Description

Elevate helps with the management of your WordPress website from a search engine optimization (SEO) perspective. You will be able to manage your search titles, descriptions, and social media appearance while editing your content within WordPress. During the initial setup, Elevate can automatically configure your site on Google Search Console and Analytics for you via the installation wizard, or automatically find and use your previously configured Google information. Elevate will also correct major issues your site may have with PageSpeed, typically increasing your Google PageSpeed ranking with just a few clicks.

All of the necessary social media and search console tasks are handled automatically for you, including the generation and submission of an XML sitemap, and the verification of your site on Google Search Console. These steps are often ignored by end-users likely resulting in diminished search rankings.

Elevate will also insert the appropriate information for Facebook, Twitter and Linked to showcase your site or featured images when your content is shared, as well as your custom title and meta information, which you can adjust on a per-post basis to help improve your Google and Bing search rankings.

Using Elevate’s comprehensive SEO and performance dashboard, you will be able to instantly see key metrics for your website, including page views, visitors, crawl errors, website speed, organic search impressions, and click through rate (CTR). You’ll also be able to see which direction those numbers are trending – is your website getting better, or worse? This feedback is invaluable for website owners, and will let them continue to improve and track changes to their websites.

For more information, please visit the official Elevate for WordPress. home page. Plugin developed by Duane Storey and Lindell Media.

Elevate SEO contains these great features:

Per-post and per-page adjustments for search titles, descriptions, content language, canonical URLs, and index status
Intelligent configuration wizard that intelligently sets up your website around the Internet
Automatic generation and submission of a site-wide XML Sitemap
Integration with popular search engines such as Google and Bing
Ability to set a site-wide image to represent your website on social media – this can be adjusted dynamically based on an administrative web policy or per-post settings
Automatic insertion of Open Graph and other social tags to improve the look of your website around the web
Real-time preview of content and how it will look on popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
Integration with Google Page Speed
Automatic structured content, including Breadcrumbs, Article, etc.
Automatic site verification on Google Search Console
Automatic creation and configuration of a Google Analytics profile for each website
Ongoing display of weekly search results in the administration panel
Display of site-wide Google errors that need fixing
Automatic integration of Google Analytics tracking code – no more messing with cutting and pasting
Can dynamically import data from other search engine plugins for WordPress
Easy authentication with Google via OAuth2
Ability to integrate with custom Facebook applications
Granular adjustments of options for display on networks such as Twitter

Screenshots

Elevate SEO and Performance Dashboard
Available in multiple languages
Configuring primary search title for SEO
Configuring primary image for social media sharing
Real-time preview of your website’s social media appearance
Setting up Twitter to help drive traffic to your site
Automatic configuration of Google services, including Search Console and Analytics
Automatically configuration of your website around the web
Real-time social media of each post you create
Real-time writing feedback, showing your SEO issues before you hit publish
Ability to modify key SEO information for posts, pages, products, and custom post types
Easy to use settings interface

Installation

To install the plugin, simply add the plugin from the WordPress admin panel in the plugins section. Upon installing, you can configure the plugin using the Getting Started wizard, or configure the settings manually for the plugin.

FAQ

Whoa, this sounds great – how much is it?: Elevate is completely free! Enjoy!
What other plugins have you made?: I helped co-create several other extremely popular plugins, include WPtouch and WordTwit. WPtouch was previously voted the #1 plugin for all of WordPress, and currently has over 11 million downloads.
Awesome! – what other features can I expect in the short term?: We’re doing heavier integration with Google in the next few releases, and will help bring some of that data back into the dashboard for you. In addition, Elevate will automatically fix many of the site issues that are routinely encountered.
Does Elevate talk to remote servers: Yes, in order to make authentication of Google OAuth more user-friendly, Elevate proxies the requests through elevatewp.io and relays the information back to the WordPress plugin. Without this, users are forced to authenticate using a more difficult method. All information, including the OAuth tokens, are deleted from our servers after a successful token authorization or renewal. Users can revoke this authorization at any time via the plugin administration panel, or on Google as well. For more information please read the privacy policy at https://elevatewp.io/privacy.html.

Reviews

Syxguns January 14, 2020 2 replies

Duane, You have done an outstanding job with this plugin and keeping it up to date. We need to draw some more attention. Believe it or not, I’m creating a series of videos for WordPress beginners. The 3rd video covers Elevate SEO and the process of installation and the basic setup. I was looking for reviews of your plugin, which are pretty much 99.9% 5 star rated. When I came to WordPress I noticed that you have only a little over 100 activations. I was a little disappointed to find that for some reason Elevate did not like FastCGI server-side. I figured the server-side has little to do with the outcome of using an SEO. I install Elevate for all my clients. I’m hoping that as I grow clients you will get more reviews. I am also hoping that others that watch the video and installing Elevate will leave reviews. I am asking them to give you a review of how easy is it to install and how simplified the functionality of it is. It is well deserved for such a great piece of work that you have accomplished. Syxguns

Radices December 13, 2018

Had a conflict and author fixed it!

