mounting Yoast SEO After the plugin, many WordPress Users often encounter the question: should I turn on every feature in the plugin? At first glance, it may seem safer to turn them all on, but in practice this is not always the case.

Yoast SEO offers a number of setup modules, including a sitemap,breadcrumb navigation, social previews, structured data, and more. Each feature serves a purpose, but whether to enable it or not needs to be judged in the context of your website type and operational direction.

I. Recommended priority features to be enabled

1. XML Sitemap
   This is a very core feature in Yoast SEO. It can help search engines understand the page structure of the website and improve the efficiency of inclusion. The plugin is installed and turned on by default, just submit the generated map address to the search engine platform.

2. Search Appearance Settings
   This feature allows you to set how page titles are presented, description templates, and what content needs to be indexed. For example, whether or not to let the category page appear in the search results, whether or not to add the site name suffix, etc. These details can be set uniformly, which is conducive to the overall presentation of a more professional search results.

3. Structured data(Schema) support
   Structured data allows more information to be displayed in the search results, such as ratings, release date, etc. Yoast already integrates basic Schema configuration by default, so no additional operations are needed for normal use, so it is recommended to keep it turned on.

4. Content analysis and keyword suggestions
   When writing content in the background, Yoast provides readability suggestions and keyword-related tips, such as whether sentences are too long and whether keywords are used frequently. For content creators, these tips help to write articles with clearer structure and logic.

II. Deciding whether to activate on a case-by-case basis

1. crumbnavigation function
   This function can show a clear page path, such as "Home > Product Category > Current Page", which can help visitors understand where they are located, but also help the search engine to include the hierarchy. If the content structure of the site has more levels, such as information stations, e-commerce platforms, etc., you can consider enabling; but the structure of a simple website can also be decided depending on the situation.

2. Social platform meta-information configuration
   Websites that frequently share to social platforms are recommended to customize the sharing information to enhance the display quality; those that do not focus on social promotion can choose to turn off the feature.

Third, it is not recommended to easily open the advanced features

1. File Editor Features
   Yoast provides an interface to modify robots.txt and .htaccess, but if these two files are not configured properly, it is easy to cause anomalies in website access. If you don't have relevant experience, it is recommended to keep the default configuration and make no changes.

2. REST API Integration support with development classes
   This type of functionality is mainly oriented towards developers or projects that interface with external systems, and is not important for most personal or general business websites, and is closed by default.

wrap-up

Yoast SEO is rich in features, but you don't need to enable all of them, you should choose according to the actual needs of your website. For example, to speed up the inclusion of the site map can be turned on, unified title can be set to search appearance, complex structure can be used to breadcrumb navigation, social communication can be enabled to share the preview, and writing can be used to analyze the assistance of content. If you are not sure whether you need a certain function, it is recommended to keep the default settings to avoid interference and make the website more stable and efficient.

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