# AIOSEO Alternative: Everything That Acts, From Pro URL: https://hacktheseo.com/aioseo-alternative/ Date: 2026-07-08 Last modified: 2026-07-09 Author: Eric Ibanez --- - AIOSEO ALTERNATIVE · 2026 # AIOSEO locks the essentials behind Elite. Hack The SEO includes everything in Pro. AIOSEO is the biggest WordPress SEO plugin (3M+ installs) with one of the best setup wizards on the market. If you are looking for an **AIOSEO alternative** that does not charge $199 for the Redirection Manager and $299 for your own Search Console data, and does not run on AI credits that expire, here is what [Hack The SEO](https://hacktheseo.com/wordpress-seo-plugin/) does differently. AIOSEO settings imported in 1 click, migrated in 5 minutes. [Install the free version](/download) 1,200+ SaaS users · Dunod-published book · Made in France Factual comparison · May 2026 5 key criteria Redirection Manager locked behind Pro ($199) AIOSEO→HTS Included in every plan GSC data locked behind Elite ($299) AIOSEO→HTS D+7/D+30 GSC learning in Pro Use-it-or-lose-it AI credits AIOSEO→HTS Unlimited AI Coach in Pro Renewals double in year two AIOSEO→HTS Flat price, no surprises No way to plug in an AI agent AIOSEO→HTS Claude MCP, exclusive AIOSEO settings migrated in **5 minutes**, zero data loss. 1-click import Made in France 89 modules THE AIOSEO LIMITS · 2026 ## AIOSEO is powerful. But the best features are locked inside Pro and Elite. AIOSEO is the most installed WordPress SEO plugin (3M+ users since 2007, acquired by Awesome Motive in 2020). A remarkable setup wizard, a solid TruSEO score, WooCommerce SEO from Basic, Local SEO from Plus. On the fundamentals for getting started, it is excellent. On what 2026 demands (an architected AI cocoon, GSC learning, hosted AI, MCP, and above all access to the essential features without a paywall), there are five points worth a look. Here are the five that AIOSEO users flag to us when they go hunting for an **AIOSEO alternative** that does not bill every function separately. 01 ### Essential features hidden behind Pro and Elite The **Redirection Manager** (managing your 301s, 302s, 410s) is locked from the Pro plan at $199.50/year. The **Search Console data** (Search Statistics, Keyword Rank Tracking, Content Decay) is locked to the Elite plan at $299.50/year. Google hands you that data for free in Search Console, yet AIOSEO charges to display it inside WordPress. The **Link Assistant** (internal link suggestions) is also gated to Pro. Hack The SEO Pro at 99 €/month includes **everything in a single tier**: unlimited Redirection Manager, GSC data with D+7/D+30 learning, AI semantic cocoon, unlimited AI Coach, Claude MCP. No essential function reserved for a higher tier. 02 ### Use-it-or-lose-it AI credits that expire AIOSEO bundles AI credits into every tier: 10,000 (Basic), 25,000 (Plus), 50,000 (Pro), 200,000 (Elite). Each action burns roughly 10 credits (generating an FAQ, a social post, a Gutenberg paragraph, and so on). Credits **expire after one year** and do not roll over. Go over, and you buy another 10,000-credit pack at $9.99. Stay under, and you paid for them anyway. Hack The SEO Pro: **unlimited AI Coach, no credit system at all**. Whether you run 5 or 5,000 prompts a month, the price is the same. The AI sits inside the subscription; it is not metered. 03 ### The AI is a Gutenberg helper, not an article engine AIOSEO's AI Assistant generates **SEO titles, meta descriptions, FAQ blocks (with schema), key points / TL;DR, social posts, and Gutenberg paragraphs on demand**. But it is not an autonomous long-form article generator with research and architecture behind it. To scale to 30 articles/month, AIOSEO points you to a separate product, SEOBoost, at $30/month (another subscription). Hack The SEO Ultra writes **30 long-form articles per month** straight inside the plugin (2,000+ words, Hn structure, NLP entities, AI images, ready to publish). No separate subscription, no credit top-ups. Equivalent agency cost: 9,000–18,000 €/month. 