Allpinguins September 28, 2018 1 reply

Simplicity and excellent results! What more can we ask from a plugin? I want to mention also the GREAT support that we received! Wel done! Congrats!

daveostory September 21, 2018

I’ve found Elevate SEO streamlines optimization so creators can concentrate on producing quality content rather than fiddling with seemingly endless settings, options, work arounds and hacks. The set-up is non-intimidating and pleasantly smart and efficient. In other words, the “best practices“ are baked-in allowing non-obsessive and/or non-technical blog creators-managers to reap the benefits previously reserved for sites with dedicated SEO tinkerers. Overall, Wordpress is about allowing anyone – from hobbyists to artists to corporations – to share their stories and Elevate (thankfully) helps get those stories in front of a wider audience.

marc30days September 18, 2018

I recently moved from Yoast to Elevate and I can’t begin to share how much easier the interface with Elevate is. My blog is mature at over 6 years and going, but I myself am not an SEO expert and so all the clutter that comes with Yoast and other plugins confuses me. Elevate on the other hand was simple to install and set up. Having a clean and simple to understand interface means I will be able to use it and hopefully improve my site search over the coming months. Marc

PJ September 12, 2018

A great start to a great plugin!

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Contributors & Developers

“Elevate SEO” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

Version 1.4.4 (April 16, 2021)

Updated: Covid-Is-Still-Going update (+ WordPress 5.7)

Version 1.4.3 (March 30, 2020)

Updated: WordPress 5.4 support

Version 1.4.2 (November 18,2019)

Updated Compatibility with WordPress 5.3
Fixed: Styling issues with dashboard

Version 1.3.0 (July 10, 2019)

Modified styling in the admin

Version 1.2.3 (May 7, 2019)

Added: Support for WordPress 5.2

Version 1.2.2 (Mar 18, 2019)

Added: Ability to select specific Google analytics account
Changed: Removed Google Search Console crawl errors as this API is being deprecated by Google
Fixed: Removed private posts from sitemap

Version 1.2.1 (Mar 13, 2019)

Updated: Fixed issue with errand sitemap entries related to trashed and private posts

Version 1.2.0 (Feb 20, 2019)

Fixed: Issue with duplicate site title in output with some themes
Added: Ability to disable meta tag insertion (useful on sites that run with another SEO plugin)
Added: Support for WordPress 5.1.0

Version 1.1.6 (Dec 13, 2018)

Fixed: Issue with oEmbeds and LinkedIn descriptions
Changed: Moved admin scripts into the header to fix issues on one site

Version 1.1.5 (Dec 6, 2018)

Fixed: Compatibility with Gutenberg in WordPress 5.0

Version 1.1.4 (Nov 30, 2018)

Updated: Links in dashboard now open in a new tab

Version 1.1.3 (Nov 28, 2018)

Changed: Prep work for Page Speed v5
Updated: Support for WordPress 5.0
Added: Ability to import from WP Meta SEO
Added: Ability to augment default robots.txt information

Version 1.1.1 (Oct 14, 2018)

Added: Ability to reset
Fixed: File upload broken image on some server configurations (MediaTemple for example)
Fixed: Issue with default images in web preview
Fixed: Issue with incorrect RSS feed title
Changed: Now clicking in an SEO box will automatically use the defaults

Version 1.1.0 (Oct 8, 2018)

Changed: Massively enhanced dashboard with SEO and performance data
Changed: Reduced package size by reorganizing content
Fixed: Issue with SEO information on WooCommerce store page
Fixed: Issue with web preview and long titles

Version 1.0.8 (Sep 29, 2018)

Fixed: Possible issues with Google refresh token
Added: WooCommerce support

Version 1.0.7 (Sep 28, 2018)

Added: Ability to cache bust CDN images
Added: Structured data for posts
Added: Breadcrumbs for pages
Added: Integration with WooCommerce category pages
Added: Ability to set search titles and meta data for taxonomy pages
Fixed: Issue with image width and height for meta thumbnail images
Fixed: When offline, dashboard shows 0s instead of endless spinners

Version 1.0.6 (Sep 23, 2018)

Added: Cron job to update internal data
Added: New Wizard pane to automatically configure Apache
Added: Ability to utilize CDN for post/page content
Fixed: Slow page load time when included image is a remote URL
Fixed: Speed improvements due to localization detection
Fixed: Issue with %20 in AJAX data
Changed: Modified AJAX loading in Dashboard to improve responsiveness
Changed: Modified fonts to better match WP admin
Changed: Updated Dashboard look and feel

Version 1.0.5

Added: width/height information for Facebook + Twitter meta data
Added: Article information for posts
Fixed: Modified permissions of uploaded files to 0644
Fixed: Problem with locale in Open Graph information
Changed: Modified dashboard appearance

Version 1.0.4

Fixed: Removed shortcodes from intelligent meta descriptions

Version 1.0.3

Changed: Adjustments with dashboard image
Fixed: filemtime warning on dashboard

Version 1.0.1

Fixed: Readme file

Version 1.0

Added: First release!

Version 1.0b2

Fixed: Home page description in wizard didn’t properly save
Added: Ability to add social media image via wizard
Added: Enhanced Robots.txt generation
Fixed: Incorrect add URL for Bing in the wizard
Fixed: Issue with site wide social media images
Added: Ability to preview social media sharing
Added: Now gives suggestions for content writing
Fixed: Issue with automatically filled meta descriptions and extra period.
First beta release