Hi Tomasahl,
Thank you so much for considering The SEO Framework!
About the comparison, I believe an unbiased and professional 3rd party should be the judge of that, I’ve decided to do it anyway further down this reply.
Also, I do believe The SEO Framework lives up to the current standards and is slowly but certainly adding more and more features, which sometimes even can’t be found in premium plugins.
Most of The SEO Framework’s output is completely automated, so that should save you a lot of time. I always aim to be “perfect” with The SEO Framework in such a way to prevent hurting pageranking and over-optimization.
Genesis is fully supported, in such a way that all Genesis SEO values are automatically copied back and forth as they use the same database keys for posts and pages. The SEO Framework also has special checks for Genesis Term Meta.
Also, the output is fully integrated into the Genesis header. This has been the case since version 1.0.0 in March 2015.
A small (negligible) note about Genesis 2.2.6 and Term Meta:
I wouldn’t worry too much about this, but please be aware that their latest version (2.2.6) uses the new Term Meta introduced with WordPress 4.4.0.
Genesis 2.2.6 has been released 6 days ago and “copied” the old data to the new Term Meta.
This means that the new Genesis term (tags, category) SEO isn’t used as a fallback, unless they’ve been adjusted/filled in prior to the update of Genesis 2.2.6.
I have yet to update to support this. It requires a lot of time to correctly implement this everywhere within the plugin.
So, how does this plugin compare to AIO?
To answer your question, I had to install and activate AIO on a test site and took a quick look. I try to be unbiased, and please correct me if I’m wrong.
Out of the box, The SEO Framework is much more “SEO” friendly, this means that without filling in settings, The SEO Framework does more to optimize your website. The SEO Framework also tries to be automatically perfect
If you know what you’re doing, AIO is a very powerful SEO tool.
What I see is that All in One SEO is very verbose in terms of settings. This means that special syntax is required (yet also explained carefully) to change various settings. This is like how Yoast works.
The SEO Framework tends to be much more user-friendly. After all, I initially wrote this for my clients, without advertisement and I knew I didn’t want to spend hours explaining every feature. I also didn’t want them complaining to me that their site wasn’t optimized for SEO. This is why The SEO Framework does it right out of the box :).
The SEO Framework also contains a few powerful and advanced scripts, including the Knowledge Graph, Sitelinks Search Box and Breadcrumbs.
At the end of the day, it’s up to you! Activate either and see how the meta data works out for you :). The SEO Framework deactivates most parts of itself when it detects All in One SEO to prevent meta collisions.
I hope this helps! Feel free to ask any more questions if you have them ?? Thanks and have a great day!
