SE AI SEO
SE AI SEO is a native Joomla 5/6 component that uses AI to analyse, audit, and optimise your website's SEO. Connect your preferred provider — Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or Google Gemini — and generate metadata, structured data, and actionable recommendations across all content, including third-party extensions like SP Page Builder, HikaShop, and VirtueMart.
What is SE AI SEO?
SE AI SEO is a comprehensive, AI-driven SEO engine built natively for Joomla 5 and Joomla 6. It analyses your entire website — articles, categories, menu structures, and third-party extension content — then uses artificial intelligence to generate metadata, structured data, and actionable recommendations that improve your search engine rankings.
Unlike generic SEO plugins that only check a few boxes, SE AI SEO connects directly to leading AI providers to produce genuinely useful, human-quality content improvements tailored to your specific site.
Key Features
Full Site SEO Audit
Run a comprehensive audit across every published article, category, and menu item. The audit engine scores your site out of 100 and categorises findings into Critical, Warning, and Informational issues with a prioritised action plan. Audit history is stored so you can track your SEO progress over time.
AI-Powered Article Analysis
Select any article and get a detailed SEO breakdown — content quality, keyword usage, readability, meta tag effectiveness, and heading structure. The AI engine follows Google's E-E-A-T and Helpful Content guidelines to produce recommendations that align with how modern search engines actually rank pages.
Automatic Meta Generation
Generate optimised meta titles (≤ 60 characters) and meta descriptions (≤ 155 characters) with a single click. The AI reads your actual content and produces natural, non-stuffed metadata in the same language as your article. Apply changes directly to your Joomla articles from within the component.
Schema.org JSON-LD Generator
Create and manage structured data schemas for articles, products, events, organisations, FAQs, and more. The included system plugin automatically injects your saved JSON-LD, OpenGraph, and Twitter Card tags into the page head — no template editing required.
Nuclear Option — Bulk SEO Processing
For sites with hundreds of articles missing metadata, the Nuclear Option scans your entire content library and identifies every gap. Process articles in bulk rather than one at a time — ideal for sites that have grown without SEO attention.
Third-Party Extension Support
SE AI SEO automatically detects and analyses content from popular Joomla extensions:
- SP Page Builder — Analyses page builder content and generates SEO recommendations for SP Page Builder pages
- HikaShop — Product SEO analysis and metadata for your e-commerce catalogue
- VirtueMart — Product listing optimisation and structured data
- EasyStore — Store content SEO coverage
- K2 — Full support for K2 articles and categories
- JEvents — Event schema and metadata generation
- Phoca Gallery — Image gallery SEO and alt text analysis
- Kunena Forum — Forum content SEO coverage
The extension audit feature scans all detected extensions in one pass and reports issues across your entire site.
Action Log
Every change SE AI SEO makes to your database — meta updates, content rewrites, schema modifications — is recorded in a detailed action log. Full transparency and easy rollback reference.
AI Provider Support
SE AI SEO works with your choice of AI provider. Bring your own API key for any of the following:
| Provider | Default Model |
|---|---|
| Anthropic (Claude) | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| OpenAI (GPT) | GPT-4o |
| Google Gemini | Gemini 2.0 Flash |
You can configure each provider independently and switch between them at any time from the Settings panel. All AI processing happens via direct API calls from your server — your content is never routed through a third party.
What's Included
The SE AI SEO package installs two extensions:
- com_seaiseo — The main component with dashboard, audit engine, article analysis, schema generator, nuclear bulk processor, settings, and action log
- plg_system_seaiseo — A system plugin that automatically injects Schema.org JSON-LD, OpenGraph, and Twitter Card tags into your page output
Both are installed and updated together as a single Joomla package.
Dashboard
The admin dashboard gives you an at-a-glance overview of your site's SEO health:
- Average SEO Score across all analysed articles
- Total Articles in your site
- Meta Coverage percentage — how many articles have meta descriptions
- Active Schemas count
- Last Audit summary with score ring, critical/warning/info counts
- Needs Attention table showing your lowest-scoring articles with direct links to analyse them
- Recent Analyses showing your latest work
- Detected Extensions panel with one-click audit across all supported third-party extensions
Licensing & Updates
SE AI SEO uses an activate-once licensing model. Enter your license key in the component Options, click Activate, and you're done. The extension continues to work indefinitely — your license key is only needed to download future updates.
Updates are delivered through Joomla's built-in update system. Once activated, your license key is automatically synced to Joomla's Update Sites so you receive update notifications in the Joomla admin just like any other extension. No manual download key entry required.
Requirements
- Joomla 5.0 or later (including Joomla 6)
- PHP 8.1 or later
- MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+
- An API key from at least one supported AI provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini)
Important Note
SE AI SEO makes changes to your database when applying meta updates, content rewrites, and schema modifications. We strongly recommend backing up your website before use. We recommend Akeeba Backup or your web hosting provider's backup service.