WordLift Review – The Good and Bad for 2023

It can be a challenge to create engaging content, optimize it for search engines, and organize it all. It’s even harder if your business has more than one website and you’re doing everything manually. WordLift aims to simplify the SEO process with the power of AI.

In this in-depth review, we’ll cover what WordLift does well, its limitations, pricing plans, and whether or not it’s the best choice for you.

WordLift: The Good and the Bad

WordLift works by adding structured data to your content and building knowledge graphs.

It has a considerable amount of schemas to choose from, simple yet powerful recommendation widgets, and plenty of training resources. However, you don’t get all of those features without a few drawbacks like integration issues and a difficult set-up.

What WordLift Is Good At

AI-powered structured data: WordLift analyzes your text and automatically tags the key entities—names, places, events, and more—to help search engines better understand your content. You can also connect your post to related information from across the web, like relevant links, images, and videos.

AI structured data helps content rank higher and drive more organic traffic because it makes your posts more findable, scannable, and shareable. Plus, the AI does the heavy lifting, so you won’t waste time manually tagging entities, optimizing posts, and digging up supporting media.

Whether you’re a blogger looking for more readers or a journalist wanting your reporting to reach a wider audience, WordLift’s AI can help by automating all your SEO and UX best practices.

Knowledge Graph and entity library: WordLift’s proprietary Knowledge Graph connects your content to a vast network used by search engines. This relates concepts, people, products, and articles across your site using semantic search technology and over 20 million unique entities. Ultimately, these tools can lead to increased findability, traffic, and voice search compatibility.

Access to the repository varies by WordLift plan. The basic option provides a core set of entities while the advanced plans offer customization and richer, more in-depth connections.

The Professional and Business plans unlock advanced schema markup capabilities, which are code snippets that annotate your pages with extra semantic information. Different schemas are available, including those that can optimize your site for local SEO and map listings, organize FAQ pages, structure recipes, and much more.

Recommendation widgets: WordLift’s AI-powered widgets automatically analyze your content and suggest relevant articles to insert from your site.

With recommendation widgets, readers are able to click through to more of your pages thanks to better internal linking that makes it more likely for them to spend time on your site.

Some of the most useful widgets include:

• Content Navigator: Analyzes the topic of each page and recommends 3-5 related articles to link to.

• Context Cards: Small teasers of recommended articles that enrich the current page and break up long blocks of text.
• Glossary: Pulls in definitions and explanations for key terms on a page.

For ecommerce sites and publishers, WordLift also offers product recommendation widgets. These can spotlight related products, cross-sells, and upsells or drive traffic to specific products.

Helpful training resources: We were impressed by the extensive training resources WordLift provides its users.

The WordLift Academy is a treasure trove of helpful tutorials and webinars. After sign-up, you’ll have access to an in-depth knowledge base with step-by-step instructions on optimizing your content with WordLift.

WordLift offers even more robust SEO courses for its Professional and Business + Ecommerce subscribers with tailored training to help you master SEO and drive more traffic to your site.

High-quality 24/7 support: WordLift’s international support team truly enables 24/7 assistance. We’ve had questions answered within just hours, no matter the time zone.

Its experts walk you through solutions, provide custom recommendations, and proactively share tips relevant to your use case. We were impressed at how they continued conversations over days to ensure our issues were fully resolved.

WordLift makes you feel valued as a customer. We appreciate that they take the time to explain concepts and provide context, not just quick fixes.

Google Analytics and Data Studio integrations: WordLift integrates with Google Data Studio to provide you with useful semantic analytics, customized dashboards, and in-depth reports to share with your team members or clients.

Together, these visualizations will help you spot trends, compare metrics, and optimize your content strategy.

If you’re on the Professional or Business + Ecommerce plans, you get Google Analytics integration too. With this tool, you’ll gain visibility into how your semantic SEO concepts are influencing conversions, dwell time, pages per session, and more. Or you may uncover concepts that need to be refreshed or replaced.

WordLift’s Potential Drawbacks

Difficult setup: We encountered several compatibility issues during the initial WordLift setup process that caused frustration.

