You can not see it but we no longer have the premium version of Yoast SEO for WordPress or the add-on of the same company for the Google News XML sitemap.
The reviews of the Yoast SEO application, wherever you read it, are super duper, but for iGuRu.gr its developers overdid it.
We changed it Plugin and now we use its free version The SEO Framework, using the SEO Data Transporter plugin for the transport of our data from one plugin to another. Although it is very early we can already distinguish some differences.
The new add-on has been developed keeping in mind huge and busy websites, so so far we find it much faster compared to other popular SEO add-ons.
Uses fewer server resources than other popular SEO plugins.
Performs fewer processes in SQL and does not add additional tables.
Does not contain ads.
Yoast developers continue to add controversial ones to an SEO application. For example, the following screenshoot contains the tables I deleted from the iGuRu.gr database
When we first installed the plugin years ago, there were no tables. Then the database of each site that uses την εφαρμογή, απέκτησε δύο tables, τα wp_yoast_seo_links και wp_yoast_seo_meta. Στην last update I found that another 4 had been added!
And all this for SEO. No my friends from yoast, thanks I will not take.
I need a plugin that does its job consistently, without ads, just works. I do not want to feel like a guinea pig, because you came to try something new. Try it with your friends.
Why am I saying this? I noticed the 4 extra tables when I saw a prompt from Yoast SEO to index to add links somewhere. I thought of clicking the index but reading below, they mentioned that it is not mandatory.
Then why did they add it? What do they need and what are they thinking of doing? No I will not look for answers for a plugin that I need to do a specific job. I do not want it to be heavy with a bunch of SEO add-ons. Less code complexity means your server runs less code, which saves you resources if you need them. cache.
As for Google XML sitemaps, the new plugin has the function but only for simple sitemaps and not for Google News. No problem. XML Sitemap & Google News offers both features.
We won't miss them graphics and the constant updates when Google's algorithm rarely changes. Goodbye, Yoast!