04 ### Renewals double in year two, with no transparency The AIOSEO prices you see ($49, $99, $199, $299/year) are **year-one introductory rates**. From the second year on, renewals **double**, according to three independent sources (eesel AI, theStacc, topratedaisoftware, 2026). Renewal pricing is not published on the pricing page. You discover the real cost when the automatic renewal hits. Hack The SEO Pro at **99 €/month ex. tax, flat and transparent**. No intro rate that doubles, no mystery renewal. The price you see is the price you pay, month after month. 05 ### No way to plug in an AI agent AIOSEO's AI Assistant lives inside a WordPress Gutenberg block. But the plugin exposes **no interface for Claude, ChatGPT or any external AI agent** that could talk to your WordPress site in read-write. You cannot ask Claude, from claude.ai, to analyze your site, cross-reference TruSEO + GSC + Schema, and hand you an executable action plan. Hack The SEO is the **first French WordPress SEO plugin to ship MCP** (Anthropic's Model Context Protocol). You talk to Claude from claude.ai, and Claude drives your site in read and write. 3 DIFFERENTIATORS · 2026 ## Three things AIOSEO does not do. Three things [Hack The SEO](https://hacktheseo.com/wordpress-seo-plugin/) does natively. Validated on 30+ WordPress sites in production, and used daily by 1,200+ SaaS users. WHAT IS A SEMANTIC COCOON? ### A pyramid architecture, not just a keyword cluster. The semantic cocoon is a **three-level editorial structure** where every page knows its role. Hack The SEO detects it automatically through TF-IDF analysis combined with OpenAI vector embeddings. **●**  **Pillar**: exhaustive content, targets the main query - **●**  **Children**: detailed subtopics, link back to the pillar - **●**  **Satellites**: long-tail variants, feed the children - **●**  **Orphans**: disconnected pages diluting authority (auto-detected) **AIOSEO's Link Assistant** suggests internal links to insert, from the Pro plan at $199/year up. **Hack The SEO** builds the entire editorial architecture in Pro at 99 €/month, assigns a role to every page, detects the orphans, and weaves the linking according to the levels. That is the difference between suggesting links and building the web. 01 Differentiator 1 ### An AI semantic cocoon, not a mere link suggestion Hack The SEO scans your article catalog, computes embedding vectors with OpenAI text-embedding-3-small, detects the pillars through multi-criteria scoring, and builds the **pillar → children → satellites** tree. **Ultra** weaves the AI internal linking on top, and updates itself when a piece of content changes. Orphan pages are identified and flagged in the Inbox. **On the AIOSEO side:** the Link Assistant (Pro+) suggests internal links to insert into your articles. No pillar/children/satellites architecture, no orphan-page detection, no automatic cross-cocoon link push. Cocoon generated in < 60 sec 02 Differentiator 2 ### A system that learns from your Search Console Every time an SEO action is applied, Hack The SEO measures its real impact on your GSC data at **D+7 and D+30**. The actions that work on your site move up the priorities. The ones that do nothing get downgraded. It is a Thompson Sampling bandit algorithm combined with pattern mining, the same type of model e-commerce uses to optimize product recommendations. **On the AIOSEO side:** GSC data is only available in the Elite plan at $299.50/year (Search Statistics). No D+7/D+30 impact measurement per action, no learning from your site over time. Impact measured at D+7 and D+30 03 Differentiator 3 ### Claude MCP + unlimited AI Coach, not a chatbot billed by the word Hack The SEO is the first French WordPress SEO plugin to ship **MCP** (Model Context Protocol). From claude.ai or Claude Code, you ask Claude to analyze your site and it acts. For those who do not use Claude, the built-in **AI Coach** runs on Anthropic and is unlimited in Pro: ask 