Download and activate BeyondSEO plugin

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Valid for Managed WordPress.

With the BeyondSEO WordPress plugin from rankingCoach, you can optimize your WordPress project for search engines. Users of IONOS Managed WordPress plans have been able to use it free of charge since September 2025. This article tells you how to activate and use BeyondSEO.

Note

IONOS recommends using only one SEO plugin at a time. Deactivate all other SEO plugins, such as YOAST or rankmath, when using BeyondSEO.

What is BeyondSEO?

BeyondSEO helps to improve the visibility and ranking of your website in search engines. BeyondSEO analyzes and improves various factors of your website such as keywords, content, links and technical aspects to make it more attractive to search engine algorithms. The free version offers you the following options, among others:

Competition monitoring of up to 3 competitors
SEO score and wizard for each subpage
Analysis and step-by-step instructions for increasing findability

Download and install BeyondSEO

Download BeyondSEO at the following address: https://wordpress.rankingcoach.com/update/archives/beyond-seo.zip
Log in to WordPress. The Help Center article "Logging into WordPressadministration" explains how.
In the WordPress menu on the left-hand side, click on Plugins > Add plugin > Upload plugin.
Select the previously downloaded file "beyond-seo.zip". This file does not need to be unzipped for installation in WordPress.
Click on Install now. The plugin is installed.
In the WordPress menu on the left-hand side, click on Plugins > Installed plugins.
Activate BeyondSEO. The plugin is added as a menu item in your WordPress administration.

Enter license key

You are in the WordPress administration:

Click on the BeyondSEO entry in the WordPress menu on the left-hand side.
Enter the license key from the email in the corresponding field.
Click on Activate to complete the process.

If you have not received the e-mail with the license key, first check the spam folder of your e-mail program. If the e-mail is still missing, please contact the IONOS Customer Support.