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Rank Math Review. Is Rank Math the best SEO plugin for WordPress?

If you are a blogger or a website developer and working on WordPress, you may be using the Yoast SEO or the All in one SEO plugin for your Search engine optimization (SEO) needs. They both are the most popular WordPress SEO plugins and widely used by most WordPress users.

But in 2019, a new power packed solution was launched, the Rank Math SEO Plugin. We believe it is the new conqueror and the best SEO plugin for WordPress.

Many users are not aware about this new entrant and how useful it is. So if you are interested to know more about Rank Math, this article offers a detailed Rank Math review and its comparison with Yoast SEO.

Rank Math Review and its features

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What is Rank Math SEO?

Rank Math is a WordPress plugin for SEO that helps a website to attain a good SEO ranking and standard. Rank Math helps to understand what is wrong with particular keyword which you are trying to rank for in your web page content.
Rank Math primarily focuses on On page SEO. Just like Surfer Seo & Frase, Rankmath also takes care of most of the basic and advanced on page SEO techniques. As you start writing content for your web page or a log, you are offered an option to insert your targeted keyword in it.

When used as part of a content strategy, Rank Math can simplify keyword targeting and even help improve the quality of your onsite SEO. After the keyword insertion, your content would be checked and Rank Math will highlight which things are right and where improvements are required.

Once complete, you can then use Rank Math to add schema markup to your pages and posts. This can improve your chances of being included in Google rich snippets, which is known for drastically improving clickthrough rates.

What are the features of Rank Math?

Rank Math has a number of features which are very useful, listed below are the top features which you would get if you use it:

  • You can make changes and edit snippets like meta title, meta description etc
  • You can enter up to 5 targeted keywords.
  • While entering keywords in the targeted keywords box, it offers suggestions on long tail keywords which you can use
  • For your On Page SEO, it goes through the content and checks whether the targeted keywords are present in the page title, Meta description, URL, and throughout the content.
  • Rank Math SEO plugin keeps a check on the length of the blog post, URL length, Meta description length etc. It ensures they meet the standards to determine the Search Engine Ranking.
  • It suggests if internal and external linking is missing in the blog post
  • It checks the keyword density for the focused keyword.
  • It checks on the Title Readability which means it suggests if any improvements are required to make the title better
  • It also checks the content readability
  • It suggests introducing a table of content in your blog post which is recommended by Google too.

How to download Rank Math SEO Plugin?

You can download Rank Math SEO plugin in two ways. Download it from WordPress dashboard by searching for Plugins or else download it from Rankmath website.

Rank Math vs. Yoast SEO

Most users, who have used Rank Math, believe that it is a tough competitor for Yoast SEO which is the most popular SEO plugin for WordPress. Yoast SEO offers a number of features but there are some limitations. The free version of Yoast has good features but they are limited, for better and more features one has to buy the premium version. At the same time Rank Math SEO offers all the features of Yoast SEO in its free version. It offers many features which are not available even in the premium version of Yoast SEO.

Rank Math vs. Yoast SEO – User Interface

The User Interface (UI) is the most important part of any software tool. A clean and simple user interface is helpful for the users. From the UI point of view, Yoast SEO is highly focused on the functionality as compared to the visual look. It is an easy to work on UI, with neatly organized options under well-defined categories. But you cannot ignore the too simple and unappealing UI.

At the same time Rank Math also offers a clean and well organized UI but also has an aesthetically appealing look. Managing the features on the UI is very simple; you can easily turn them on and off as required. The modern UI of Rank Math not only looks good but it also enhances the end user experience. From ease of use point of view, we can say Math Rank UI is a little easier and simpler to use than the Yoast SEO UI.

Rank Math vs. Yoast SEO – Assignment of the Keywords

Keyword assigning feature allows you define keywords, write the page title and Meta description and set the focus keyword for the webpage or blog. Focus keywords are the most important tool for SEO, if the keywords are not assigned properly you won’t be able to optimize your page or post.

With the free version of Yoast you can assign maximum one keyword to your content. If you want assign more than one keywords for optimization, you need to use the paid premium version. The optimization level of your webpage content is coded in Yoast as a green, orange and red signal. One can analyze the total SEO score, readability score and Google page preview with Yoast SEO.

Rank Math allows you to assign a maximum of 5 keywords for optimization purpose. The page title, Meta description etc setup works exactly like Yoast. Rank Math uses a score between 0-100 to show the optimization level of your content. If your content scores around 80 or more, it turns green. Therefore you need to optimize you content until your score turns green color.

Rank Math also starts listing suggestion for keywords as soon as you start typing the keyword in the “focus keyword” box. Both Yoast SEO and Rank Math have a good scoring system for keyword optimization. Rank Math has an upper hand as it automatically start suggesting different keywords as well as longtail keywords which can be useful for SEO.

Rank Math vs. Yoast SEO – Pricing

If we talk about the pricing and the cost involved in downloading these two plugins, RankMath is completely free whereas Yoast SEO is available in two versions free and premium. Some features are not available in the free version and you need to buy the premium version to avail those features.

Rank Math vs. Yoast SEO –  Search Console Integration

Seach Console integration with Rank Math is easier than Yoast SEO. The Seach Console can be easily integrated during the setup process, by just inputting and verifying your Gmail account. Integration of Search console is possible with Yoast SEO too, but it does not offer an interface for listing your search console records directly.

Conclusion on Rank Math Review

After going through the complete Rank Math Review and its comparison with Yoast SEO, we can conclude that in terms of performance both Rank Math and Yoast SEO perform similarly and as a user, you may not find much difference. Both plugins automatically generate the sitemap of your website. There is no significant difference between both the plugins, but personally, we feel that Rank Math is much easier to use.

Also, it is a free plugin that offers all features required for SEO optimization of your webpage or blog, whereas you may have to go for the premium version of Yoast SEO in order to avail of certain paid features.