18 Reasons Why We Switched From Yoast to All in One SEO

Over the years at WPBeginner, we used both Yoast SEO and All in One SEO to optimize our content. Like many WordPress users, we started with Yoast because it was the most popular option. But after careful consideration, we decided to switch to All in One SEO.

Many of our readers asked why we made this change. We have spent over a decade helping businesses grow their WordPress sites and know how important it is to choose the right SEO plugin. So, we want to share our experiences and research that went into this decision.

In this article, we’ll explain the 18 specific reasons why we switched from Yoast to All in One SEO. These aren’t just theoretical comparisons—they’re based on our real-world usage and the actual improvements we’ve seen in our SEO workflow.

Whether you’re just starting with WordPress SEO or considering a switch yourself, this guide will help you make an informed decision.

Why Use All in One SEO for WordPress?

If you are making a website, then installing an SEO plugin is one of the first things you should do to start getting traffic.

When we first started WPBeginner in 2009, we used All in One SEO Pack. It was the original WordPress SEO plugin at the time. After a couple of years, we switched over to Yoast SEO because it was a newer plugin that brought some cool innovations to the table.

Over the next several years, WPBeginner continued to grow. But we started to feel like Yoast SEO’s innovation had slowed down, and it wasn’t keeping up with our needs.

We were starting to need more advanced features, like better control over XML sitemaps, more powerful Schema.org markup tools, and more.

Then, in 2020, something interesting happened. Our founder, Syed Balkhi, acquired the All in One SEO plugin.

And the team behind All in One SEO did an amazing job. They completely rebuilt the plugin from the ground up and packed it with all the latest SEO features.

You can get all the details in our complete AIOSEO review.

After extensive testing, we decided to switch WPBeginner from Yoast SEO to AIOSEO in November 2021. Our whole team was convinced that AIOSEO had surpassed Yoast in terms of SEO features and overall power.

And honestly, it’s been a fantastic move for us. We’ve seen a real improvement in our content creation workflow, and our day-to-day SEO tasks have become much smoother.

That being said, here are the main reasons why we switched from Yoast SEO to All in One SEO:

1. Better On-Page SEO Tools

On-page SEO is all about optimizing your blog posts and pages for SEO, day in and day out, as you’re creating content for your website. It’s the bread and butter of SEO work.

All in One SEO offers a fantastic set of on-page SEO tools, all right at your fingertips, making it easier and more efficient to optimize your content as you go.

One of the first things you’ll notice is these two handy buttons right at the top-right when you’re writing a post or page. You can’t miss them.

First, there’s the Headline Analyzer tool. We like how it gives your post title a score and actionable suggestions on how to improve it right there in WordPress.

You can even play around with different headlines, test them out with the analyzer, and pick the one that’s going to be the most click-worthy, all without even changing your main post title yet.

We wrote a whole article about how to use the headline analyzer to write better SEO titles.

Then, you can add a focus keyphrase in the ‘General’ settings tab. And just like the headline analyzer, AIOSEO gives you an SEO score for that keyphrase and tips to boost it.

Plus, you’re not limited to just one focus keyword. You can optimize your content for multiple keyword phrases, which is very handy for targeting a wider range of search terms.

The snippet editor is another great feature. It makes it simple to tweak your SEO title, meta description, and focus keyphrases. No messing around with code or anything complicated.

Plus, it gives you a live preview of how your page will actually look in search engine results. What you see is pretty much what you get. No more guessing games!

We also appreciate how All in One SEO lets you use dynamic tags in your SEO titles and descriptions. This is a real time-saver.

For example, say you want to always have the current year in your post title (like ‘[Year] Review’). Instead of manually updating it every January, you can use dynamic tags for ‘current month’ and ‘year’. Your title will always be up to date without lifting a finger.

These dynamic tags are searchable right within the plugin. Just start typing, and you can easily add them from the drop-down menus. There is no need to memorize codes or dig through documentation.

Want to get a little extra attention in search results? All in One SEO even lets you add emojis to your post titles. We have found that emojis can help your click-through rates.

Switch to the ‘Social’ tab in the SEO settings, and you’ll see a preview of how your article will look when shared on Facebook and Twitter. Social media SEO is important, too—don’t forget!

