SEO Buddy
SEO platform with an AI content engine, checklists and link tooling
About SEO Buddy
SEO Buddy is a collection of SEO products rather than a single tool, built around the argument that most people fail at SEO through lack of a process rather than lack of software. The entry point is a free 122-step SEO checklist with standard operating procedures attached, and the paid products sit on top of that. The company states 19,240 registered users working on 17,253 projects, and a 4.7 out of 5 from more than 2,000 users; those are its own figures and are not independently audited.
The product worth most attention is the AI Content Engine, and the pitch behind it is unusually well aimed. Their own page puts it as: anybody can generate an article now, and knowing which article is worth writing is the part that still takes a person. So the planning is what they automated. Your Search Console data, your sitemap and your competitors' ranking pages determine the month's plan, and the articles are written to it and published to your blog. Pricing works out around $4.09 to $4.75 an article depending on tier, which is the number to compare against a freelancer rather than the monthly figure. The other three products are link-building tools, and they need reading carefully before you use them. The Link Chest is a catalogue of directories, profile and resource pages you submit to yourself. The Guest Blog Database is different: a marketplace of nearly 80,000 sites with a published price per placement, from $1 upwards, where SEO Buddy does the outreach and places the post. That is paying for links, which Google's link spam policy names directly, so treat that part as carrying real risk to the site you point it at rather than as an ordinary tactic.
You open a free account and get the checklist, which is a genuinely useful artefact on its own and costs nothing. For content, you connect Search Console and your sitemap, and the engine reads those alongside competitors' ranking pages to decide what to write that month rather than asking you for keywords. Articles are generated, illustrated and published straight to your site. Each stage runs on whichever model the company judges best for that stage rather than one model doing everything. For links, the Link Chest gives you a working list of places that accept submissions along with what each one wants, the Link Building Campaign tool handles prospecting, contact discovery and outreach sequences on prepaid metered credit, and the Guest Blog Database sells placements outright at listed prices.
- •AI Content Engine - Plans the month from your Search Console, sitemap and competitors' ranking pages, then writes, illustrates and publishes
- •Free SEO Checklist - 122 steps with SOPs, available without paying, and the reason many people arrive
- •Link Chest - A catalogue of directories, profile and resource pages that accept submissions, with each one's requirements spelled out
- •Link Building Campaign - Prospecting, contact finding and outreach sequences, prepaid and metered rather than a subscription
- •Guest Blog Database - Roughly 80,000 sites with published placement prices, outreach handled for you, and the Google policy caveat above
Founders and small marketing teams who want a process rather than another dashboard, and who would rather pay about $4 an article than $200 to a freelancer. The free checklist makes the platform worth opening even if you buy nothing. The content engine is the part that competes directly with tools such as Outrank and The SEO Agent, and it is the only part I would point a reader at without qualification. Anyone considering the paid-placement side should understand they are buying links, weigh that against Google's stated policy themselves, and not do it on a domain they cannot afford to damage.
Pricing
$0 - $19/mo
- Free$0/mo
- AI Content Engine$19/mo
- Agency (done-for-you)$1000/mo
From the vendor pricing page, 2026-10-08
