Looking for a better alternative to Yoast SEO?
Yoast has long been a go-to SEO plugin for WordPress users. It’s simple, familiar, and gives you a red-light/green-light system to help optimize your content. But here’s the reality: Yoast doesn’t do your SEO— it just tells you what you could do.
Kit is the world’s first SEO AI agent for small businesses, and it’s ready to help yours. Instead of offering suggestions and scoring content like Yoast, Kit actually builds your SEO strategy and does the work. From content creation to site optimization and local SEO, Kit takes the reins. Here’s how they compare in more depth.
Different types of help
Yoast is a content helper for WordPress. It sits inside your post editor and gives you recommendations—“Add a keyword to the first paragraph,” “Make your sentence lengths shorter,” or “Use more subheadings.” These are helpful tips, but they assume you know how to write for SEO and have time to make the changes.
What it doesn’t do is:
- Build an SEO strategy based on your business and goals
- Research or assign keywords
- Create or optimize content for you
- Manage local SEO or off-site visibility
Kit is an AI-powered SEO expert that takes the burden of SEO off your plate. It:
- Audits your site and competitors
- Builds a keyword strategy from scratch
- Assigns keywords to specific pages
- Writes and optimizes website and blog content
- Continuously monitors and updates your site to match SEO best practices
- Handles local SEO and manages Google Business listings
It’s not a plugin. It’s your SEO team.
Ease of use
Yoast is known for its simplicity—install the plugin, see color-coded suggestions. But turning red lights green can be time-consuming, especially if you’re not confident in writing, formatting, or knowing which SEO advice really matters.
Kit takes away all that complexity. After a brief onboarding, Kit gets to work:
- It knows what keywords to target based on search trends, your services, and local competition
- It updates your site’s metadata, headers, and internal linking
- It rewrites pages when needed
- It writes full blog posts with outlines, SEO-rich formatting, and brand-appropriate tone
And unlike Yoast, Kit continues optimizing over time—so your SEO gets better month after month without any effort from you.
Support and strategy
Yoast provides help documentation, online courses, and support tickets for premium users. But these are mostly focused on how to use the plugin—not how to grow your business through SEO.
Kit includes:
- A free 1-on-1 onboarding session with a Hike account manager
- Live support from a Hike account manager who understand your business and goals
- Strategic recommendations specific to your market and audience
Because Kit is doing the work, the support team doesn’t just answer plugin questions—they help guide your growth.
Manual effort vs. automation
Yoast is like having an editor sitting beside you, pointing out what needs improving—but handing you the pen.
Every Yoast “fix” requires manual input:
- You must write or rewrite content
- You must find and assign keywords
- You must stay updated on best practices
- You must organize your own content calendar
Kit does it all for you:
- Writes optimized blog posts and publishes them (yes, full articles!)
- Updates service pages based on your keyword map
- Optimizes images, headings, internal links, and content length
- Fixes technical SEO issues like duplicate metadata or broken links
- Updates your sitemap and ensures search engines index the right pages
It doesn’t stop at advice—it delivers fully executed SEO tasks every month.
Results vs. reminders
Yoast is great at reminding you what SEO should look like. But if you’re a business owner without time to follow through on every task, Yoast’s lights eventually get ignored—and results stall.
Kit delivers results by taking action:
- Businesses using Kit have gone from zero search visibility to ranking on page 1 for local and national keywords
- Users see sustained increases in organic traffic thanks to consistent on-page and content work
- Agencies using Kit can deliver SEO results to multiple clients—without hiring extra staff
Instead of “Here’s what you should fix,” Kit gives you “Here’s what we fixed—and what we’re doing next.”
Pricing comparison
Yoast:
- Free for basic SEO tips
- Premium plans start at $99/year (plus tax)
- Additional plugins (Local SEO, Video SEO, WooCommerce SEO) each add extra cost
- Content writing, strategy, and implementation not included
Kit: $149/month includes:
- A full SEO strategy
- Monthly on-page optimization
- Keyword mapping and content briefs
- Blog writing and publishing
- Technical SEO improvements
- Google Business Profile management
- Citation building and local SEO automation
- White-label support for agencies
- Hike support + built-in AI execution
With Kit, you’re not stacking plugins or chasing down freelancers—it’s all done.
The takeaway?
Yoast is a great plugin if you’re comfortable doing SEO yourself and you’ve got time to keep up with every task. But if you want SEO that actually gets done—automatically, correctly, and consistently—Kit is the better way forward.
Try Kit today. No plugin required. No DIY checklists. Just smart, done-for-you SEO that helps your business grow.
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