I love you guys. I am not a blogger. Nor do I intend to be one. I watch your videos as a part of my research into " how our assumptions limit our thinking". I get valuable insights from your work. But what I like the most is the way you pull things apart. And there's a lot of entertainment. Lots of opportunities to burst into laughter !
Honestly, do not take this plugins to serious. Do not create incorrect sentences because of your keywords. Try to right as much as possible about a subject and link everything that make sense to each other as a real spiderweb. That's the key to seo
I decided to take his approach with my latest website after being a slave to things like Yoast and other SEO plug in tools. I didn't use any tools, zero social media, and got to 30,000 page views a month.
Please make a video about authorship schema and custom author page schema and how to implement it into an SEO plugin. There is VERY little info about this.
I've got one VERY IMPORTANT reason for using Yoast and its this: the message that comes up when a page is shared via fb messenger or WhatsApp etc. When you don't fill in the little meta description, the "share" pulls the first words from the page. So if you have a customer quick nav under the heading, then you get About me | [Link] | [Link] [...first few lines of the body of the post...] And this looks A MESS When you use the description, the message grabs the description content and looks nice and tidy. If you've got some Facebook communities (like my client has) where she shares her pages and posts often in group chat etc, then this is VERY important to have these messages grabbing nice and tidy information. So this is a BIG overlook in this video. I'll be happy if someone can point me in a direction for a small tidy plugin that can do this instead of Yoast; really wanting to cut down on the plugins I'm using
12:05 author schema 12:45 E-A-T custom author pages. I just spent half an hour trying to remember where I saw Jim and Ricky talk about author "same as" tags and custom author pages. Posting this time stamp in case I'm not alone.
Sorry gang, gotta disagree on letting WP decide meta titles and google for descriptions. If you're a regular user, this is ok to do. But if you're going the extra mile - or SEO/organic traffic is your primary source of income, optimizing titles and descriptions go a long way. Tweaking your titles is a fantastic way to create engaging titles with character limits in mind, then you can use the page title to be more descriptive. As for descriptions, use Search Console and SERPs to optimize these; my descriptions rarely get rewritten outside of changes for location-based searches.
Man, I couldn't disagree more with your conclusion on noindexing, even noindexing category pages. I've seen cases time and time again where Google would start ranking a category page instead of a more relevant post for a topic. The two would compete, and neither would rank well. Then after noindexing the category archive, the right post would start ranking well again. I've probably seen that exact scenario at least a dozen times in the past year. I've also worked on at least 50 sites where we would do an audit and realize that we needed to clean up what was in the index. Noindexing categories/tags, redirecting image attachment pages, removing random post types and their taxonomies from the index, etc. We usually also go through regular blog content and noindex or delete content that is underperforming. I can't think of a single case where this practice has not improved the site's health and ranking across the board. I really believe that Google looks at all of the indexed pages from a domain and then calculates some kind of "quality" score. If people are following the green lights in Yoast to the point where it hurts them, they don't have to uninstall Yoast. You can easily turn off the SEO analysis and Readability analysis. You say you are optimistic about Rank Math, but I feel exactly the opposite. Its a scammy plugin made by a company with a history of being blacklisted from different hosts and security plugins. I've had so many clients who have had MAJOR problems from bugs in Rank Math, and I just don't trust the software or the company. Its funny that you're basically preaching "these guys have too many features... you don't need all of that..." and then saying you're optimistic about Rank Math, when their entire USP has always been "we have the most features for free." I also think you guys are putting way too much value in schema for things like authorship/organization. I agree for sure about recipes, and possibly for news (I think you'd be better off to have no Schema with AMP than visa versa). I'm glad you guys are trying to include all of the things you find important for SEO. However, when it comes to theme development, I wish you were not baking these things into Acabado. These features clearly fall under what should be included in a plugin. I'd love to see you separate out these features into a companion plugin that makes the features easy to turn on or off. But I do understand why you would want to bake it in and make it easier for people to just use the default settings. I just know I wouldn't use that theme (but then again, I'm not your target audience with that theme lol). Oh, did you guys see that Sitemaps are going to be baked into WordPress core soon?
Great points. I saw that about sitemaps being baked into wordpress core a while back. My question to you is: do you think they will have an option for each post or page to no index? I hope so. Thanks.
