SEO Ultimate’s and Yoast together

[Happy-SEO]

We are using SEO Ultimate’s and Yoast together on a Wordpress website, does anyone have negative experience by using this to plugins together?

The main result to use this, is because we could remove the /product/ from the slug.

We want clean URL’s and not URL’s that have:

• website.com/product/PRO1 or
• website.com/product-catagory/CAT2 (standard Wordpress)

But we want:

• website.com/PRO1 or
• website.com/CAT2

In Yoast is possible to remove the URL /category/, but not the /product/. With SEO Ultimate’s it is possible. So we use them both. SEO Ultimate’s for the removal of the URL, and Yoast for it’s great functions: Sitemap, no index /page2/, no index media etc. etc.

But Yoast gives the following note:

‘’WordPress SEO (Yoast) is known to cause conflicts with SEO Ultimate. Please deactivate WordPress SEO if you wish to continue using SEO Ultimate.’’

I was wondering what this could mean for overal SEO performance. And maybe there is a way to remove the URL’s by using other methods > and remove the SEO Ultimate’s plugin.

[Yeeply.com]

Hello Happy SEO,

Two options (please, test only 1 at a time):

1. Stop the SEO Ultimate (don't delete it). Try this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-no-category-base/ and let us know if it works, and if there's no compatibility problem with Yoast plugin.
2. Stop the SEO Ultimate (don't delete it). Add this piece of code to the .htacess file of your wordpress to by-pass the category folder:

<code>RedirectMatch 301 ^/[^/]+/([^/]+)/?$ /$1</code> 

Hope this helps,

Luis

[Happy-SEO]

Thanks,

i will give it a try, when it worked: i'll give you an update!

[Christy-Correll]

Hi Happy SEO! Did you have a chance to implement Luis' suggestions? We'd love an update, thanks! Christy