If you are making a website, then installing an SEO plugin is one of the first things you should do in order to start getting traffic.
When we first started WPBeginner in 2009, we were using All in One SEO Pack because it was the original WordPress SEO plugin. After a couple of years, we switched to Yoast SEO because it was a newer plugin, and it brought some new innovations.
Over the next several years, our website grew a lot. However, we felt that Yoast SEO stopped innovating and no longer had the features we needed.
For instance, we needed better control over XML sitemaps, powerful schema.org tools, and more.
In 2020, our parent company, Awesome Motive, acquired the All in One SEO plugin.
The All in One SEO team did a fantastic job of completely overhauling the plugin, adding all the latest SEO features, and truly making it the best in class.
After numerous rounds of testing, we decided to make the move from Yoast SEO to AIOSEO in November 2021 because our team was convinced that AIOSEO had surpassed Yoast in terms of SEO features.
Since then, we have noticed a significant improvement in our editorial workflow and day-to-day SEO tasks.
That being said, here are the top reasons we switched from Yoast SEO to All in One SEO: