The SEO writing assistant is a new tool developed by Semrush platform on digital marketing toolkit for marketing professionals. We would like to highlight the SEO Writing Assistant for copywriters in this summer post.
The SEO writing assistant is still in Beta phase but we should pay attention to this SEO toolkit as it shows us, for instance, how our 10-rivals write about the keywords we have selected.
It is also very good news for those WordPress clients, bloggers and marketers since Semrush allows download an add-on to check if the post texts added into the WordPress editor contain the quality requirement.
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What is SEO Writing Assistant by Semrush
It is a text editor that offers different quality information as the text is being written. In this sense, we have the chance to improve the document with any assistance suggestion before is uploaded.

Let’s see the following features:
Overall score
It makes an average of the metrics below.
Readability
It tells us the level of readability. Is it appropriate for our audience? which are the words that could have a difficult understanding? The SEO Writing Assistant uses Flesch reading-ease score formula to gather the info.

The higher the score, the easier text is.
NOTE we must not forget that we must write for our readers, NOT for a tracking robot.
Words
Words counter
Target keywords
Keywords suggestions to use at least once.
Recommended keywords
Keywords recommendations to achieve the goal.
Title
Words suggestion that should have the title in. It is based on the keywords selected. It also suggests that the optimal title length should be 160 characters.
Paragraph length
Level of difficulty of paragraphs legibility.
Meta description
160 characters as optimal title length.
H1
Recommendation to include H1 with keywords.
Text
External domains related to our topic suggested getting backlinks.
10-ranking rivals
The SEO Writing Assistant analyzes who are our 10-ranking rivals according to our keywords. It also shows us how our competitors write about the keywords we have selected.
Here you can download extended recommendations. Take a look of this document.
Get SEMrush SEO Writing Assistant add-on for WordPress
Install the SEMrush SEO Writing Assistant add-on easily in your site.