Artikul SEO is an AI-powered content optimisation plugin for WordPress. It scores your content across eight dimensions, generates and improves articles with six AI providers, analyses your SERP competitors, manages internal links, monitors content health, and handles redirects — all from inside your WordPress dashboard.
contentengine-pro.zip file from your account or the purchase confirmation email.contentengine-pro.zip on your computer.contentengine-pro folder to /wp-content/plugins/ on your server.Artikul SEO works on a tiered licensing model. The Free tier is fully functional without a license key. Pro and Agency tiers unlock additional features.
Free — No key needed. Includes:
Pro — Everything in Free, plus:
Agency — Everything in Pro, plus:
The scoring engine is the heart of Artikul SEO. Every post and page is evaluated across eight weighted dimensions to produce a single score out of 100.
| Dimension | Weight | What It Measures |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | 25% | Word count, heading structure, media usage, internal/external links, meta description |
| Keyword | 22% | Keyword placement in title, headings, body, URL, meta description, density |
| E-E-A-T | 22% | Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness signals |
| Technical | 13% | Schema markup, canonical tags, image optimisation, heading hierarchy |
| Readability | 9% | Sentence length, paragraph length, reading level, passive voice usage |
| Freshness | 4% | Time since last meaningful content update (not just a save) |
| Mobile | 3% | Coming soon |
| Core Web Vitals | 2% | Coming soon |
You can target up to five keywords per post. The primary keyword carries the most weight, while secondary keywords are checked for presence and placement. Add additional keywords in the metabox by clicking + Add Keyword.
The editor metabox shows your score at a glance, a breakdown by dimension, and an expandable list of individual issues. Each issue is labelled as either AI-fixable (can be resolved automatically) or manual (requires your input). If AI-fixable issues exist, an AI Fix All button appears at the top.
The AI Content Studio lets you generate entire articles, fix scoring issues, and refresh stale content using your choice of AI provider. This is a Pro-tier feature.
When you score a post and issues are marked as AI-fixable, you can click AI Fix All in the metabox to resolve them in one pass. The AI will rewrite or add content to address each issue while preserving your existing text and voice. You can also fix individual issues one at a time.
For content that has gone stale, AI Refresh analyses what has changed in your topic area and updates the article with current information, improved structure, and fresh examples — without starting from scratch.
The SERP Domination Planner analyses the top Google results for any keyword, scores each competitor page using the same six-dimension engine as your own content, and generates an AI-powered action plan to outrank them. This is a Pro-tier feature.
Post mode: When you score a post that has a focus keyword, SERP Domination runs automatically as part of the scoring process. Results appear alongside your content score so you can see exactly where you stand against the competition.
Keyword-only mode: Use the standalone SERP Domination page to research any keyword before creating content. This helps you assess difficulty and plan your approach before writing.
After running an analysis, click Generate Content to send the competitive intelligence directly to the AI Content Studio. The generator uses the SERP data to create an article specifically designed to outperform the existing top results.
Strong internal linking helps search engines understand your site structure and distributes page authority. The Internal Links manager scans your site and provides actionable suggestions. This is a Pro-tier feature.
Shows site-wide linking statistics: total internal links, average links per post, posts with no outbound internal links, and posts with no inbound internal links. Click Run Site-Wide Scan to refresh the data.
Lists pages that have no inbound internal links from other content on your site. These pages are effectively invisible to search engines crawling through your link structure. For each orphan page, the plugin suggests related posts that could link to it.
Select a post to see suggested internal links based on keyword matches and topic relevance. For each suggestion you can:
The Content Health dashboard gives you a bird's-eye view of your entire site's content quality. Available on all tiers including Free.
Browse every published post and page with their score, grade, and last scored date. Use the filters to narrow down by post type, grade, or scoring status. You can also exclude specific posts from health reports if they are intentionally minimal (such as landing pages or legal notices).
The Redirect Manager handles URL redirections, logs 404 errors, and scans for broken links across your site. This is a Pro-tier feature.
Artikul SEO automatically creates 301 redirects when:
This prevents 404 errors without any manual work on your part.
The 404 log captures every "page not found" error on your site, showing the requested URL, the referring page (if any), the number of hits, and the date. You can create a redirect directly from any 404 entry with one click.
The scanner crawls your content looking for links that return errors (404, 500, timeouts). For each broken link found, you can:
Export your entire redirect list as a CSV file for backup or migration purposes. You can also import redirects from a CSV file, which is useful when moving from another redirect plugin or migrating between sites.
Connect your Google Search Console account to see real search performance data inside WordPress. This is a Pro-tier feature.
See your site's total clicks, impressions, average CTR, and average position at a glance. Each metric shows the change compared to the previous period so you can spot trends quickly.
These are keywords where your site ranks on page 2 or the bottom of page 1 (positions 8–20) with reasonable impressions. A small improvement in these rankings can deliver significant traffic gains. The plugin highlights these opportunities and suggests which posts to optimise.
Pages that have lost traffic or rankings compared to the previous period are flagged here. Early detection lets you refresh or update content before the decline becomes severe.
When you publish or update a post, Artikul SEO automatically pings Google's Indexing API to request crawling. This helps new and updated content get indexed faster.
The Settings page has eight tabs covering every configurable aspect of the plugin.
Enter and activate your license key, view your current tier, and see which features are available. See License Activation for details.
Select your preferred AI provider and enter your API key. Use the Test Connection button to verify the key works. You can configure keys for multiple providers and switch between them as needed.
Set up Google Search Console OAuth credentials for the Search Console integration. SERP search is provided centrally with your Pro/Agency license and requires no additional configuration.
View information about how the scoring engine works and what each dimension evaluates. The scoring weights are calibrated for optimal SEO performance.
Set your default content language (15 languages supported), target country, writing tone, and brand voice. These settings are used by the AI when generating and refreshing content.
Configure automatic JSON-LD structured data generation. Supported schema types include Article, FAQ, HowTo, and Breadcrumbs. Enable or disable each type and set default values.
Toggle automatic redirect creation on slug changes and post deletion. Configure 404 logging behaviour and set a retention period for log entries.
Miscellaneous options including which post types to score (posts, pages, and any custom post types), dark mode toggle, and data cleanup options for uninstallation.
If something is not working as expected, check the common issues below before contacting support.
Go to Settings > AI Provider and click the Test Connection button. This sends a small test request to the provider and reports whether the key is valid. Common causes of failure:
The most common cause is a missing or incorrect focus keyword. The Keyword dimension (22% of your score) depends entirely on having the right keyword set. Check that:
SERP Domination requires:
Generating long-form articles can take 2–5 minutes depending on the AI provider, article length, and server response time. This is normal behaviour. If generation consistently fails:
After connecting your Google account, it can take a few minutes for data to appear. If nothing shows after 10 minutes:
If none of the above resolves your issue, contact support with the following information: