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Using AIOSEO Details on the Posts Screen

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Have you noticed the AIOSEO Details column on the All Posts screen?

You'll find this column on the screens that list all content for any post type and taxonomy. This column contains information about your SEO.

In This Article

Overview of AIOSEO Details

The AIOSEO Details column includes lots of really useful information including:

  • Index Status
  • Headline Analyzer score
  • TruSEO score
  • SEO Title
  • SEO Description
  • Link Assistant details
  • ​Broken Link Checker details

Here's how the AIOSEO Details column looks on the All Posts screen:

AIOSEO Details column shown on the All Posts screen

Let's look at each element of the AIOSEO Details column to see how it can help you with your SEO optimization.

Index Status

This Index Status icon, shown below, provides easy visibility of whether your content has been indexed by Google.

Index Status icon shown in the AIOSEO Details column

The icon shows green when your content has been indexed, orange when the content has been excluded for some reason, and red when there's an error with indexing.

You can hover over the icon with your mouse to see more details.

Index Status panel showing indexing status: URL not indexed, last crawl never, unknown user agent, unknown robots.txt, and unknown indexing state.

To learn more about this feature, check out our article on Index Status here.

TruSEO Score

The TruSEO score for your content, shown below, helps you to easily see where you have on-page SEO that can be improved.

TruSEO score shown in the AIOSEO Details column

The color of the icon will change from red, orange, and green depending on the score.

The score may take a short while to calculate the first time, so please be patient and wait for it to display alongside each post.

You can learn more about the TruSEO feature and the score in our Understanding the TruSEO Page Analysis Recommendations article here.

SEO Title

You can see the SEO title that's set for your content as shown below:

SEO title shown in the AIOSEO Details column

There's an indicator showing the number of pixels that the SEO title will take up in search results. The reason we display pixel width is because this is what Google and other search engines use.

Google doesn't limit titles by a strict character count. Instead, they limit them by the total pixel width of the title. Because different characters have different widths—for example, a title typed in all capital letters takes up much more space than one written in lowercase letters—measuring by a strict character count isn't always accurate. By using a pixel limit (with a maximum recommendation of 600 pixels), AIOSEO gives you a much more precise idea of how your title will actually fit and appear in search results before getting cut off.

In addition to the pixel count, you'll also see a pencil icon, which you can click on to edit your SEO title.

Editing the SEO title in the AIOSEO Details column

You'll see the same field that you'd see if you were in the AIOSEO Settings section on the Edit Post screen with the smart tag buttons, and emoji button above the field, and the title format or custom title shown in the field.

You can change the SEO title by clicking in the field and deleting the existing entry, then clicking on the smart tags, emoji button, View all tags link, or typing your own text in the field.

Click Save or Cancel when done.

You can learn more about setting the SEO title in our article here.

Meta Description

You can see the meta description that's set for your content as shown below:

SEO description shown in the AIOSEO Details column

There's an indicator showing the number of pixels that the meta description will take up in search results. The reason we display pixel width is because this is what Google and other search engines use.

Google doesn't limit description by a strict character count. Instead, they limit them by the total pixel width of the description. Because different characters have different widths—for example, a description typed in all capital letters takes up much more space than one written in lowercase letters—measuring by a strict character count isn't always accurate. By using a pixel limit (with a maximum recommendation of 920 pixels), AIOSEO gives you a much more precise idea of how your description will actually fit and appear in search results before getting cut off.

In addition to the pixel count, you'll also see a pencil icon, which you can click on to edit your meta description.

Editing the SEO description in the AIOSEO Details column

You'll see the same field that you'd see if you were in the AIOSEO Settings section on the Edit Post screen with the smart tag buttons, and emoji button above the field, and the description format or custom description shown in the field.

You can change the SEO description by clicking in the field and deleting the existing entry, then clicking on the smart tags, emoji button, View all tags link, or typing your own text in the field.

Click Save or Cancel when done.

You can learn more about setting the SEO description in our article here.

The ​Link Assistant icons show the status of internal, external, and affiliate links in your content.

AIOSEO Details panel showing a score of 81/100, two bullet items, and a bottom row of small status icons with numbers 3, 2, 0, 1, 1.

You can hover over each icon to see a popup with more information.

You can learn more about these icons in our Using the Link Assistant article here.

If you have our free ​Broken Link Checker plugin installed, then you'll see a count of the number of broken links in your content.

Screenshot of the AIOSEO Details panel showing an 81/100 SEO score badge at the top, a short checklist with edit icons, and a bottom row of small status icons with numbers (3, 2, 0, 1, 1).

You can learn more about ​Broken Link Checker in our Using Broken Link Checker to Find and Fix Broken Links and Images here.

Hiding the AIOSEO Details Column

If you want to hide the AIOSEO Details column for either your user or all users, then check out our article on hiding the AIOSEO Details column here.