From there, you can customize the title, description, and even the thumbnail image specifically for sharing on social media.

When it comes to social media thumbnails, All in One SEO offers a wide range of options and flexibility, including a featured image, author image, and video thumbnail.

Or if you want to go totally custom, then you can just upload your own image to use as a social media thumbnail for each article. You get maximum control over your social visuals.

Do you ever need to redirect an old article to a new one?

The built-in Redirects feature makes it super easy to set up redirects for any post or page on your site. And it does it in an SEO-friendly way, so you don’t lose any link juice. That’s very important for maintaining your rankings.

And that’s not all! There are even more on-page SEO goodies packed into AIOSEO, like the Schema Generator, Link Assistant, and SEO Revisions. But we’ll get to those in detail a bit later.

We have found that All in One SEO offers an intuitive and powerful on-page SEO experience. It makes optimizing content less of a chore.

2. Powerful XML Sitemaps

Okay, let’s talk about XML sitemaps. WordPress itself creates basic XML sitemaps automatically these days. And most SEO plugins, including Yoast, also include a sitemap feature. So, sitemaps are pretty common.

But we have found All in One SEO makes XML sitemaps even easier to create and customize.

This plugin will automatically generate sitemaps for all your content types. We’re talking posts, pages, custom post types, product pages (if you’re running a store), categories, tags, and more.

Want to exclude a specific post or page from your sitemaps? It’s easy—just a few clicks, and it’s done. Sometimes, you have pages you don’t want search engines to find, and AIOSEO makes it simple to keep them out of your sitemap.

You can also exclude entire content types or taxonomies (like categories or tags) if you need more control over your sitemaps.

Are you running a lot of standalone landing pages that aren’t part of your regular WordPress content flow? AIOSEO lets you include those in your sitemaps, too. Sometimes, those landing pages are key for SEO, and you want to make sure they get indexed.

All in One SEO lets you include pretty much any page, even ones not directly generated by WordPress, right in your sitemaps.

It also generates an RSS sitemap. Why is that cool? Because RSS sitemaps highlight your latest content updates.

This can help your newer content get indexed by search engines extra quickly.

If you’re running a news-focused website, then AIOSEO can even generate a news sitemap. This is specifically designed to help you appear in the Google News carousel and get your news content seen.

And for you video creators out there, yes, there’s even a video sitemap generator. This helps your videos show up in Google Video search results. Video SEO is a whole different ballgame, and AIOSEO has you covered.

We have enjoyed the wide range of features that All in One SEO offers in its sitemap tool. And yet, even with all this power, it’s still easy to use, even if you’re a complete beginner.

3. Most Comprehensive Schema Markup Support

Schema markup is basically a special kind of extra code that you can add to your WordPress website. Think of it as sending extra information to search engines about your content, in a language they understand.

For example, you can use schema markup to tell search engines, ‘This is a blog post,’ or ‘This is a recipe,’ or ‘This is an FAQ page,’ or a news article, or even a product page in your online store.

And when you do that, search engines can use that info to display eye-catching rich results.

When it comes to schema markup, All in One SEO has very comprehensive support.

It all starts with Knowledge Graph data. This is schema markup that helps search engines like Google understand even more about your website or your business as a whole. Think of it as setting the stage, giving search engines a clear picture of who you are and what you do.

Then, you can set a default schema type for each post type on your site. This is a huge timesaver.

For example, you can set ‘Article’ as the default schema for your blog posts, and ‘Web Page’ for your regular pages. This keeps things consistent and organized.

But you also have the flexibility to get super specific and generate schema markup for individual posts or pages. This is handy for those times when you need to fine-tune things and really customize the schema for a particular piece of content.

So, you can easily differentiate your regular articles from, say, recipes, FAQs, online courses, and tons more. You can tell Google exactly what kind of content each page is.

Are you running a local business? All in One SEO makes it easy to add local SEO schema markup. This is key for getting more visibility in local search results and Google Maps.

Local customers will find you more easily when they search for businesses like yours nearby.

You can add schema for multiple locations if you have them, display your business hours right in the search results, add your contact info, and a whole lot more.

