WPML SEO – Multilingual Yoast SEO and Rank Math
Rank in every language without redoing your SEO work. WPML SEO carries every Yoast SEO or Rank Math field into every translation automatically: meta titles, descriptions, social tags, schema, breadcrumb labels, and taxonomy term meta. Translated meta stays within each language’s character limit. Your branding glossary keeps terminology consistent. Hreflang tags and language-aware sitemaps come from WPML core. Included with Multilingual CMS and Agency.
Optimize Once, Rank in Every Language
English content is often denser in SEO signals than what your target markets see locally. More developed keyword targeting. Deeper on-page content. Richer internal links. More complete schema. When you translate that content and WPML carries the SEO with it, your translated pages enter each market already better optimized than most of the local competition. Sites that translate well-optimized source content typically see traffic growth in the new language within weeks of going live.
The reason it scales: you do the SEO work once, in your source language. WPML SEO eliminates the per-language version of that work. Every translated page ships with the same SEO already in place: meta titles within Google’s limit for each language, hreflang in the page head and the sitemap, glossary-applied terminology, social tags, and schema.
Every SEO Field Is Multilingual Alongside Your Post Content
SEO meta fields belong to your posts, and WPML SEO treats them that way. When you send a post for translation through PTC, your translators, or Translate Everything Automatically, the SEO title, meta description, social tags, and breadcrumb label travel with the post body in the same translation job. No separate screen. No per-plugin workaround.
Multilingual Meta Titles Stay Within Google’s Character Limits per Language
A meta title that fits Google’s 60-character limit in English often runs over once translated to German, Russian, or Italian. The overflow gets truncated in search results, hiding the call-to-action visitors are supposed to click. WPML SEO’s automatic translation respects each search engine’s recommended length per language. Translated meta fits the SERP in every market.
Branding and Key Terminology Stay Consistent Across Languages
Your product names, brand names, and the keywords you’ve chosen for each market need to translate the way you decide. Not the way a generic model would. WPML SEO’s automatic translation reads your glossary on every job. Terminology stays consistent. Brand voice survives the trip across languages.
Hreflang and Language-Aware Sitemaps in the Page Head and the XML Sitemap
WPML emits hreflang tags in both places Google expects them. A <link rel="alternate" hreflang="…"> appears in every page’s <head>. The XML sitemap carries <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="…"> entries (Yoast SEO and Rank Math both). Every translated page is discoverable. Every language alternative is signalled to search engines. Language-per-domain setups get their own filtered sitemap automatically.
Works With Yoast SEO and Rank Math
WPML SEO integrates with the SEO plugins most WordPress sites already run:
- Yoast SEO. Meta titles, descriptions, social tags, breadcrumb labels, and taxonomy term meta (category and tag titles and descriptions).
- Rank Math. Meta titles, descriptions, social tags. Primary-category selection syncs to translations. Language-filtered sitemaps for language-per-domain setups.
Using All in One SEO? WPML SEO doesn’t integrate with it, but WPML itself translates its meta fields as custom fields – see Translating All in One SEO with WPML.
Slim SEO and SEOPress integrations are coming.
WPML SEO Is Included With WPML
WPML SEO ships with Multilingual CMS and WPML Agency. No separate purchase, no add-on fee. Buy WPML once and your SEO meta translates alongside everything else. If you already have WPML, activate WPML SEO from your WPML downloads page.