67
Simple SEO
A lightweight SEO tool that might accidentally break your site.
HealthyGrowing
67/100
The lightweight design is helpful but critical bugs and security concerns cause real frustration.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.7★
33 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+20%
Growing
23 → 27 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +20% in the last year
23/day a year ago→27/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple SEO is praised for its straightforward, lightweight design and core SEO features, but users report critical bugs such as incorrect Open Graph URLs and site-wide breakages after updates, alongside security-related concerns.
What people like
- +Simple and practical design
- +Lightweight and not code-heavy
- +Provides core SEO functionality with an intuitive workflow
- +Well-written code
Common complaints
- −Open Graph URL tag outputs the first post URL instead of the homepage URL
- −Breaks theme settings saving, page updates, and template import after update (since 2.0.14)
- −Blank page errors and unannounced third-party import raise security and compatibility concerns
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.71★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 33 total
Latest reviews · 33 analyzed
- 2026-05-27★★★★★SuperbDavid Saunders
- 2026-04-03★★★★★User friendly and effective SEO tooltunccelik1-shot
- 2024-07-10★★★★★be-aware.ezten
- 2024-07-04★★★★★Super Pluginswissvista
- 2024-06-19★★★★★Open Graph BugNikogenia
- 2024-05-24★★★★★a successful pluginTürkiye SEO
- 2024-05-23★★★★★Simple & lightweight SEO pluginaqeem
- 2023-11-02★★★★★Great Pluginmchungaji
- 2023-11-02★★★★★Awesome!amreshkramar
- 2023-05-02★★★★★Very simple and easy to use !adiltibari
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNNo release history available.
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
23
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
27
Prior 7-day baseline
23
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
71
Mean release-day peak (30d)
25
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-14.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.55
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.73 → 4.71★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered