So I’ve been using Yoast (free) on my person site for a few years. I’m looking for something a little simpler – just need to add title tag and meta description tag and perhaps a sitemap I can hand off to google console. Mostly just a person blog I’ve run for this 17 years. Yoast seem to be too complicated and messy. SEOPress ? Just need it to be super simple.
Seo framework – it has the least amount of bloat.
The SEO framework give you almost everything most other paid seo tiers offer. It’s the best choice right now. WPMU Dev is a close second, not because it’s SEO is so good, but because for a cheap price you get seo, image optimization, CDN, automated backups, and CSS/Js optimization/minifying. There SEO is good enough to do most things with as well.
RankMath for WordPress