I can’t be the first person to think about this can I?
How is it that there’s no Yoast plugin for Ghost? It’s like the standard SEO tool for Wordpress by a lot.
I haven’t been able to find anything, am I missing something?
I can’t be the first person to think about this can I?
How is it that there’s no Yoast plugin for Ghost? It’s like the standard SEO tool for Wordpress by a lot.
I haven’t been able to find anything, am I missing something?
Very interresting! (new user here, bear with me!)
How do you mean ‘SEO is built into the platform’?
Is there some way to replicate the functionality of Yoast in Ghost?
No worries, happy to help!
What functionality from yoast are you looking for specifically? A lot of the SEO functionality in ghost is either auto-generated or is configured in a specific area (i.e settings page or post settings menu)
The seo keyword optimization checklist functionality would be awesome
Really? In the RankBrain era of Google, keywords are way less important than in the past - it feels like it would be unnecessary cruft in Ghost at this point.
Hey Matthew,
As @vikaspotluri123 mentioned, Ghost does have full SEO functionality, and much of it happens in the background without any extra effort, plugins or downloads :)
In the editor you’ll be able to see where you can manually override meta data for the search engines as well as Twitter and Facebook. Behind the scenes, Ghost also provides detailed structured data (Schema.org), XML sitemaps, canonical tags, permalinks and semantic markup. Plus you get the SEO benefits of having a site with high performance, and there’s the option to enable AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) – if you’re into that.
IMO, one of the downsides of using Yoast’s KW optimisation suggestions is that is encourages us to write meta data for machines instead of humans – which isn’t always the best approach in the changing landscape of SEO. That said, I understand that it does have some benefits. But given the pace at which Google change the “rules”, it’s not something that’s on our radar at the moment.
Very interesting! Thanks for the follow up, good reminders, and I agree, I like to write for humans first, robots second
Some Yoast features should definitely be added into Ghost, however I don’t think that a CMS is the right place for SEO recommendations or keyword research.
As it currently stands, I think it’s an overstatement to say Ghost has “full” SEO functionality.
To claim full SEO functionality you’d really need to have a lot more features available to and configurable in the Admin UI, especially those in the Google search dev guides and references.
Here’s my wishlist (as an SEO) that I wish Ghost had:
A more feature complete set of Schema entitles (not just Articles/Publisher/images) including but not limited to:
Nofollow at both page level and link level (for paid links & crawl prioritisation, and comments if this feature gets added)
Noindex implementation
Sitemap (more than just auto generation)
Configurable i18n hreflang attribute injection
Image EXIF data (option to keep when optimising image size)
Page Title & Meta desc