All in one seo pack --> Yoast
 

I was wondering,if I simply install YOAST SEO plugin and use it instead of All in one SEO, will that affect my current blog posts and ranking?

What do you think?

thanks

I used it several times and realized it was actually hurting my SEO rather than helping. If you are limited in your knowledge of coding (PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS), then this is a cookie cutter solution. But I would recommend learning how to do it yourself rather than depending on a plugin. Especially one as robust as Yoast, which is a "bully" that has a bad tendency of overwriting files.

Sorry, I am not talking about future post optimisation. I am asking about existing posts. From what I saw , it will just import descriptions and settings. But is it really like that?

I have used both and prefer anything with Yoast

People are achieving better result with Yoast SEO plugin compare to All In One SEO

oops misunderstood question.

I don't know if it will keep your current settings. I have switched before from All in one to Yoast, and I don't remember if it kept everything in place.

yeah, looking much better. I am just trying to avoid loosing traffic because of that change

There is an function inside yoast to import All-in-one data.

There was a recent update to yoast that made major changes. Many people have had to roll-back to previous versions due to issues with the latest versions. Your mileage may vary.

Personally I don't use those type of plugins at all. I'm not familiar with YOAST SEO plugin but I know well how All in one SEO works. First of all it sufficiently slows down the loading time of the site, which is not good for Google.

The second problem is that all those "tweaks" are not just useless, they are harmful. The plugin author says you need to hide some sections of your site (e.g. tags etc) to avoid duplicate content for Google. That's a very bad idea, because Google knows what WordPress is (about 25% of all sites in the Internet now work on WordPress). The search engines know that original articles and their "copies" from categories, tags, archives, search results etc are not duplicates. So course your site will not be penalized for that. Furthermore, when hiding any of those, you will lose a lot of SE traffic. For example, I have many sites that uses keywords I'm targeting as tag names, and those tags are getting the biggest part of the whole SE traffic: the hits come to the URL's like myblog.com/tag/KEYWORD.

What he said^^^^^^

You are fine to go with yoast, like said before you can import all the data.

Just started using Yoast last week seems to have better options than one in all, also one in all was getting old

those plugins will sink your site in google. keep using them. less competition.

Yoast is a great plug-in. Depending on what you did with ALL in One SEO you may have to review and tweak past posts. Just ease into it and test along the way. :2 cents:

AIO-SEO is spamming the shit out of his list now. He must be hurting.

Yoast all the way!

I don't use any SEO plugins and shit like that, IMO it can more harm than help.