I remember when it WAS a Great plugin.

  • Not sure what happened with these guys, I remember when Yoast was first released and it was amazing, still seems to be amazing BUT…. you guys should win an award for the most ads/nags screens ever introduced into a plugin.

    Last time I used Yoast it had “soft” upsells to premium, now, anything you click, anywhere in wordpress where “Yoast” is associated there is constant nag screens and upsells. This plugin is the classic example of “if it is free, YOU are the product”.

    It is so bad that someone actually wrote a plugin “Hide SEO Bloat” to remove all the nasty bloat/ads that saturates your wordpress. I am all for supporting developers but this is ridiculous in my opinion. ??

    There is probably more code to inject their ads then what is written for the actual plugin….

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by xolite.
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  • Hi @xolite,

    Thanks for using our plugin and taking the time to write a review.

    We understand that you’d like to see a fewer number of ads in the free plugin. Yoast SEO displays a limited set of ads/notifications in specific areas in the backend. For example, when you move a post to trash, Yoast SEO will show a notification suggesting you create a redirect to avoid a 404 error on the deleted URL. This notification will go away when you refresh the page or, alternatively, you can close it by just clicking the X icon in the upper right-hand corner.

    These types of ads shouldn’t prevent you from using the plugin normally. That being said, we understand you’d like them to not appear in the backend. The only way to deactivate ads in the Yoast SEO plugin is to modify the plugin code (editing the plugin files yourself or using a 3rd-party plugin) or use Yoast SEO Premium.

    Thread Starter xolite

    (@xolite)

    I am not sure where in my review you came to the conclusion I did not understand something, but thank you for trying to justify yourself.

    I agree, I miss when it was good, clean, transparent and honest.
    I was paying the premium and I was ok with it until last week when they charged my credit card for an automatic renewal that I didn’t know about or authorise!

    They also told me that they could not revert my account to manual renewal, as it has been FOR YEARS! So, I contacted Consumer Law in my country and once I was aware of my rights, I asked for a refund (that they also claim I couldn’t have by the way) and I left!

    Now with your review, I see all the purposes of it, they are desperate for money, so they take it from the ones paying without consent and they harass those on the free version to pay for the premium. Very sad entrepreneurship right there, no ethics whatsoever.

    Thread Starter xolite

    (@xolite)

    I ams so sorry to hear that, “can’t revert your account to manual renewal”, sure they can, but unfortunately this is becoming all too common with subscription based business models for plugins, I myself support lifetime developers and I am happy to pay the higher price.

    If you have not resolved your issue with getting your money back, contact the credit card processor and Visa/Mastercard International, the merchant, credit card processor are required to have a return policy, this is required in order to accept visa/mastercard.

    Yoast is a “merchant” they either process through a 3rd party or with their own merchant account, if you cannot figure out which, contact Visa / Mastercard International and your problem will be resolved super quick. ??

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by xolite.
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