Silotree vs Yoast SEO
Yoast helps with the post in front of you. The problem on a two-thousand-post blog is the nineteen hundred behind it.
What Silotree is for: more readers from posts you already wrote — in about ten minutes a week.
- Free audit, no account
- First 10 links written free
- 30-day money-back guarantee
One difference matters more than the rest of the table.
How Yoast SEO works
Yoast SEO Premium's internal linking suggestions read the post you are writing and offer related posts to link to, alongside the rest of a mature SEO suite. For the post in the editor, that is useful and immediate.
How Silotree works
Silotree works the other way round: it reads the whole archive first, works out which posts nothing links to and which topics have no main page, and then tells you what to do — including which older posts should link to the one you just published.
Silotree and Yoast SEO, row by row
Shaded rows are where Yoast SEO is stronger.
| What it does | Yoast SEO | Silotree |
|---|---|---|
| Suggestions for the post being written | Yes (Premium) | Yes |
| Works across the whole archive | Limited | Yes |
| Finds posts nothing links to | Yes, orphaned-content filter and workout (Premium) | Yes, free and complete |
| Asks older posts to link to a new one | No | Yes, on publish |
| Knows which posts belong together | Partly: cornerstone content and prominent-word matching | Yes |
| Decay reporting | Partly: flags stale cornerstone content (Premium) | Yes, with a cause |
| Applies links for you | No | Yes, reversibly |
| Full SEO suite | YesStronger | No |
| Free tier depth | Good | Whole audit, no account |
If any of these describe you, we would rather say so than take your money.
You want the whole of on-page SEO in one plugin
Readability, schema, sitemaps, breadcrumbs. We do none of it.
You publish rarely and your archive is small
Suggestions while writing cover it, and there is no structure to keep.
You are on a page builder we refuse to write to
We decline Divi and Beaver Builder markup rather than risk it. Yoast's suggestions do not have that problem because you place the link yourself.
Before you decide
Can I keep Yoast and add Silotree?
Yes, and most people should. Silotree does not manage titles, schema or sitemaps and expects a suite to be there.
What does Silotree do that Yoast does not?
It reads the whole archive rather than the post in front of you, models topics separately from folders, ranks links by the clicks they should earn, applies the ones you approve with an undo, and tells you which posts are slipping and why.
Is it safe to let it edit published posts?
Every change is one phrase already in your sentence, wrapped in a link. A revision is saved before each edit, the post is read back to confirm the link landed, and any batch can be reversed from inside WordPress.
Yoast SEO is a trademark of its owner. This comparison describes how each tool works, is based on public documentation, and was last checked in September 2026. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will change it.
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