This extensive Schema.org support lets you optimize your content to get rich results in Google, so you stand out.

AIOSEO even goes beyond the standard features and lets you generate custom schema markup for things like recipes, videos, products, FAQ schema, and many more.

For power users, you can even write your own custom schema code and save it as templates to reuse later. And get this – All in One SEO has built-in schema validation to double-check your custom markup.

4. Monitor and Undo SEO Changes With SEO Revisions

Have you ever made some SEO tweaks to an article and then wondered, ‘Did that actually help? Or did I just mess things up?’

Well, All in One SEO has a feature called SEO Revisions. It’s like a time machine for your SEO. It lets you track every SEO change you make to each article and page. It helps you see what’s going on with your SEO efforts.

You can see who made the change and when it was made. Accountability and a clear history of your SEO edits, all neatly tracked.

Then, just click the ‘Compare’ or ‘Preview’ icon, and you can see exactly what was changed in that revision. No more guessing games or trying to remember what you tweaked last week.

Have you ever made a change and then realized, ‘Maybe that wasn’t such a great idea?’ No problem at all.

Just hit the delete button next to a revision, and you can instantly undo it, reverting back to the previous version. It’s like having an undo button specifically for your SEO edits.

Want to leave a note for your team (or just for your future self) about why you made a certain SEO change? Or remind yourself of your thinking later on?

Click ‘Add Note’ next to any revision, and you can jot down a quick note about the changes. That’s great for team collaboration and just keeping better records of your SEO experiments.

SEO Revisions can help you understand which SEO changes are actually boosting your rankings and which ones aren’t. It’s all about learning from your SEO experiments and getting smarter over time.

You can then apply those successful changes to all your articles and refine your overall SEO strategy based on real data.

5. Beginner-Friendly User Experience

Let’s be honest, not everyone who uses WordPress is an SEO expert. And even SEO pros appreciate a plugin that’s just easy to use. Nobody wants a plugin that’s clunky or confusing.

All in One SEO for WordPress is designed to make SEO simpler for everyone, whether you’re a complete beginner or a seasoned SEO expert. User-friendliness really does matter, especially when you’re using a plugin every single day.

It’s got a noticeably cleaner onboarding process than some other SEO plugins we’ve tried. And the simple setup wizard walks you through all the basic SEO settings step-by-step. You get up and running fast, without feeling overwhelmed.

The plugin itself feels modern. It uses a clean, uncluttered user interface that’s easy on the eyes and feels fast and responsive.

It avoids those annoying, unnecessary page reloads every time you tweak an SEO setting. And it generally just stays out of your way when you’re focused on writing content or working on other parts of your website. It’s there when you need it, but it doesn’t constantly bug you when you don’t.

Once you’ve got it all set up, beginner users can focus on creating great content and growing their business online, instead of getting bogged down in complicated SEO plugin settings. You can focus on what matters – your website and your audience.

But at the same time, all those advanced features and powerful tools? They’re still easily accessible when you do need them.

6. Use Artificial Intelligence to Write Headlines and Descriptions

Okay, let’s talk about AI, artificial intelligence. All in One SEO has built-in integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT right inside the plugin.

When you’re crafting your post’s SEO title or meta description, just look for that little robot button next to those fields.

Click it, and it will ask you to quickly connect to your ChatGPT account. Just a simple authorization step, and you’re good to go.

Then, it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to suggest five different titles or descriptions based on your content. Think of it as AI-powered brainstorming, right when you need it most, when you’re actually writing your SEO settings.

Just pick the title or description you like best from the suggestions. It saves you a ton of time and brainpower trying to come up with catchy headlines and meta descriptions from scratch.

7. The Link Assistant Tool

Let’s talk links. Internal links are super important for SEO, no question about it. They help both your users and search engines discover more content on your site. And they can also give your search engine rankings a nice boost.

But here’s the thing: tools that dig into your website’s links, both internal and external, can be pricey. Often, they’re aimed at bigger businesses with bigger SEO budgets.

All in One SEO brings that same kind of link analysis power right to your WordPress website, but without the hefty price tag. Their Link Assistant tool helps you analyze all the links in each article, including both internal links (links that point to your own site) and external links (links that point to other sites).

