Rank Math is NOT my #1 SEO Plugin anymore !!

[@creativdesign]

I have been watching 1000 of SEO videos, and all have so many settings and configurations. Slim SEO sure takes all the aggravation away. Thank you for this super video, now all my client's websites are running on slim seo. Great Stuff!!

[@ToxiCom-777]

+++ "Slim SEO sure takes all the aggravation away"

[@MrFrobbo]

Being an SEO complete nuub (but not daft) I used Yoast and started to drift into trying to achieve green smiles for everything. I found the recommendations useful, paragraph sizes, and general analysis useful and made many changes (co-pilot is excellent to trim to specific word count or even character length) but I quickly realised making green smiles for all this isnt needed and a red herring. I like the integration with Elementor, especially its help creating Titles and Meta which I co-pilot in the first instance to assist by feeding it the page content, then refining for key phrase etc and how it looks on Google preview.. also the coloured analysis bars for Title and Meta dont just measure char length. I also liked the visual representation of how Google would show the Title and Meta, this really helped me optimise before submitting. Today I wake to being No1 and No2 on Google for my key phrase, boom!

[@annette-in-vegas]

I’m a noob too and just installed the free version of Yoast on 2WP sites. Are you using the free version?

[@harbourdogNL]

"which I co-pilot in the first instance to assist by feeding it the page content," What do you mean exactly? Can you explain? (For a self-professed "SEO complete NUUB" it sure sounds as though you know what you're doing!)

[@MrFrobbo]

@harbourdogNL lol, my first SEO site. I copy and paste the page content into Copilot and ask it to create a title and meta data ready to add to Yoast, after some tweaking.

[@igorsocha46]

Free or Premium version sir?

[@QuaverloveStudio]

Been using Slim SEO for a while... I, too, appreciate its simplicity. Thanks, Imran, for another fine video.

[@patsymutiso]

I think I'm finally done building all the pages for my website and this is the next thing to tackle 😊. This video has been on my Water Later list for awhile now🤣.

[@websquadron]

You can do it!

[@vivianaruiz5277]

Thank you! I just switched :). Yes your explanations and their written ones are clear and easy to follow.

[@websquadron]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Mxgtr1569]

The SEO framework works just fine. It’s free with no annoying upgrade offers.

[@John-e7g5r]

I was thinking about using the Rank Math free version, but this video has been really helpful with me making my final decision. Thanks for posting

[@BGdev305]

Very nicely explained Imran!

[@webtappers7863]

THANKS! Love your recommendations and tutorials!

[@aditmb]

I use slim seo as well, it's so good. No need to overthinking so many things

[@TruthSeeeker777]

Thank you brother for making this video. I was on the fence about Slim seo and was recently using rank math. Wew rank math bent my brain. Because of your video I now installed slim and I'm happy for it. Thank you!

[@websquadron]

Glad it helped

[@CMSAssociation]

As always, well explained!

[@Chilli_ConCon]

Nice one, I lOVE how lightweight it is. definitely going to add to my stack, Specially since I use the free version of Rank Math anyway, and I'm all about shedding that extra weight. Thanks for the vid

[@ScottStoll]

Rank Math just raised my price from $59 to $104 without telling me. Very disappointed. This was supposed to be a lifetime price. They gave me a song and dance, then offered to lock my price back in at $59. But feeling done with it.

[@websquadron]

Sorry to hear that :(

[@PatrickFletcher]

THIS ... me too. Doubled the price on me, crazy! Will begin switching sites over to SlimSEO tomorrow.

[@zhouruopeng]

I feel the same.

[@Veloharmony]

Ditto

[@ashrafkhan7386]

Very informational. Would try it for future projects!

[@KennethErvinYoung]

I need Business Location schema. Does Slim SEO have that feature like RankMath does? Also, please do a follow up after importing RankMath into Slim SEO and let us know what breaks please.

[@websquadron]

This is where you would need the add-on from Slim SEO, so other SEO Tools would be better. It's all down to need.

[@franshescomviran5741]

@@websquadron add lsim -on seo within the Rank Math back end

[@Chris-LiquidMedia]

Looks great! I will consider moving from SEOpress Pro and the yearly subscription fee. Thanks for sharing, Imran.

[@franciscolee3493]

Seopress PRO its good.

[@MRJMXHD]

SEOPress have been one of the good ones for a while though.

