he Rank Math add-on and the Yoast SEO add-on are considered the best and most popular add-ons related to improving the results of your site’s appearance in search engines, and each of them offers many features and characteristics.
Each addition has features that make it ahead of the other in some points and backward in other points. What are the differences between the two add-ons?
The difference between Rank Math and Yoast SEO
Yoast and RankMath are considered the most popular and competing add-ons in SEO, and each of them has its own large audience. We will compare the general features between each two add-ons, and determine which is best suited for you.
1- Keywords
The first key in search engine optimization is keywords, that is, the keywords that you target in your article or post.
Both additions improve keywords by examining the presence of keywords in the text, their presence in the description or SEO title, as well as the number of times they are mentioned, their presence in the introduction, etc.
- Rank Math: It gives you the ability to work on 5 keywords within one article, with the feature of suggesting related keywords as soon as you start writing, and this is in the free version.
- Yoast: It gives you the ability to work on only one word. If you want to work on more than one word, you need the paid version.
Here, Rank Math has the advantage over Yoast, because the free version gives you more options than Yoast.
2- Scoring System
Both plugins analyze SEO based on many rules and things, including the SEO title, description, presence of keywords, internal and external links, readability, and others.
Yoast uses a color scheme (faces), which gives you three colors and faces.
- Frowning face, red color (bad analysis).
- Neutral face, purple color (analysis is average and needs improvement).
- Smiling face, good color (test good).
Here you will only get the color, and you will not know how much you have achieved in the optimization process.
It uses Rank Math, a number system, which gives you an SEO analysis result out of 100 (you should get a rating of 80 and above because your SEO analysis is good).
But in any case, reaching the green color or a score of 80% will not put you directly at the top of the search results, because some technical modifications can be made to reach the desired color and the article will still be bad. Your goal should be to write a good article with useful and valuable content for the reader and visitor, and let these additions only serve as assistance or reminders to you.
3- Price
For Yoast, there is the free version and there is the paid version that starts at $89 for one site for one year only
As for Rank Math, there is the free version that has the most features, and there is the paid version that starts at $59 per year.
4- Sitemap – XML Sitemaps
The process of creating a site map is easy and automated for both Yoast and Rank. They have a wizard for setting up a sitemap.
5- 404 and redirection problem
If you are suffering from a problem (404 page not found), due to damaged or broken links and you want to redirect the links.
With the free version of Rank Math, there is a page that shows all 404 links, so you can deal with them from one place.
With Yoast, you need the paid version to do this.
6- Integration with Search Console
Rank Math provides a complete and easier integration with Search Console, where you can set up and configure the integration during the setup process and then you can control and view all your data from within the control panel.
Yoast offers integration with Search Console , but it does not provide a control panel interface like Rank Math.
Differences between characteristics
Rank Math
- Addition size: 8.6 MB.
- Keyword Rank Tracking: Yes.
- Integration with Search Console: Yes.
- Custom Posts: Yes.
- Keywords: There is.
- Keyword suggestions: Yes.
- Permissions Manager: Yes.
- Multiple link options: Yes.
- RSS: Yes.
- Options to preview: Yes.
Yoast
- Addition size: 26.4 MB.
- Keyword Rank Tracking: None.
- Integration with Search Console: None.
- Custom Posts: Yes.
- Keywords: There is.
- Keyword suggestions: none.
- Permissions Manager: None.
- Multiple link options: none.
- RSS: Yes.
- Options to preview: Yes.
In the end, you will often need to rely on one of the two add-ons, especially if you are just beginning your journey, and they will provide you with many tips and analyzes that will help you prepare your site for search engines.