5 or 500 questions a month, the price is the same. **On the AIOSEO side:** an AI Assistant Gutenberg block and an AI Content Generator (FAQ, key points, social, paragraphs). Credits included but use-it-or-lose-it (they expire after a year). No MCP interface exposed. Unlimited AI Coach in Pro · exclusive MCP 89 MODULES · 1 SINGLE SUBSCRIPTION ## 89 modules in 1 subscription. No Pro/Elite paywall, no credits that expire. Hack The SEO bundles 89 modules: AI semantic cocoon, audit, scoring, long-form writing, internal linking, schema, MCP, AI tracking, Coach. All under a single Pro or Ultra subscription. Here are the 12 most visible ones, the ones that make the difference in a demo. Included Pro + Ultra Ultra only 01 ### AI semantic cocoon Automatic topical map + linking toward the pillar page. AIOSEO: Link Assistant (Pro+, $199/year) suggests links. No cocoon architecture with pillar/children/satellite roles. Pro+Ultra 02 ### AI audit Detects and recommends (Pro) → applies in 1 click via the Inbox (Ultra). AIOSEO: SEO Analyzer + Site Audit, without automatic cross-page fixes. Pro+Ultra 03 ### Technical audit Speed, indexing, tags, 404 redirects. AIOSEO: Redirection Manager **reserved for Pro at $199.50/year** minimum. Not included in Basic or Plus. Pro+Ultra 04 ### AI internal linking Semantic-graph suggestions (Pro) → automatic application (Ultra). AIOSEO: Link Assistant, Pro at $199/year. No automatic cross-cocoon WP push. Pro/Ultra 05 ### Real-time AI Coach Continuous analysis · 91 checks. AIOSEO: no conversational AI Coach. The AI Assistant is a Gutenberg block helper, credit-based. Pro+Ultra 06 ### Long-form AI SEO writing 2,000+ word articles · Top 10 SERP · NLP. AIOSEO: no complete long-form articles. The AI generates paragraphs, FAQs, key points. Ultra 07 ### Cannibalization detected Competing URL pairs + a fix plan. AIOSEO: no dedicated cannibalization detection. Pro+Ultra 08 ### Advanced JSON-LD schema 24 auto schemas + manual editing. AIOSEO: Schema Generator with the main types, Dynamic Job Listing in Elite only. Solid. Pro+Ultra 09 ### Advanced WooCommerce SEO Cocoons connected to products, category-driven SEO articles. AIOSEO: WooCommerce SEO included from Basic at $49/year. A real strength. Ultra 10 ### llms.txt + GEO Score So the AIs cite your brand. AIOSEO: not covered natively (server-side LLM bot tracking). Ultra 11 ### Search Console built in Positions, impressions, CTR inside WP admin. AIOSEO: Search Statistics **reserved for Elite at $299.50/year**. Without D+7/D+30 learning per action. Pro+Ultra 12 ### Founder-led support Answers from the founders themselves (EN + FR). AIOSEO: EN support (Awesome Motive, US team). Priority support from Pro up. Pro+Ultra ✦ BONUS Everything ships with the plugin and its subscription. **No personal API key to manage**, no add-on to buy, no AI bundle to top up. The AIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) are hosted by Hack The SEO and billed inside your subscription. EXCLUSIVE DIFFERENTIATOR · CLAUDE MCP No other WordPress SEO plugin offers it ## AIOSEO cannot plug into an AI agent. Hack The SEO does it natively. Hack The SEO is the first French WordPress SEO plugin to ship Anthropic's **Model Context Protocol**. Concretely: you connect Claude to your site and it reads your Hack The SEO data, your Google Search Console and the content of your WordPress pages, live. A reasoned diagnosis, prioritized recommendations, an SEO action plan, all in a natural conversation, at any hour. AIOSEO offers an AI Assistant in a Gutenberg block to generate titles and paragraphs on demand, but every action burns limited credits and no MCP interface is exposed to Claude or ChatGPT. Step 1 · You ### You ask the question “Which pages should I migrate first from AIOSEO?” → Step 2 · Claude ### Claude analyzes Reads your site, your GSC, your Hack The SEO audit → Step 3 · You ### You get the plan Diagnosis + prioritized action plan, no credit burned A FEW EXAMPLES OF WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ASK › “Compare my current AIOSEO configuration with what Hack The SEO would do by default.” › “What are my 5 highest-ROI SEO actions this week, based on measured impact?” › “Which pages cannibalize each other? What is the estimated traffic impact?” › “Read my Search Console and summarize the trends of the last 30 days.” FACTUAL COMPARISON · MAY 2026 ## AIOSEO alternative: 22 criteria. Verifiable. No superlatives. The table that settles the “**AIOSEO alternative**” debate: 22 rows cross-checked against the official AIOSEO sources (aioseo.com). **~** = limited, partial, or requires a separate paid add-on. Criterion AIOSEO Hack The SEO Native WordPress plugin Country of origin 🇺🇸 United States 🇫🇷 France Number of SEO modules ~20 + credit-based AI Assistant 89 all in 1 subscription AI semantic cocoon · pillar/children/satellites pyramid Orphan-page detection (architecture) Internal linking pushed to WordPress in 1 click ~Link Assistant, Pro+ ($199/yr) AI Smart Link Swap from Pro Cannibalization: URL pair detection Multiple keywords per page ~1 on Lite/Basic/Plus · unlimited Pro+ unlimited from Pro Learns from Search Console · measures D+7 and D+30 impact Actions ranked by measured impact (not by opinion) Auto propagation of winning patterns to similar pages Long-form AI writing, 2,000+ words ~AI Assistant Gutenberg · paragraphs 30 articles/month on Ultra AI hosting included (zero API key to manage) ~10K–200K credits/yr · they expire included in the subscription Unlimited conversational AI Coach (no credits) AI Assistant block · not conversational unlimited from Pro **Claude MCP** (AI agent connected to your site) not available first WP SEO plugin Advanced JSON-LD schema Smart Schema, Job Listing in Elite 24 advanced types Advanced WooCommerce SEO included from Basic ($49/yr) included in Ultra Local SEO (LocalBusiness schema) included from Plus ($99/yr) native schemas included llms.txt + GEO Score (AI visibility) AI visibility tracking (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini) included in Ultra Full-version pricing · 1 equipped site $49.50 to $299.50/YRintro · renewals double in year 2 99 €/MONTH Proall included, no add-ons Co-authors of a Dunod SEO book (E-E-A-T) "Le SEO pour booster sa croissance" 22 verifiable criteria Official AIOSEO sources Updated May 2026 THE REAL COST · TOOLS + HUMAN TIME ## What you really pay each month. All included. Tool prices sourced from the official aioseo.com pricing page (Elite tier, the only one that includes the GSC data), plus human time at the senior SEO consultant rate in France (Malt 2025 barometer · 70 €/h). AIOSEO Elite, equipped Elite plan (the only tier with GSC) **+ 30 h/month** spent building the cocoon and writing the articles by hand ~ 2,123 € /month ex. tax · real delegated total 23 € tools  +  30 h × 70 €/h** = 23 € + 2,100 € = ~ 2,123 € No architected AI semantic cocoon No complete, autonomous long-form articles No GSC learning (D+7/D+30) No Claude MCP Year-two renewal doubled (undisclosed) ★ RECOMMENDED Hack The SEO Pro 1 single subscription, everything integrated + 4 h/month** of 1-click Inbox validation ~ 379 € /month ex. tax · real delegated total 99 € tools  +  4 h × 70 €/h** = 99 € + 280 € = ~ 379 € AI semantic cocoon** · pillar/children/satellites architecture **GSC learning** · D+7 and D+30 impact measured per action **Exclusive Claude MCP** · first WP SEO plugin **Unlimited AI Coach** · no credit system **AI hosting included** · zero API key to provide THE REAL GAP, EVERY MONTH 5.6× cheaper That is **1,744 € saved every month**, because the system prepares the actions and ranks the priorities by measured GSC impact. **Want ~ 2 h/month instead of 4?