For many years, Yoast WP SEO was the absolutely most popular WordPress SEO plugin, packed with new features that we’re placing the Yoast SEO at the throne of WordPress SEO. That time is now history.
RankMath SEO is by far the best SEO plugin for WordPress right now, and it absolutely blows away any competition.
What is RankMath
RankMath is the SEO plugin for WordPress and it’s author claims that it’s the swiss army knife of SEO. The RankMath features setup wizard and in just a few steps you have the plugin up and running. Setup and settings import from other SEO plugins is super easy and flowless.
Why is RankMath the best SEO plugin?
Simply put, because of it’s features and the way plugin works and interacts with the users. The plugin brought an entirely new approach to WordPress SEO, it’s coded without any bloats and it’s simply working great. The algorithm that analyzes the content looks way better compared to Yoast SEO’s one.
As we said, the plugin is packed with a lot of built-in features that can easily replace some of the standalone plugins you might be using.
Some of the key features are:
- The clean and friendly options panel
- Google Webmaster central integration
- Redirections handling (can replace redirection plugin)
- 404 monitor
- SEO for AMP pages
- Google Local Business SEO
- Full SEO support for BuddyPress and bbPress
- Full support for WooCommerce SEO
- Support for ACF fields
- Automated images SEO (fills the empty alt and title tags automatically)
- The setup wizard that imports settings from Yoast, AIO, etc.
- Structured data schema markup
- Sitemap (can replace any Sitemap plugin)
- Google Stories
- SEO analysis (intuitive help with content writing)
- etc…
The plugin also offers the ability to import the setting for Yoast SEO and All in One SEO Pack, so the transition to RankMath is super easy.
My take
After spending some time testing out all of the three leading SEO plugins out there, we concluded that the RankMath really is the best one (except if you don’t need all the functionalities and just want to stick to basic technical seo, then we suggest The SEO Framework). We encourage you to try it or install it as the substitute for Yoast and AIO Seo plugins. As we mentioned, the setup wizard offers painless importing from both plugins. The transition from these plugins should be quite easy.
