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.

[Yeeply.com]

Hello Happy SEO,

Mmmm sorry but I don't understand why you are using 2 plugins. Could you please be more specific?

Thank you

Luis

[Happy-SEO]

Hi Luis,

We have a Wordpress Webshop. Because 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.

Thanks!

[evolvingSEO]

Hi There

I have not tried this myself, and don't have much experience with Ultimate SEO unfortunately... although I think it would be much better to get a developer to just custom code the /product/ removal feature. I'm going to assume the two SEO plugins could cause conflicts ... unless you're super diligent and know in great detail what you're doing. You'd want to review all possible settings ... titles/descriptions, indexation, canonicals, rel prev/next, social meta tags - there could be a lot going on under the hood which could cause issues in the future.