Squirrly SEO

Item: Squirrly SEO
Rating: 4.3
Author: Fast WordPress

by Squirrly

SEO assistance with live content grading and weekly audits aimed at people who do not want to learn SEO theory.

4.6680 WordPress.org reviewsSEOFreemium

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What Squirrly SEO does

SEO assistance with live content grading and weekly audits aimed at people who do not want to learn SEO theory.

It sits in the seo part of a WordPress stack and is sold by Squirrly on a freemium basis. We recommend it in our seo guides because it does that one job well without asking you to rebuild the rest of the site around it.

Every plugin adds work to a page request, so treat this as a decision with a cost. Record a speed test before you install it and run the same test afterwards, on the same page, so you know exactly what it charged you.

Real user ratings

Score

4.6/5

Reviews

680

Active installs

30,000+

Downloads

5.5M

Latest version

14.2.4

Last updated

2026-09-09

These figures come straight from the public WordPress.org plugin directory API for version 14.2.4, not from us. Check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing. Our own editorial score is 4.3/5.

Where Squirrly SEO ranks elsewhere

Squirrly SEO does not appear in the published "best of" lists we track from WPBeginner, TechRadar, Kinsta, Themeisle and similar sites. That is not a mark against it - those roundups are short and skew towards the biggest names.

What changed in the latest version

v14.2.4Latest release

Fix: The Inner Links suggestions no longer include WordPress menu items. Menu items are stored as posts and have an address of their own, but that address is not a real page and returns "not found" when opened, so they were being suggest...
Fix: The WebSite structured data now publishes your WordPress Site Title as the name of your site - the short name Google shows above your results - instead of the SEO title of the home page. The SEO title is a sentence written for the s...
Fix: The home page SEO title and meta description are now published in the JSON-LD properties they belong in - headline and description - instead of the description being published as the headline.
Fix: Company and personal brand names written with characters like "&" are no longer published with the HTML entity inside the structured data.
Fix: The Rich Snippets settings now describe correctly what is published when the company or personal brand name is left empty.
Fix: The description in your Rich Snippets Schema now follows the Meta Description you wrote for the page, instead of falling back to the raw page content. The {{excerpt}} pattern in a Schema field behaves like the {{title}} pattern alre...
Fix: The headline in your Rich Snippets Schema no longer repeats your site name when the Automation title pattern already ends with it - "Post Title | Site Name | Site Name" is now published as "Post Title | Site Name".

v14.2.3

Security: General security hardening in the WordPress admin screens. Recommended update for all sites.
Improvement: Additional output escaping in the admin scripts, with no change to how your keywords, patterns and snippets are displayed or saved.

v14.2.2

Fix: In the Squirrly Snippet, the "JSON-LD is disabled for this Post Type" notice no longer covers the Refresh and Save buttons on the Rich Snippets tab.
Fix: AI assistants connected through an MCP plugin can now see and use the Squirrly abilities.

Release notes are the developer's own words, published on WordPress.org. Read the full changelog

Pros and cons

Step-by-step live guidance
A free tier you can trial before paying
Actively maintained and used on production sites we test

Interface is busier than most
The features most sites need sit in the paid tier

How to use it

1Import existing metadata if you are switching from another SEO plugin.
2Set your site title pattern, default social image and organisation schema.
3Disable modules you will not use so the admin stays fast.
4Submit the generated sitemap in Google Search Console.
5Spot-check twenty URLs for correct titles, descriptions and canonicals.

How it compares

Other seo plugins we recommend, with their rating and pricing model.

Plugin	Our rating	WordPress.org	Pricing	Best for
Squirrly SEO	4.3	4.6 (680)	Freemium	Step-by-step live guidance
AIOSEO	4.6	n/a	Freemium	Broad feature coverage in one place
AIOSEO Writing Assistant	4.2	n/a	Premium	Competitor-based content scoring
All in One SEO	4.6	4.7 (5,205)	Freemium	Local SEO and redirects included
Broken Link Checker	3.8	3.8 (605)	Freemium	Finds link rot across years of archives
Link Whisper	4.5	4.1 (145)	Premium	Internal linking at scale

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