WordPress SEO Ultimate

When considering SEO plugins for WordPress, the most popular appear to be Yoast SEO and the all-in-one SEO plugin that at one time had little competition. However the WordPress SEO Ultimate plugin is now available and Squirrly has been introduced as a viable alternative. Is this true, and what is the difference between them?

A great deal depends upon your requirements, the depth of your SEO knowledge and the type of blog you are managing. In this comparison we shall take these attributes into consideration, along with the differences between each of these three WordPress plugins.

Our Approach to the WordPress SEO Plugin Comparison

There are several ways to carry out this type of comparison, one being to simply listing the features of each. This is Okay only if you are experienced and understand what terms such as .htaccess and ‘HTML validator’ mean. What most people want is a description of the pros and cons of each, and what the reviewer has found when using them.

Let’s face it – it is not possible to provide an accurate assessment of three SEO plugins unless you have actually tried them yourself on your own blog. On that basis, here are our views about each of these plugins for WordPress. We shall begin by comparing Yoast with WordPress SEO Ultimate, then find out how the Squirrly plugin compares. First, what are their backgrounds?

The Yoast SEO Plugin: This was devised by SEO expert Joost de Valk as a more comprehensive free alternative to the WordPress All in One SEO Pack which had been popular up till then. You can read more about these two plugins in a previous post: Best SEO Plugins for WordPress.

WordPress SEO Ultimate Plugin: This is a free WordPress plugin developed by SEO Design Solutions. It is fundamentally an upgrade to the All in One SEO plugin. Between them, this plugin and Yoast offer all you really need to maximize the optimization of your blog for Google and other search engines.

Common features of Yoast and SEO Ultimate

Each of these two SEO plugins offers a number of features that are essential for effective optimization. They are mostly connected with those aspects of a blog that are visible to search engine spiders or robots, but not to the human eye. Such features include:

Title Tag Optimization: Both enable you to optimize your Title tag. This is not the title of your blog post, but the tag that appears in the Head section of the HTML for that post. The Title tag is what Google publishes as the title of your listing in its search engine results pages (SERPs).

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