ECHO SEO

No. If Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress or The SEO Framework is active, ECHO SEO leaves the page title, meta tags, canonical, robots tag and schema to it rather than printing a second copy, and tells you so with an admin notice. Sitemaps, redirects, 404 monitoring, Bulk SEO and SEO Tasks keep working. To switch over, use the built-in Import SEO tool to bring your titles and descriptions across, then deactivate the other plugin.

The free version covers full LocalBusiness schema, per-page SEO, bulk-editing for every public content type (Pages, Posts, Products, and more), redirects, 404 monitoring, XML sitemaps with IndexNow, Page Speed checks, AI visibility (llms.txt), analytics tag installation, and SEO tasks. ECHO SEO Premium (a separate, paid add-on that is not hosted on WordPress.org) adds full Google Business Profile management (posting, reviews, Q&A) and a few extra tools.

Only as described in "External services" above, and only after you have opted in to the feature concerned. The plugin does not track you or your visitors and collects no usage statistics. It makes no requests to Digital Stride's servers at all; the only thing that ever reaches us is the optional registration email on the last step of the setup wizard, which is sent — once — from your own site only if you tick a consent box there. Your business data (name, address, hours, etc.) is stored in your own WordPress database and is not sent to any third party by this plugin, except when you explicitly use the "Find Coordinates" address lookup. If you enable IndexNow, the addresses (URLs) of content you publish are shared with search engines; if you run a Page Speed check, that page's URL is sent to Google — that's what those features are for. Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, the Facebook Pixel, and the LinkedIn Insight Tag only load if you enter their IDs.

For each 404 hit it stores the requested URL, the referrer, and the browser's user-agent string in your own WordPress database. It does not record IP addresses or any other personal information, and nothing from the 404 log is sent off your site (the optional daily digest goes to the email address you choose).

No — checks work out of the box using Google's free shared quota. That shared quota can run out at busy times, so the Page Speed screen also lets you paste in your own free PageSpeed Insights API key for a dedicated quota.

llms.txt is an emerging convention (llmstxt.org) for giving AI assistants a clean, machine-readable summary of your site. The plugin can serve one at /llms.txt (off by default) and lets you allow or block each well-known AI crawler in your robots.txt. Neither touches your pages' rendering.

Nothing is removed by default. Deactivating never deletes anything, and deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen also leaves your settings, per-page SEO fields, redirects, 404 log, and Page Speed history in the database — so reinstalling picks up exactly where you left off. If you would rather remove it all, tick "Delete all ECHO SEO data when the plugin is deleted" under Business Info → Settings → Plugin Data before deleting. That runs a full cleanup: the plugin's options, its per-page meta, its three database tables, its cached data, and its scheduled event. It cannot be undone, and it never touches anything belonging to ECHO SEO Premium.

Up to 250 target keywords. The scan saves its progress every ten pages, so it has no fixed page limit. The finished map is stored in one piece, and with the full 250 keywords it stays within a standard MySQL server's limits up to about 1,500 pages; on larger sites, use fewer keywords. If the map is ever too large for your server to store, the screen says so instead of losing it. As a guide, aim for no more keywords than you have pages worth ranking: 20–40 for a 30-page site, 100–250 for a 300-page site. A scan's saved progress is kept for six hours; if it is lost, the scan stops with a message and you start it again.

No. Schema output is lightweight, and no tracking script is loaded on your site's front end unless you've configured it (by entering a tracking ID). Reading a page's FAQs, team members and text is done in the background with WP-Cron after the page is saved, never while a visitor's page is being built, and the front end only reads the cached result.