Wordpress doesn’t even have self-referencing canonical meta tags without an SEO plugin.. You forgot handling of taxonomies and pagination. Also, schema.. while somewhat important.. isn’t the game changer you’re making it out to be. Google gets this information by building a knowledge graph.. not just taking schema and throwing it in the SERP.
So what would be the game-changer according to you? Because actually it seems that regardless what you are doing in terms of SEO best practices for on-page and off-page, some fixes work all the time but don't really help to sky rock your main pages on the SERP. My point of view on this is to really boost the metrics such as page-views, dwell-time (unless it's conversion page), bounce rate, etc. which to me send signals to Google telling "this website is dope". Technical fixes ok, link-building a big plus if we have time for that, but I think a good user experience combined with all of that is the key. What do you think?
I only just learned about what Rank Math does this week. I work with structured content in my day job and define schema for knowledge management… I have been low key obsessed with structured content/schema for website content but it was very manual to apply it to posts back when I was last running websites (pre 2020). Excited to play with Rank Math on my 2 new sites.
Very interesting, the yoast Seo green,yellow,red indicators also make it confusing for websites owners who don’t know about Seo. They think they have to get a green smiley on every page or else they won’t rank well in google which is misleading. As a web designer I’ve has clients asking oh no, something is wrong, there’s red faces on all of my pages in Wordpress....
I like Yoast because sometimes it does help me to write less repetitive sentences and space out my paragraphs better but other than that you're right, it's fairly useless.
I uninstalled Yoast months ago and haven't seen any problems. My traffic has even grown (probably due to COVID) without having any new articles to rank.
If you read the instructions for Yoast, you would know that YOAST says you are not to attempt to get green. The colors are a guide they are not a goal.
One other important thing that should be noted is that the bulk of sites that rank at the very top of Google for their targeted keywords are the sites which have the exact target keyword in their URL. That's one aspect of SEO that has never changed all throughout these years. And that is a massive ranking factor in itself. So you don't really need any SEO plugin, especially since WordPress helps structure your blog post. But you should know that having your target keywords in your domain, title, and throughout your copy is very helpful if you want to rank on the first page of Google. And just as importantly, your post needs to be lengthy and informative. Big blog posts of several thousand words helps a lot. You don't need to worry about hitting every green checkmark on Yoast or any other SEO plugin just as long as you cover the very essentials.
Some experts swear by Rank Math because it's free and offers all of the features that other paid plugins offer. I tried it and don't like it. I use SEO Press because it's light on resources, $39 for unlimited sites and has EVERYTHING I could possibly want, including the schemas. I started ignoring the B.S. SEO advice about KW density etc long ago. It's all so 15 years ago. I read some negative things about Yoast slowing down the website.
I tested the page loading time between Yoast and SEOPress when we switched to SEOPress and it's significantly in the favor of SEOPress. Also, our page ranks are starting to go up (maybe because load times but also because SEOPress actually has the features that matter)
thank you - i have been using plugins for years and have often been left confused. Its time to uproot them and get some more knowledge. You guys are starting a revolution!!
I'd thought that Yoast was already generating a schema for me, but it wasn't, and I'd argue that it is possibly the most important part because it actually tells the search engine what the page is about.
What would you do for an Author page when you have several sites. Would you pick one and put an in-depth author page there? Or make a solid author page on each site?
I think it depends how related the sites are. If they’re on adjacent topics and authority in one would make you an authority in the other, maybe a single author page makes sense. Most of the time I’d put something on each site. Maybe the author page on each site would link to a more in depth page on one of the sites.
I like yoast for the suggestions it gives for meta and tags and suggestions for your post. It rates and guides you. I believe you need something like this to see what your post is missing...but you’re right, yoast does always say.....INCLUDE KEYWORD FIRST IN TITLE. That drives me crazy. I’ll try it without SEO plugin and will get acabado to try.
It would be great if do more on structured data. I am always unsure if I define it right and there are not many good sources on it. In fact, I didn't find anything that goes into hands-on, detailed explanations.
I have E commerce site, also with a blog... Is it the same, or does SEO plugins help E commerce sits? About 14 days ago I went from Yost pro to rank math and I think it makes more sance. But still, on product description it wants you to have more than 600 words. I just cant imagen that, I think that makes no sance.
My Website is in the YMYL space but I have turned off "author" option from showing. And I use "we" in my articles and my About Us page is also written in "we". The reason for this is that I actually started this site with a friend who later ditched the project and at the moment I am carrying it. And also it helps me promoting it in Quora as people will not think that I am promoting my own site and I have a plan to make a company around it later. But either Rank Math or WP has created an Author page using my WP profile bio and a list of all the article I posted which is not indexed. So will this affect E.A.T of my site?
It's unbelievable that Automattic refuses to include custom page title, custom description and no-index (sometimes necessary) in WordPress core. Why is that? Corruption by Yoast? I uninstalled RankMath because it makes you dependent on their server / existence. So many tech companies come and go. Recently I had to replace an abandoned gallery plugin for a photographer. What a nightmare of superfluous work.
So in your User Profile on WordPress, it has a place to put your Twitter and FB link and Bio info and a website link. Would you just set the website link to your about me page? Do we enable Author Schema?
A lot of people may not remember but Yoast had an exploit which caused whoever used it to drop in rankings. It was eventually patched but my overall feeling is all of the SEO plugins are wayyyy too bloated and complicated. I would probably pay for a super simple liteweight SEO plugin that was trustworthy and did the absolute minimum required to help rank. Anyway I don't like either one of these plug-ins as it's hard to tell if they actually work unless you pay them off for their pro version. These days all one probably needs to mess with is the meta description.
It's a real shame they didn't look into The SEO Framework. The code quality is on another level, the bloat is only 3ms and the devs have a similar attitude that an SEO plugin should be subservient to content.
@@marklee1209 Make it simple for people to read. Give the answers straight away and H2 on point with topics not "important stuff that already says on the text". First sentence is the more important one. Make it simple and explain what you'll tell on the entire article
5million views a month....That means if each article was bringing in 1000 views a month then you will need 5000 articles to achieve 5M (5,000 x 1,000) total views a month.
I have spent hours making Yoast SEO score green as well, But never stuffed keywords. I let that part out as I didn't like reading my keyword very often in the blog. All I did was just make it green other ways like length and Keyphrase synch. That's abt it.
I have a new blog. Should I keep yoast for now and when I get more experience, delete it when I have a better understanding? I’m still a newbie at SEO.
I have rarely added site maps to my sites and still get the pages indexed. I started blogging years ago when site maps needed to be coded and I did not know how to code. So I did not add them.
I think the point here really is that you should never let a tool do your thinking for you. I learned SEO before these kinds of tools existed, so I actually understand what matters and what doesn't. Too many people take these plugins or "online SEO audit" tools and assume their word is God. First, you need to understand what's important, and then use the tools to achieve that, instead of letting the tools tell you how to think. I personally use The SEO Framework because it's simple, powerful and does enough but not too much.
What about the passive language count that yoast tells me to use more active language? Does that really affect seo? It also tells me to use my key phrase more or less times depending on the article length, is that a factor? Thanks for the good vid.
@@IncomeSchool Thanks for reply. Deleted Yoast after watching this lol. I have one more question. Acabado did not work for any quiz plugin that I could find (i tried many) please for new acabado update make it allow jquery so i can use it. Dont want to go away from Acabado but want quizzes on my blog. If possible. Ty.
My 3-month-old blog's category & author pages show up on google and it's annoying. How do I get them off of Google? My actual blog post aren't showing up yet haha. Any tips on how to stop the category pages to show up on google?
I do have some category pages that indexed by google and got good traffic based on Google Analytics. How is it bad for website to have your categories indexed by Google?
why have a seperate about author page when you can add a wysywig editor to the default author page and use that instead? you can build some nice pages using the default author page
Where does using Meta Descriptions for a Call To Action come into play when deciding to use these types of plugins or not? Do you know of any studies that have shown the benefit of using them when your focus is to write MDs that convert?
Custom Author Page: could you do this by creating a page with the top half being about the author and the bottom half as posts. Then put a 301 redirect from the standard author page to the custom created one. Just a though.
the only were you need a tool is to have different titles in the site and in the google result. today i just changed a products title to some google friendly search intent way, but when someone ordered it, the awkward title came on the bill :P
Hi Guys, thanks for doing this much appreciated. Could I ask if you could do a detailed specific vid on each of those "schema" points? its a bit confusing for me at the moment when googling these. Thanks.
I try it following the good review in the pool... Is nowhere close to Yoast SEO, especially for the Readability and spot the keyword variations in french. But it really have some good option... Maybe need some maturity
steel971 I agree with avoiding scoring though and readability as those are really junk metrics. It doesn’t need to have any ratio of keywords, especially with long tailed keywords that just looks forced.