** **Hack The SEO Ultra at 249 €/month** adds the Workflow Engine, Agent Mode and the AI writing of 30 long-form articles/month. Delegated total: ~ 389 €/month (about 10 € more than Pro for zero human management time). Sources: aioseo.com/pricing (official Elite plan, $299.50/year intro · renewals doubled in year 2) · eesel AI & theStacc 2026 (renewals + paywalls analysis) · Malt 2025 barometer (senior SEO consultant day rate, France) REPLACING AIOSEO · 3-STEP MIGRATION ## You keep 100% of your AIOSEO settings. Zero data loss. The native migration assistant reads your AIOSEO configuration (titles, meta descriptions, TruSEO schemas, sitemaps, redirects, focus keywords) and re-injects it into Hack The SEO. Manual validation available at every step. 1 Install Hack The SEO Download the plugin, activate it. No conflict with AIOSEO staying active in parallel during the transition. ~ 2 minutes → 2 Import your AIOSEO settings in 1 click The assistant detects AIOSEO automatically and imports titles, metas, focus keywords, schemas (24 Pro types), sitemaps, redirects, hreflang. Preview before you validate. ~ 3 minutes → 3 Deactivate AIOSEO Once the migration is validated, deactivate AIOSEO in 1 click. Your data stays in the database for 14 days in case of rollback. Your AIOSEO subscription (Pro or Elite) can be canceled separately. ~ 30 seconds Total: **about 5 minutes**. Zero Google positions lost, zero Search Console history lost. One single manual action: resubmit the new sitemap URL in Google Search Console (30 seconds). 5 min [Book a migration demo · 20 min](https://calendly.com/eric-ibanez-hts/20min) CASE STUDIES · THEY CHOSE THE AIOSEO ALTERNATIVE ## Three AIOSEO-to-Hack-The-SEO migrations. Here is what they saw within weeks. EX-AIOSEO ELITE · PRO ★★★★★ “AIOSEO Elite's AI credits ran dry in 2 months across our 8 client sites, and we were paying $9.99 every month to buy another pack. The Hack The SEO AI Coach produces content we can publish directly, and it is unlimited. We canceled AIOSEO Elite without a second thought.” Thomas G. Tech blog publisher, 180 articles $240 saved/year ∞ AI Coach queries 0 credits wasted EX-AIOSEO ELITE 100 SITES · ULTRA ★★★★★ “We ran 28 client sites on AIOSEO Elite 100 sites. Setting up the cocoon on each one took us 4 days per site. Hack The SEO Ultra builds the cocoon in under 60 seconds and the AI linking weaves itself. We freed up 80% of our SEO consultant's time.” Élodie P. Co-founder, content agency < 60 s cocoon generated -80% consultant time 28 sites migrated EX-AIOSEO ELITE · ULTRA ★★★★★ “With AIOSEO I had TruSEO and the Site Audit, but I never knew which fixes to apply first. Hack The SEO tells me: these 5 actions have a measured impact on your site, do them this week. Organic traffic up 52% in 4 months.” Karim B. E-commerce director, fashion +52% organic traffic 4 months after migrating 5 actions/week AI ANALYTICS · LLM BOT TRACKING ## You know who visits your site from Google. Not from _ChatGPT_. AIOSEO Elite shows your Search Console data in its Search Statistics dashboard, but no module detects AI bots passing over your pages. Hack The SEO shows you who visits your site from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini or Meta AI, how often, on which pages. The AI Analytics module detects these LLM bots and cross-references their visits with Google Search Console in a single dashboard. AI visits detected Real-time count of the visits coming from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Meta AI. You see which article generated how many AI clicks and which ones the LLM bots ignore. AI crawler activity Tracks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended passing over your site. You spot the pages crawled by the AIs but never cited, and optimize them with the plugin's GEO Score. Google + AI, one unified dashboard The Cockpit dashboard merges Google Search Console and AI traffic into a single view. Google clicks, impressions and average position on the left. AI visits and cited articles on the right. 