=== All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic ===
Contributors: aioseo, smub, benjaminprojas
Tags: SEO, Google Search Console, XML Sitemap, meta description, schema
Tested up to: 6.7.1
Requires at least: 5.3
Requires PHP: 7.0
Stable tag: 4.7.9
License: GPLv3 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt

AIOSEO is the most powerful WordPress SEO plugin. Improve SEO rankings and traffic with comprehensive SEO tools and smart AI SEO optimizations!

== Description ==

### AIOSEO - The Best WordPress SEO Plugin & Toolkit ###

All in One SEO is the original WordPress SEO plugin started in 2007. Today, over 3 million website owners and SEO experts use AIOSEO for higher SEO rankings.

Our users consistently rate [AIOSEO](https://aioseo.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'All in One SEO for WordPress') as the most comprehensive WordPress SEO plugin and marketing toolkit. It's the fastest way to optimize WordPress SEO settings, add schema markup, create XML sitemap, add local SEO, track SEO keyword rankings, automate internal linking, perform SEO audits, add Author SEO (EEAT), monitor SEO revisions, connect Google search console, and basically everything a SEO Pro would use to rank higher in search engines. 

We have AI SEO features that helps you optimize SEO rankings using ChatGPT (OpenAI) and artificial intelligence.

> <strong>AIOSEO Pro</strong><br />
> This is the lite version of the All in One WordPress SEO Pro plugin that comes with all the powerful SEO features you will ever need to rank higher in search engines including **smart SEO schema markup, advanced SEO modules, powerful SEO sitemap suite, local SEO module, SEO keyword ranking tracking, automatic internal linking, WooCommerce SEO**, and tons more. [Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress SEO plugin now!](https://aioseo.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'All in One SEO for WordPress')

Here's why smart business owners, SEO experts, marketers, and developers love AIOSEO, and you will too!

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### What Makes AIOSEO Better than Other WordPress SEO Plugins ###

AIOSEO is leading the innovation in WordPress SEO space, and our SEO features will give you a competitive advantage.

* **Easy SEO Setup Wizard**
Our SEO setup wizard optimizes your website's SEO settings based on your unique industry needs in less than 5 minutes.

* **Smart Schema Markup (aka Rich Snippets)** 
Get better click through rate (CTR) and Google rich featured snippets using advanced SEO schema markups like FAQ schema, product schema, recipe schema markup, and dozens more using our custom [Schema Generator](https://aioseo.com/features/rich-snippets-schema/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'Schema Generator').

* **AI Title and Description Generator** 
Save time by automatically generating SEO titles and meta descriptions using OpenAI ChatGPT.

* **Unlimited SEO Keywords** 
Optimize for unlimited SEO keywords using our SEO content analyzer. Our TruSEO score gives you detailed content & readability analysis, so you can get higher SEO rankings.

* **Google Keyword Rank Tracking**
Easily track how your website is ranking for different keywords in Google from your [WordPress dashboard](https://aioseo.com/features/search-statistics/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'Google Keyword Rank Tracker').

* **Automatic Link Assistant**
Automate internal links between your pages using our smart [internal linking algorithm](https://aioseo.com/features/internal-link-assistant/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'Link Assistant') that will help improve on-page SEO.

* **Local Business SEO**
Improve your local SEO presence with local business schema, support for multiple local store locations, business opening hours, Google Maps integration, contact info (business email, business phone, business address, etc), and more with our [Local SEO module](https://aioseo.com/features/local-seo/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'Local SEO').

* **SEO Revisions**
Keep a [historical record of SEO changes](https://aioseo.com/seo-revisions/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'SEO Revisions'), monitor the impact of changes, and restore previous versions in one click.

* **Content Decay Tracking**
Never lose traffic to competitors. Quickly detect which content is losing traffic / SEO rankings, so you can optimize it to regain your rankings with our [Search Statistics module](https://aioseo.com/features/search-statistics/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'Search Statistics').

* **Smart XML Sitemap**
Advanced XML sitemaps to boost your SEO rankings (with easy setup inside Google Search Console). Also includes Video SEO XML sitemap, News SEO XML sitemap, RSS sitemap, and HTML sitemap.

* **Smart SEO Redirects**
The most powerful [SEO Redirection manager](https://aioseo.com/features/redirection-manager/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'Redirection Manager') for setting up advanced SEO redirects including 301 redirects, 302, 307, 410, 404 redirection, REGEX redirects, and more.

* **404 Error Monitor**
Automatic 404 error monitor helps you track and redirect 404 errors, so you don't lose SEO rankings.

