I am using Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin on my site. Is it good enough?

[Bhasker]

What does other members and Moz think about using Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin? Are there better alternative?

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Not really. Yoast is about as good as it gets with an SEO Plugin. There are alternatives, most of which I have seen, but still they don't do as much or make it quite as easy. Ultimately, you want something that allows you to configure individual pages, but offer a level of customisation, if required - which Yoast does.

-Andy

[anthonydnelson]

Wordpress is pretty SEO friendly right out of the box. If you install Yoast and implement some of the basic recommended features, you should be relatively good to go. Put your focus on content creation before worrying too much about minor SEO details.

[DonnaDuncan]

Agree with the others, Yoast is a robust tool that offers you the most flexibility and configuration options.

Why are you asking? Are you having a specific problem or are you just surveying the group before deciding to move forward with a specific tool?

[Bhasker]

I have been using Yoast SEO for sometime, but does not seem to get much benefit.

My site is www.analyticsindiamag.com

I believe the content is good in its niche area and has been around for sometime.

My Moz domain Authority score is 27 which I dont think is good enough. Was wondering if I am doing something not right with SEO on this site.

[DonnaDuncan]

Ah then, that's a bigger question.

You're using an excellent tool, Yoast. Stick with it. It could be it isn't configured properly, you're in a highly competitive market, or there are other issues getting in the way of your advancement.

After a quick look at your site, three things jump out: structure, speed and links.

(1) Your site structure is extremely flat, meaning your link equity is getting disbursed across almost every page on the site. You should aim for a short, fat pyramid structure with top level pages being your most important. You're also inconsistenly using www and non-www links internally to the site. That's contributing to the next problem and diluting your link equity because of unnecessary redirects.

(2) Your site is slow. It ranks very poorly using Google's speed test. Speed is an important ranking factor these days.

(3) You seem to have a lot of questionable incoming links to the site. You might need to do a link cleanup.

I'd recommend a complete SEO audit and suggest you reference this extremely helpful post from Moz in order to understand the types of things you should be looking for.