Comparison

A Yoast alternative? They do two different jobs

Twenty rows of comparison, including the three where Yoast does better than us.

Yoast works inside the page while you write it. Trovavio looks at the site from the outside, the way Google and ChatGPT see it, and tells you what to write. Many things we both do, some only Yoast, others only us. You can keep both, and almost everyone does.

What each of the two does

Where Yoast does better we say so. Nobody believes a table that wins on every row, and indeed we do not believe it either when we read one elsewhere.

CheckYoast SEOTrovavio
Title and description as you writeyesyes, and it writes them for you
Preview of the Google resultyesyes
H1 and subheading structureyesyes
Images without alt textflags themflags them and writes them
Canonical and indexingyesyes
Social preview (Open Graph)yesyes
Structured databasic site schemayes, and it writes them for your trade
Text readabilityfull analysis, the most refinedsimpler: words and subsections
XML sitemapgenerates itreads it and checks it exists
Redirects after a URL changein the paid versiondoes not do it
Broken links across the whole sitein the paid versionyes, from the Pro plan
Pages competing with each otherin the paid versionyes, in every plan
Score for the whole siteno, one page at a timeyes, up to 200 pages
Speed, mobile, colour contrastdoes not do ityes
City, address and hours for local SEOwith a second pluginyes, for 27 trades
Visibility on ChatGPT and Perplexitydoes not measure ityes, 15 checks
Comparison with your sectordoes not do ityes, on real measurements
Weekly report by emaildoes not do ityes, from the Solo plan
PDF report for the clientdoes not do ityes, with your logo from the Agency plan
Pricefree, or 99€ a yearfree, or from 49€ a month
Three rows where Yoast does better, and we left them in the table: readability (its analysis is finer than ours), the sitemap (it generates one, we check that one exists) and redirects, which we do not do at all.

Yoast does not look at AI. No SEO plugin does

It is not a flaw in Yoast: it was born in 2010, when clients searched. Today some of them ask, and the answer is built by a model reading the sites. It reads structured data, author, declared questions, dates, llms.txt: things no classic SEO plugin measures.

The number that makes the sentence concrete. Across the 49 Italian dental practices we measured in August, the median SEO score is 60 and the GEO one 35. Twenty-five points apart on the same sites: the classic part comes partly from the theme and the plugins, the part for AI comes from nowhere. See the full measurement

What you see, with Yoast switched on

This is the report of a page that already has Yoast installed and configured: title and description are there, and indeed they do not show up among the problems. What remains is what Yoast does not look at.

61

A page with Yoast already set up

SEO 78 · GEO 39 · title and description: nothing to report

High

No professional schema

Yoast declares the basic site schema. The type that describes your trade no. Generate the schema

Medium

No identifiable author

To a model, unsigned content could have been written by anyone.

Medium

llms.txt file missing

It tells AI which pages matter. Generate and publish it

Medium

The city does not appear in the title

Yoast checks the length of the title, not whether it names the place where you work.

What happens if you keep both

No conflict

We do not write into Yoast's fields and we do not generate a second sitemap. Our plugin reads them, so the score takes into account what you already wrote there.

Yoast stays your editor

You keep writing there. We tell you which title to use, and with one click we publish it into the field you are already using.

We look from the outside

The score of the whole site, the comparison with your sector, and the fifteen signals that decide whether an AI cites you.

Questions

Do I have to uninstall Yoast?
No, and we do not advise it. Yoast does well a job we do not do: fine readability, sitemap, redirects. Removing it to install us would be a losing trade.
Is it useful if I have Yoast Premium?
It is useful for the part Premium does not cover: visibility on AI, the score of the whole site, local SEO for your trade and the comparison with your sector. Redirects and readability you already have.
What if I use Rank Math or SEOPress?
The same reasoning applies: they are page editors, we are a measurement from the outside. Our plugin coexists with all three.
Why has Yoast not added the AI part?
We do not know and we are not interested in speculating. We know it is not there today, and that the sites we measured pay the price.

See your score, with Yoast switched on

One minute, free, and you find out which of the fifteen AI signals you already have.

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Why we are not an «all your marketing» platform at 99 dollars

Several are appearing, and they do something different from us: they produce content, posts, articles, campaigns. We measure the site you already have and tell you what to change, line by line, with the sentence ready.

If you need someone to write for you on five channels, that is not us. If you need to know why your site does not show up when a client searches for your trade in your city, that is exactly us, at 49 euros.