But it doesn’t just analyze your links. It also gives you smart link suggestions. You can click on any post, review the suggestions it gives you for internal links, and add those links with just a click – all without even having to edit the post itself!

This is especially handy for promoting your newer articles by adding relevant links from your older, more established content. Give those new posts a little SEO boost by linking to them from your classic articles.

You can also click the ‘Edit’ button next to a link suggestion to quickly change the anchor text or tweak the surrounding text, again, without having to go into the full WordPress post editor. Quick link adjustments, right when you need them.

We honestly think the Link Assistant tool, on its own, is a pretty compelling reason to seriously consider switching to All in One SEO for WordPress. It’s that useful and saves that much time.

8. Redirection Manager

Broken links are just bad news all around. They cause 404 Page Not Found errors on your WordPress site. These can definitely hurt your SEO. Nobody wants to send visitors (or search engines) to dead ends.

That’s where All in One SEO’s built-in Redirects Manager tool comes to the rescue. It makes it easy to set up redirects on your website. Keep your site clean, user-friendly, and SEO-healthy.

It even keeps a detailed log of 404 errors that are happening on your WordPress site. This is gold! You can see those broken links happening in real-time and then fix them!

This makes it super easy to spot those pages or posts that might need redirects.

And here’s a really handy touch: if you ever change a post or page’s permalink (the URL), then AIOSEO will automatically pop up a message asking if you want to redirect the old URL to the new one. Super convenient for preventing 404s when you’re updating URLs.

Plus, if you ever plan to move your entire WordPress site to a brand new domain name, then All in One SEO has you covered there, too. It comes with a full site redirect feature.

With just a few clicks, you can automatically redirect everyone to your new domain. This is absolutely essential for domain migrations and a real lifesaver.

9. Social Media Integrations

Let’s not forget about social media. Social media platforms are a huge deal for promoting your website and getting your content seen, way beyond just organic search traffic. You want to get your content out there where people are looking.

All in One SEO has deep integrations with all the major social media platforms, thanks to its open graph metadata integration.

You can easily add links to all your website’s social media profiles right within the plugin settings. This helps search engines (and real people!) discover your social channels and connect the dots.

And here’s a helpful touch: each author on your website can also add links to their own individual social media profiles, right in their user profile settings.

This helps search engines understand the connection between your website content and the social media accounts of the people actually creating that content. Google loves these author authority signals.

And you can easily set open graph metadata and custom thumbnails for every article and page on your site. This lets you take full control over how your content looks when it’s shared on social media.

You can override those default settings and fine-tune how each article appears when shared on different social platforms.

10. Enhanced Image SEO for WordPress

Don’t forget about image search! It’s a surprisingly large source of traffic for many websites.

All in One SEO helps you optimize your images to tap into that often-overlooked source of search traffic.

Just head over to All in One SEO » Search Appearance and click on the ‘Image SEO’ tab. Nice and easy to find.

From there, the plugin can automatically use the image filename to generate smart, SEO-friendly image titles and alt tags. Automation is your friend when it comes to SEO tasks.

You can also tell it to automatically replace those messy dashes and underscores in filenames with spaces, and even change the letter casing to make things look cleaner and more readable.

With Image SEO settings, you can also completely disable WordPress attachment pages. And you can even automatically redirect those attachment pages to the original post or page where the image is actually used.

Lastly, you get even more control over image filenames, choosing whether to strip dashes, change letter casing, and strip out common stop words that don’t really add SEO value.

11. Sitewide SEO Audit

For many beginners and smaller businesses, shelling out for a pricey, dedicated SEO tool just to get a site-wide SEO audit or to do competitor analysis? It might just not be realistic. Cost can be a real barrier.

The good news is that All in One SEO comes with a built-in sitewide SEO audit and competitor analysis tool. It gives you valuable SEO insights right within your plugin, so you don’t need to pay extra for a separate tool.

With the SEO audit tool, you get an overall SEO health score for your entire website. It’s like a quick checkup for your site’s SEO. You can see how you’re doing at a glance, and if there are any major red flags.

All in One SEO then provides a detailed report, breaking down the audit results and offering practical suggestions on how to improve your SEO score.

