Best WordPress SEO Plugins Compared: Yoast vs Rank Math vs SEOPress

March 25, 2026April 18, 2025 by James Burfield

The SEO plugin you choose for WordPress matters less than how consistently you use it. I have seen sites ranking well with Yoast, Rank Math, and SEOPress, and I have seen sites ranking poorly with all three. The plugin does not do the SEO, it gives you the infrastructure to do it yourself. That said, … Read more

Setting Up XML Sitemaps & Robots.txt the Right Way (WordPress Edition)

August 18, 2026April 18, 2025 by James Burfield

Setting up XML sitemaps and robots.txt in WordPress

An XML sitemap is a file that lists the URLs on your site and tells search engines which pages you want crawled and indexed. Robots.txt is a separate file that tells crawlers which parts of your site to stay out of. Together they control a significant part of how Google navigates your site, and on … Read more