Fast, lightweight, and genuinely smart.

SEO Engine handles the essentials automatically so you can focus on creating. It’s the modern, intelligent SEO plugin for WordPress. Powerful without the bloat! 😘

New: AI Visibility (Pro) shows how ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude answer when people ask about your brand. See your rank on each assistant, who gets recommended next to you, and how it moves over time.

SEO Engine also integrates beautifully with AI Engine. Over MCP, your AI assistant can read your rankings, analyze your posts and apply the fixes for you. It honestly feels like magic. ✨

1,000+ active installs
4.9 average rating
48 reviews
on WordPress.org

AI Visibility

Track how ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude recommend your brand, and who gets named alongside you.

AI Bot Intelligence

Track 40+ bots and AI crawlers visiting your content with trends, comparisons, and anomaly detection.

MCP for AI Assistants

Query your SEO data through ChatGPT or Claude in plain language. Automate everything.

Magic Fix

AI drafts the fix for titles, descriptions, links and ALT text. You review it, then apply it in one click.

Redirections & 404

Track every 404 and route visitors with smart redirect rules. Never lose traffic to broken links.

Lightweight and Fast

Built from scratch with zero bloat. Simpler and faster than the competition.

Did you know?

SEO Engine was written from scratch and reached WordPress.org in February 2024, long after the big SEO plugins, so it carries none of their legacy code.

AI titles and descriptions, and the core MCP tools, are in the free version, not behind a paywall.

With AI Engine, its SEO tools become MCP tools, so Claude or ChatGPT can review and fix your SEO in a conversation.

It shows which AI bots visit your site, and (in Pro) how ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude talk about your brand.

How SEO Engine works

Video AI SEO for WordPress in 2 minutes Watch on YouTube

Classic SEO plugins optimise for a results page that more and more people never see, because they asked ChatGPT instead. SEO Engine covers both: the classic ground, and AI.

  • The basics, automaticSitemaps, robots.txt, canonicals, meta tags and structured data, plus IndexNow when you publish.
  • Redirects and 404sSide by side, because most 404s should become redirects.
  • Content SEOEach post scored on what matters, next to its Search Console data. Pro adds AI checks.
  • ProMagic FixAI proposes a concrete fix for each issue, shown as a diff before anything changes.
  • Analytics, freePrivate Analytics in your own database, or Google Analytics, Plausible or Matomo, plus AI bot visits.
  • ProAI VisibilityYour rank in ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude answers, with competitors and transcripts, on your own AI providers.

Everything is also available over MCP, so you can simply ask an assistant how your SEO is doing. Docs and tutorials: The Hidden Docs of SEO Engine.

Needs WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 8.1+. The AI features run through AI Engine (free), with your own AI provider key.

Free Version

  • Automatic Technical SEO

    Sitemaps, robots.txt, canonical URLs, schema, meta tags, etc. Everything a search engine needs, set up instantly and correctly.

  • Smart Meta Generation

    SEO Engine writes titles and descriptions automatically, or lets you refine them with AI assistance in a few clicks.

  • Real-Time Content Analysis

    Every post scored on titles, meta descriptions, internal links, ALT text, schema and content depth.

  • Redirections & 404

    Track every 404 in real time, set redirect rules with one click, and recover lost traffic from broken links.

  • Analytics, Four Ways

    Built-in Private Analytics, or connect Google Analytics, Plausible or Matomo. AI bot tracking (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Perplexity) included.

  • Multilingual by Design

    Works perfectly with Polylang and WPML. Each language gets its own SEO optimization and AI understanding.

Pro Version

  • Everything from the Free Version

  • AI Visibility

    See your rank on each AI assistant, the competitors recommended alongside you, and how it all trends over time.

  • Magic Fix

    AI drafts the fix for each issue, from missing links and ALT texts to weak titles and meta descriptions. You review it, then apply it in one click.

  • Search Console Insights

    Google Search Console data inside WordPress: rankings, impressions, and the quick wins worth fixing first.

  • AI Content Checks

    AI checks readability, structure, grammar, originality and topic completeness on your posts.

  • WooCommerce AI

    AI writes product SEO titles, descriptions, short descriptions and tags, and can read the product photo too.

  • Priority Support

    Enjoy direct access to the development team

    • Get Pro, from $19/year

Screenshots

SEO Engine Search Console screen: clicks, impressions and the opportunities listSEO Engine — Bulk SEOSEO Engine — Traffic AnalyticsSEO Engine — Speed & Vitals

Reviews from WordPress

Written by @FinnSommer on WordPress Forums

A modern and reliable SEO solution

I can highly recommend SEO Engine for both small and medium-sized WordPress sites, as well as for anyone who wants a modern, fast, and future-proof SEO solution without getting lost in a jungle of settings. If you take SEO seriously and want a plugin experience that is clean, efficient, and well-supported, this is a very solid choice.

Written by @taswegienne on WordPress Forums

Amazing

Such a timesaver, absolutely love it. On a client site we had hundreds of blogs and I wanted to write an excerpt for each of them. I was able to use this plugin from the back end index, without clicking into each post to edit first, and generate then save from there. Gold. Love it!

Written by @amreen17 on WordPress Forums

Awesome

I checked my website analytics after implementing Meow SEO strategies and saw a significant uptick in traffic. It was a testament to the power of its data-driven approach and the effectiveness of the tools in driving real, measurable results.

Written by @walterviana on WordPress Forums

The Master of SEO

SEO Engine is a masterpiece for WordPress website administrators. The changes are real, noticeable, and uncomplicated. Without having to become an SEO expert, the plugin does everything as selected in the options panel. In a few hours, your website will meet all SEO requirements and look professional in searches. I used the free version for two days and after seeing the results, I had no doubt whatsoever and bought the lifetime pro version.