With over 3 million active installs, AIOSEO powers SEO for more websites than any other plugin. As long-time WordPress experts, we‘ve leveraged these capabilities for years here at WPBeginner.
This comprehensive guide will overview lesser-known features that can elevate your SEO game. We‘ll be covering both unique functionality for driving rankings, as well as built-in tools for monitoring and securing organic growth.
Dynamic Meta Tags Increase Click-Through up to 15%
Crafting custom title tags and meta descriptions for thousands of pages is an impossible manual task. That‘s why AIOSEO‘s smart tags dynamically source this information on the fly.
Some of the 13 available self-populating tags include:
- Post Title: Automatically uses the article‘s SEO-friendly headline
- Author Name: Pulls in the author byline from the user profile
- Post Categories: Displays comma-separated list of categories
- Post Excerpt: Uses excerpt text as the meta description
- Current Date: Updates with today‘s date automatically
The end result is less tedious effort while still providing search engines and users unique, relevant webpage information.
Studies by Moz and Backlinko demonstrate optimized title tags can achieve over 15% higher click-through versus generic ones.
SEO Headline Scoring and AI Copywriting Fuel Conversions
Writing compelling headlines that capture attention and rank well is part artist, part science.
Fortunately two built-in AIOSEO tools make this much easier:
Headline Analyzer
This gives your prospective headline a score from 1-100 based on critical ranking factors including:
- Keyword usage
- Click-worthiness
- SEO optimization
It then provides specific tips like using power words or removing stop words to improve.
We‘ve found this very effective for objectively assessing multiple headline options. Scores above 80 typically convert extremely well.
ChatGPT Integration
In addition to scoring, AIOSEO leverages AI to automatically generate high-performing headlines.
With one click, it provides 5 computer-generated suggestions tailored to your content.
Early results have delivered over 20% lift in click-through versus human-written headlines. The AI uses prompting like "Write a compelling yet SEO-friendly headline using key information from the content".
Now creating killer headlines takes seconds versus hours!
Link Assistant Identifies Untapped Link Building Potential
Most content marketing focuses exclusively on producing more articles. Yet strategically interlinking internal posts is equally important for both users and SEO.
The problem is manually identifying and integrating contextual links is incredibly tedious.
AIOSEO‘s Link Assistant eliminates heavy lifting by automatically flagging relevant internal articles that could be linked together around common:
- Topics
- Keywords
- Related posts from the same author
- Similar categories
Implementing these suggested links has been shown to lift dwell time over 35% in some cases by providing paths to relevant information.
And don‘t worry, AIOSEO avoids suggestions that could trigger over-optimization penalties.
Granular User Access Controls
Managing an SEO plugin accessed by multiple authors, contractors, and external teams/agencies can be challenging.
That‘s why AIOSEO delivers unparalleled ability to control permissions down to the feature level.
For example, you may want to:
- Allow freelancer access to edit metadata, but not touch redirects
- Enable 3rd party analytics integration without exposing site search data
- Restrict access to only local listings capabilities for a multi-location franchise
Permissions can be set globally by default WordPress roles, assigned directly to SEO Editor/Manager custom roles, or users can override on a one-off basis.
Access controls help securely collaborate while limiting SEO risk exposure.
Additional Capabilities
While the above represent some of the highest ROI differentiators in our experience, AIOSEO packs dozens more tools:
- Comprehensive Broken Link Monitoring: Identify and fix internal/external 404 errors
- Redirect Manager: Easily create and manage all redirect types
- Sitemap Generator: XML, Video, News, RSS, and HTML sitemaps
- SEO File Editor: Safely modify robots.txt and .htaccess file
- IndexNow Integration: Instant indexing for fresh content
And tons more! It‘s the Swiss Army knife for WordPress SEO both in terms of capabilities AND ease of use thanks to the intuitive interface.
Let us know if you have any other questions in applying AIOSEO for your WP site!
