Hi @frafor
Thanks a lot for your message. I’m totally with you! I’ve never understood the obsession with bloated SEO plugins. I honestly can’t imagine installing something like Yoast on any of my sites.
SEO Engine tries to stay focused on what actually matters for SEO, without all the fluff and upsells. It’s meant to be simple, useful, and clean.
That said, I’d love to know: What kind of data or settings would you want to import from RankMath or Yoast? What are the parts you actually use? I’m genuinely curious because I do want SEO Engine to stay lightweight, but I’m open to adding what really matters.
Cheers 🙂
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frafor
(@frafor)
Well I use Rankmath and Yoast both in their free versions, but they are pushing so much useless stuff. I was using Yoast for a long time, then switched to Rankmath because I could get rid of Redirections thus using less plugins, but still it has become really bloated in a very short time, pushing useless account creation to promote their AI-everything plans.
I’d really like to move to SEO Engine two-three websites for start, to see what’s the outcome pairing it with WPSSO Core for the schema markup, but I’d have to move all the current titles and meta descriptions. Some sites are like 30 pages so it’s still doable by hand, but others have more than 200, which would be annoying to do.
I guess import titles and description could be a good start and it would facilitate user acquisition.
It shouldn’t be very difficult to create a script, or even a tool inside SEO Engine, to handle that migration. Besides the meta title and meta description, is there anything else you’d need to transfer?
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frafor
(@frafor)
Not really, at least not that I use… but I am also a SEO pro and I don’t use those things like “add a keyword for traffic light analysis”, link counters and so on, I just go straight to the point… while beginners might need more stuff – but still I don’t know how other data could be imported into SEO Engine.
As your plugin does not handle schema, all the schema-related stuff like business info, schema models etc must be taken care by WPSSO, but it’s not that long to reconfigure it.
