Title: Switching Plugins? Last modified: January 18, 2017 --- # Switching Plugins? * Resolved [arzea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arzea/) * (@arzea) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-plugins/) * I am considering switching SEO plugins, but I am not sure if I should leave all in one SEO active, disable, or uninstall all together. Will this effect current rankings my posts currently have, will it effect any of the HTML to disable or delete the plugin? How do these things alter previous posts using AIOSEO?? I do not have the premium version if that matters. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [Michael Torbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hallsofmontezuma/) * (@hallsofmontezuma) * WordPress Virtuoso * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-plugins/#post-8666834) * If you switch, you’ll lose all the SEO data and settings, and any HTML the plugin has created for SEO. Why do you want to switch? - This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by [Michael Torbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hallsofmontezuma/). * Thread Starter [arzea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arzea/) * (@arzea) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-plugins/#post-8666871) * As a food blogger I have colleagues who have found greater success using Yoast SEO. The increase in traffic and SEO was immediate for them. How does your markup and schema compare to Yoast SEO? When I look at my page markup/inspect element, I dont see AIO anywhere in the HTML. What info specifically would be getting stripped? * [Michael Torbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hallsofmontezuma/) * (@hallsofmontezuma) * WordPress Virtuoso * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-plugins/#post-8667054) * What is the URL for your site? * Thread Starter [arzea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arzea/) * (@arzea) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-plugins/#post-8667346) * it’s [http://www.DomesticSuperhero.com](http://www.DomesticSuperhero.com) * [Michael Torbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hallsofmontezuma/) * (@hallsofmontezuma) * WordPress Virtuoso * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-plugins/#post-8669138) * Just looking at your homepage, you have some information in the HTML from All in One SEO Pack. If you activate the Social Media module, you’ll have that as well. [https://semperplugins.com/documentation/social-meta-module/](https://semperplugins.com/documentation/social-meta-module/) * You also may want to try using the XML sitemap module. [https://semperplugins.com/documentation/xml-sitemaps-module/](https://semperplugins.com/documentation/xml-sitemaps-module/) * [Tony Zeoli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyzeoli/) * (@tonyzeoli) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-plugins/#post-8669214) * Arzea, * An SEO plugin is not solely responsible for your page rank and how your site if found in search. SEO plugins help you submit a sitemap to Google, Bing, Pinterest, and other search engines in order to move effectively crawl your site. They also help you manage your key phrases/terms in Title and Descriptions. And, they do a bunch of other things. Now SEO plugins help you not only manage your search engine SEO, but also your social meta that is shared into social media. AIOSEO is an incredibly powerful plugin to help you do this, but you need to educated yourself on how to best utilize it. You don’t just install an SEO plugin and all of a sudden jump to the top of the search rankings. It helps, but it’s not a cure all. You need to know something about SEO overall to effectively optimize your site for search, and that means securing your site with SSL and doing a page speed optimization analysis to make sure that your site loads fast. * There are hundreds of search ranking signals that Google uses for its search algorithm. You may want to take an online course in SEO to familiarize yourself with all the ways you can properly optimize your site. And, I suggest you read the tutorials on that Michael has posted for you, so you can further understand what are the things you need to do to effectively manage SEO on your site. * You can install any plugin, but if you don’t set it up correctly and know how to use it, you’ll be back to square one. * I use All in One SEO on all my client sites and AIOSEO was the first and best SEO plugin in the market. Other plugins may have more marketing “buzz,” but AIOSEO has served me and all of my clients well. But I had to learn how to use it. That took a little time, but now that I’ve done it, I’m in a much better position. * Remember – traffic and organic, high quality backlinks to your site weigh heavily in search. If you don’t have people linking back to you in the highly competitive world of food blogging, than it’s going to be hard to compete in the space. 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