The SEO Framework vs Yoast SEO

Among many other popular and well-known tools, Yoast is still recommended as the default SEO plugin. All other SEO plugins provide the same features as Yoast. However, after installing and testing The SEO Framework, it is clear that it is far superior to Yoast SEO.

Top 10 reasons why The SEO Framework is superior to Yoast SEO

The SEO Framework has a lot better customer help and support system.

The SEO Framework was developed by a man named Sybre Waaijer. The rating is 4.9-star, and the WordPress Plugin Directory currently holds 90,000+ active installs. It contains 184 5-star reviews and only one of 192 reviews. Unlike Yoast, the creator of the plugin is still very involved in the help forum WordPress.

All support requests in the WordPress plugin directory are promptly answered. He is extremely helpful in providing users with custom solutions. Their team even keeps an eye on Reddit and responds to questions there. At the same time, as a paying user, your support requests to Yoast have been extremely unhelpful. They seem to do nothing more than copied answers, which let you find out things yourself.

The SEO Framework is more organized and effective.

The SEO Framework’s user interface is much simpler, and finding the settings you need is simple and easy. Whereas Yoast has multiple settings (and publicity) tabs, there are only two SEO Framework tabs: configurations and optional extensions.

My website also looks much faster after Yoast has been deleted and switched to the SEO framework. This is entirely subjective, and you could be hallucinating, but it appears to be running more smoothly. This has been witnessed by a large number of other users online. Although you may not be sure if it’s linked to Yoast, you’ve stopped receiving a fake update prompt in my WordPress dashboard since switching to The SEO Framework. It showed that one plugin needed to be updated all of the time, but nothing was there when you went to the plugin page. After you got rid of Yoast, this bug went away.

It’s simple to personalize by using optional extensions.

The SEO Framework is technically two plugins in one. The first is the SEO Framework plugin, which includes most of the basic SEO features you’ll need. However, you can install another plugin called Extension Manager after that. You can use this to add different extensions to the plugin, depending on which features you choose to add. This allows you to configure the plugin in several ways without damaging the functionality of your site

The following are the extensions that you can use:

• Visitors to the attachment page are redirected to the parent post.
• (free) Incognito: It removes the plugin’s branding from HTML code.
• Title Fix (free): Ensures that the plugin’s title output is overridden by your theme’s title output.
• AMP (free): Enables the plugin to work with AMP pages as well.
• Articles (paid): Enhances your articles with significant schema structured data.
• Honeypot (paid): Aids in the prevention of spam comments.
• Focus (paid): Assists with on-page SEO keyword targeting.
• Local SEO (paid): Assists you in establishing structured data for a local company.
• Monitor (paid): Tracks the optimization, uptime, and other aspects of your site.

The premium edition is cost-effective.

The basic version can be obtained from the WordPress plugin directory. The extension manager plugin, as well as four extensions that provide basic functionality, are all free.

However, suppose you want to use all of the premium extensions. You would have to pay for your access to a premium SEO framework. The premium version, which includes all extensions and allows you to use the plugin on four different sites, costs $99 per year. Yoast’s pro edition costs $338 per year for a total of four locations. That is exorbitantly overpriced.

There are no advertisements in the paid version.

Unlike Yoast, the SEO Framework’s paid version is free of advertisements. You get many advertisements for the premium version of Yoast in the free version of the plugin. Premium Yoast has fewer advertisements for overpriced extensions and courses.

Although you may not be opposed to advertisements in principle, being compelled to see advertising when you are paying a high price for something is downright insulting. Yoast inserts its own advertising into the HTML code of the websites on which it is installed. Even if you have the pro edition, your ad is hard-coded in HTML for your own product. By default, the HTML branding can be added to the SEO Framework, but the anonymous extension can be removed.

There are no obnoxious alerts or prompts

Yoast has a slew of annoyances and prompts, many of which are entirely unnecessary. For example, they also have a reminder that you need to check what’s new after the plugin has been updated — even if this is a minor change. WordPress has a fatal message bar at the top as well. This displays a red circle, which you must click to ignore the notification.

The majority of these notifications are pointless and only serve to annoy me. For example, they often alert me to “orphaned” pages, which are indexable but lack links from other articles. These pages are like privacy policies, which don’t need to be connected from within the content. There are no annoying alerts or prompts in the SEO Framework, making WordPress a much more friendly environment to work in.

The SEO Framework’s sitemap is more effective.

It is considered standard SEO best practice to have an XML sitemap and send it to Google Search Console. The sitemap list all your posts and pages that tell Google (and Bing + Yahoo) where to look for them. Although it can be done using a dedicated plugin, this feature defaults for most decent SEO plugins. Yoast is included with the SEO frameworks. However, the sitemap created with the Yoast SEO plugin caused me a lot of problems. You will also make an error when you upload your map to Google Search Console on new pages. The error messages would be “Couldn’t fetch” and “It cannot read the sitemap.”

The mistake would vanish within a few days and a few weeks, as if Google could have read the map. Some of my pages were having a problem, and you figured it was a bug with Google Search Console. If the SEO Framework is turned on and the new maps are published, they work immediately. In the Yoast help forum, developers have reported the same issue. The Yoast team, however, does not seem to have a successful response. Nevertheless, the SEO Framework worked immediately, while the Yoast Framework errors made me.