SEOPress Review: Useful Free SEO Tools and Clear PRO Pricing

SEOPress is a good fit if you want a quieter SEO dashboard and straightforward pricing for client sites. The free version covers titles, social tags and sitemaps. Its Yoast importer worked in our test, although any migration still needs a check of important pages.

What Is SEOPress?

SEOPress is a WordPress SEO plugin, the same kind of tool as Yoast SEO and Rank Math. It supplies suggested titles and descriptions for search engines, which can rewrite the displayed snippet, adds the tags that control how links look on Facebook or X, builds XML sitemaps, and tells search engines which pages to skip.

It comes in three parts: SEOPress Free on WordPress.org; SEOPress PRO, a paid plugin you install on top of the free one; and SEOPress Insights, a separate paid plugin for rank and backlink tracking. Each main feature has an on/off switch, so you can turn off what you do not use.

The setup has one contact-detail caveat

SEOPress’ wizard covers title formats, site identity, indexing and optional imports without requiring an account. Promotions stayed within its own screens.

Check the public contact details afterwards. In our earlier test, Organization schema exposed the logged-in administrator’s email even though the wizard had not asked for a contact email. Change or clear the Email field under Social Networks > Knowledge Graph if that address should stay private.

Importing from Yoast

The importer preserved our custom titles, descriptions, keyphrases, noindex setting, canonical and tested social fields. A title using Yoast’s separator and site-name variables rendered correctly. Less common variables can behave differently, so verify important pages rather than assuming every configuration transfers.

The import left Yoast’s data intact. The practical check is the saved metadata and sitemap on important pages. Avoid leaving two SEO plugins generating competing tags. A staging copy is useful for a business site.

Titles, Meta Descriptions and the Editor Panel

The Post Types tab of SEOPress Titles & Metas on our test install.

Titles & Metas sets the default title and description for your homepage, each post type, archives and taxonomies. Templates use variables shown as removable tags, so you rarely type %%variable%% codes yourself.

Two things we noticed on the defaults:

• Default descriptions come from your content. On one post without a custom description, it ran a heading straight into the paragraph (“notes.Step 1Ethiopia”) and stopped at about 300 characters, far past what Google shows. Write your own for pages that matter.
• A small spacing glitch. The default post title left a double space before the separator. It is cosmetic.

In the editor, an SEO button in the top bar opens a panel with title settings, social, advanced (noindex, nofollow, canonical, primary category, an option to freeze the last modified date), redirection and content analysis. Title and description fields show live pixel and character counts and a Google preview.

Content analysis accepts unlimited target keywords in the free version. Yoast’s free plan allows one and Rank Math’s allows five. On our imported post it listed 17 checks, from headings and alt text to internal links.

Per-post redirects are free. You can send a single post or page to another URL with a 301, 302 or 307 redirect. A central redirect manager with regex rules, CSV import and a 404 log needs PRO.

XML Sitemaps

SEOPress XML and HTML sitemap settings on our test install.

The wizard switched on XML and image sitemaps. The settings screen shows your sitemap address, a “Test my sitemap” health check, and switches for author and HTML sitemaps.

The post sitemap SEOPress generated for our test site.

The generated sitemap included the tested public content and its featured images, while excluding the post marked noindex. That is a useful result after an SEO-plugin migration. News and video sitemaps remain PRO features.

One caveat appeared in the video test: a saved per-post redirect returned HTTP 301, but its old address remained listed in the sample XML sitemap. A working redirect does not by itself show that the old URL has disappeared from the sitemap, so check both when changing important pages.

Social Tags and What SEOPress Adds to Your Pages

Free SEOPress adds Open Graph and X card metadata with per-post overrides for titles, descriptions and images. Our earlier check found the small summary card selected by default; use a larger image card if that better matches how the content should appear when shared.

The rendered test page contained the expected title, description, robots and canonical tags alongside social metadata. That is more useful evidence than the preview alone: a saved field needs to reach the public page to affect search and sharing.

