How to use the Writing Assistant in AIOSEO

Unlock your content’s potential with our new Writing Assistant!

With this powerful feature, you can easily evaluate your content against targeted keywords, ensuring your writing not only resonates with your audience but also ranks higher in search results.

Simply input your keyword, and let our Writing Assistant generate a comprehensive report that highlights key areas for improvement.

How to get started with SEOBoost

Once you have an account with SEOBoost, you will be able to connect it to the Writing Assistant.

To get started, click on General Settings in the All in One SEO menu and then click on the Writing Assistant tab.

Once there, click on either the Create a Free Account button if you don't have an SEOBoost account, or the Connect to an Existing Account button to link All in One SEO to your existing SEOBoost account.

If you click on the Create a Free Account button, then you'll see a popup where you can sign up for a free account.

If you click on the Connect to an Existing Account button, then you'll see a popup where you can log into your SEOBoost account.

When you log in to your SEOBoost account, a pop-up will ask you to authorize the connection and to select a workspace.

Writing Assistant Settings

The settings for Writing Assistant can be found by going to the Writing Assistant tab under All in One SEO > General Settings where you'll see a Post Types section under your account.

You can click on the checkbox to include all content types you want Writing Assistant to be available in, or deselect it if you want to include only certain content types.

Don't forget to save your changes.

Using Writing Assistant

Once your SEOBoost account is set up and you've logged in, you can start using Writing Assistant on your content.

Head to any post or page that you'd like to start optimizing, and scroll down to the AIOSEO Settings area. You'll then find the AIOSEO Writing Assistant section underneath.

Generating a New Report

When you click on the Generate a New Report button, it will show you a pop-up with a few fields to fill in:

Generate Report modal in Writing Assistant.

The fields to complete are:

  • Keyword: Type the phrase that you want to use for your report. The more precise your phrase is, the better the quality of the report will be. We recommend using medium and long-tail keywords for best results.
  • Region: Select the target audience for your content. The report module will fetch results from your selected region.
  • Language: Choose the primary language in which your content is written. This is also the language in searches that can find you.

Report Overview

When you click Generate Report, the page will load a meter that will tell you that your report is being prepared. A report can take a few minutes to be created.

Once created, the report will display the following information:

Writing Assistant will analyze your content towards the keyphrase or keywords you added, evaluate its quality, and give you hints to improve it.

Report Keyword

This is the keyword you entered when generating your report.

Grade Summary

This is where your content's grading will be shown.

The Your Content column gives you a grade of the quality of your content, how many words it contains, and how it reads.

The Typical Top 10 column gives you the typical grading of content similar to yours that ranks in the Top 10 of search results on Google for your selected region and language, along with an average of words contained in these articles, and their readability level.

The Typical 11-30 column gives you the typical grading of content similar to yours that ranks in the 11th to 30th position of search results on Google for your selected region and language, along with an average of words contained in these articles, and their readability level.

Top Competitor Content

In this section, you'll find the highest-ranking articles related to the topic you chose as your keyword.

You can find more details under the Competitors section in this article.

Report Details and Report History

Here you'll find a summary of the information of your report.

Optimization Wizard

The Optimization Wizard tab will give you a list of the top-ranking terms related to your keyword. These terms can be suggestions to include in your article, as they're directly related to your topic.

Under each Term, you can click on See Examples to see how you can incorporate these terms into your content.

A pop-up will appear with different suggestions and grading of how to incorporate these terms into your content.

These examples come from the top-ranking articles related to your keyword.

You can click on each title to read the source article so that you can see how they're incorporating the terms in their content.

On the Optimization Wizard tab, you can also see each term's Heading Presence, which is the frequency they've been included in headings in these articles.

You can also see the Uses, which is a counter of how many times these keywords have been used in these articles.

The Importance column will show you how relevant the keyword is to the post or page.

Competitors

The Competitors tab includes a list of the Top 30 ranking articles for the keyword you entered.

You'll find a list of the article URLs, their readability complexity, the number of words on each article, and the grade of the quality of the text in each article.

If you want, you can download this list as an CSV file for your reference by clicking on the CSV button on the top left.

You can also sort them from ascending to descending values by clicking on each column in the report. For example, if you click on the Words column, you'll see the articles sorted by the most words:

Lastly, if you're in the middle of writing your content, you don't have to scroll down to the All in One SEO section to access Writing Assistant. You can easily access it on your sidebar by clicking on the Pencil icon on the top right.

This will open the Writing Assistant on the sidebar for you to access it quickly.

Remember, the key to successful SEO is continuous improvement and adaptation. As you implement the insights provided by Writing Assistant, we encourage you to experiment, analyze, and refine your approach.