Best SEO plugins for WordPress
The most popular SEO plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Yoast SEO leads with 10M+ active installs, ahead of LiteSpeed Cache (7M+) and Rank Math SEO (4M+). All 2,921 plugins tagged “seo” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 SEO plugins
- 1.
Yoast SEOThe most installed SEO plugin, with 10M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 27,820 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
LiteSpeed Cache7M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 2,778 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 3.Rank Math SEO
4M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 7,522 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 4.All in One SEO
2M+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 5,233 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 5.
XML Sitemap Generator for Google1M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 2,233 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 6.
SpeedyCache500K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 30 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.
SiteSEO400K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 8 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 8.
SureRank SEO300K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 53 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 9.
SEOPress300K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 1,268 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 10.
Cloudflare200K+ active installs. Rated 3.5 from 181 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
All 2,921 plugins tagged “seo”

Yoast SEO
#2by Yoast12 days ago
Real-time SEO guidance, schema, and AI built in. Help search engines and AI systems understand your content. All AI tools included, no hidden fees.
- Installs
- 10M+
- Rating
- 4.8(27.8K)
- Downloads
- 128.4K/day

LiteSpeed Cache
#5by LiteSpeed Technologies4 days ago
All-in-one unbeatable acceleration & PageSpeed improvement: caching, image/CSS/JS optimization...
- Installs
- 7M+
- Rating
- 4.8(2.8K)
- Downloads
- 52.8K/day
Rank Math SEO
#13by Rank Math SEO5 days ago
Grow your organic traffic and AI visibility with powerful SEO tools, XML sitemaps, Schema automation, and built-in AI SEO, all in one place.
- Installs
- 4M+
- Rating
- 4.8(7.5K)
- Downloads
- 34.4K/day
All in One SEO
#22by Syed Balkhi4 days ago
AIOSEO is the WordPress SEO plugin. Boost SEO rankings with AI SEO tools, schema, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps & rank tracking.
- Installs
- 2M+
- Rating
- 4.7(5.2K)
- Downloads
- 29.6K/day

XML Sitemap Generator for Google
Down in the last 7 days:1#57by Auctollo1 month ago
Generate multiple types of sitemaps to improve SEO and get your website indexed quickly.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.8(2.2K)
- Downloads
- 4.3K/day

SpeedyCache
Down in the last 7 days:1#117by Softaculous1 month ago
SpeedyCache is a WordPress cache plugin that helps you improve performance of your WordPress site by caching, minifying, and compressing your website.
- Installs
- 500K+
- Rating
- 4.4(30)
- Downloads
- 1.8K/day

SiteSEO
Down in the last 7 days:2#135by Softaculous1 month ago
SiteSEO is an easy, fast and powerful SEO plugin for WordPress. Unlock your Website's potential and Maximize your online visibility with our SiteSEO!
- Installs
- 400K+
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Downloads
- 947/day

SureRank SEO
#155by Brainstorm Force12 days ago
Lightweight SEO assistant for meta tags, schema and structured data, XML sitemaps, Open Graph previews, robots.txt, and Search Console.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.8(53)
- Downloads
- 3.7K/day

SEOPress
Up in the last 7 days:1#168by Benjamin Denis10 days ago
WordPress SEO plugin with AI SEO metadata, schema, XML sitemap, redirections & Search Console. Privacy-first, white-label SEO. Now AI-ready.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.8(1.3K)
- Downloads
- 6.4K/day

Cloudflare
Up in the last 7 days:1#226by Cloudflare1 month ago
All of Cloudflare’s performance and security benefits in a simple one-click install.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 3.5(181)
- Downloads
- 2.8K/day
The SEO Framework
Up in the last 7 days:2#260by Sybre Waaijer25 days ago
The fastest feature-complete SEO plugin for professional WordPress websites. Secure, fast, unbranded, and automated SEO. Do less; get better results.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.9(380)
- Downloads
- 3K/day

ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO
Down in the last 7 days:3#300by Yoast1 month ago
WordPress plugin that adds the content of all ACF fields to the Yoast SEO score analysis.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.1(35)
- Downloads
- 1.5K/day
SEO SIMPLE PACK
Up in the last 7 days:1#304by LOOS5 months ago
This is a very simple SEO plugin. You can easily set and customize meta tags and OGP tags for each page.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.6(14)
- Downloads
- 513/day