@@iamjoshkoop I'm agree to disagree :-) Readability score is REALLY useful as they improve the quality of the article. For me the 3 metrics I can miss are : more than 20 words phrase, passive forme and transition word... BTW is not really a SEO thing but I never found a plugin that does only readability.
I had a plugin that kept complaining I was using a _passive voice_ but wouldn't help on how to not use it so I deleted the plugin. Problem solved. I've been using Rank Math but my small traffic has dropped lately so that's getting deleted soon. WordPress is supposed to be for the layman to blog without knowing technical stuff so we should be able to just blog away and get found.
RankMath is the best one, and I'm enjoying to use it. I know that some of its features are unnecessary, like the high keyword density goal, but it's doing fine to help me in my workflow. However, I'm just thinking how do they'll monetize it and when? Because there ain't no such thing as a free lunch hahaha
After 7 years of using Yoast on all my websites, I'm now switching to rank math ( before even seeing this vid). Yoast SEO is a waste of time and traffic. Please don't use Yoast!
Last year Yoast simply deleted everything I had done (metatitles, descriptions) on my site. Everything was a blank page. When I tried to reach out to them to know what had happened... "Oh, I'm sorry, you are a free user, no support for you". Nasty. Yoast never again.
Ricky, the seo ju ju stuff you were talking about is really (dacade) old seo that does not work any more at all. Google sees through that non-esense and it will hurt a person's ranking.
they said google needs authorship schema and custom author page. I'd rather not provide that and stay anonymous. id like the website as a whole be the provider of EAT
I love you guys. I am not a blogger. Nor do I intend to be one. I watch your videos as a part of my research into " how our assumptions limit our thinking". I get valuable insights from your work. But what I like the most is the way you pull things apart. And there's a lot of entertainment. Lots of opportunities to burst into laughter !
I vote Ranked Math.
This
Me too
Honestly, do not take this plugins to serious. Do not create incorrect sentences because of your keywords. Try to right as much as possible about a subject and link everything that make sense to each other as a real spiderweb. That's the key to seo
I decided to take his approach with my latest website after being a slave to things like Yoast and other SEO plug in tools. I didn't use any tools, zero social media, and got to 30,000 page views a month.
Congrats bro
Good 👍
Can we see your website structure, and what is your site about?
So basically just focus on writing awesome content! Great to hear this!
Please make a video about authorship schema and custom author page schema and how to implement it into an SEO plugin. There is VERY little info about this.
Should have added Rank Math in there as it's probably the largest competitor to Yoast over the rest.
I've got one VERY IMPORTANT reason for using Yoast and its this: the message that comes up when a page is shared via fb messenger or WhatsApp etc.
When you don't fill in the little meta description, the "share" pulls the first words from the page. So if you have a customer quick nav under the heading, then you get
About me | [Link] | [Link] [...first few lines of the body of the post...]
And this looks A MESS
When you use the description, the message grabs the description content and looks nice and tidy. If you've got some Facebook communities (like my client has) where she shares her pages and posts often in group chat etc, then this is VERY important to have these messages grabbing nice and tidy information.
So this is a BIG overlook in this video. I'll be happy if someone can point me in a direction for a small tidy plugin that can do this instead of Yoast; really wanting to cut down on the plugins I'm using
12:05 author schema
12:45 E-A-T custom author pages.
I just spent half an hour trying to remember where I saw Jim and Ricky talk about author "same as" tags and custom author pages. Posting this time stamp in case I'm not alone.
i'm coming back to this video for the same reason ahahah. THANK YOU
Thanks
I did switch from Yoast to Rank Math (free) plugin about a year ago and really like it. Easy to use, efficient, nothing to complain about.
Sorry gang, gotta disagree on letting WP decide meta titles and google for descriptions. If you're a regular user, this is ok to do. But if you're going the extra mile - or SEO/organic traffic is your primary source of income, optimizing titles and descriptions go a long way. Tweaking your titles is a fantastic way to create engaging titles with character limits in mind, then you can use the page title to be more descriptive. As for descriptions, use Search Console and SERPs to optimize these; my descriptions rarely get rewritten outside of changes for location-based searches.
Man, I couldn't disagree more with your conclusion on noindexing, even noindexing category pages. I've seen cases time and time again where Google would start ranking a category page instead of a more relevant post for a topic. The two would compete, and neither would rank well. Then after noindexing the category archive, the right post would start ranking well again. I've probably seen that exact scenario at least a dozen times in the past year.
