Hey, I will answer what I can — I am SEO doer in our company, the actual developer will stop by later. Can you clarify question number 1 for us? Thank you.
Question 2: First off, SEMRUSH is not an authority on SEO. Last time I was speaking at WordCamp in Prague, I pointed out with evidence they are allowing paid guests posts, effectively creating a PBN on their blog. What is worse, those guest authors often cared more about “being published on SEMRUSH” than doing proper research. Do not get me wrong, it is an amazing tool I use myself and if your website is big enough it is almost necessary to use SEMRUSH or AHREFS, but I recommend and trust the later currently. Remember, these companies care only about profit. Their imperative is to keep SEO complicated, while we will do everything to make SEO easy. Those 100k-200k websites using TSF rank just fine… why? Great content.
The structured data TSF has are just fine, even the free version. The important, product SEO metadata are there and there is a reason you might want to trust us with Woo:
Question 3: The SEO Framework is the fastest and most secure SEO plugin for WordPress and our main source of income is that 1% of Woo sites that need fast and reliable plugin. I do not know Judge Me for Woo, but we always worked with other devs to make our plugins compatible — granted that authors of the other plugins want to cooperate. TSF is written in a way it should work with well written plugins out of the box. In those rare instances when this wasn’t the case, we always made plugins compatible.- I am not promising anything, but it is trivial to modify TSF to not output something other plugins does (if you want that).
Overall, I would say switching SEO plugins is a pain in the arse. I have my guesses why you want to switch, but really consider what you are doing — not that I do not want you as our user, but switching SEO plugins is just not something you should do lightly. We do offer free “transport” plugin, so it is very much possible and on the table.
I obviously think we are doing SEO better than any other SEO plugin, but I am biased. I recommend learning about companies owning SEO plugins, if and where they are paying taxes and what are their actual motivations. For us, it is not mainly cash — TSF has no ads, upsell and it does not require account to use. We also do not spy on you, do not phone home and care about privacy.
I understand you probably do not care that deeply about SEO as we do, you just want to get your job done.
All I can tell you, if you pick TSF you would be in decent company.
Have a nice 2024, I hope it will be better for all of us!