Business Info & Schema Set your business identity, service area, hours, and social profiles once, and have them power schema.org structured data (JSON-LD) across your whole site — one linked graph per page, with your business, website, page and breadcrumb all pointing at each other. Add per-page custom schema and SEO title/meta description overrides from a tab right on the post/page editor screen. FAQPage schema switches on by itself on pages with a real FAQ section (ACF FAQ fields, a FAQ block, or two or more questions in a FAQ section) and is read from every FAQ section on the page, so it never goes stale. Other questions found on a page are offered in the editor instead. Fill in your Team Members from your own site: one click reads your About and Team pages for the people shown on them — name, job title, credentials, LinkedIn profile, headshot — and lists them for review; approve, and they are added to your business profile. Automatic business schema on every page, typed to your specific industry (contractor, HVAC, plumber, electrician, professional services, and dozens more). Keyword Map An inventory of what your site is missing: pages without an SEO title, meta description, or focus keyword, and images without alt text. Set a primary goal, your target keywords, and your services under Goals & Keywords, then build a keyword-to-page map: every page is scored against every keyword from what is already on it (how often the term appears, whether it is in the H1, the URL, and the opening paragraphs), and each keyword is assigned to one page so two of your pages never compete for the same term. The map flags competing pages and keywords no page covers yet. Nothing is written until you review the table and click Apply — and it only ever writes focus keywords, never your content. All of this is computed on your own site. There is an option to fetch each page over HTTP as a visitor sees it, so page-builder output is scored too; it is off by default, and it only requests your own URLs. There is no AI in this plugin. The Keyword Map is computed from what is on your pages, and none of your content is sent to an AI service. AI-written titles, descriptions, structured data and alt text ("One-Click SEO") and AI keyword suggestions are features of ECHO SEO Premium only, a separate paid add-on that is not hosted on WordPress.org. Bulk SEO Editor Edit SEO titles, meta descriptions, noindex flags, and focus keywords for every public content type on your site — Pages, Posts, and any others (Products, portfolios, and so on) — from one screen, with live readability and keyword-density feedback. Analytics & Tracking Install Google Tag Manager or Google Analytics 4, plus the Facebook (Meta) Pixel and the LinkedIn Insight Tag, from the plugin settings — no code editing or extra plugins required. Each one loads only once you enter its ID, and the Google tags only once you also click Connect (see "External services" below). By default the Facebook Pixel and LinkedIn Insight Tag load only once your cookie banner reports the visitor's consent to marketing cookies through the WP Consent API. Google Tag Manager and GA4 are not consent-gated by the plugin; use Google's Consent Mode for those. The plugin warns you while no Google tracking is connected. Redirects & 404 Monitoring Built-in redirect manager (301/302/307) with hit counts. Automatic 404 tracking that separates real visitor traffic from bot/scanner noise, with an optional daily email digest and one-click "create a redirect" from any logged 404. XML Sitemap & IndexNow Automatic XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml (a sitemap index with one sitemap per public post type and taxonomy), kept up to date as you publish and listed in robots.txt. It replaces WordPress's own /wp-sitemap.xml, which redirects to it, and includes anything your theme or other plugins add through WordPress's sitemap API. Posts, pages and term archives you mark noindex are left out. While Settings → Reading → "Discourage search engines" is ticked, no sitemap is served, as with WordPress's own. Optional instant indexing: if you switch it on, publishing or updating content submits its URL via the IndexNow protocol so participating search engines (Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam.cz) hear about it right away. This is off by default — see "External services" below for exactly what gets sent. Page Speed Run Google PageSpeed Insights checks (mobile and desktop) for any page on your site without leaving WordPress, with score history so you can see trends over time. Works out of the box, or add your own free API key for a dedicated quota. AI Visibility Serve a machine-readable llms.txt digest of your site (the emerging llmstxt.org convention) and set each well-known AI crawler — answer engines and model-training crawlers alike — to Allow or Block in your robots.txt. Whether AI crawlers may read your site stays your decision. SEO Tasks & Import A prioritized checklist of SEO improvements specific to your site. One-click import of titles, meta descriptions, and OG/Twitter data from Yoast SEO, so switching over doesn't mean starting from scratch. WooCommerce support Automatic Product schema pulled from your WooCommerce catalog data.