WordPress SEO tools that check your writing as you type

Good writing still needs the right tags and a technical check

A post can read well and still go out with a missing meta description, a title Google cuts off, no image for social shares, or a slow page. Those problems are invisible in the editor, so they get found weeks later, if at all.

DidYouSEO puts the checks where you write. The tags are filled in for every post, the editor tells you what to fix before you publish, and the audit looks at the page visitors and Google actually load.

Search appearance for every post and page

• SEO title and meta description, with character counters and a live Google preview.
• Leave them empty and the plugin uses sensible defaults: "Post title - Site name", and the excerpt or opening text, trimmed to about 155 characters.
• Canonical URL for content that lives at more than one address.
• Noindex and nofollow per post or page. Hidden pages are left out of the WordPress sitemap.
• A homepage title and description, and a title separator, under Settings → DidYouSEO.

Tags the plugin adds to your pages

A content optimization tool inside the editor

Set a focus keyword and the DidYouSEO sidebar checks the post as you write: the SEO title, meta description, URL, introduction, subheadings, image alt text, keyword density, content length, links and readability.

A question mark next to each check explains why it matters and how to fix it. The checks run in your browser and never send your content anywhere, and the Writing score in the editor toolbar updates as you type.

Page audits with a free DidYouSEO account

The writing checks look at your text. The audit looks at the published page, the way a search engine loads it: speed, structured data, accessibility, broken links and more, 40+ checks in all.

Connect a free account and you can audit a page from the editor, or automatically when you publish. Every problem shows in the editor with its fix, the Posts list gets an SEO Score column, the dashboard widget shows your site score, and you can get an alert when a score drops.

Each audit is one API request. The free plan includes 20 requests a day, and the dashboard widget only asks for your score once an hour.

From content calendar to scheduled post (Growth plan)

On the Growth plan, plan articles in your DidYouSEO content calendar and let AI write the drafts. You review every article on DidYouSEO, and when you approve it, it arrives in WordPress as a scheduled post, or as a draft if you prefer.

Nothing is published without your approval.

Frequently asked questions