SEO Pigeon — the all-in-one WordPress SEO plugin
SEO Pigeon is a lightweight, all-in-one WordPress SEO plugin that replaces four overlapping plugins with one. It writes your meta titles, descriptions and image ALT text with AI, outputs clean Schema.org structured data, generates an XML sitemap, suggests internal links, monitors 404s, manages redirects, and edits your robots.txt and llms.txt — and it is built for AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews) as well as classic Google ranking. It adds zero JavaScript or CSS to your front-end.
Who it is for
WordPress site owners, agencies and WooCommerce stores that want strong SEO without running Yoast SEO, Rank Math, a redirect plugin and a schema plugin all at once. If you are looking for a genuinely lightweight alternative to Yoast SEO or Rank Math that is also ready for AI search, SEO Pigeon is built for you.
What SEO Pigeon does
- AI-written metadata. Generate optimized meta titles, descriptions, image ALT text and focus keywords from your own content — one item at a time or in bulk across your whole library.
- Schema.org structured data. Automatic Article, FAQ, Product, Offer, Review/Rating, LocalBusiness, Organization and Breadcrumb markup, server-rendered into your page head.
- XML sitemap. Always current, with optional IndexNow pings to Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver.
- AI-search readiness. Built-in
llms.txtandrobots.txteditors plus clean entity markup, so AI assistants can understand and cite your pages. - Internal-link suggestions surfaced as you write, plus a 301/302 redirect manager (Premium).
- One-click import from Yoast SEO — titles, descriptions and redirects carry over, with no re-work.
- Zero front-end bloat. No JavaScript or CSS is added to your pages; the tools load only inside wp-admin.
How it compares to the incumbents
Against Yoast SEO and Rank Math, SEO Pigeon includes built-in AI meta and ALT generation (Yoast charges for it as an add-on; Rank Math gates it behind paid Content AI), bulk AI generation across your library, and an llms.txt editor for AI crawlers that neither offers. It adds no front-end JavaScript, where both incumbents ship some. Schema output and XML sitemaps are available in all three. See the full breakdown on SEO Pigeon vs Yoast and SEO Pigeon vs Rank Math.
Pricing
SEO Pigeon is free forever, with no account or licence key — schema output, the XML sitemap, IndexNow, the robots.txt and llms.txt editors, internal-link suggestions, the SEO score and Yoast import. Premium is $89/year for one site (add more for $69/year each) and adds all of the AI generation — titles, descriptions, keywords and image ALT text, one at a time or in bulk — the Posts Generator, the Image Optimizer and image SEO tools, the redirect manager (301/302) with CSV and Yoast import, 50,000 tokens per site each year and priority support.
Frequently asked questions
Is SEO Pigeon a good alternative to Yoast SEO?
Yes. On install you can import your existing SEO data from Yoast — meta titles and descriptions carry over — and you can keep both active during the transition. SEO Pigeon only outputs the fields you enable, so there is no double output, and it is lighter and adds no front-end JavaScript.
Does SEO Pigeon help with AI search — ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini?
It helps you publish an llms.txt file and keeps your schema and entity markup clean, so AI crawlers can understand and represent your pages. It does not yet track individual AI citations — that is on the roadmap.
Is the free tier actually free?
Yes, and there is no account or licence key. Schema output, the XML sitemap, IndexNow, the robots.txt and llms.txt editors, internal-link suggestions, the SEO score and Yoast import all work without paying. The AI generation is the Premium part — the free plugin ships none of it.
How does it affect site performance?
Schema and meta tags are server-rendered into your page head, and the plugin ships no JavaScript or CSS to your front-end. The editor and dashboard tools load only inside wp-admin.