SEOPress Alternative: Keep Its Settings, Add the Fixes

Keep SEOPress for WordPress SEO settings, and add SEOJuice only if internal links keep piling up unapplied. SEOPress gives you WordPress-native SEO controls. SEOJuice adds internal-link deployment with selectable review modes, article drafts and AI-prompt monitoring. For one website billed annually, SEOPress PRO costs $49/year excluding tax as of October 2026 (SEOPress pricing), versus SEOJuice at $599/year, VAT included (about twelve times more). SEOJuice also bills $59 per website per month.

If you mainly want inexpensive WordPress configuration, keep SEOPress and stop here.

I build SEOJuice, and I still wouldn't replace a working SEO plugin just to get internal links. I'd give SEOJuice one job first and judge it on that job alone.

The same job: improve an existing WordPress page

Take an older article that needs better internal links, and the difference comes down to whether links are placed post by post during editing or proposed and deployed across the site (checking the result stays with you in both products).

SEOPress automates empty-field metadata on publish, and per its docs (October 2026) the PRO Assistant /links command suggests destinations, anchors and placement and applies them after you review them. We found no scheduled site-wide insertion in its docs. (MCP read/write access is a permission, separate from approving each edit.)

The SEOJuice demo site shows 80 changes waiting for review and 304 live, each proposed meta description laid out before and after, with Approve and Reject on every row. That is demo data, not a customer result.

The bill: SEOPress costs far less at every scope

Both columns use USD. SEOJuice includes VAT; SEOPress adds applicable tax. Equal site counts and terms do not make the workloads equivalent.

The five-site gap is $2,936 a year between the base products. Make that slightly less once tax lands on the SEOPress $59. So I'd start SEOJuice on the one site with the clearest backlog rather than subscribing every client site at once.

On SEOPress Free ($0), keeping both costs only the SEOJuice bill, $599 a year for one site. The PRO-plus-Insights rows are plain sums of standalone prices, not an advertised bundle, and Insights tracks 50 keywords and 1,000 backlinks per site with daily rankings.

Older comparison pages quote one cheap unlimited license. SEOPress moved new customers to separate one-site, five-site and unlimited licenses on August 1, 2025, so check the date on any SEOPress price you find.

The SEOJuice trial starts on monthly billing, and yearly becomes available after the first charge, so the annual figures are not the trial's first checkout. If you forget to cancel, email hello@seojuice.com within 3 days of the first charge for a refund. Renewals are not refundable.

SEOPress AI usage runs on credits or a connected provider, and credits are not a guaranteed article allowance. Insights is a separate paid add-on per site.

Give SEOJuice one job first

Start with internal links on existing pages that have a backlog (I'd resist switching on everything). SEOPress's own CEO, Benjamin Denis, wrote in the company's linking guide, while describing PRO's own link suggestions, that “Manually adding internal links is fine, but it’s a huge time drain and soon gets tedious.” That is the workload to test.

Say an article about customer onboarding mentions “sending the first welcome email,” and a proposed link points to your welcome-email template guide. I'd accept it if the anchor describes what the reader finds. “Welcome-email templates” fits. “Click here” does not. A link to an unrelated sales page gets rejected, even if that page needs traffic.

During the trial, record accepted links, rejected suggestions and review minutes. Then check one accepted link after an ordinary editor save and republish. Set your threshold beforehand.

Suppose it is 20 useful links a month with no more than 30 minutes of review (illustrative targets, not an output rate). At $59/month that is $2.95 per accepted link, plus your time. If your team already does this comfortably inside SEOPress, skip the $59/month. If the backlog sits untouched, test it (that is the part I'd pay to change).

The SEOJuice pricing includes unlimited pages, images and alt text.

Each website also adds 20 AI article drafts a month, which need approval (publish them to WordPress or download as HTML, Markdown or DOCX), and 50 prompts checked daily across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and DeepSeek. These allowances add up across websites and are shared by the account. SEOPress PRO also drafts full articles in its Assistant, so count only the extra work you need.

Install alongside SEOPress, with one owner for each field

Have whoever administers WordPress install the plugin. PRO needs SEOPress Free to stay installed, so nothing here asks you to remove it.

Installing SEOJuice is not always adding a script. That describes only the snippet route. The WordPress plugin works server-side and writes into post content and the media library. The snippet applies changes in the browser at render. A Cloudflare Worker rewrites the response at the edge. A browser-applied link and a link stored in post content look alike to visitors, so inspecting the rendered page alone does not tell you which route owns the edit.

First, assign fields. Leave titles, descriptions, Open Graph and schema with SEOPress, switch those SEOJuice change types off per site, and start links in suggest mode. Second, pick one delivery route and avoid overlapping ones. Back up stored content, approve a limited change, then run the editor save and republish test. Third, revert one test change and confirm the original returns.

The conflict to avoid looks like this. You wrote a meta description in SEOPress for your pricing page, SEOJuice's meta change type is also on, and a before/after for that same page lands in your review queue. Switch the SEOJuice meta type off for that site, and SEOPress keeps the description while SEOJuice stops proposing one.

On a SEOPress site I'd pick the WordPress plugin route, because links land in post content where your editors can see them. Later, if you deactivate a plugin, remember that stored settings and rendered output are different things, and inventory what each plugin does before you remove either.

Who should keep SEOPress alone?

WordPress teams buying inexpensive SEO configuration should pick SEOPress. Its unlimited-site license costs $149/year, excluding tax, and SEOJuice cannot match that.

One WordPress.org reviewer called SEOPress “Logical and easy to use and full featured.”

Agencies on MainWP get the free SEOPress for MainWP add-on, which applies global SEO settings centrally and imports or exports configuration. Another subscription just for that makes little sense.

Try SEOJuice when internal-link deployment keeps slipping behind publishing. The drafts and prompt monitoring may add value, but links should justify the purchase alone. Do not buy it to lower your SEOPress bill, to duplicate configuration that already works, or to skip editorial review.

Questions before adding another subscription

Can I approve links, and what work stays with my team?

Yes. Start links in suggest mode and approve them one by one. Your team still assigns field ownership, reviews sample changes and checks the output after a republish. Title/H1 rewrites always start as suggestions and article drafts need approval, so this is not a no-work service.

Can SEOPress and SEOJuice run together?

Yes, with each change type switched off wherever SEOPress should keep the field. Test the output on your own configuration before widening the scope.

How soon should I expect a useful result?

Treat one reviewed, deployed and checked link as the first milestone. There is no fixed deadline, and ranking movement is a separate outcome that a good deployment does not guarantee.

What happens to my edits if I leave?

Changes SEOJuice already made stay in place and keep being served. It simply stops creating new ones. Export your data (CSV for pages, links, images, keywords and more) while you are subscribed.

Test the extra job before expanding

Pick the one site with the oldest link backlog, write down the 20-link, 30-minute threshold, and leave every other SEOJuice change type off until links clear it.

Start the 7-day free trial. A card is required, and you pay $59/month afterward unless you cancel before the trial ends.

To see the workflow before connecting a site, explore the demo.