thank you for chiming in - you see there the partial remnants of what once was an important site to me and attempts to share and get discussions going with average people who internet but are not geeks.
That site started as a place to put on a business card for an email contact, and then morphed into pages to help people as I found issues in the non-online world. For a couple of years so many people asked me to help them fixed borked computers, I put up a few pages and directed friends and family to go here - do these three things on this page, call me with the results - it's the few things I would do if I came over to try to rescue your xp or vista system.. then added more things.. then experimented with new(ish) at the time wodpress and moveable type.

may things have changed since then, updates and hacks and thankfully less spyware infected systems friends call me about.

It's not made to take the #1 spot for anti-virus, and the experiment with MT and WP has led to some interesting growth in other areas.

So it's not written to win any writing award or be referenced in a phd or anything, just for the average joe I meet on the street and don't want to spend 20 minutes telling them about viruses and know that sending to sofos or something is not going to help them learn or do anything different in the future.

The yoast seo plugin I have used on other sites as well - the main reason for using that plugin is that wordpress does not handle meta title and descriptions very well out of the box - for the most part they put that into the chosen theme to handle - and most do not handle it well.

When you check how your wordpress site looks in google's eyes, many people with a WP site will get warnings about 'duplicate meta descriptions' which cause a penalty in the results I believe. So the yoast plugin can create meta descriptions on pages and posts that do not have them - and it can set some standard robots.txt type rules to block 'duplicate content indexing' as WP out of the box often puts the same text and such on the homepage, and a category page, and an archive page, and others..

So it's a quick an easy fix a few problems with WP that google will alert you about if you login into webmaster tools or maybe when you run a pagespeed check, some of those issues.

So included the yoast seo plugin is to fix some things, it does not create comment spam for seo or try to insert hidden text for britney spears disney and shady redirect to a porn site or anything like that.

you could rename the yoast, the all-in-seo and similar plugins as "remove the negative self created search engine penalties caused by WP and your lousy theme with one click" -
They are even more important on sites that run buddypress on top of wordpress for the same issue - and sometimes cause more - but that's for another post.

I think it's possible that we could both be right (although I certainly could be wrong) - in that I still think more good actors are hurt by the non-transparency, and you could be right in that there would be millions more junk sites / pages, although I think there are many fewer people making the bad stuff, I do know they make a lot of it... I still think that by trying to fool a few thousand bad actors big G is actually seriously hurting hundreds of thousands of web site owners.

Just think how many thousands of people have bought shady seo because they have no way to know what works or what doesn't and what's good or what's bad - I definitely think more good people and businesses are being hurt and the playing field is less even for the average business owner because of the lack of transparency.