15-day / 30-day / 90-day / 12-month comparison. “In 2026, ranking on Google is no longer enough. You need to know what the AIs see and read about you, so you can steer it.” Bruno Ibanez & Eric Ibanez, co-authors of "Le SEO pour booster sa croissance" (Dunod, 2025) [See AI Analytics in a demo](https://calendly.com/eric-ibanez-hts/20min) PUBLIC PRICING · NO COMMITMENT ## AIOSEO alternative pricing: 99 €/month all included. No paywall on the Redirection Manager or the GSC data, no credits that expire. Choosing an **AIOSEO alternative** is also choosing a readable price. Where AIOSEO charges $199.50/year (Pro) for the Redirection Manager and $299.50/year (Elite) for the Search Console data, with renewals that double in year two, Hack The SEO is 99 €/month all included, at a flat transparent price. No renewal surprise, no essential function reserved for a higher tier. Hack The SEO Pro The SEO brain: everything you need to analyze, understand, recommend. For SMBs, freelancers and single sites that drive their own SEO. **99 €**ex. tax / month vs AIOSEO Pro at $199.50/year for 10 sites with the Redirection Manager and Link Assistant. Over a year, the gap is measured in time saved and in everything being included, not in the license price. No semantic cocoon, no GSC learning, no MCP. [Hack The SEO Pro demo](https://calendly.com/eric-ibanez-hts/20min) **12 technical SEO modules** (Free) + advanced Schema, llms.txt, IndexNow, hreflang, AI redirects **AI semantic cocoons** (analysis + authority graph) **Unlimited AI SEO Coach** (vs 5 questions/month on Free) Cannibalization detection, editorial planning, auto reports (5 types) 10 articles/month via the SaaS, AI content plans AI hosting included, priority email support, founder-led support (EN + FR) Recommended · Autonomous Hack The SEO Ultra The system executes for you. Everything Pro recommends, Ultra applies automatically: AI linking, writing, publishing. For sites that want to scale without hiring. **249 €**ex. tax / month vs AIOSEO Elite at $299.50/year for Search Statistics + Keyword Rank Tracking, which remains a catalog of tools to assemble yourself. No GSC learning system, no MCP, no auto propagation of winning patterns. [Hack The SEO Ultra demo](https://calendly.com/eric-ibanez-hts/20min) **Everything in Pro**, plus the whole autonomous layer: **Automatic AI internal linking** (Smart Link Swap that runs on its own) **1-click action Inbox** (the audit no longer reports, it fixes) **Autonomous Agent Mode** + Workflow + Strategy + Decision Engine **AI writing + images** inside the plugin, 30 articles/month, Content Refresh, scheduled publishing **WooCommerce e-commerce agent**: cocoons + linking that factor in your products, conversion-focused SEO articles Feedback Loop, weekly report, semantic embeddings, personalized onboarding, audit trail Hack The SEO Ultra at **249 €/month** ≈ an SEO agency at **1,500 €/month**. Without the meeting schedule. WHO IT IS FOR · 4 EX-AIOSEO PROFILES ## Based on how you use AIOSEO today, here is the Hack The SEO plan that matches. EX-AIOSEO LITE · PRO Overwhelmed SMBs & freelancers AIOSEO Lite shows you the basics through TruSEO, but with 1 keyword max, no Redirection Manager and no GSC dashboard. You can see what is wrong, but not where to start. Hack The SEO **Pro** at 99 €/month: the system ranks the actions by measured impact on your site, and the AI Coach answers every question you have, with no credit system. EX-AIOSEO PRO · ULTRA E-commerce sites that publish a lot AIOSEO Pro at $199.50/year to unlock the Redirection Manager and Link Assistant: you get more efficient, but AIOSEO's AI credits run dry fast and you still write the long-form articles somewhere else. Hack The SEO **Ultra** delivers 30 optimized long-form articles/month, with no credit system and no OpenAI key to provide. EX-AIOSEO ELITE · PRO Bloggers who want measured impact AIOSEO Elite at $299.50/year unlocks Search Statistics and Keyword Rank Tracking. You see the GSC data, but you do not know which fixes actually move traffic on your site. Hack The SEO **Pro**: every action is measured on GSC at D+7 and D+30. Recommendations adapt to what works on your site, not to a generic benchmark. EX-AIOSEO