* **Author SEO**
Add [custom author profile pages, author bio box, and relevant author schema](https://aioseo.com/features/author-seo-google-e-e-a-t/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'Author SEO (E-E-A-T)') to boost Google EEAT score to help with Google's Helpful Content Update (HCU).

* **SEO Audit Checklist**
Improve your SEO ranking with our comprehensive SEO audit checklist.

* **Knowledge Graph Support**
Improve your website's search appearance with SEO Knowledge panel.

* **Google Site Links and Search Box**
Our SEO markup can help you get sitelinks and search box for your brand.

* **Table of Contents**
Automatically generate a table of content, customize headings, anchors, and you can also hide or reorder the headings.

### Advanced SEO Plugin Features ###

* **User Access Control**
Control who can manage your SEO settings with our advanced SEO access control.

* **WordPress REST API**
Manage your SEO metadata with WordPress REST API. Great for headless WordPress installations.

* **Advanced Robots Meta SEO Settings**
Granular controls for no index, no follow, no archive, no snippet, max snippet, max video, etc.

* **RSS Content for SEO**
Stop content scraping from hurting your SEO rankings.

* **Full Site Redirects**
Merging websites or switching domains? Full site redirect makes it easy to switch domains without losing SEO rankings.

* **Smart Meta Title & Description**
Automatic SEO generation, dynamic SEO smart tags, include Emoji, add shortcodes, and more features to stand out in search results.

* **Smart Breadcrumbs**
Add Breadcrumb navigation to improve user experience and boost your SEO rankings. Comes with full SEO JSON+LD support.

* **Automatic Image SEO**
Helps your images rank higher by autogenerating image title, clean SEO image filenames, and more.

* **Advanced SEO Canonical URLs**
Prevent duplicate content in SEO with automatic canonical URLs.

* **SEO Cleanup / Manual SEO Penalty Removal**
Domains Report feature in Link Assistant automatically removes all links for specific domains with just one click. Huge time saver when doing SEO cleanups.

* **Link Opportunities Report**
See better internal link opportunities with our smart algorithm. Easily add internal links with just a few clicks.

* **Robots.txt Editor**
Manage and customize SEO robots.txt files in WordPress.

* **Crawl Quota Management**
Crawl Cleanup feature manages your search engine crawl quota and index your important content faster.

* **Title and Nofollow for SEO**
Easily add title and nofollow to external links.

* **Headline Analyzer**
Analyze your page / posts headlines to improve CTR and SEO rankings.

* **Competitor Site SEO Analysis**
Use competitor SEO analysis to outrank them with better SEO optimization.

* **SEO Code Snippets**
Integration with [WPCode plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-headers-and-footers/) for SEO code snippets to further customize every aspect of your SEO.


### WordPress SEO Integrations ###

* **Google Search Console Integration**
Connect with Google webmaster tools and Google Search Console to see SEO insights (like content rankings, keyword rankings, page speed insights, post index status, etc) directly in your WordPress dashboard.

* **WooCommerce SEO**
Improves your WooCommerce SEO rankings. Easily optimize WooCommerce product pages, product categories, and more for best eCommerce SEO results.

* **Knowledge Panel SEO**
Improve website SEO appearance by adding social media profile links for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Instagram, LinkedIn, Yelp, YouTube, and more.

* **Webmaster Tool Integrations**
Connect with all webmaster tools including Google Search Console, Bing SEO, Yandex SEO, Baidu SEO, Google Analytics, Pinterest site verification, and more.

* **Social Media Integration**
Facebook SEO, Twitter SEO, and Pinterest SEO with better website previews.

* **Google AMP SEO Integration**
Improve your mobile SEO rankings with Google AMP SEO.

* **Semrush SEO integration**
See additional SEO keywords with Semrush SEO integration.

* **OpenAI Integration**
Use ChatGPT to write SEO titles and meta descriptions to improve SEO rankings.

* **Microsoft Clarity Integration**
See visitor interactions with heatmaps and session recordings.

* **IndexNow Integration**
Instantly notify Bing and Yandex for faster SEO indexing.

* **Elementor SEO**
Better Elementor SEO for landing pages.

* **Divi SEO**
Better Divi SEO for landing pages.

* **SeedProd SEO**
Optimize SeedProd landing pages for SEO.

* **Open Graph Support**
Improve SEO rankings with open graph meta data.