I've also worked on at least 50 sites where we would do an audit and realize that we needed to clean up what was in the index. Noindexing categories/tags, redirecting image attachment pages, removing random post types and their taxonomies from the index, etc. We usually also go through regular blog content and noindex or delete content that is underperforming. I can't think of a single case where this practice has not improved the site's health and ranking across the board. I really believe that Google looks at all of the indexed pages from a domain and then calculates some kind of "quality" score.
If people are following the green lights in Yoast to the point where it hurts them, they don't have to uninstall Yoast. You can easily turn off the SEO analysis and Readability analysis.
You say you are optimistic about Rank Math, but I feel exactly the opposite. Its a scammy plugin made by a company with a history of being blacklisted from different hosts and security plugins. I've had so many clients who have had MAJOR problems from bugs in Rank Math, and I just don't trust the software or the company. Its funny that you're basically preaching "these guys have too many features... you don't need all of that..." and then saying you're optimistic about Rank Math, when their entire USP has always been "we have the most features for free."
I also think you guys are putting way too much value in schema for things like authorship/organization. I agree for sure about recipes, and possibly for news (I think you'd be better off to have no Schema with AMP than visa versa).
I'm glad you guys are trying to include all of the things you find important for SEO. However, when it comes to theme development, I wish you were not baking these things into Acabado. These features clearly fall under what should be included in a plugin. I'd love to see you separate out these features into a companion plugin that makes the features easy to turn on or off. But I do understand why you would want to bake it in and make it easier for people to just use the default settings. I just know I wouldn't use that theme (but then again, I'm not your target audience with that theme lol).
Oh, did you guys see that Sitemaps are going to be baked into WordPress core soon?
Great points. I saw that about sitemaps being baked into wordpress core a while back. My question to you is: do you think they will have an option for each post or page to no index? I hope so. Thanks.
Too much to read
Wordpress doesn’t even have self-referencing canonical meta tags without an SEO plugin..
You forgot handling of taxonomies and pagination.
Also, schema.. while somewhat important.. isn’t the game changer you’re making it out to be. Google gets this information by building a knowledge graph.. not just taking schema and throwing it in the SERP.
So what would be the game-changer according to you? Because actually it seems that regardless what you are doing in terms of SEO best practices for on-page and off-page, some fixes work all the time but don't really help to sky rock your main pages on the SERP. My point of view on this is to really boost the metrics such as page-views, dwell-time (unless it's conversion page), bounce rate, etc. which to me send signals to Google telling "this website is dope". Technical fixes ok, link-building a big plus if we have time for that, but I think a good user experience combined with all of that is the key. What do you think?
I only just learned about what Rank Math does this week. I work with structured content in my day job and define schema for knowledge management… I have been low key obsessed with structured content/schema for website content but it was very manual to apply it to posts back when I was last running websites (pre 2020). Excited to play with Rank Math on my 2 new sites.
Can't express how thankful I am to find you guys after wathcing all these other RUclips-fake-gurus selling crap and vague motivational contents.
Very interesting, the yoast Seo green,yellow,red indicators also make it confusing for websites owners who don’t know about Seo. They think they have to get a green smiley on every page or else they won’t rank well in google which is misleading. As a web designer I’ve has clients asking oh no, something is wrong, there’s red faces on all of my pages in Wordpress....
I like Yoast because sometimes it does help me to write less repetitive sentences and space out my paragraphs better but other than that you're right, it's fairly useless.
Weight Loss Ninjas use Grammarly
@@constantinnow I use grammarly also
I uninstalled Yoast months ago and haven't seen any problems. My traffic has even grown (probably due to COVID) without having any new articles to rank.
I already have the Acabado theme so it's exciting to hear about all the new features that I'll be getting! 😈
whats ur opinion about it man? i wanna buy it soon
from Bloggers Funds 😂
@@arabianeyes I just don't like the typography it has, otherwise it is a good simple theme with features that you'd install a few plugins for.
Do these plugins slow your site down at all? Great info guys.
man jim doesnt like it when ricky talks lol always trying to interrupt him, let him finish the sentence mannnnnn
This is crazy timing because I *just* switched to RankMath on Saturday! Now I'm wondering if I should ditch it and go rogue.
I just switched to rankmath too...thinking the same thing
Rankmath is a excellent plugin...