What it did not print on posts is any schema. The homepage got WebSite and Organization schema, but posts got no Article markup in the free version, while Yoast and Rank Math both add it for free. Google does not need article schema to rank a normal post. It matters more for rich results such as product stars, recipes or events, and those need PRO in SEOPress.

Dashboard and footprint

SEOPress was quieter than many freemium plugins. It still displayed Pro promotions and partner offers inside its own screens, despite the listing’s “no upsells in admin” wording. We saw no standard notices from it across unrelated dashboard pages.

It created fewer custom database tables than Yoast in our test, but we did not measure a resulting speed difference. Table counts and plugin folder sizes are not a page-speed benchmark. The free edition also includes analytics integrations, IndexNow, image-alt tools and role controls. Optional AI access is disabled until enabled.

What SEOPress PRO Adds

The SEOPress dashboard on our free install, with PRO, Insights and AI Credits shown as inactive.

PRO adds automatic and manual schema, a central redirect manager, 404 monitoring, broken-link checking and store or local-business SEO tools. Those can justify paying when the free per-post tools no longer cover the site’s needs.

Analytics dashboards, News and video sitemaps, white labeling and AI integrations are also part of the advertised paid offering. External services and optional AI credits can add costs. We have not tested the full PRO bundle.

The current release also advertises an MCP connection through which an assistant can read or change SEO data. That is a separate permission decision, not an automatic benefit of ordinary SEO setup, and it was outside our tested workflow.

SEOPress Pricing

Prices from seopress.org as of October 2026, billed yearly, before VAT:

The free edition can run on any number of sites. PRO costs $49 annually for one site, $59 for five or $149 for unlimited sites. Insights adds $99 per site annually. Optional AI-credit subscriptions cost $19, $29 or $49 monthly and can be used across unlimited sites.

Every PRO plan has the same features. The pricing page says plans renew at the same price, the terms say they renew automatically until you cancel from your account, and there is a 14-day refund window.

SEOPress changed its plans on August 1, 2025. Before that, $49 a year covered up to five sites, so reviews that still say so are out of date. Existing customers on auto-renewal kept their old plan and price, according to the vendor.

Compare the license scope as well as the headline price. A personal unlimited-site plan from another vendor may exclude client sites, while a per-site plan can become expensive across an agency portfolio. Our Rank Math vs Yoast comparison covers those alternatives; verify their live offers before buying.

Who Owns SEOPress?

SEOPress is made by a company of the same name registered in France and run by its founder, Benjamin Denis. The legal notice names him as legal representative and the terms name him as President. The about page says he had the idea in 2017 and founded the company in October 2018.

The company describes itself as independent. Ownership can explain the business behind the plugin, but it does not establish the quality of support or future development. Those are separate questions from the free-version results in this review.

SEOPress Security History

SEOPress has had patched vulnerabilities, so an older successful installation is not a reason to stop updating it. One recent author-display-name stored-XSS advisory is fixed in 10.3 or a later patched release. The advisory includes a tracking-feature condition; it should not be described as affecting every installation in the same way.

For an existing site, compare the installed version with the current vendor release and relevant advisories. Exact fixed versions belong beside the affected issue, rather than a changing total of vulnerability reports. Our spam link injection guide covers signs that a site may already be compromised.

SEOPress vs Yoast vs Rank Math

SEOPress Free is worth considering for titles, sitemaps, social metadata and per-post redirects without an account requirement. The earlier free test did not produce Article schema on posts, which is an important difference if you expect schema coverage without paying.

Yoast and Rank Math offer different defaults and free-feature boundaries. A full redirect manager, schema requirements and client-site licensing are better reasons to choose than a target-keyword count or installation total.

If your present free plugin works, a switch needs a specific benefit. For a portfolio about to buy paid licenses, compare SEOPress’s one-, five- and unlimited-site prices with the actual sites and features you need. Our SEO plugin comparison covers the wider choices.