by Seth Smigelski
5 (1 reviews)
Search Appearance Toolkit (SEO 44)
A lightweight, feature-packed SEO plugin for meta tags, JSON-LD structured data, XML sitemaps, article jump links, GTM integration and easy migration.
Compatible with WP 6.9
v4.4.1
Current Version v4.4.1
Updated 1 week ago
Last Update on 13 Jan, 2026
Synced 13 hours ago
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- Version
- 4.4.1
- Last Updated
- Jan 13, 2026
- Requires WP
- 5.5+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- Seth Smigelski
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Search Appearance Toolkit (SEO 44)
Search Appearance Toolkit (SEO 44) gives you control over the technical, on-page SEO factors that help search engines understand and rank your content. Key benefits include: * Optimized Snippets: Control how your titles and descriptions appear in search results. * Rich Results: The advanced Schema.org data improves indexing and helps you earn rich results in Google. * Crawlability: A clean and comprehensive XML sitemap ensures search engines can find and index all of your important content and images. * User Engagement: The Jump Links Block improves user experience, which is a positive ranking signal, and can help you earn "Jump to" links in search results.
While this plugin handles the crucial on-page technical SEO, it's important to remember that it cannot control other major ranking factors. These include factors such as the quality and originality of your content, your website's speed, mobile-friendliness, the number of quality backlinks pointing to your site, and your overall domain authority. Search Appearance Toolkit (SEO 44) contains effective features for optimizing your content, providing the foundation for a comprehensive SEO strategy. SEO 44 tools, like the Jump Links Block and the scanner for FAQs and How-Tos, reward the creation of thoughtful and organized content.
SEO 44 makes migration as simple as possible. Your previous SEO plugin saved the SEO data you created in your WordPress database. SEO 44 will find and use that data. Before migrating, please back up your WordPress database, including the postmeta table. Deactivate your previous SEO plugin while using SEO 44. Go to the Migration tab of the SEO 44 settings page. There you will see three keys where SEO 44 will store and update your SEO titles, descriptions, and keywords. By default, these keys will be seo44_title, seo44_description, and seo44_keywords, but they can be updated to match the locations where your website already manages SEO information. One Click Migration: The Migration tab includes a list of buttons with the names of popular SEO plugins. With one click, you can replace the seo44 keys with the standard meta keys for that other plugin. Your old data won't be copied or duplicated; you will simply pick up right where you left off with your previous SEO plugin. Two-Click Migration: If you'd like to verify which meta keys appear in your database, click the button to Scan for SEO Meta Keys The scanner will display a list of potential matching meta keys and provide suggestions for matching title, description, and keyword keys. Click Use Selected Keys and Save to accept the suggestions, telling SEO 44 to use your existing meta keys. You should now see your previous SEO titles and descriptions when you look at the SEO 44 metabox in your post editor.
Yes, the SEO 44 metabox appears and functions correctly with both the block editor and the classic editor. The advanced schema detection for FAQs and How-Tos works best with the block editor but has a fallback for the classic editor. The SEO 44 Jump Links Block is a custom block for use in the block editor.
SEO 44 helps your content look great when shared on social media platforms. You can enable the automatic generation of Open Graph (og:) tags, which Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest use, and Twitter Card meta tags for when your content appears on X (formerly Twitter). This ensures your posts have the correct title, description, and preview image when shared. Use the plugin's Google Tag Manager Integration to facilitate additional connections with social media platforms. Use the Organization Schema settings to associate all of your social media profiles with your website.
The featured image of any post or page will automatically be used as the primary og:image and twitter:image tag. If you need a site-wide default image for pages that don't have a featured image, you can set a Default Social Image on the plugin's "Social Media" settings tab. This image will be used as a fallback social media image when a featured image has not been set.
Schema Structured Data is machine-readable code that you add to your website to help search engines like Google better understand your content. Structured data is typically generated in the modern JSON-LD format, following guidelines set by Schema.org, a universal web standard used by over 10 million websites. Read more about Schema Structured Data and the SEO and GEO benefits of the schema created by this plugin.
No. Using the Schema Scanner, you can detect whether your theme or another plugin is already outputting JSON-LD or Microdata. If the scanner finds existing schema, it will notify you. Read more about the Schema Scanner and what to do if you find existing schema on your website.
SEO 44 creates a Person schema for the author of each article. To enhance this, it will automatically use the "Website" URL from the author's WordPress user profile to add url and @id attributes to the schema. This creates a powerful, machine-readable link between your content and its author, which helps search engines like Google build a stronger understanding of your site's authority and expertise (E-E-A-T). Read more about the Author Schema created by SEO 44.
The plugin intelligently scans your content for patterns that match question-and-answer formats or step-by-step instructions (when this option is enabled). The plugin locates this content and automatically generates FAQPage or HowTo schema that presents this content as structured data. The benefit of this is that Google can use this structured data to display your content in special, highly visible formats in the search results. An FAQ page might appear as a rich snippet with expandable questions or feature within a People Also Ask (PAA) result, while a How-To article can be featured in a step-by-step guide in AI Overviews. Search results that stand out can improve your click-through rate (CTR). Read more about the FAQPage and HowTo Schema created by SEO 44.