### WordPress SEO Plugin Importer ###

Not happy with your current SEO plugin? We make SEO migration easy with our point-and-click automated SEO data transfer tool. We currently support SEO migration from following SEO tools:

* Yoast SEO Importer
* Yoast SEO Premium Importer
* RankMath SEO Importer
* SEOPress

We also support importing SEO redirects from the following plugins:

* Redirection Plugin
* Simple 301 Redirects Importer
* Safe Redirect Manager
* 301 Redirects Importer

Aside from that, our SEO migration tool also helps you with:

* Import / Export AIOSEO settings from one site to another
* Create SEO Settings Backup
* CSV Sitemap Import to Import additional pages to your XML Sitemaps


**Now you can see why AIOSEO is often rated the best SEO plugin in WordPress.**

Give AIOSEO a try.

Want to unlock more SEO features? [Upgrade to AIOSEO Pro](https://aioseo.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin 'All in One SEO for WordPress').

### Credits ###

This plugin is created by [Benjamin Rojas](https://benjaminrojas.net/ 'Benjamin Rojas') and [Syed Balkhi](https://syedbalkhi.com/ 'Syed Balkhi').

### Branding Guideline ###

AIOSEO&reg; is a registered trademark of Semper Plugins LLC. When writing about the WordPress SEO plugin by AIOSEO, please use the following format.

* AIOSEO (correct)
* All in One SEO (correct)
* AIO SEO (incorrect)
* All in 1 SEO (incorrect)
* AISEO (incorrect)

== Changelog ==

**New in Version 4.7.9**

* Updated: Schema product suggestedMinAge/suggestedMaxAge properties to conform with Google's structured data merchant listing requirements.
* Updated: Added a button to apply new headlines directly to the post title inside the Headline Analyzer.
* Updated: TruSEO now supports additional ACF Custom Field types.
* Updated: Exported JSON/CSV files now include the post title and term name columns.
* Updated: Improved handling of Focus Keyphrase errors from Semrush API.
* Updated: Turned off autoloading by default for a number of AIOSEO options to improve performance.
* Fixed: Access control role check to properly verify if the role has edit_post permissions.
* Fixed: Existing additional sitemap pages with different priority, frequency, or last modified values were not getting updated when importing a CSV file.
* Fixed: Tabs were not displaying active status correctly when using RTL due to CSS conflicts.
* Fixed: Image title sometimes duplicated when using Elementor page builder.
* Fixed: Alt text settings were not applied to images when showing latest posts on the homepage.
* Fixed: Excluded posts/terms would sometimes not be correctly excluded from sitemaps.
* Fixed: SERP Preview disappearing when using numeric custom fields in ACF.
* Fixed: Filenames duplicated in rare cases when Strip Punctuation is enabled in Image SEO.
* Fixed: Adding links to WordPress Gallery Block would sometimes not work when Strip Punctuation is enabled in Image SEO.
* Fixed: Trailing slash added to a redirect's target URL even if the URL is external.
* Fixed: Orphaned Posts filter not working correctly in the Link Assistant.
* Fixed: Table of Content block's heading could sometimes break when adding a link from Link Assistant.
* Fixed: "Don't update the modified date" checkbox now works properly in post's quick edit screen.
* Fixed: Missing tooltip for the AI Title/Description Generator modal.
* Fixed: Headlines that couldn't be analyzed would sometimes break the Headline Analyzer UI.
* Fixed: Automatic 404 redirects no longer affecting the dedicated HTML sitemap page.
* Fixed: Canonical URL sometimes missing a slash for paged taxonomy terms.
* Fixed: Canonical URL for a term could sometimes fail if the global query changed.

**New in Version 4.7.8**

* New: Keyword Rank Tracker Improvements - Import your best performing keywords directly from Google Search Console and explore Related Keywords to discover new keyword opportunities!
* New: WooCommerce Product Attributes Support - Per popular demand, you can now control the SEO of your product attributes and include them in your sitemap to increase discoverability.
* Updated: Added filter to control maximum number of additional keywords per post.

**New in Version 4.7.7.1**

* Updated: Added localization for default options for Writing Assistant.
* Fixed: Writing Assistant no longer sends consecutive requests to get default user options.
* Fixed: Cache class tries to recreate the cache table if it doesn't exist.