ELITE 100 SITES · ULTRA Agencies & multi-site owners AIOSEO Elite 100 sites at $299.50/year (renewals double in year two): every site is configured by hand, with no learning system sharing the patterns across client sites. Hack The SEO **Ultra**: the Inbox fixes in 1 click, Agent Mode executes, Claude MCP drives from claude.ai, and the winning patterns propagate automatically. [That sounds like me · Book 20 min](https://calendly.com/eric-ibanez-hts/20min) FAQ · MIGRATING FROM AIOSEO ## The 8 questions we hear before people leave AIOSEO. Can you migrate from AIOSEO without losing your existing SEO settings? Yes. The Hack The SEO migration assistant detects AIOSEO (Lite, Basic, Plus, Pro or Elite) automatically and imports: SEO titles, meta descriptions, TruSEO focus keywords, canonical tags, active schemas (Article, Product, LocalBusiness, FAQ, HowTo, Recipe, Event, Job Listing, etc.), 301/302/410 redirects, XML sitemaps (standard, video, news), breadcrumbs, hreflang, robots.txt. You validate the import in a preview before activating. Your AIOSEO data stays in the database for 14 days in case of rollback. Does Hack The SEO import AIOSEO Pro/Elite schemas? Yes. Article, FAQPage, HowTo, Product, Recipe, Review, Event, JobPosting, Course, SoftwareApplication, LocalBusiness, Restaurant, Service, VideoObject, Book, Movie, Person, Organization, BreadcrumbList, WebPage, WebSite, Speakable, ItemList and CollectionPage. The multi-location Local Business Schema (AIOSEO Plus+) and the Dynamic Job Listing Schema (AIOSEO Elite) are imported in native JSON-LD format. FAQ and HowTo blocks embedded in the Gutenberg content are preserved. What happens to the AIOSEO XML sitemaps after the migration? Hack The SEO automatically takes over the same canonical sitemap URL (sitemap.xml) once AIOSEO is deactivated. Nothing to reconfigure in Google Search Console. The sitemap is regenerated in real time by our module, with the specialized sitemaps (video, news, image) included in every plan (vs AIOSEO Pro/Elite only) and IndexNow you can enable in 1 click to push new content to Bing instantly. Does Hack The SEO replace AIOSEO's Link Assistant? Yes, and it goes wider. AIOSEO's Link Assistant (Pro and Elite only) suggests internal links to insert into your articles, based on content analysis. Useful, but limited: it suggests one-off connections, it does not build the architecture. Hack The SEO analyzes your full catalog with TF-IDF combined with OpenAI vector embeddings, detects the pillars automatically, assigns a role to every page (pillar, child, satellite, orphan), weaves the linking according to the levels, and reconnects the orphan pages. That is the entire editorial architecture, not case-by-case suggestions. AIOSEO Elite costs $299.50/year, Hack The SEO 99 €/month. Why the gap? The sticker price tells only half the story, and only for year one. **Tools side:** AIOSEO Elite (the only plan that brings GSC data into WordPress) = $299.50/year ≈ 23 €/month as an intro rate, **~46 €/month from year 2** (renewals doubled, per eesel + theStacc + topratedaisoftware, 2026). Hack The SEO Pro = 99 €/month ex. tax, flat and transparent. **Human time side:** driving AIOSEO takes roughly 30 h/month (building the cocoon by hand since the Link Assistant only suggests, writing the articles yourself since the AI Assistant is a Gutenberg helper, managing the AI credits so you do not overrun, tracking GSC). At the senior SEO consultant rate in France (~ 70 €/h, Malt 2025), that adds ~ 2,100 €/month. Hack The SEO Pro takes ~ 4 h/month (1-click Inbox validation), or ~ 280 €/month. **Real delegated total:** AIOSEO Elite equipped ~ 2,123 €/month vs Hack The SEO Pro ~ 379 €/month (5.6× cheaper). With Ultra at 249 €/month, human time drops to ~ 2 h/month because the Workflow Engine executes automatically and writes 30 long-form articles/month (total ~ 389 €/month). Why is AIOSEO's Redirection Manager locked behind $199? It is a commercial decision by Awesome