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Originally Posted by Smeklinis
Well, Yoast is useful - it adds meta description, canonical link.
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First of all, many themes do all these things as well. If not, you can add two lines of code into your head.php template (or how it's named in your theme). Why would someone install a slow and heavy weight plugin to do so? Do you lease a truck to transport your credit card when you go shopping? Maybe a usual pocket in your shorts will work better for such a purpose?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Smeklinis
You can have different titles and meta descriptions for different pages.
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As I said above, almost all premium themes do it but in a much more waster and organic way. And once again... why can't you do it by yourself?
For example, this is how a standard TwentyTen theme generates the post title:
Code:
<?php
/*
* Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
*/
global $page, $paged;
wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );
// Add the blog name.
bloginfo( 'name' );
// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) ) {
echo " | $site_description";
}
// Add a page number if necessary:
if ( ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 ) && ! is_404() ) {
/* translators: %s: Page number. */
echo esc_html( ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyten' ), max( $paged, $page ) ) );
}
?>
Can't you modify it according to your own needs? You can change anything and generate any kind of titles you want. Take the original post title and play with it as with a constructor's element: use post tags and categories, use keywords or parts from the article or, add a randomly picked quote etc. First of all, it will be your unique super secret method, but not a standard shit which is used at millions of sites with Yoast... The the most important thing: your site will be light speed fast and your server will tell you a big "THANK YOU"!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Smeklinis
Also it generates sitemap.
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There are 1001 of very small, fast and well-optimized plugins that do the same and much better.
So, Yoast is the most useless and even dangerous plugin which has nothing to do with a real SEO. It's like a cactus on grandma's desk to protect her against the evil computer radiation
