. It does not allow you to configure article tags for Twitter (twitter:title, twitter:description and twitter:image).

Although, it's not such a big problem.

With any plugin you have to tinker with it from time to time
With any plugin you have to tinker with it from time to time
Breadcrumbs (navigation chains)

The designer may not draw bread crumbs. But they are needed.

Breadcrumbs are available out of the box in Yoast. In All in One SEO Pack, you have to add a plugin, such as Breadcrumb NavXT.

Skipping /category/ in URL

Refined taste (like ours) can keep you awake at night when category addresses on a site start with "/category/". And you want to change the address:

Site.ru/category/my-category/ → Site.ru/my-category/

Yoast can do it right away. But All in One SEO Pack will make you and your programmer sweat.

Broken migration from All in One SEO Pack to Yoast SEO

We tested moving from All in One SEO Pack to Yoast SEO. It doesn't work.