IndexNow Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:4#321by bingwebmastertools4 months ago
IndexNow Plugin for WordPress enables site owners to instantly and automatically submit their new/updated pages to supporting search engines.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 3.2(47)
- Downloads
- 967/day

Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP
Down in the last 7 days:1#332by Magazine36 days ago
Schema & Structured Data adds Google Rich Snippets markup according to Schema.org guidelines to structure your site for SEO.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.5(252)
- Downloads
- 2.9K/day
Custom Permalinks
Down in the last 7 days:2#409by Sami Ahmed Siddiqui26 days ago
A powerful WordPress plugin for full URL control. Set custom permalinks, auto-redirects, and use dynamic tags for ideal site structure and SEO.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.1(116)
- Downloads
- 797/day

YARPP
Down in the last 7 days:7#410by YARPP2 years ago
The best WordPress plugin for displaying related posts. Simple and flexible, with a powerful proven algorithm and inbuilt caching.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(1.2K)
- Downloads
- 456/day
Internal Link Juicer
Up in the last 7 days:1#460by David Anderson / Team Updraft3 days ago
Improve your SEO and your user experience through internal linkbuilding. Automated links between your posts based on a smart keyword configuration.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(538)
- Downloads
- 661/day

LuckyWP Table of Contents
#469by LuckyWP1 year ago
Creates SEO-friendly table of contents for your posts/pages. Works automatically or manually (via shortcode, Gutenberg block or widget).
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.9(884)
- Downloads
- 153/day

AMP for WP
Up in the last 7 days:2#573by Mohammed Kaludi2 days ago
AMP for WP is the most recommended AMP plugin by the community. Automatically add Accelerated Mobile Pages (Google AMP Project) functionality on your …
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.4(1.3K)
- Downloads
- 633/day
Slim SEO
Up in the last 7 days:2#582by Anh Tran3 days ago
An AI SEO plugin for WordPress that's lightweight and fast. Automatically generates meta tags, sitemaps, schemas and more with no bloat.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.7(136)
- Downloads
- 1.3K/day

Meta Tag Manager
Down in the last 7 days:2#599by Marcus (aka @msykes)1 month ago
Easily add and manage custom meta tags to various parts of your site or on individual posts, such as Yahoo and Google verification tags.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.8(84)
- Downloads
- 145/day

Redirect 404 to Homepage
Down in the last 7 days:2#637by pipdig1 month ago
Redirect 404 missing pages to the homepage using SEO 301 redirection. Super lightweight!
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.6(24)
- Downloads
- 382/day

Contextual Related Posts
#736by Ajay5 days ago
Keep visitors on your site longer with intelligent, fast-loading, contextually related posts. Block, shortcode, custom post type and widget ready.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.8(201)
- Downloads
- 851/day

Website LLMs.txt
Up in the last 7 days:6#770by Ryan Howard1 month ago
Automatically generate and manage LLMS.txt files for LLM/AI content understanding, with full Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO integration.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Downloads
- 430/day

BoldGrid Easy SEO
Down in the last 7 days:2#828by BoldGrid2 months ago
Easy SEO helps you easily create keyword rich content and rank higher in the search engines.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 3.0(3)
- Downloads
- 31/day
Remove Category URL
Up in the last 7 days:2#830by Themeisle20 days ago
Remove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.3(61)
- Downloads
- 330/day

Media File Renamer
Up in the last 7 days:3#842by Jordy Meow5 days ago
Rename image files and media metadata for SEO and tidiness. Using AI, manually, in bulk, or in so many other ways!
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.6(448)
- Downloads
- 2.3K/day

WP Robots Txt
Up in the last 7 days:4#854by George Pattichis2 months ago
WP Robots Txt Allows you to edit the content of your robots.txt file.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 5.0(21)
- Downloads
- 241/day

Bing URL Submissions Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:2#876by bingwebmastertools5 months ago
Bing URL Submission Plugin for WordPress enables site owners to instantly and automatically submit their new/updated pages to the Bing index.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 3.3(21)
- Downloads
- 89/day

WP 404 Auto Redirect to Similar Post
Down in the last 7 days:2#967by Konrad Chmielewski11 months ago
Automatically Redirect any 404 page to a Similar Post based on the Title Post Type & Taxonomy using 301 or 302 Redirects!
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.9(113)
- Downloads
- 123/day

