@RICH.

Thank you, John, appreciate the support and prompt response as always. Unfortunately Breakdance not only does away with themes it disables Gutenberg as well ! The only breadcrumb solution for Breakdance at the moment is via RankMath, which is very, very basic. I’ll see if the crew over at Destiny will add breadcrumbs to their roadmap for me ! Thanks again. Rich.

No, Joost, I’m not a competitor. I’m a writer. I prefer to keep my anonymity so as to avoid any risk of preferential treatment that might influence me during the course of my research.

I am certainly not “throwing hate”. The important issue that you and Ms. Epstein have raised and which I look forward to discussing elsewhere is whether www.ads-software.com reviews now have any validity if “touting” is officially sanctioned and what steps developers may feel they’ll need to take, given that both positive and negative manipulation is now an authorised option.

However, I do thank you so much for your contributions today, which I shall thoroughly enjoy quoting. ??

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Oh, and in regard to Visual Composer, if compatibility is fixed I’m assuming that’s only been in the last couple of weeks, unless Mr. Verdonschot was entirely mistaken?

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/incompatible-with-vc-for-months/

Joost, you can try and spin this however you like but you can’t be surprised if members of the community feel you’re only doing it to cover up the avalanche of 1-star reviews at the 3.0 update, which were actually well deserved.

You and your team ignored the catastrophic issues surrounding 3.0, and as for support even as a premium member it consisted of “clear your cache” which was laughable.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/you-are-entitled-to-absolutely-nothing/

However, if you want to go down this path of touting for 5-star reviews, I’m sure you’ll agree, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, and that is entirely fair for others like me to ask the hundreds of people in my user group to pop over here and post their reviews, the reason why they switched from Yoast at 3.0 and the beneficial results their receiving to their ranking from changing to a rival plugin?

Or maybe not?

@hackprod I challenged this too, and Joost replied to me that it’s just “marketing” and that he has permission to do this.

I’m surprised Mr. Mullenweg agreed, as it opens the Pandora’s box of every developer now nagging their users to give them 5-star reviews which simply renders the review ratings worthless. I also believe combining opensource and marketing is the literal definition of an oxymoron.

However, on a much happier note, even though I was a premium user of Yoast, the fact that it’s still bug riddled and incompatible with other plugins such as Visual Composer, forced myself and hundreds of others in my user group to switch to AIOSEO.

This has resulted in a very big and unexpected surprise, we’ve all seen a massive jump in our rankings!!

Go figure. ??

I’ve switched to AIOSEO. I’m also hearing good things about The SEO Framework

No probs. I saw some of the (soon) features at the bottom of the description of the free version here under PRO and was interested. Thanks.