SEO Ultimate’s and Yoast together
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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.
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:
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.
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Hi Happy SEO! Did you have a chance to implement Luis' suggestions? We'd love an update, thanks! Christy
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Thanks,
i will give it a try, when it worked: i'll give you an update!
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Hello Happy SEO,
Two options (please, test only 1 at a time):
- Stop the SEO Ultimate (don't delete it). Try this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-no-category-base/ and let us know if it works, and if there's no compatibility problem with Yoast plugin.
- Stop the SEO Ultimate (don't delete it). Add this piece of code to the .htacess file of your wordpress to by-pass the category folder:
<code>RedirectMatch 301 ^/[^/]+/([^/]+)/?$ /$1</code>
Hope this helps,
Luis
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