Rank math is the best SEO plugin
@@Happyfutureai with literally a huge list of options that will confuse most people without adding much value
Ok ... I still like Rankmath...
8:30 Today I deleted yoast plugin for those red and orange buttons.
If you read the instructions for Yoast, you would know that YOAST says you are not to attempt to get green. The colors are a guide they are not a goal.
The best function of Yoast SEO is finding "orphaned pages." Otherwise I agree that it's fairly useless.
Thats about all i use it for. There must be a plugin that just helps with keeping track of internal linking.
Rankmath does that for each individual post. As well as doing numerous other things. Excellent tool.
@@granthandford Link Whisper
As an Acabado user, I would love to learn more about the authorship schema and custom author pages!
Me too. Wanting to join income school soon
One other important thing that should be noted is that the bulk of sites that rank at the very top of Google for their targeted keywords are the sites which have the exact target keyword in their URL. That's one aspect of SEO that has never changed all throughout these years. And that is a massive ranking factor in itself. So you don't really need any SEO plugin, especially since WordPress helps structure your blog post. But you should know that having your target keywords in your domain, title, and throughout your copy is very helpful if you want to rank on the first page of Google. And just as importantly, your post needs to be lengthy and informative. Big blog posts of several thousand words helps a lot. You don't need to worry about hitting every green checkmark on Yoast or any other SEO plugin just as long as you cover the very essentials.
RankMath seems to be passing Yoast
Some experts swear by Rank Math because it's free and offers all of the features that other paid plugins offer. I tried it and don't like it. I use SEO Press because it's light on resources, $39 for unlimited sites and has EVERYTHING I could possibly want, including the schemas. I started ignoring the B.S. SEO advice about KW density etc long ago. It's all so 15 years ago. I read some negative things about Yoast slowing down the website.
I tested the page loading time between Yoast and SEOPress when we switched to SEOPress and it's significantly in the favor of SEOPress. Also, our page ranks are starting to go up (maybe because load times but also because SEOPress actually has the features that matter)
Are you talking about SEO Pressor? Just getting back into it, and this was excellent for me.
Okay, very interesting, but what's the most-efficient way to learn and add schema to pages and posts?
thank you - i have been using plugins for years and have often been left confused. Its time to uproot them and get some more knowledge. You guys are starting a revolution!!
I'd thought that Yoast was already generating a schema for me, but it wasn't, and I'd argue that it is possibly the most important part because it actually tells the search engine what the page is about.
Thanks for this. Now I can finally feel some freedom blogging.
Thanks for this! Made that mistake of going nuts trying to improve my Yoast score!
The people who disliked this video are the people who paid for yoast premium..
True
So true
I always learn a lot when I watch one of your videos. Thanks!
What would you do for an Author page when you have several sites. Would you pick one and put an in-depth author page there? Or make a solid author page on each site?
I think it depends how related the sites are. If they’re on adjacent topics and authority in one would make you an authority in the other, maybe a single author page makes sense. Most of the time I’d put something on each site.
Maybe the author page on each site would link to a more in depth page on one of the sites.
Do you guys use a plugin for creating tables in a blog post? Or Can I just use the table I created on pages?
"Put the keyword at the front" Argggghhhh That makes me nuts
I need to get rid of Yoast. I am going to try Rank Math. I am guilty of spending too much time to get those green dots.
I like yoast for the suggestions it gives for meta and tags and suggestions for your post. It rates and guides you. I believe you need something like this to see what your post is missing...but you’re right, yoast does always say.....INCLUDE KEYWORD FIRST IN TITLE. That drives me crazy. I’ll try it without SEO plugin and will get acabado to try.
I was a long-time Yoast user, but last year I switched to RankMath. I am getting better organic search results.
It would be great if do more on structured data. I am always unsure if I define it right and there are not many good sources on it. In fact, I didn't find anything that goes into hands-on, detailed explanations.
I have E commerce site, also with a blog... Is it the same, or does SEO plugins help E commerce sits? About 14 days ago I went from Yost pro to rank math and I think it makes more sance. But still, on product description it wants you to have more than 600 words. I just cant imagen that, I think that makes no sance.
My Website is in the YMYL space but I have turned off "author" option from showing. And I use "we" in my articles and my About Us page is also written in "we". The reason for this is that I actually started this site with a friend who later ditched the project and at the moment I am carrying it. And also it helps me promoting it in Quora as people will not think that I am promoting my own site and I have a plan to make a company around it later. But either Rank Math or WP has created an Author page using my WP profile bio and a list of all the article I posted which is not indexed.