**New in Version 4.7.7**

* Updated: Writing Assistant now supports logins per site/subsite, allowing users to use different SEOBoost logins and workspaces.
* Updated: Added support for importing additional Knowledge Graph settings from Yoast SEO.
* Updated: Added support for importing additional SEO settings from SEOPress, including robots meta, X (Twitter) metadata and advanced redirection rules.
* Updated: BreadcrumbList schema semantic properties updated to align with Schema.org specifications.
* Updated: Performance improvements to speed up Action Scheduler.
* Updated: Added support for the "Analyze This Page" toolbar menu inside the post/term editor
* Updated: Removed discontinued helpful links under "Analyze This Page" toolbar menu.
* Updated: SEO Email Reports have been disabled for all users and are now disabled by default.
* Updated: Added filter hook to disable SEO Email Reports.
* Fixed: CSS conflict for the Thrive WordPress Content field.
* Fixed: Twitter meta tags output for CPTs that do not support authors.
* Fixed: TruSEO Highlighter was not highlighting sentences found in the "Custom HTML" block, although the eye icon indicated their presence.
* Fixed: Image SEO sometimes could not find images and captions within the post content.
* Fixed: TruSEO now limits additional keyphrases to prevent high page loads ( maximum 10 ).
* Fixed: CSV import/export file naming, primary category import and miscellaneous fixes.
* Fixed: Reviewer selector conflict with Secure Custom Fields plugin and switching between tabs in the Post Editor sidebar.
* Fixed: Focus keywords that are already being tracked in Keyword Rank Tracker are no longer displayed in the "Import Keywords" modal.
* Fixed: Inconsistency in TruSEO score color across different sections of the plugin.
* Fixed: SEO Statistics panel sometimes displayed incorrect upward/downward trend when clicks increased/decreased.
* Fixed: Conflict with Savoy theme where the side cart was automatically popping up on product pages.
* Fixed: Conflict with ARVE plugin.
* Fixed: Social profile URLs are now correctly imported from Yoast SEO.
* Fixed: Home URL was automatically appended to canonical URLs without scheme.
* Fixed: Homepage link and prefix were sometimes not working in the WooCommerce Product breadcrumb template.
* Fixed: 404 log entries with URLs containing special characters could not be deleted.
* Fixed: Redirects to file URLs or URLs with a hash were saved with a trailing slash.
* Fixed: AIOSEO Metabox no longer closes when opening the Media library in Divi/Extra page builders.
* Fixed: PHP deprecation warning related to sitemap image scan.
* Fixed: PHP warning when importing locations from Yoast SEO Local plugin.
* Fixed: PHP fatal error occurring when attempting to access a non-existent additional sitemap index.
* Fixed: PHP deprecation warning in PHP 8.3 for PHP PCRE functions.

**New in Version 4.7.6**

* New: BuddyPress Integration - You can now granularly control your SEO settings for all Activities, Groups and Members in BuddyPress. We've also added full sitemap support, new DiscussionForumPosting schema and many more features to optimize your BuddyPress content for search results.
* New: Author SEO Improvements - We have added new fields to the user profile for Awards/Spoken Languages and the Author Bio URL so you can link to any custom author page that you like!
* New: Google Web Stories Integration - Optimize your web stories with AIOSEO just like any other content type and automatically generate new AmpStory schema.
* Updated: We now output a meta tag for the author in the source code of each post that supports authors.
* Updated: All Author SEO block labels are now filterable.
* Fixed: PHP notice due to loading translations too early in WordPress 6.7.

**New in Version 4.7.5.1**

* Fixed: XML sitemap not including terms in some cases due to DB error.

**New in Version 4.7.5**

* Updated: XML sitemaps now include parent terms without posts if they have any children with posts.
* Updated: Prevent incorrect parsing of dates when importing a CSV file for additional sitemap pages.
* Updated: Added "View in Google" link for keyword rows in Search Statistics.
* Updated: Removed sitemap ping on post publish due to Google's deprecation of the feature.
* Updated: Various improvements and bug fixes for SEO Email Reports.
* Updated: Various improvements and bug fixes for Keyword Rank Tracker.
* Updated: Added filter to show/hide title and description in AIOSEO Details column for post/term pages.
* Updated: Added filters to enable/disable hyperlinks for phone numbers and email addresses in the Local SEO business info shortcode/block.
* Updated: Semrush keyword integration now remembers the last country you've selected.
* Fixed: Conflict with Learndash Notifications plugin.
* Fixed: Conflict with Admin Notices Manager plugin.
* Fixed: AIOSEO Details column in Media Library for Image SEO addon no longer highlights irrelevant tags and updates title correctly.
* Fixed: Local SEO Map shortcode now renders correctly inside Elementor.
* Fixed: Multilingual sitemap does not use correct language code from WPML in rare cases.
* Fixed: Breadcrumb block now renders correctly when text contains ">" character.
* Fixed: TruSEO generates different results/score when switching between Visual and Code editors.
* Fixed: Consecutive sentence errors highlighting different text in Block Editor and Classic Editor.
* Fixed: Link format UI breaking for older WordPress versions from 5.3 to 5.9.
* Fixed: Priority score not updating for SEO Revisions when the user applies a score of 0.
* Fixed: Searching for non-English strings in redirects/404 log tables returned no results.
* Fixed: BuddyPress schema markup causing an error in Google Search Console.
* Fixed: PHP error due to unpacking an array with string keys.
* Fixed: SEO Preview URL character encoding.

