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.
2.8(25 reviews)
·9.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Semrush SEO Writing Assistant is a WordPress seo plugin with 9.0K+ active installations and a 2.8/5 rating from 25 reviews. It has been downloaded 172K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.8+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Downloads are up 6% this week. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
2.8/525 reviews
9.0K+active installs
172K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
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.
Key Features
- Readability: Use the Flesch-Kincaid score to assess and improve your text’s readability
- Recommended Keywords: Receive semantically related keyword suggestions that can help boost your visibility
- Tone of Voice: Ensure that your tone…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Meh
by benoitadam·2 years ago
The basic option can only be launched once
Paid plan is annoying, I’d rather pay a small fee just for that basic option.
The joke is that 7 day trial is 0€ but then the price is like written in tiny (it’s 300€ !)
With that price you better engage a Freelance that has the semrush account.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by benoitadam.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by benoitadam.
Great tool if you have SEMRush subscription
by SocialSparkMedia·3 years ago
It’s unfortunate that so many people have given this a bad review because they can’t use it without a subscription, which is expensive. Those aren’t reviews of the plugin. That said, I already have a subscription, which for my business I find worthwhile for the money. This is a fantastic tool to help me optimize my pages without having to copy and paste the content into SEMRush. It gives me great suggestions, and a better idea of the overall SEO value of the content than just Yoast. I hope SEMRush keeps up the plugin, I’d hate to lose it over a bunch of people who don’t have subscriptions complaining.
Too expensive to be worthwhile
by Ricci·3 years ago
The recently applied limits now mean that you can only use this plugin once unless you have the very expensive Guru plan on SEMRush. Previously you could use this multiple times on the Pro plan, but it seems that is not enough money for this company anymore.
Nice Addition – Needs Improvement
by Show Up Strong·3 years ago
Pros: I like the addition of this tool. It adds another dimension, research, and validating tool to the content arena. It helps me see what we forgot to include sometimes.
Cons: The backlink suggestions are rarely useful. We often see our own sites listed in the generated template doc of how competitors use the keywords.
Additional Feedback: As many people have mentioned SEMrush is expensive for small businesses and start-ups. Hence, only four starts. If you’re on a tight budget and find a way to squeeze this in, use every tool you can to improve your revenue generation. If the tools are not fully utilized, and optimization plans are not created and executed well, you won’t see the ROI.
Very expensive
by motionvideosuk·3 years ago
Might be a useful plugin if you could afford $220 a month, but I certainly won’t be paying that.
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Today: 20Yesterday: 40This week: 227Period total: 11K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
97.2%
Other
2.8%
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