Yoast SEO is one of the most popular search optimization plugins for WordPress. Now it adds Facebook optimization to the same plugin.
Yoast SEO is a plugin that we at Angry Creative often work with in our projects. Yoast SEO is one of the top twenty most popular plugins for WordPress. Over 11 percent of the world’s 10,000 largest sites have Yoast SEO installed, according to the analytics service BuiltWith.
So it’s no surprise that Yoast SEO Premium, which has so far focused on making search optimization easy, is introducing a preview feature for Facebook and Twitter. Normally, you use Yoast SEO to make sure that an article is well optimized against selected keywords to improve your visibility in Google. Now Yoast SEO Premium can also see how your article or blog post will look if you share it on Facebook.
We know that images are crucial if a post on Facebook is to be liked and shared. Yoast SEO Premium now allows you to see what image in your post Facebook will show in an update.
If you’re using the free version of Yoast SEO, you won’t see the images that will appear on Facebook, but you can edit the headline, text, and the image that appears when you share a post on Facebook. It’s a natural step to also optimize for Facebook as the social network now drives more traffic to media sites than Google, according to analytics service parse.ly.
Among advanced Wordpress users, however, Yoast SEO has been criticized for moving too many features to its paid version Yoast SEO Premium. But there are several alternatives to Yoast SEO.
Other SEO plugins
The SEO Framework is an increasingly popular plugin that makes search optimization easy.
All in one SEO pack is one of the most popular plugins on WordPress.