And you can also use it to see how your competitors are performing online, and even run an SEO score check on any website, not just your own.

12. Search Statistics in Your WordPress Dashboard

What’s the best way to really see how your website is doing in Google Search? No question, it’s using Google Search Console. That’s the gold standard, direct data straight from Google.

But let’s be honest, many beginners either don’t connect their site to Search Console in the first place or, if they do, they don’t check it very often. It can be a bit intimidating if you’re not used to looking at SEO data.

All in One SEO solves that problem by bringing your Google Search Console data right into your WordPress admin dashboard! And it presents it in a way that’s human-readable and easy to understand, even if you’re not an SEO data analyst.

Right up top, you’ll see clear, visual graphs of your website’s search performance over time. Recent search impressions, total clicks, average click-through rate, and average search position – all the key SEO metrics, front and center.

Below those graphs, you’ll see handy overview reports for your Top Keywords and Content Performance. These are quick snapshots of what’s working well and what might need some attention.

But you can also dive deeper into these reports if you want more detail. Just switch over to the ‘SEO Statistics’ tab, and you’ll see the full Content Performance report. More granular data, if you’re into that kind of thing.

This report shows you your top-performing articles and pages, their search positions for their main keywords, the number of clicks they’re getting from search, and a bunch more. You can identify your SEO winners and see what’s driving traffic.

Similarly, the Keyword Rankings report shows you all the keywords your site is actually ranking for in Google. This shows you how your keyword targeting is paying off.

From there, you can drill down and see your top keywords, the number of clicks each keyword is bringing in, your average search position for that keyword, impression counts, and even changes in search ranking over time.

The Top Losing and Top Winning reports are especially helpful for quickly sorting out keywords that have recently gained or lost ground in search rankings.

And you can also switch to the ‘Content Rankings’ tab for an even clearer picture of which specific content pieces have gained or lost SEO rankings, and by exactly how much.

You can even see if recent Google algorithm updates have had a noticeable impact on your rankings. For more on this, check out our guide on how to monitor Google algorithm updates in WordPress.

13. Fixing SEO Crawl Budget Issues in WordPress

Let’s get a little technical for a minute and talk about SEO crawl budget. Basically, crawl budget is just the number of pages on your WordPress blog or website that search engines like Google are going to crawl and index.

Google’s bots are crawling billions of pages every single day. To keep things efficient, they try to figure out how many pages they’re going to crawl on each website domain, so they don’t waste resources crawling the same site endlessly.

As a website owner, you want to ensure that your most important content – the content that actually drives traffic and conversions – is crawled and indexed quickly.

But sometimes, search engines can waste their crawl budget on less important pages, like archive pages, RSS feeds, or pages with duplicate content.

All in One SEO can help you fix this! It has built-in tools to help you manage your crawl budget. Just go to All in One SEO » Search Appearance and click on the ‘Advanced’ tab. Think of it as your crawl budget control panel.

Scroll down to the very bottom of that page, and you’ll see the ‘Crawl Cleanup’ option, waiting for you to unleash its power.

Click the switch to enable the ‘Crawl Cleanup’ feature.

From there, you can easily disable crawling of Query Arguments. These are those extra bits of code that sometimes get added to URLs, often unnecessarily. Preventing crawling of query arguments can clean up your URLs and save crawl budget.

And below that, you can also disable crawling of different RSS feeds that WordPress automatically generates. While RSS feeds are useful, you might not want Googlebot wasting crawl budget on every single RSS feed your site creates.

Want to dive deep into crawl budget optimization? We’ve got a whole article about the WordPress SEO crawl budget problem and how to fix it, with even more tips and tricks.

14. Generate Keyword Ideas While Writing Content

All in One SEO can help you optimize your content on the fly by suggesting more relevant keywords to include in your articles. It can even generate these keyword ideas based on your actual content, using the power of Semrush data.

Just edit any post in WordPress, and scroll down to the AIOSEO settings area below the editor. Add your main focus keyphrase for your content in the Focus Keyphrase field. Then, just click that enticing ‘Get Additional Keyphrases’ button.

This will pop up a window asking you to quickly sign in to your Semrush account.

