Rank Math
Rank Math is a newcomer to the SEO plugins space, but it has been making its mark rather quickly. As the name suggests, Rank Math introduces a game-like process to help you optimize your content for the search engines. Each post gets ranked on a scale of 0-100 based on its level of optimization.
Apart from that, the plugin comes with built-in SEO modules that you can turn on/off based on what your needs are. Among other things, Rank Math can integrate your site with Search Console, help you with local SEO, WooCommerce SEO, image SEO, and more.
- Free version
- Pro version: (pricing starts from $59/year)
Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO is the most popular WordPress SEO plugin and one of the most popular WordPress plugins overall. Currently installed on more than 5 million(!) WordPress sites.
Arguably, it’s a bit easier-to-use solution than Rank Math. It comes nicely preconfigured and operates based on showing you just a simple SEO recommendations list for the keyword that you want to target. It tells you how to craft your page title, meta description, and other elements.
- Free version
- Pro version: (pricing starts from $89/1 site)
SEMrush SEO Writing Assistant (Free)
One of the best on-page SEO plugins for WordPress is our SEO Writing Assistant, providing instantaneous SEO recommendations for optimizing content based on the qualities of Google’s top 10-ranking pages for your given keywords in a given location. It also offers:
- A readability score and recommendations for improvement.
- Target keywords and recommended keywords.
- A tone of voice score to ensure writing is consistent with the desired level of formality.
- Plagiarism help to make sure the writer has submitted original content.
- Linking recommendations to check your links for possible errors and problems.