[@Website-Developer]

You always put out some great info and I have to agree that the AI tick is one that needs to be explained over an over again to clients. In fact I don't like the AI feature because it gives a rediculous analysis of heading tag and link counts when it compares the content to what it finds out there. I mean really? I have seen where it recommends 30 H2 tags for a 1200 word blog post sometimes...its becoming laughable and harder to explain to the client.

[@lunaccodesign]

This is great, I had been looking at Slim recently as I swapped to Metabox (not related to any of the ACF stuff just likes the LTD) this was a great rundown! I'm curious tho with Bricks for instance. It allows a meta title, description and open graph natively, is Slim SEO doing anything extra that I should opt for Slim for, or should I just stick the native stuff? This def put it at the top of the replacement list. I have gotten annoyed with Rank Math, all it's setting and it's scoring. I also feel like it can give clients the wrong goals sometimes when adding things.

[@websquadron]

Bricks is even lighter for SEO, and although you could just use that, Slim SEO (other SEO Tools) add a bit more. I've always felt that Bricks was too light.

[@ratty112]

This is very useful thanks. I've been looking into different SEO plugins recently myself and also found them quite overwhelming, Slim SEO is definitely one I'll now consider

Great video, Rank Math IA selling everywhere is getting overwhelming and expensive. Just one question, what about Google Site Kit?

[@websquadron]

Google Site Kit is totally good for the GSC and GA connections.

[@fajarfaezal]

Wow.. last month, I just testing client site using slim seo and doing the comparison with rankmath.. and i feel you 😅

[@websquadron]

Big difference isn't it.

[@peterappelt8658]

Thank you for your informative video. I agree. It is better to be roughly exact than exactly wrong ;)

[@rhysadams]

I use WP All Imports can it bring in the description into a custom field like I do with Yoast?

[@websquadron]

Not checked that.

[@rhysadams]

@ I’ll see if I can set up a test site to try it out.

[@KariposTheOne]

Nice, now we need a Full Guide Tutorial about Slim Seo

[@websquadron]

Indeed we do :)

[@steveiws]

Rank math is over bloat for sure. SEO Press or Slim are more than adequate. Redirection plugin also very useful.

[@ontariofisherman6111]

Thankyou! I am about to start a new project and I was truely dredding setting up rankmath

[@vegardbell]

It takes 5 minutes to set up RM. If you are an advanced user, you can use their other settings, but their wizard setup literally takes 5 minutes. I also have the PRO version of RM, and really like their Content AI feature. But SLIM looks cool if you just want the basic stuff. Don't understand that people still use Yoast though.

[@MairaGall]

Slim SEO or The SEO Framework are very minimalistic and do a good job.

[@mischform_ch]

Great plugin suggestion! Will change mine now. Can you suggest something similar as a Wordfence replacement? Also more lightweight?

[@websquadron]

I'm looking into a few.

[@olaayo9054]

very good.thanks

[@danielgil9747]

Have you tested Slim SEO Link Manager? How does it compare with Link Whisperer?

[@websquadron]

Not used that yet

[@danielgil9747]

I think the lifetime deal ends today or tomorrow. I imagine is not ad powerful as link whisper

[@icehounddigital]

Do you have a good way of using AI or something to bulk edit alt tags? RankMath gets pricey to do it in bulk I think.

[@websquadron]

Have you tried using a Code Snippet?

[@icehounddigital]

@@websquadron No, this never even came to mind. You could use a code snippet with AI to get accurate alt tags across a bunch of product images or something?

[@emmanuelivwighre5399]

Please you have to release more content on slimseo and it impact on a website. This tutorial just scratch the surface but thanks for the info.

[@websquadron]

Understood but the impact is down to niche, keywords, frequency of searching, and the build. Trust me, it works, but use the SEO Tool that works for you.

[@suk4ed]

I’ll try switching from RM, and let you know. does slim suits well to woocommerce shop?

[@websquadron]

It's fine as it create the sitemaps for those. Inside the settings, click on the sitemap link and you get the ones to add to Google Search Console.

[@davepratt7176]

Rank maths pricing strategy has been off for ages, it doubles into the second year with no reason, they even advise you to create a new licence to get the cheaper pricing which is just crazy its all so disconnected

[@websquadron]

Yup. The advantages to Pro are so minimal that the cost to go Pro makes no sense to me.

[@nmg2023nmg]

SEOPress for the win!