So will this affect E.A.T of my site?
It's unbelievable that Automattic refuses to include custom page title, custom description and no-index (sometimes necessary) in WordPress core. Why is that? Corruption by Yoast?
I uninstalled RankMath because it makes you dependent on their server / existence. So many tech companies come and go. Recently I had to replace an abandoned gallery plugin for a photographer. What a nightmare of superfluous work.
So in your User Profile on WordPress, it has a place to put your Twitter and FB link and Bio info and a website link.
Would you just set the website link to your about me page?
Do we enable Author Schema?
Jim and Ricky are the real experts 💯
refreshing and helpful, thanks for clearing up all the clutter!
A lot of people may not remember but Yoast had an exploit which caused whoever used it to drop in rankings. It was eventually patched but my overall feeling is all of the SEO plugins are wayyyy too bloated and complicated. I would probably pay for a super simple liteweight SEO plugin that was trustworthy and did the absolute minimum required to help rank. Anyway I don't like either one of these plug-ins as it's hard to tell if they actually work unless you pay them off for their pro version. These days all one probably needs to mess with is the meta description.
I use SEOPress. It allows you to switch off any of the features you don't need/ use.
@@Galphs I'll give it a shot. I swear I'm just gonna start building a super minimalist SEO plugin.
It's a real shame they didn't look into The SEO Framework. The code quality is on another level, the bloat is only 3ms and the devs have a similar attitude that an SEO plugin should be subservient to content.
One of the reasons why I switched from Yoast to the SEO Framework
Is it actually better?
@@pablopablo179 No single SEO plugin is better than all others. People have different needs and priorities.
@@bryncb true that brother
I do have a website with 5M views a month and no Seo plugins! Although we do write in a easy and simple way with H2 and H3 according with a text
wow that's great
Actually ur right there is no need of Seo plugins :)
@@marklee1209 Make it simple for people to read. Give the answers straight away and H2 on point with topics not "important stuff that already says on the text". First sentence is the more important one. Make it simple and explain what you'll tell on the entire article
@@nogueirainformaticaunipess6333 how many articles do you have all in all? Do you write it in yourself or you hire writers?
5million views a month....That means if each article was bringing in 1000 views a month then you will need 5000 articles to achieve 5M (5,000 x 1,000) total views a month.
I have spent hours making Yoast SEO score green as well, But never stuffed keywords. I let that part out as I didn't like reading my keyword very often in the blog. All I did was just make it green other ways like length and Keyphrase synch. That's abt it.
I have a new blog. Should I keep yoast for now and when I get more experience, delete it when I have a better understanding? I’m still a newbie at SEO.
This video saved me $500.
I use rankmath and its awesome !
I have rarely added site maps to my sites and still get the pages indexed. I started blogging years ago when site maps needed to be coded and I did not know how to code. So I did not add them.
Would love for you guys to do a tutorial specifically on news sites.
You can use Yoast as a basic guideline for some stuff you should do, but trying to get everything the plugin tells you on green is insane.
I think the point here really is that you should never let a tool do your thinking for you. I learned SEO before these kinds of tools existed, so I actually understand what matters and what doesn't. Too many people take these plugins or "online SEO audit" tools and assume their word is God. First, you need to understand what's important, and then use the tools to achieve that, instead of letting the tools tell you how to think.
I personally use The SEO Framework because it's simple, powerful and does enough but not too much.
That last bit about the custom author link, where is it in acabado? Can't find how to do this in settings. Or is it in the upcoming update?
What about the passive language count that yoast tells me to use more active language? Does that really affect seo? It also tells me to use my key phrase more or less times depending on the article length, is that a factor? Thanks for the good vid.
Ignore those tests entirely
@@IncomeSchool Thanks for reply. Deleted Yoast after watching this lol. I have one more question. Acabado did not work for any quiz plugin that I could find (i tried many) please for new acabado update make it allow jquery so i can use it. Dont want to go away from Acabado but want quizzes on my blog. If possible. Ty.
My 3-month-old blog's category & author pages show up on google and it's annoying. How do I get them off of Google? My actual blog post aren't showing up yet haha. Any tips on how to stop the category pages to show up on google?
Those are available to turn off in SEO plugins as a no-index option
Josh Koop Thank you!
