🚨 Stop Using Yoast

why were you using it anyways?

Shawna Newman
June 15, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

When I first started doing WordPress sites, I used Yoast cause it was the industry standard.

But as soon as something else was available, I jumped ship.

Honestly, I’ve always hated using Yoast but now you have a reason to drop them.

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Why Would They Do This?

Apparently in the Yoast plugin you have the option to use some sort of AI feature.

This seems to be only in the premium version, so the one you have to pay to use.

And if you use it, they’re kinda fucking you over.

Though, learning for the first time today that Yoast is now owned by the same chumps behind Bluehost and Hostgator makes this all make sense.

So yeah, if you’re using Yoast and this feature, maybe don’t?

I use RankMath, and it’s not perfect but it’s better than this.

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Coming up…

More on what I’m working on and how it’s going.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

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