**See our [changelog on aioseo.com](https://aioseo.com/changelog/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=aioseo) for previous releases.**

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

Please visit our [complete AIOSEO documentation](https://aioseo.com/docs/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin) before requesting support for SEO from the AIOSEO team.

= Who should use AIOSEO? =

SEO is essential for all websites. AIOSEO is perfect for business owners, bloggers, marketers, designers, developers, photographers, and basically everyone else. If you want to rank higher in search, then you need to use AIOSEO WordPress SEO plugin.

= Which themes does AIOSEO support? =

AIOSEO works with all WordPress themes. Simply enable AIOSEO to make your WordPress theme SEO friendly.

= Will AIOSEO slow down my website? =

Nope, AIOSEO will NOT slow down your website. We understand that speed is important for SEO, that's why our code is properly optimized for maximum performance. Remember, faster websites rank higher in search. Use AIOSEO for fast SEO improvements.

= Can I use AIOSEO on client sites? =

Yes, you can use AIOSEO on client websites.

= Are AIOSEO sitemaps better than default WordPress sitemaps? =

Yes, AIOSEO smart sitemaps are a lot more optimized than the default WordPress sitemaps. Once you enable AIOSEO, our XML sitemaps will override the default WordPress sitemaps, so you can improve your SEO rankings.

We also offer advanced SEO sitemaps such as News Sitemap, Video Sitemap, and RSS Sitemap.

Our SEO sitemaps come with granular control such as links per sitemap, enable / disable post types or taxonomies, include / exclude specific links from sitemap, add additional non-WordPress pages to sitemaps, customize sitemap priority & frequency for each section of your site, and more.

This is why experts rate AIOSEO as the best WordPress SEO plugin.

= Does AIOSEO help with SEO Verification? =

Yes. AIOSEO can help you with website SEO verification with various webmaster tools such as Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex, Baidu, Pinterest, and just about every other site verification you need.

= Why is AIOSEO better than other SEO plugins? =

There are many WordPress SEO plugins out there. Unlike others, AIOSEO WordPress SEO plugin is always reliable. Our SEO features are results focused (no bloat), and we offer exceptional customer support.

AIOSEO is the original WordPress SEO plugin, and it's trusted by over 3 million website owners.

= Do I really need an XML Sitemap? =

**Yes! XML Sitemaps help Google and other search engines to find all the pages of your website.**

An XML sitemap is a list of all the content on your website. The sitemap helps search engine bots to easily see all the content on your site in one place, The XML sitemap file is hidden from your human visitors, however search engines like Google can see it.

Without an XML sitemap, some of your web pages may never be included in Google search results, and won't get any traffic.

XML Sitemaps also help you tell Google which pages you DON'T want included in search results. This can help your SEO to prevent keyword cannibalization and duplicate content issues.

As part of your SEO strategy, **an XML sitemap can help you to improve your domain authority and unlock more traffic from Google, Bing and other search engines**.

AIOSEO can easily help you get your sitemaps listed inside Google Search Console so your content can start to get indexed today!

= Does AIOSEO integrate directly with Google Search Console? =

Absolutely! Our integration with Google Search Console allows you to monitor and maintain your website's presence on Google. With our direct integration, you can easily view important information about your website, such as the number of clicks, impressions, and the average position for each keyword that your website's content appears for in Google search results. You can also track your contents page speed using Google's Page Speed Insights directly inside your WordPress dashboard.

Additionally, AIOSEO can also provide you with data on the most frequently used keywords, the most popular pages on your website, and any crawl errors or security issues that may arise. By integrating with Google Search Console, AIOSEO provides website owners with valuable insights that can help to improve SEO and overall online visibility. With this integration, you can track your site's progress over time and make data-driven decisions that will help you achieve your SEO goals.

== Screenshots ==

1. SEO Content Analyzer (Gutenberg)
2. SEO Content Analyzer (Classic Editor)
3. SEO Setup Wizard
4. SEO Site Analysis
5. Webmaster Tools Connect
6. Social Media Integrations
7. Local SEO
8. Sitemaps
9. Search Appearance Settings
10. Robots.txt Editor
11. RSS Content Control
12. Headline Analyzer
13. Redirect Manager
14. Link Assistant

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 4.7.9 =

This update adds major improvements and bug fixes.