I do have some category pages that indexed by google and got good traffic based on Google Analytics. How is it bad for website to have your categories indexed by Google?
great as usual guys
why have a seperate about author page when you can add a wysywig editor to the default author page and use that instead? you can build some nice pages using the default author page
Interesting that you mentioned RankMath - any chance of doing an in-depth review?
OMGGG.. i just deleted my about page few days ago... Because I thought it wasn't helpful😭😭😭😭😭😭......
Can you do a review on rank math plugin? Please...
Testing it out now
@@IncomeSchool thank you so much to reply eagerly waiting for your video
Where does using Meta Descriptions for a Call To Action come into play when deciding to use these types of plugins or not? Do you know of any studies that have shown the benefit of using them when your focus is to write MDs that convert?
Custom Author Page: could you do this by creating a page with the top half being about the author and the bottom half as posts. Then put a 301 redirect from the standard author page to the custom created one. Just a though.
the only were you need a tool is to have different titles in the site and in the google result. today i just changed a products title to some google friendly search intent way, but when someone ordered it, the awkward title came on the bill :P
I like the prompts Yoast gives me, though sometimes it's restrictive and I ignore them.
Thanks to show the reality of the seo plugin
Best SEO = Winning Content
Hi Guys, thanks for doing this much appreciated. Could I ask if you could do a detailed specific vid on each of those "schema" points? its a bit confusing for me at the moment when googling these. Thanks.
If we are using another theme is there a way to add the authorship schema?
RankMath for life
I try it following the good review in the pool... Is nowhere close to Yoast SEO, especially for the Readability and spot the keyword variations in french.
But it really have some good option... Maybe need some maturity
steel971 I agree with avoiding scoring though and readability as those are really junk metrics. It doesn’t need to have any ratio of keywords, especially with long tailed keywords that just looks forced.
@@iamjoshkoop I'm agree to disagree :-) Readability score is REALLY useful as they improve the quality of the article. For me the 3 metrics I can miss are : more than 20 words phrase, passive forme and transition word... BTW is not really a SEO thing but I never found a plugin that does only readability.
I had a plugin that kept complaining I was using a _passive voice_ but wouldn't help on how to not use it so I deleted the plugin. Problem solved.
I've been using Rank Math but my small traffic has dropped lately so that's getting deleted soon.
WordPress is supposed to be for the layman to blog without knowing technical stuff so we should be able to just blog away and get found.
WordPress 5.5 is pushing more in that direction with native sitemaps, etc. I predict many more SEO-related updates coming soon.
I missed something regarding "no indexed category pages". Do I really have to do that?
it deppends, for my the tags rank faster than anything
RankMath is the best one, and I'm enjoying to use it.
I know that some of its features are unnecessary, like the high keyword density goal, but it's doing fine to help me in my workflow. However, I'm just thinking how do they'll monetize it and when? Because there ain't no such thing as a free lunch hahaha
After 7 years of using Yoast on all my websites, I'm now switching to rank math ( before even seeing this vid). Yoast SEO is a waste of time and traffic. Please don't use Yoast!
Would be nice to see a video from you guys about RankMath.
Btw. love your content! Best practice after best practice.
Keep rolling!
Last year Yoast simply deleted everything I had done (metatitles, descriptions) on my site. Everything was a blank page. When I tried to reach out to them to know what had happened... "Oh, I'm sorry, you are a free user, no support for you". Nasty. Yoast never again.
Could you please show us some examples of some sites where Google picked a different meta description from what was written in the meta desc. tag?
its nice being taught by millionaires
Ricky, the seo ju ju stuff you were talking about is really (dacade) old seo that does not work any more at all. Google sees through that non-esense and it will hurt a person's ranking.
Exactly
Seo framework does just what I need
Very good content. I like your explanations!
Thanks for this video, it's very helpful.
this video is the one I really need.
Great stuff as always!!!!
SEO? What is it? Can i eat this? 😅😜
The SEO Framework is best
how can I contact you people. I want to enroll myself in your course
Rank Math does everything Yoast Premium does for free with lighter code (if you actually use seo plugins).
Does the acabado theme make author schema?
It does
Is acabado available on envato elements?
But what about those who don't even use WP?
they said google needs authorship schema and custom author page. I'd rather not provide that and stay anonymous. id like the website as a whole be the provider of EAT
Rankmath is full of bugs. it is really good, but need to improve
Rank math all day.