If you don’t have a Semrush account yet, no problem. You can create a free account right from that popup.

Once you’re logged in to Semrush, you just need to give All in One SEO permission to connect to your Semrush account. Authorize the connection, and you’re good to go.

Then, you’ll be taken back to your website, and you’ll see a fresh list of relevant keyword ideas that you can consider adding to your content. Keyword suggestions, ready to use and boost your SEO.

15. Add Dynamic Table of Contents to Your Posts

A table of contents, or TOC, is basically just a list of handy links at the top of longer articles, jumping you down to different sections within the article.

It helps your readers easily navigate those longer, more in-depth pieces of content and find exactly what they’re looking for, without endless scrolling.

But besides just being a nice user experience thing, a table of contents can also help you improve your organic click-through rate in search results.

Search engines like Google might show items from your table of contents as those handy jump-to links right below your main search result listing. This will make your listing stand out and encourage more clicks.

All in One SEO comes with an advanced and customizable Table of Contents block that you can easily drop into your posts and pages. Built-in TOC functionality, with no extra plugins needed.

Once you add the TOC block, it will automatically scan your content and list out all the headings below it as linked items in your table of contents.

You can choose to show or hide specific headings, or even edit the anchor text (the link text) if you want to customize things further.

Want to get even more details on using the TOC block? We’ve got a full tutorial on how to add a table of contents in WordPress posts, walking you through all the steps.

16. Use Better Breadcrumb Navigation

You know those little trails of links you often see at the top of a webpage? Like ‘Home > Blog > Category > Post Title’? That’s breadcrumb navigation.

It’s basically a navigational aid that shows users, ‘You are here on this website, and you got here by going through this path.’

It’s like a little map to help them understand where they are in your website’s overall structure and how to get back to earlier sections they might have visited before landing on their current page or post.

And breadcrumbs aren’t just helpful for your users; they’re also good for SEO. Search engines like Google and Bing love breadcrumbs.

They can use breadcrumb information when they display your site in search results. Sometimes, they’ll show those breadcrumb links right below your main title in search results.

For WordPress beginners, All in One SEO automatically configures and sets up breadcrumbs for you, right out of the box.

But if you want more control, then it also comes with easy and customizable breadcrumb navigation settings.

Just go to All in One SEO » General Settings and click on the ‘Breadcrumbs’ tab. From there, you’ll see a bunch of different ways you can easily display breadcrumbs on your website. Choose the method that works best for your site and your theme.

You can customize pretty much every aspect of how your breadcrumbs look and behave on your WordPress site. And yes, you can even disable them completely (although we really don’t recommend it!).

If you’d like more details and examples, we have a tutorial on adding breadcrumb navigation links in WordPress, walking you through all the different options.

17. Easily Control User Access to SEO Features

Working with a team on your website? Or need to give other users access to your site’s backend so they can help out with SEO tasks?

All in One SEO has powerful access control features built right in. It lets you easily share access to SEO settings with other users, but you can control exactly which parts of the plugin they can access.

Just head over to the All in One SEO » General Settings page and click on the ‘Access Control’ tab. You can manage SEO user roles and permissions from one central place.

From there, you can fine-tune access for all the existing user roles in WordPress, like Editor, Author, Contributor, Administrator, and more. You can tailor access to match your team’s existing roles and responsibilities.

And here’s a really cool thing: you can even turn on or off SEO-specific user roles:

• SEO Manager – Users with this role get full access to all SEO settings in the plugin. They can tweak General Settings, Sitemaps, Link Assistant, Redirects, Local SEO, and SEO settings for individual pages and posts. Basically, full SEO management power.
• SEO Editor – These users have more limited access. They can only access SEO settings for individual pages and posts. They can optimize content SEO, but they can’t mess with sitewide SEO settings. Content-level SEO access only, great for content creators.

To give a user one of these SEO-specific roles, just add them as a new user in WordPress, and then set their role to either SEO Manager or SEO Editor when you create their account.

18. Author Profiles With Google’s E-E-A-T Approach

Author profiles are becoming increasingly important in SEO, especially with Google’s focus on Expertise, Experience, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness – or E-E-A-T.

