Yoast SEO is the #1 SEO WordPress plugin for one simple reason: it works! No wonder it is the most popular all-in-one SEO plugin for WordPress, constantly getting the highest marks and super positive feedback from bloggers, webmasters and all other users. It is the most complete and the best WordPress SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress. With Yoast you can optimize your site for search engines without even touching custom settings, because the default version is good enough.

Yoast SEO is beginner friendly and offers everything you need from a premium SEO plugin. It incorporates a snippet editor, real time page analysis functionality that helps you optimize your pages content, images titles, meta descriptions and more to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between (just for a start). One helpful feature is “Bulk Editor”, that lets you edit many pages with a click, which is super helpful if your site has duplicate content issues.

Yoast SEO Plugin has a free version and a paid one called Yoast SEO Premium.

Yoast SEO Plugin key features:

• Great on-page analysis
• Great off page SEO
• Social media optimization
• Facebook open graph and Twitter meta data integration
• Pinterest, Google+ support
• Analyzes inbound and outbound links
• Title meta tags settings
• Rates your website content
• Prevents duplicate content
• Prevents scrappers by verifying Google authorship and optimizing RSS
• Post titles and meta descriptions
• Robots meta configuration
• Canonical
• Breadcrumbs
• Primary category
• Permalink cleanup
• XML sitemaps
• RSS enhancements
• Edit your robots.txt and .htaccess
• Clean up head section
• Add noodp and noydir to meta robots tag sitewide
• Import settings from other SEO plugins

Yoast SEO Premium extra features:

• A redirect manager (premium feature)
• Multiple focus keywords (premium feature)
• Premium 24/7 support (premium feature)