The Best WordPress SEO Plugins (It’s Not Yoast)

Find out how to build the perfect SEO setup on Wordpress with our list of 5 must-have plugins.

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Wordpress SEO Tutorial for Beginners (Search Engine Optimization Basics)

Wordpress SEO: Advanced Technical SEO Made Easy

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WordPress SEO plugins can help you to master on-page SEO tasks like titles, meta tags, and other content optimization-related things.

These plugins are also useful for technical SEO tasks like page speed optimization, redirects, canonicals, and hreflang.

However, run a search for “SEO” in the WordPress plugins directory, and you will get nearly a thousand SEO plugins to choose from.

You don’t need that many to make your website “SEO-friendly.” In this video, you’ll learn which WordPress plugins you should choose for your website.

The first plugin Sam recommends is not what you’ll expect. Plenty of people are familiar with Yoast. But in Sam’s opinion, this plugin is better than Yoast.

With this plugin, you can:

1. Preview the SERPS and edit rich snippets
2. Add structured data
3. Quickly add nofollow tags to links
4. Generate sitemaps

After you’re done with the basic setup for this plugin, you can take a look at plugins for improving page speed.

Now, page speed is important because:

a) it is a ranking factor
b) It affects the user experience

We’ll show you which plugins you can use to help reduce page speed.

Finally, user experience. You’ll find out which plugin helps improve and optimize the UX of your content.

WordPress plugins are pretty awesome because it allows you to do complex things without any coding.

Time stamps

1:06 - Rank Math | All in one SEO plugin
3:45 - A3 Lazy Load | Lazy loading plugin
4:21 - ShortPixel | Image optimization plugin
5:12 - W3 Total Cache | Caching plugin
6:26 - Easy Table of Contents plugin
7:29 - Ahrefs SEO plugin

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#6 Ahrefs SEO plugin (7:29)

[thunderstoreINC]

I already commented on how I wanted to try everything you mentioned in the video. Now that I've implemented everything: I actually managed to get my desktop page speed from 59/100 to 98 out of 100 using your advice.
And mobile speed went from 39/100 to 62/100. You guys know your business, thank you so much for sharing!

[AhrefsCom]

If there were any plugins we missed that you love, let us know in the comments.

[rsanjay]

Sam I'm watching ur tutorials past one year,
the result is SEO is no more a daunting task for me.
Thanks from my heart 💓

[kandaman]

My man Sam Oh...You ARE killing it man!!
This video was EXTREMELY helpful. I REALLY liked Plugin #1. I've never heard of it until now. I'll certainly check it out!

[bloggingtipsforyou]

Great vid. That Rank Math seems to be moving up in the ranks. I will definitely have to take a closer look at that.

[AKordyban]

Awesome video Sam. I've been using rank math for a few months now and love it! Love that it will optimize snippets. Solid work!

[unmiss-com]

It causes addiction to watching Ahrefs videos. There are a few more tools in my base )) Right now I need to ask my content manager to test new staff. On-page SEO is really important. Websites lose 20% of their conversions for each loading second. Amazon invests a lot to improve site speed and have today over 40% of all hosting resources in the US. The second is Microsoft, the third is Google. Big brands know about the importance of UX and how just simple loading kills conversions.

[MichaelGordon]

Another great video! Thanks! I have to admit though... I am a little surprised, I thought that Yoast would have made the list since its been brought up in previous vids. Guess I should come out from under my rock and try something new. Can't wait to see what you guys produce!

[chriswganser]

Great video. I made the switch to Rank Math and have not looked back!

[henrythomas]

Thank you so much for this video. Super helpful and well-presented. Your time and effort is most appreciated!

[lunawadafc]

I am using the same rank math Plugin, But I had doubt if it was better than Yoast or not, Thanks ahref for clearing my doubt

[miketaiwanwalkcity]

I didn't find this "video helpful" but CRAZILY INTERESTING that I watched till the end, liked, subscribed, Bell for all and spend time with writing a comment! I already use the last 4 plugins mentioned. This video is a free mini course so I suppose the channel is full of gems... Many thanks!

[marketingbymichele]

I've always used Yoast, but you've sold me on testing out Rank Math -- I'm launching a new website in January so I'm excited to try it out!

[aartavazd]

Very good video,
very good quality of recording,
very good lighting
10 out of 10

[MannieLucero]

These are really awesome plugins! Damn I really thought Yoast is the best all these years. Thank you so much! Can't wait to try these.

[jamesscott]

Nice tips Sam 👍 shortpixel is awesome. Impressive compression savings on lossy 👍

No mention of Yoast because you guys are gonna crush them with your SEO plugin lol.

[claudiakramers]

Wow never heard of rank math... big thanks Sam Oh

[janetjoseph]

Everything is perfect only tool I would replace for increasing the speed is with others :- Nitropack.. All in one best plugin

[MiguelMartinezFondon]

thanks Sam, very useful..!! a big hug