Automate content audits and grow organic traffic to your WordPress website with Ahrefs SEO plugin.
Automate content audits and grow organic traffic to your WordPress website with Ahrefs SEO plugin.
The Ahrefs WP plugin shows you how each article on your blog performs for a chosen target keyword based on Ahrefs, GA and GSC data. Then, it suggests what you can do to improve their performance.
Content audits
Most of us are so focused on publishing new content that we neglect the content we already have.
This is a mistake because not everything you publish will be a home run. Sometimes, it’ll fail to rank on Google, or convert, or contribute to your business goals in any meaningful way.
When this happens, you shouldn’t just leave the page to die a slow, painful death. You should revisit it, figure out what went wrong, and take action to improve its performance.
The Ahrefs WP plugin automates the entire content audit process and kicks back recommendations.
Related guide: How to Do a Content Audit
Unique to Ahrefs SEO plugin
There are a lot of other SEO plugins in the market. So you must be thinking, why another one? Since the Ahrefs WordPress plugin focuses on content audits, it complements other SEO plugins rather than replaces them.
Content audit
The plugin regularly conducts content audits of your website and gives actionable suggestions on improving article performance for a target keyword based on Ahrefs, GA and GSC data.
Performance score
The plugin puts audited pages in 1 of 3 buckets based on their performance (well-performing, under-performing, non-performing). Besides evaluating individual pages, it also calculates the performance score that reflects the overall performance of the website’s content
Integration with GA and GSC
We don’t just pull data into your WordPress Admin and show you the same information that you can see on your GA and GSC dashboards. Your GSC and GA connection helps us to provide you with better target keyword recommendations and ideas of what to do next, so you can take actionable steps towards getting more search traffic. All GA and GSC data is stored in your website’s database and is never sent to Ahrefs.
Integration with other SEO plugins
If you have preconfigured target keywords in Yoast, RankMath or AIOSEO, you don’t need to enter them in our plugin. Ahrefs SEO will pull and update them automatically with every content audit.
And the usual best-practices
Other than the unique features, we make sure that we adhere to the best-practices for WordPress plugin development.
Lightning fast
The plugin puts a minimal load on your WordPress servers.
Easy to setup and configure
The setup wizard is a three step configuration that gets you started in less than 5 minutes.
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Getting started with Ahrefs SEO consists of just two simple steps: installing and setting up the plugin.
Simple setup wizard with Ahrefs and Google connectors
Audit your website content to improve your Performance Score and optimize your organic traffic
Get suggested actions for each of the page on your site
Set or change target keywords for your pages based on target phrases from other plugins, top queries from Search Console or our analysis
Yes you can. You can opt for a free Authorization code during the plugin activation and perform a full content audit for your site. However, the free code is temporary and expires every few weeks, so you’ll have to reconnect the plugin each time this happens.
Your subscription of Ahrefs comes with Integration Rows that will be consumed with each API request. You can check the remaining balance in the plugin under ‘Settings’ or in your Ahrefs account under ‘API profile’.
A content audit is where you analyze the performance of all content on your site to determine whether it should be kept as-is, updated, deleted, consolidated, or redirected.
This results in a healthier site with fewer underperforming low-quality pages.
It’s the online equivalent of a spring clean. You’re getting rid of anything and everything you don’t need and freshening up the place for your visitors—and Google.
Read more about how the plugin works here.
Ahrefs, Google Analytics & Google Search Console are required connections for the plugin to work. Giving actual site organic traffic & keyword position data to the plugin will allow the content audit to perform optimally, giving you better and more accurate recommendations.
No this does not. The Ahrefs SEO plugin focuses on auditing your site content and is meant to work alongside some of your favorite WordPress SEO plugins.
It works perfectly well with other plugins like Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress.
Release date: July 15th, 2024
The Ahrefs SEO 0.10.3 release includes minor bug fixes and small improvements.
Release date: November 8th, 2023
In the new Ahrefs SEO 0.10.2 release, we added the ability to cancel a running audit. Now, if you want to change the settings of an already running audit, you will not need to wait for it to complete. Just cancel and start again. In addition to that, we made a couple of small UI improvements and a few minor bug fixes.
Release date: June 8th, 2023
The Ahrefs SEO 0.10.1 release includes a bunch of small improvements and bug fixes.
Release date: December 23th, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO v.0.10.0 release makes it easier to connect your Google account to the plugin. The plugin now asks for fewer permissions on Google’s oauth consent screen. The whole authorization process is now simpler and takes fewer steps in the UI.
Release date: November 24th, 2022
The Ahrefs SEO 0.9.12 release includes updates in GA4 API functions due to changes in the Google Analytics API, as well as usual minor bug fixes and small improvements.
Release date: November 8th, 2022
In the new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.11 release, we’re switching the plugin to Google’s new and more secure authorization flow for third-party apps. To continue using the Ahrefs SEO plugin, please go to Settings and reconnect your Google account before December 31, 2022.
Release date: September 9th, 2022
The Ahrefs SEO 0.9.10 release includes minor bug fixes and small improvements.
Release date: July 15th, 2022
The Ahrefs SEO 0.9.9 release includes minor bug fixes and small improvements.
Release date: May 23rd, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.8 release greatly improves on content suggestions. Our recommendations for improving your rankings are now more actionable and targeted for each article.
Notable improvements:
And as always, we did a bunch of smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Release date: April 26th, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO v.0.9.7 release includes several small but long-awaited improvements:
Release date: March 22nd, 2022
With the new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.6 release, you can now select a specific country in your plugin settings to make your content audit results more accurate.
Before, we always showed the average position for target keywords across all countries. So if a website did business in the UK and ranked well there, but ranked pretty low in average position worldwide, we reported that their content was performing poorly. Now, they can select “UK” in the plugin settings and see that they’re performing well in their country of choice.
Release date: March 9th, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.5 release is dedicated to one big feature: support for user roles. If there are several people working on articles for your website, they can now all access the Content audit report and monitor the performance of their articles. Here’s how it works:
Release date: February 14th, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.4 release adds two long-requested features:
This release also contains a bunch of smaller improvements and bug fixes:
Release date: January 18th, 2022
Release date: January 13th, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.2 release brings a couple of new features:
Release date: December 2nd, 2021
The new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.1 release is focused on canonical tags:
Other improvements:
Release date: November 10th, 2021
With the new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.0 release, you can now import target keywords from AIOSEO in addition to the two plugins we already support: Yoast and RankMath.
We also improved the handling and reporting of misconfiguration and server errors during DB upgrades, plus fixed a bunch of smaller bugs.