I use Yoast SEO on every single blog I own. You better have one hell of a blog to beat tube sites on any decent ranking keyword. The traffic they get, the insane bounce rate times tubes have make it impossible to beat them on google, but make a good blog, write your own post dont use rss or dup content, get some good backlinks and of course good seo with plugins, and you should do pretty good. Ive got some 1st and 2nd page ranking for various keywords, dont pull in tube quantity traffic but it does make money