On the Starter Plan, for instance, we struggled to get WordLift properly integrated and communicating with our content management system. This mismatch created a roadblock we could not resolve on our own.

Though it was frustrating to spend hours trying to fix the compatibility problems, the customer service reps were helpful. Within a day, they had solved the setup problem and got us up and running.

No free plan: Unlike some competitor SEO tools, WordLift does not offer a free plan. While they do allow a 14-day free trial, this brief window makes it tough to fully evaluate the platform for those on a budget.

With other free SEO tools out there, it’s hard to justify investing in WordLift upfront without knowing if it will pay dividends. Plus, some competitor tools have permanently free options with limited capabilities. This allows budget-conscious users to still access core SEO features without overspending.

While WordLift seems powerful, it’s geared toward companies with bigger budgets, not scrappy solopreneurs watching their wallet.

Poor integration with non-WordPress platforms: While technically possible, marrying WordLift with content management systems other than WordPress can quickly get complicated.

Integrating the natural language processing engine into platforms like Drupal or Joomla was difficult, to say the least. You have to get elbow-deep in custom code, developer docs, and API specifics.

For non-techies, you can get lost in a maze of compatibility issues, security concerns, and faulty plug-ins.

Alternatively, WordPress provides a smooth, well-lit passage to install WordLift. We simply activate the plugin, and voilà—our site is primed for multilingual Search Engine Optimization.

While venturing beyond WordPress can prove challenging, WordLift Cloud bridges the gap. This cloud-based option sidesteps platform-specific integration, allowing WordLift’s tools to optimize content across any CMS.

WordLift Plans and Pricing

Although there is no free plan, WordLift offers several different pricing plans that cater to a wide range of budgets and audiences. Every tier comes with a 14-day free trial except the Enterprise plan.

The Starter Plan is geared towards small websites, while the Professional and Business + Ecommerce Plans are designed for agencies or businesses looking to increase their sales. The Enterprise Plan is perfect if you want a customized solution and a VIP experience.

Starter Plan

At only $52 per month when billed annually or $62 month by month, this option opens the door for some solitary creators and compact teams to amplify their content.

This plan includes AI-enriched structured data to help your content be found and allow search engines to better comprehend your content.

An additional perk is Knowledge Graph access, covering 10 versatile Schema types including NewsArticle for writers and journalists.

Professional Plan

Opting for monthly billing, you’ll pay about $105 per month for the Professional Plan. Annual billing drops the monthly cost to around $84 per month.

This option covers up to two websites, allowing you to leverage AI-powered structured data on a main site plus a personal blog or secondary business site.

At this level, you also get access to a structured data engine that extracts key entities from your content and automatically generates schema markup. The plan also unlocks the Knowledge Graph, tapping into an extensive base of 18 schema types.

Business + Ecommerce Plan

For $264 month-by-month or $210 per month when billed annually, the Business + Ecommerce plan is designed for businesses aiming to boost sales.

It covers up to five websites with 2,500 URLs total, plus you receive AI-powered structured data and WordLift’s Knowledge Graph.

You’ll also get WordLift’s Google Sheets add-on, allowing you to seamlessly manage your SEO campaigns and track rankings across multiple sites.

Enterprise Plan (VIP Program)

The Enterprise Plan is a great option if you need a fully-customized SEO solution. It provides you with a dedicated team of WordLift experts who will work directly on your behalf.

They’ll help you develop and execute a SEO strategy tailored to your unique business goals. You’ll receive hours of personalized consulting and they’ll advise you on best practices for your niche. With them overseeing the process, you can focus on creating high-quality content while they handle the heavy lifting on the SEO side.

With this plan, the WordLift software license is included. While there is no free trial, you can book a demo to discuss your objectives and see how the Enterprise team can help you achieve your vision.

Final Thoughts

WordLift is a useful SEO tool that combines the power of AI and knowledge graphs to help you implement your SEO strategy and grow site traffic.

Is it the most affordable and easiest-to-use SEO solution out there? No. However, it is one of the most advanced, with a ton of value and exceptional customer service.

Provided you can afford the price tag and use WordPress—or don’t mind dealing with potential integration issues—WordLift is a no-brainer addition to your SEO toolbox.