SEOPress - Why It’s Our Top Choice for an SEO Plugin

WordPress sites have a seemingly endless supply of plugins for every website action under the sun. However, there are only a few top WordPress plugins for SEO (search engine optimization) that are worth mentioning—most notably SEOPress and Yoast. When it comes to choosing the best SEO plugin for your WordPress site, we prefer and recommend SEOPress.

The Benefits of SEOPress WordPress Plugin

SEOPress is an all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress. Generally, the features of SEOPress come included and you don’t have to go hunting for that one other plugin that will make everything work together. For marketing efficiency, you can’t beat a one-stop-shop. SEOPress Pro has a lot of integrations and plenty of features that make your job easier.

We also want to point out that while indeed “SEO” is built into the name of the plugin, the features that are built in (and coming soon) are also helpful for generative search optimization so as AI visibility becomes more important, SEOPress is adapting to help. 

Here are some of our favorite SEOPress features:

• Custom cookie bar – This is not nearly as delicious as it sounds, but it’s still good. You can pick where and how your cookie bar (the pop up that asks for permission to accept or manage tracking/cookies) functions on your site, and it allows you to flexibly configure your users’ cookie bar experience. Plus, you can match the colors to the style of your site without a custom CSS.

• GTM/scripts integration – Google Analytics is nice and easy using the tracking scripts created directly in SEOPress. (Whether you include analytics by default or to wait for user opt-in is configurable in the cookie bar settings.)
• HTML in addition to your XML sitemap  – the XML sitemap is a must for search engine crawlers, but an HTML sitemap can be helpful for a real, live human being who’s lost on your site and needs to find their way to the page they need. SEOPress allows users to configure the output, so specific pages can be excluded from the sitemap—like a 404 page.
• Title & metas – For different host types, archives, and taxonomies, use SEOPress to define global titles and meta descriptions. You can set the rules, or SEOPress can do it for you.
• Schema markup –  Schema markup can be assigned based on post type categories; manage them with a few clicks using SEOPress. Both automatic and manual markup can be implemented.
• Easy 301 redirects – You can set up redirects one at a time or by uploading rules in a CSV. SEOPress supports both permanent 301 redirects and temporary 302 redirects. Whether to pass on GET parameters to the redirected page is an option you’ll appreciate when running a Google campaign.
• Social sharing image selection – There’s a clear image hierarchy for OG (open graph) social images—so when you post on social media, the picture that’s chosen is based on a clear set of rules that can easily be overridden on a case-by-case basis.
• Easy to export and import – It’s simple to export your SEOPress configurations from one site and import them into another. Advanced SEOPress options make it easy to export (if moving from one site to another).
• Presto change-SEO – SEOPress allows migration from Yoast to SEOPress with the push of a button.
• AI updates – Powered with OpenAI and DeepSeek AI, SEOPress has boosted its offerings with even more automation and AI-powered features. Read on below to see everything they’ve added and how it can improve your WordPress site experience.

SEOPress AI Tools

For any plugin, it’s best to find one from a company that regularly refines their offerings and keeps the plugin up-to-date. When a plugin reflects the latest technology and trends, you know the creators aim to keep it relevant and reliable—which enables users to trust it more!

To that end, SEOPress has introduced its plugin’s AI tools. As a note: These tools are only available in their paid PRO version.

• Alt text for images – ChatGPT by Open AI helps users describe images (upon upload) with simple text—and bulk actions are available for this tool, too. While not always perfect, it’s a good starting point, and it’s all housed within the plugin to help boost your SEO and keep your site more accessible.
• Title/meta title auto-generation – This integrated option scans your content, and within a few seconds, develops suggestions for title tags and meta titles.
• Bulk metadata – Have a whole bunch of pages that need SEO metadata? Use a bulk action to generate title, meta description, and alternative texts for images in a snap. (You can also create your own scripts with SEOPress!)

To add to SEOPress’ trustworthiness, they’ve also outlined the privacy limits they’ve set with the Open AI integration. Using AI can feel sometimes like an all-or-nothing access pass, but SEOPress promises on their site to only ever share what’s absolutely necessary for the AI tools to work. Specifically, they only provide:

• Post content, post language, and target keywords—for SEO metadata generation
• Image URL and site language—for image alt text

SEOPress vs. Yoast

You get it, SEOPress is good. But what else is out there? Let’s compare. Yoast is highly popular, with 13 million users (according to their own website) on WordPress, but we’ve found SEOPress works better for us at Solid Digital. (Yes, we have previously used and recommended Yoast!) Beyond the benefits that we listed above, it also has a few other benefits when comparing Yoast vs. SEOPress:

Pricing
If you’re going the free route, zero dollars is zero dollars, but the free version of SEOPress is superior to the free version of Yoast, in our opinion. If you’re going premium or pro, Yoast costs $118.80/year for Yoast Premium, whereas SEOPress Pro starts at only $49/year for a license with the AI integrations plus support and automatic updates. For our own clients at Solid Digital, we can offer our SEOPress license at no additional cost with our unlimited site Pro version of the plugin. Pro version with unlimited sites.

Special Features
You want an SEO plugin for WordPress that will make things easier. SEOPress Pro allows for a consolidation of the plugin stack you need for your site. It includes a broken link (Oops! 404!) report so you can zero in and fix the problems—even ones you didn’t know about—without breaking a sweat.

Number of Plugins Needed
SEOPress’ configuration doesn’t usually require extra plugins to manage everything. Think Christmas morning: a new remote control car with no batteries. Doesn’t feel festive or fun or useful. Choose SEOPress instead of Yoast, simply because you won’t have to get more plugins than you want or need. Less is more, because when you have too many plugins, you run the risk of compatibility issues with site or plugin updates, or worse: breaking the site. One example is local business schema—with Yoast you’ll need an extra (paid) plugin to manage that—SEOPress Pro already has it built in.