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A faster, lighter alternative to Yoast SEO

Looking for a Yoast SEO alternative? Zinn® SEO gives you redirects and internal link suggestions for free, and adds nothing to your pages.

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Yoast SEO or Zinn® SEO?

Yoast SEO is the best-known SEO plugin for WordPress. Zinn® SEO does the same job, writes no plugin name into your pages, and includes for free the features Yoast keeps for Premium, such as redirects and internal link suggestions.

One honest note: Zinn® SEO is not released yet, so today Yoast SEO is the one you can install.

Zinn® SEO — Yoast SEO
Zinn® SEOYoast SEO
Entry paid plan$49 a year, and the same every year. Not on sale yetYoast SEO Premium: €118.80 a year before tax[1]
Sites that plan coversOne siteOne site[1]
llms.txtFree, including llms-full.txtIncluded for free[2]
Redirect managerFreeOnly in Yoast SEO Premium[3]
Internal link suggestionsFreeOnly in Yoast SEO Premium[4]

Sources

  1. Yoast SEO Premium
  2. Yoast: llms.txt
  3. Yoast: Redirect manager
  4. Yoast: Internal linking suggestions

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What Yoast SEO and Zinn® SEO add to your pages

We installed each plugin on the same WordPress site and loaded the same page as a visitor. None of them added a script or a stylesheet. The difference is in what else they leave behind: 4 of the 8 wrote their own name into the page code, and the extra database lookups per page ranged from none to 32.

What each plugin adds to your pages
Zinn® SEOYoast SEO
Scripts added00
Stylesheets added00
Comments naming the plugin in your page code02
Extra database lookups per page13
Version tested0.7.028.6

Our own test, not the plugin makers' figures: WordPress 7.1.3 on PHP 8.5, each plugin's current free version switched on with its default settings, the same post loaded as a visitor and compared with no SEO plugin. Tested on . How we tested

Why people will choose Zinn® SEO over Yoast SEO

Free where Yoast charges. Redirects and internal link suggestions are free in Zinn® SEO. Yoast lists both as Yoast SEO Premium features.

A lighter site. Zinn® SEO keeps no extra index of your content that can grow large and need repairing, and adds at most one database lookup per page.

Nobody needs to know. In our test Yoast SEO wrote its name into the page code. Zinn® SEO writes nothing about itself, and no-trace mode hides it completely.

When Yoast SEO is the better choice

Yoast SEO is released and runs on millions of sites, and Yoast SEO Premium checks a page against up to five keyphrases, with word forms in more than 20 languages. If you need a proven plugin today, Yoast SEO is one.

When Zinn® SEO is the better choice

Choose Zinn® SEO if you care about speed, run a large site, or want AI crawler control, redirects and link suggestions without paying extra.

How to move from Yoast SEO to Zinn® SEO

  1. See what will come over

    Open Move from another SEO plugin and Zinn® SEO counts your titles, descriptions and settings in Yoast SEO. Nothing is changed yet.

  2. Copy and compare

    Copy everything across, then compare every page: what Yoast SEO shows today next to what Zinn® SEO would show.

  3. Switch over, with an Undo

    Yoast SEO is switched off only when the pages say the same. One Undo takes everything back, and nothing of Yoast SEO is deleted.

See what you getWhen can I get it?

Questions about Zinn® SEO and Yoast SEO

Can I move from Yoast SEO without losing my SEO?

Yes. Zinn® SEO copies your titles, descriptions and settings from Yoast SEO, compares every page before and after, and only then switches Yoast SEO off. If you change your mind, one Undo puts everything back.

Will Zinn® SEO slow my site down?

No. It adds 0 scripts, 0 stylesheets and no plugin comment to your pages. Your visitors get your content and nothing extra.

Where do the Yoast SEO details on this page come from?

From Yoast SEO's own website, read on the date shown. Each one links to the page it came from, so you can check it yourself.

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