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.

The real comparison is on your own site, not in a table: see what score it gets right now.

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What each of the two does

Where Yoast does better than us, it says so in the table.

Check	Yoast SEO	Trovavio
Title and description as you write	yes	yes, and it writes them for you
Preview of the Google result	yes	yes
H1 and subheading structure	yes	yes
Images without alt text	flags them	flags them and writes them
Canonical and indexing	yes	yes
Social preview (Open Graph)	yes	yes
Structured data	basic site schema	yes, and it writes them for your trade
Text readability	full analysis, the most refined	simpler: words and subsections
XML sitemap	generates it	reads it and checks it exists
Redirects after a URL change	in the paid version	does not do it
Broken links across the whole site	in the paid version	yes, from the Pro plan
Pages competing with each other	in the paid version	yes, in every plan
Score for the whole site	no, one page at a time	yes, up to 200 pages
Speed, mobile, colour contrast	does not do it	yes
City, address and hours for local SEO	with a second plugin	yes, for 27 trades
Visibility on ChatGPT and Perplexity	does not measure it	yes, 32 checks
Comparison with your sector	does not do it	yes, on real measurements
Weekly report by email	does not do it	yes, from the Solo plan
PDF report for the client	does not do it	yes, the basic one is free; with your logo from the Agency plan
Price	free, or €99 a year	free, or from €49 a month

Yoast does three things better than us: readability (its analysis is finer than ours), the sitemap (it generates one, we check it exists) and redirects, which we don’t 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.

An example with numbers. 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.

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 don’t generate a second sitemap or duplicate tags. Our plugin reads them Yoast’s fields, so the score takes into account what you’ve already written; when you apply a fix, it writes it 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 does Trovavio do that Yoast does not?

It measures visibility on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini with fifteen checks; gives a score to the whole site and not one page at a time; writes the texts instead of only flagging problems; checks speed, mobile and colour contrast; and compares your score with your sector's.

What if I use Rank Math or SEOPress?

Same here: they work inside the page, we look at the site from outside. Our plugin works alongside all three.

Why has Yoast not added the AI part?

We don’t know. We know it isn’t there today, and that the sites we measured pay the price.

The same comparison, with other tools: SEOZoom, Semrush, Ahrefs and Snoika. All comparisons

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.