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For your content to be successful, it needs to be visible and engaging. SEO Writing Assistant—our smart editor tool—ensures that your text ticks both of these boxes by providing recommendations and improvements in real time.
The tool integrates seamlessly with WordPress and offers key readability and SEO suggestions based on the best-performing content in Google’s SERPs. Whether you’re writing your own copy or editing someone else’s, SEO Writing Assistant makes the end product as impactful and effective as possible—for readers and search engines.
<h3>Key Features</h3>
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<li>Readability: Use the Flesch-Kincaid score to assess and improve your text’s readability</li>
<li>Recommended Keywords: Receive semantically related keyword suggestions that can help boost your visibility</li>
<li>Tone of Voice: Ensure that your tone is smooth and consistent across your text</li>
<li>Plagiarism Check: Verify that your writer has submitted original content and avoid penalization</li>
<li>Rephraser: Rework pieces of text to improve quality, target different channels, or overcome writer’s block</li>
<li>Overall Score: Evaluate and maximize the SEO potential of your text based on key on-page factors</li>
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<h3>How Does It Work?</h3>
The SEO Writing Assistant plugin allows you to write, assess, and edit your content in WordPress.
To set it up, follow these steps:
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<li>Click “Download” at the top of this page. The plugin will automatically save as a .zip file.</li>
<li>Log in to the admin area of your WordPress account.</li>
<li>Find “Plugins” in the main menu, and click on “Add New”.</li>
<li>Find and click “Upload Plugin” at the top of the page and select the .zip file.</li>
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Once the plugin has been installed, it should be activated in your “Installed Plugins” list (if it isn’t, ensure that you do so). Go to the page or post you want to optimize and click on “Connect SEO Content Template” (you will need to be logged in to your Semrush account).
<h3>Limits</h3>
To use SEO Writing Assistant, you need to first specify your target keywords. This requires a Semrush account.
With a Free or Pro Semrush account, you can create one recommendation set (tied to a document) for a lifetime. Higher tier accounts have different keyword budgets depending on the subscription plan, as well as full access to the powerful Semrush Content Marketing Platform.
<h3>Technical details</h3>
Please be aware that the plugin uses a third-party code provided by the <a href="https://www.semrush.com/swa/" rel="nofollow ugc">Semrush SEO Writing Assistant</a> tool that is not reviewed by the WordPress team. To analyze your text, the plugin will send it to Semrush API where texts can also be stored for statistical analysis. To improve user experience, telemetry data is collected by Google Analytics.
See also
<a href="https://www.semrush.com/company/legal/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Semrush Privacy Policy</a> 
<a href="https://www.semrush.com/company/legal/terms-of-use/" rel="nofollow ugc">Semrush Terms and Conditions</a>

Semrush SEO Writing Assistant

The Semrush SEO Writing Assistant provides instant recommendations for content optimization based on the best-performing articles in Google's top 10.

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Ahrefs SEO WordPress Plugin is being deprecated
We’re retiring the Ahrefs SEO WordPress plugin on October 31, 2025. 
Before that date, please export any content audits you want to keep, as the plugin will no longer be available afterward. 
You can continue checking your traffic, ranking keywords, backlinks, and running Site Audits — all inside Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, completely free for domains you own. 
<a href="https://ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more at ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools</a> 
We’re also bringing the same functionality as this plugin directly into the Ahrefs Toolkit, so stay tuned for announcements. 
Have questions? Our support team is here to help: <a href="mailto:support@ahrefs.com" rel="nofollow ugc">support@ahrefs.com</a>
Automate content audits and grow organic traffic to your WordPress website with Ahrefs SEO plugin.
The Ahrefs WP plugin shows you how each article on your blog performs for a chosen target keyword based on Ahrefs, GA and GSC data. Then, it suggests what you can do to improve their performance.
Content audits
Most of us are so focused on publishing new content that we neglect the content we already have.
This is a mistake because not everything you publish will be a home run. Sometimes, it’ll fail to rank on Google, or convert, or contribute to your business goals in any meaningful way.
When this happens, you shouldn’t just leave the page to die a slow, painful death. You should revisit it, figure out what went wrong, and take action to improve its performance.
The Ahrefs WP plugin automates the entire content audit process and kicks back recommendations.
Related guide: <a href="https://ahrefs.com/blog/content-audit/" rel="nofollow ugc">How to Do a Content Audit</a>
Unique to Ahrefs SEO plugin
There are a lot of other SEO plugins in the market. So you must be thinking, why another one? Since the Ahrefs WordPress plugin focuses on content audits, it complements other SEO plugins rather than replaces them.
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Content audit 
The plugin regularly conducts content audits of your website and gives actionable suggestions on improving article performance for a target keyword based on Ahrefs, GA and GSC data.
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Performance score 
The plugin puts audited pages in 1 of 3 buckets based on their performance (well-performing, under-performing, non-performing). Besides evaluating individual pages, it also calculates the performance score that reflects the overall performance of the website’s content
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Integration with GA and GSC 
We don’t just pull data into your WordPress Admin and show you the same information that you can see on your GA and GSC dashboards. Your GSC and GA connection helps us to provide you with better target keyword recommendations and ideas of what to do next, so you can take actionable steps towards getting more search traffic. All GA and GSC data is stored in your website’s database and is never sent to Ahrefs.
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Integration with other SEO plugins 
If you have preconfigured target keywords in Yoast, RankMath or AIOSEO, you don’t need to enter them in our plugin. Ahrefs SEO will pull and update them automatically with every content audit.
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</ul>
And the usual best-practices
Other than the unique features, we make sure that we adhere to the best-practices for WordPress plugin development.
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Lightning fast 
The plugin puts a minimal load on your WordPress servers.
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Easy to setup and configure 
The setup wizard is a three step configuration that gets you started in less than 5 minutes.
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Read more
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<li><a href="https://help.ahrefs.com/en/collections/2253902-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Help center</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ahrefs.com/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ahrefs blog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/AhrefsCom" rel="nofollow ugc">Ahrefs TV</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ahrefs.com/vs" rel="nofollow ugc">Things only Ahrefs can do</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ahrefs.com/seo" rel="nofollow ugc">Beginner’s Guide to SEO</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ahrefs.com/academy" rel="nofollow ugc">Ahrefs Academy</a></li>
</ul>

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Automate content audits and grow organic traffic to your WordPress website with Ahrefs SEO plugin.

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