Switching SEO plugins is mostly fear of losing settings you have forgotten you made. Rankavia’s importer reads them all, shows you the differences, and keeps a rollback for thirty days. Here is what carries over from each plugin and what changes.
What is imported
From Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress: per-post titles and descriptions, focus keywords, canonical URLs, robots settings, social titles, descriptions and images, redirects, schema type choices, title templates for each post type and archive, the separator, breadcrumb settings, sitemap inclusions and the default social image. Variables are translated between syntaxes; Yoast’s %%title%% becomes %title% and so on.
What is different afterwards
Three things. First, the Visibility Score replaces the traffic-light per-post score; the checks overlap, but ours include speed and answer-engine readability. Second, AI crawler policy is a first-class setting rather than a manual robots.txt edit. Third, speed features live in a separate plugin, Rankavia Speed, so a performance change can never take your SEO settings down with it.
The safe order
- Install Rankavia alongside the old plugin; it stays silent while another SEO plugin is active.
- Run the importer and read the diff. Nothing is written until you confirm.
- Deactivate the old plugin. Do not delete it yet.
- Check five pages: home, a post, a page, a category, a product if you sell.
- Delete the old plugin after a week of normal traffic.
Rankings do not drop because you changed plugins. They drop when a title template silently changes or a redirect goes missing, and the diff exists so neither happens unnoticed.