All in One SEO comes with powerful author profile features that let you properly showcase each author’s experience, expertise, and authority in their field.

Based on Google’s E-E-A-T guidelines, the author profiles in All in One SEO help you highlight those crucial signals. Make it crystal clear to search engines (and to your human readers!) that your content is trustworthy, reliable, and created by actual experts.

Just click on the ‘Author SEO‘ tab when you’re editing any user’s profile in WordPress.

From there, you can add specific information to validate your authors’ E-E-A-T signals. Show off their credentials and expertise.

This includes key details such as their education, current employer, and professional job title.

Below that, you can also add specific “areas of expertise” for each author. Specify their knowledge domains and what topics they’re authorities on.

This lets both search engines and your readers know that you’ve got knowledgeable people creating content, and that you’re a reliable source of information on those topics. Authoritative content signals are a big plus for SEO.

You can also upload a professional author photo directly within the plugin and provide a detailed author biography to flesh out their profile. Complete, informative author profiles build trust and authority.

Here’s an example of how that author info box can appear on your live website, showcasing author information right alongside their content.

And for extra credibility, you can even add a designated reviewer to your articles. Clearly show that your content has been fact-checked or reviewed by another expert.

Bonus SEO Tools Included With AIOSEO

Beyond all the major reasons we’ve already covered for switching from Yoast to All in One SEO, AIOSEO also provides a ton of other useful and powerful SEO features that we didn’t have access to before.

For example, AIOSEO works seamlessly with SEOBoost. This is a separate SEO tool, but AIOSEO integrates with it beautifully, letting you add an SEO writing assistant inside the WordPress editor.

It analyzes things like your article’s word count and readability, comparing them against top-ranking content for your target keywords. Then, it gives you a score, along with practical tips and suggestions on how to optimize your content to get a competitive edge in search rankings.

With the Optimization Wizard feature, you can also easily discover new related terms – things like LSI keywords and synonyms – that are closely related to your main focus keyword.

Adding these related terms to your content can help you better signal search intent to Google and ultimately rank for a wider range of keywords overall.

AIOSEO was also the very first WordPress SEO plugin to add built-in IndexNow support. IndexNow is a relatively new protocol that lets you instantly ping search engines like Bing whenever you publish or update content.

This can significantly speed up search indexing times, making your content easier to find.

And if you’re running a more advanced headless WordPress site? They’ve got full REST API support to help you improve your SEO rankings even in that more complex setup.

Plus, All in One SEO offers excellent support for eCommerce SEO. If you’re running an online store with WooCommerce, then AIOSEO has a bunch of features specifically designed to help you rank your product pages and get more sales from search. Essential for online stores.

Want even more reasons to consider All in One SEO? We’ve put together a massive list of useful All in One SEO features, highlighting things you might not even know the plugin can do. Or if you want a deep dive, then you can check out our detailed All in One SEO review.

How to Switch From Any WordPress SEO Plugin to All in One SEO

Thinking about making the switch to All in One SEO for WordPress yourself? Good news: it’s a pretty simple process.

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the All in One SEO for WordPress plugin on your site. If you’re new to plugins, then we’ve got a step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin that will walk you through the whole thing.

Once you’ve got the plugin activated, it will automatically start a setup wizard.

During the setup process, the plugin is smart enough to automatically detect if you already have another SEO plugin installed on your site, such as Yoast, Rank Math, or another one. And then it will offer to import all your existing SEO data from that plugin.

Just check the little box next to the name of your old SEO plugin, and then click the ‘Import Data and Continue’ button.

All in One SEO will then automatically import all your important SEO settings and data. Post titles, meta descriptions, focus keywords, all that good stuff. No need to worry about losing your hard-earned SEO work during the switch.

And if you ever need to manually run the importer again later for some reason, then you can do that too. Just go to All in One SEO » Tools in your WordPress admin menu, and click on the ‘Import/Export’ tab.

Select the SEO plugin you were using before from the dropdown menu, and then click the ‘Import’ button.

We hope this article helped explain the reasons why we switched from Yoast to All in One SEO for WordPress. You may also want to see our complete WordPress SEO guide for beginners or take a look at our detailed side-by-side comparison of Yoast SEO vs. All in One SEO.

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