[@corneliusmotsisi4750]

Rankmath slowed my website and removed it completely. Now does Slim SEO slows down the website?

[@websquadron]

No.

[@bergbergberg4976]

it seems slim seo does not have keywords option? for rank math each product or page has an option to fill in a keyword?

[@websquadron]

Prior to building a website you will research and then add to your site. What RM and others do is highlight if you've mentioned the keyword in your title, h1, h2, content, image ALT etc. When you state the keywords in RM it is not injecting them into the site. You have to make the keywords fit the content.

[@shahidsardar1058]

Is it equally good for woocommerce?

[@websquadron]

Yup, it handles the sitemaps and adds the meta for that.

[@JetPackDiddy]

All in all, you don't need seo plug-ins. P.s. RankMath got acquired by a hosting company

[@WickyDesign]

Nice! We have been using All In One SEO for years and it's turned into a bloated plugin. We look forward to migrating to Slim SEO.

[@websquadron]

I need to find a cool way to just add a snippet to handle it all.

[@aliarain7037]

Awesome

[@nirmitha]

Does slim SEO has instant indexing API feature?

[@websquadron]

No, so you'll need to request a crawl via GSC.

[@websquadron]

The lighter the plugin, the more will fall on you, but I would prefer simple and quick than lots to do.

[@TheSchokl]

Why should this be better than the SEO framework?

[@websquadron]

The SEO Framework felt like lots of settings, but it is subjective and you should always use what you prefer. This video was about my decision to run away from Rank Math.

[@LukasSchutter]

Sorry but the Slim SEO - SEO Checklist shows the steps in the old Universal Analytics. Thats not up-to-date and not simple.

[@seanwashere]

Would you recommend the Slim SEO paid add-ons?

[@websquadron]

Yes for better schema set up

[@codenamepod]

There are several things that Rank Math can do but Slim SEO cannot. I have used premium addons of both.

[@thewinner3163]

i agree, that rank math AI shit sux

[@Iranitel-ir]

If this is really your belief, why do you use Rank Meth on your site?

[@websquadron]

I told you that I am transitioning sites and I have notgot round to mine yet because I have a lot on. Plus it’s not desperately needed to be done (as I also stated) because it’s already set up, but for new sites I will use slimseo (as I again stated). Did you watch the video fully? Or if it helps / download the transcript and ChatGPT it. Have fun.

[@Iranitel-ir]

@@websquadron I watched your entire video and I agree with what you said in the video. But since I am not a regular follower of your content, I said that maybe there was a change in the plugins during the last two months, which caused you to return to the rank of Math.

[@YaserAlhosani]

TSF for the win.

[@suk4ed]

what’s tsf mate 😂

[@YaserAlhosani]

@ The SEO Framework = TSF

[@406Web]

I liked squirrely.

[@icehounddigital]

have you compared it to other tools?

[@dmarketingacademy619]

Big time mistake

[@websquadron]

Nooooooooooooooo !!!! :) :) :) Do you not like Slim SEO? I'm always open to hear reasons and change my mind if I'm convinced.

[@dmarketingacademy619]

@websquadron it's not built by seo specialist They only have wordpress and tech in mind Rankmath, on the other hand, seems to be very updated on seo rules and policy

[@ronaldregen6062]

He is being Paid , I am 100% sure about it , 2 years back he made, me use Rank math from Yoast , Now again this . This guy doesn't stick to one direction , where ever the money is thrown , dog follows

[@multa7053]

And he 100% said that it's not sponsored. It's always your decision what to use and I'm personally going with RankMath

[@trishjones]

He said it’s free. I’ve changed SEO plugins about three times over the past 5 years. Things change, better products come along and if you’re serious about SEO, you might well change.

[@caknuckler]

No one is making you use anything. Do your research first and use these videos as guides but this channel has an overwhelming amount of great content. Plugins come and go , sometimes better ones come along. Now if I see a switch to Coke Zero on this channel I’m unsubbing.

[@websquadron]

Show me proof or evidence of any payment. I used RM then because Yoast stuck a lot behind a paywall. Contact Slim SEO if you don't believe me. Your comments reflects more about you than me. I look forward to seeing your evidence.

[@websquadron]

Absolutely right. It's a bit like how many of us used Yoast until RM came along. One day something else will come out that's even better. I never made the 'poster' use RM. It's not like I pushed his fingers for him :)