Motive (AIOSEO's owner since 2020), and it does raise eyebrows in the market. Rank Math, Yoast and SEOPress all include a Redirection Manager in their free or entry tier. AIOSEO gates it to Pro at $199.50/year. Same story for the Search Console data: Google gives it away for free, Rank Math and SEOPress surface it in their free tier, AIOSEO locks it to Elite at $299.50/year. Hack The SEO includes unlimited redirects, GSC data and D+7/D+30 learning in Pro at 99 €/month, with no higher tier for those functions. Does Hack The SEO replace AIOSEO's AI Assistant block? Yes, and with a wider scope. AIOSEO's AI Assistant is a Gutenberg block that generates paragraphs on demand (titles, intros, FAQs, social posts, key points). It is an excellent writing helper _inside_ the editor. Hack The SEO goes further: **(1)** an unlimited conversational AI Coach that answers any SEO question in plain language. **(2)** Ultra writing of 30 complete long-form articles per month, with entity research, structure, AI images, ready to publish. **(3)** Claude MCP to drive the site from claude.ai in read-write. No credit system that expires. Should you keep AIOSEO running in parallel during the transition? No. It is even discouraged: two SEO plugins active at the same time generate canonical tag and schema conflicts (duplicate JSON-LD), which Google does not appreciate. Our advice: install Hack The SEO, run the migration assistant, validate the import, then deactivate AIOSEO in the same session. Total: 5 minutes. If you had AIOSEO auto-renewal switched on (Pro or Elite), remember to turn it off in your Awesome Motive account so you are not charged at the doubled year-two renewal rate. [Another question? Book 20 min with Eric](https://calendly.com/eric-ibanez-hts/20min) SOURCES & REFERENCES ## AIOSEO vs Hack The SEO comparison: every data point can be verified. Updated May 2026. AIOSEO pricing (Lite, Basic, Plus, Pro, Elite) and feature scope can change. The prices shown are year-one introductory rates; renewals may double. - 01.AIOSEO.com/pricing · official product pages: Lite (free), Basic ($49.50/yr, 1 site), Plus ($99.50/yr, 3 sites), Pro ($199.50/yr, 10 sites), Elite ($299.50/yr, 100 sites). Accessed May 2026. Year-one introductory rates. - 02.AIOSEO Docs · “Buying and Managing AI Credits” · a 10K/25K/50K/200K credit system per tier, ~10 credits per action, 1-year expiration, $9.99 refill per 10K pack, no rollover. - 03.eesel AI Blog · “A clear guide to AIOSEO pricing in 2026” · a detailed breakdown of the plans, paywalls and credit system. Confirms the doubled year-two renewals. - 04.theStacc · “AIOSEO Review 2026: Complete In-Depth Verdict” (March 2026) · describes gating Google Search Console data behind a $299/year paywall as **“arguably the most aggressive pricing decision in the WordPress SEO plugin market”**. - 05.Top Rated AI Software · “AIOSEO Review 2026” (March 2026) · notes that **“those introductory rates double in year two”**. An independent confirmation of the renewal doubling. - 06.AIOSEO/features · official documentation for the AI Content Generator (FAQ + schema, Key Points, social posts, meta tags, AI images) and the AI Assistant Gutenberg block. - 07.BlogVault · “All In One SEO Plugin Review” (Dec. 2025) · 3M+ active users, acquired by Awesome Motive (Syed Balkhi) in 2020, setup wizard widely praised. - 08.Hack The SEO · internal plugin and SaaS data, May 2026: 30 production plugin clients (89 modules in /modules/), 1,200+ SaaS users on the GEO Platform. - 09.Bruno Ibanez & Eric Ibanez · "Le SEO pour booster sa croissance", Dunod, 2025 (E-E-A-T). - 10.Malt 2025 barometer · SEO consultant day rate in France (senior median ~ 500 €/day, or ~ 70 €/h) · converging sources: Malt, formalive.fr, paulvengeons.fr, freelance-informatique.fr. - 11.Official Anthropic documentation · Model Context Protocol (the technical reference for the Claude MCP integration exclusive to Hack The SEO). 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