Link Whisper Free
#986by Spencer Haws26 days ago
The AI-powered internal linking plugin for WordPress. Build internal links faster, find linking opportunities, and improve SEO automatically.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.2(151)
- Downloads
- 371/day

GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO
Down in the last 7 days:18#1,010by SEO Squirrly1 day ago
Become the brand AI recommends. SEO + AEO + GEO so your WordPress ranks on Google and gets cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & AI Overviews.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.6(683)
- Downloads
- 1.2K/day
CrawlWP SEO
Down in the last 7 days:36#1,021by properfraction27 days ago
Complete WordPress SEO: meta titles, schema, redirects and sitemaps, plus instant indexing on Google, Bing, Yandex and more.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(62)
- Downloads
- 217/day

BeyondSEO
Up in the last 7 days:104#1,204by rankingCoach10 days ago
Grow your traffic with AI-powered SEO, local listings, review management, social media & Google Ads — all inside WordPress.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 1.7K/day

WP All Import
Down in the last 7 days:12#1,365by WP All Import1 month ago
Drag & drop to import from any CSV, Excel, XML, or Google Sheets file into Yoast SEO's titles, meta descriptions, focus keywords, schema sett …
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 2.8(11)
- Downloads
- 194/day

ThinkRank SEO
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,372by WPDeveloper3 days ago
AI SEO plugin for WordPress SEO: AI SEO tools, Google Search Console, meta descriptions, schema & XML sitemaps. Focus keywords+MCP for Claude/ChatGPT.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(37)
- Downloads
- 3.7K/day

Spider Blocker
Down in the last 7 days:21#1,414by Niteo2 years ago
SpiderBlocker will block most common bots that consume bandwidth and slow down your blog.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.0(5)
- Downloads
- 41/day

SEO Friendly Images
#1,427by Vladimir Prelovac9 years ago
SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images improving traffic from search engines.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.0(59)
- Downloads
- 35/day

SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,436by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform24 days ago
SEO checker, content analysis & SEO optimizer. Rank higher on search engines with 301 redirects, XML sitemaps & one-click setup.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(171)
- Downloads
- 208/day
SEO Ultimate
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,490by Jeffrey L. Smith10 years ago
This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over meta titles & descriptions, open graph, auto-linking, rich-snippets, 404 monitoring, siloing & more.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.8(98)
- Downloads
- 40/day

CallRail Phone Call Tracking
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,508by CallRail9 months ago
Dynamically swap CallRail tracking phone numbers based on the visitor's referring source.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 52/day

Insights from Google PageSpeed
Down in the last 7 days:12#1,551by Matt Keys25 days ago
Use Insights from Google PageSpeed to improve your site's performance, Core Web Vitals, search engine ranking and your visitors' browsing experience.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(28)
- Downloads
- 131/day

Soro
Up in the last 7 days:15#1,572by soroseo6 months ago
Connect your WordPress site to Soro for automatic AI-powered article publishing and SEO content automation.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 91/day

Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor)
Down in the last 7 days:4#1,574by WPKube3 months ago
The plugin adds a title and a rel="nofollow" checkbox to the insert link popup box. Only for Classic Editor, NOT Block Editor.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(23)
- Downloads
- 83/day

Nexter Extension
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,612by POSIMYTH10 days ago
Replace 50+ WordPress Plugins: Free SEO, Theme Builder, Code Snippets, Image Optimizer (WebP/AVIF), SMTP Email, Security, Performance & More
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 348/day

Remove Yoast SEO Comments
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,644by Mitch8 years ago
Removes the Yoast SEO advertisement HTML comments from your front-end source code.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.8(16)
- Downloads
- 25/day

Media Library Helper
Down in the last 7 days:5#1,696by Codexin Technologies11 months ago
Add or edit or bulk edit image ALT tag, caption & description with one click straight from the WordPress media library to improve your SEO score.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(58)
- Downloads
- 50/day

Head Meta Data
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,705by Jeff Starr3 months ago
Adds a custom set of <meta> tags to the <head> section of all posts & pages.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(19)
- Downloads
- 69/day

Xagio SEO & AEO
Down in the last 7 days:34#1,762by Xagio SEO2 days ago
AI powered meta, clustering, content, schema & rank tracking, plus an AI website builder - the AI SEO weapon most WordPress users haven't found yet.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(51)
- Downloads
- 137/day