The Semrush SEO Writing Assistant provides instant recommendations for content optimization based on the best-performing articles in the Google top 10 …
It's unfortunate that so many people have given this a bad review because they can't use it without a subscription, which is expensive. Those aren't reviews of the plugin. That said, I already have a subscription, which for my business I find worthwhile for the money. This is a fantastic tool to help me optimize my pages without having to copy and paste the content into SEMRush. It gives me great suggestions, and a better idea of the overall SEO value of the content than just Yoast. I hope SEMRush keeps up the plugin, I'd hate to lose it over a bunch of people who don't have subscriptions complaining.
The recently applied limits now mean that you can only use this plugin once unless you have the very expensive Guru plan on SEMRush. Previously you could use this multiple times on the Pro plan, but it seems that is not enough money for this company anymore.
Pros: I like the addition of this tool. It adds another dimension, research, and validating tool to the content arena. It helps me see what we forgot to include sometimes.
Cons: The backlink suggestions are rarely useful. We often see our own sites listed in the generated template doc of how competitors use the keywords.
Additional Feedback: As many people have mentioned SEMrush is expensive for small businesses and start-ups. Hence, only four starts. If you're on a tight budget and find a way to squeeze this in, use every tool you can to improve your revenue generation. If the tools are not fully utilized, and optimization plans are not created and executed well, you won't see the ROI.
Hey Semrush,
Instead of over pricing your platforms, how about you show the value in your platform or platform features. A 7 day trial is not enough to learn the value when we all know (Including your team) that search engines are not the fastest.
The plugin throws console log errors (404s) in every post and page edit screen. Custom post-types have different console log errors and any custom post-type edit screen that uses AJAX results in varying degrees of failure to execute. Sometimes the AJAX function won't execute at all, other times it's just that the success response isn't processed correctly.
We had to disable the plugin as it was conflicting with every custom post-type we have installed, all of which are far more important to the operation of the site than this tool is.
Even if you pay 99/mo which I have done for years you can't make use of this basic plugin
as it's only available at guru level - good way to annoy your clients semrush - I will be looking for a replacement seo solution
