Dashword Review 2026: Content Optimization Made Easy?
Welcome to our Dashword review.
Dashword is one of the most popular content optimization tools on the market.
It promises to save you time and make it easier to write content that stands the best chance of ranking in the SERPs.
But does it live up to those promises? To find out, we put it to the test and compiled this comprehensive Dashword review.
Read on and we’ll fill you in on everything you need to know about what Dashword is, how it works, and whether or not it’s worth the money.
What is Dashword?
Dashword is an AI-powered SEO content optimization platform. It’s designed to streamline your workflow so you can write better content, faster.
You can use Dashword to prepare writing briefs in a fraction of the time it would usually take. All you have to do is let Dashword know what keyword you’re targeting, and it’ll do all the heavy lifting for you.
Then, you can write and optimize your content for search with real-time feedback and SEO suggestions in the built-in content editor. And if you want, you can use the AI writer to generate some of the content for you.
But it doesn’t end there. Dashword also comes with a few extra tools to help with other areas of your SEO strategy.
There’s a keyword research tool that can help you find new search terms to target, as well as a content monitoring tool that keeps track of your ranking position after publication and lets you know if you need to make any changes.
We’ll explore all of the above and more as we get into the features.
What features does Dashword offer?
Dashword offers a ton of useful features to help you create and optimize content. Once you log into your account, you’ll see the main features in the dashboard:
- Keyword reports
- Brief generator
- Content Editor
- SEO suggestions
- AI writer
- Meta description generator
- Keyword research
- Content monitoring
- Google Docs add-on
Next, we’ll explore how all of these features work as we look at how to use Dashword.
Reports
Dashword seems to have been designed with a specific writing workflow in mind.
And the first step in that workflow is to generate a report for the keyword that you want to write or optimize content around.
To do so, open up the Reports tab, enter the search query you want to rank for and choose the country you’re targeting. Then, hit Create report.
Once you’ve done that, Dashword will scrape the SERPs (search engine results pages) to analyze the top-ranking pages for that search term, and compile the insights it gathers into one page.
We had Dashword generate a report for the term ‘how to start a business’ and this is what it looks like:
At the top of the report, you can see an average content score for the top 3 and top 10 results. This score is calculated by the Dashword algorithm and gives you a rough idea of how well-optimized the competition is, so you know what kind of score to aim for to outrank them.
Next to that, there are a few other high-level overview metrics like the word count and readability level of the top-ranking posts.
Below that, you’ll see a list showing each of the search top-ranking search results for the keyword so you can analyze them individually.
And further down the page, a list of relevant terms and frequently asked questions that appear in the SERPs.
All of this information can be used to guide your writing process. But don’t worry, you don’t have to remember it all. Dashword will automatically incorporate it into your SEO suggestions and content briefs, which we’ll look at next.
Content briefs
From your keyword report, you can create a brief or jump straight into writing an article for your target keyword.
We’re going to click Edit Brief to start putting together a content outline and brief. The brief editor looks like this:
As you can see, there’s a lot to unpack here.
On the left-hand side, Dashword shows you a breakdown of all the subheadings (H2s – H4s) used in the articles that are already ranking for your target keyword.
And on the right-hand side, you can add your own sub-headings to craft an outline for the post you’re going to write.
You can either type these headings in manually or drag them in from the competitor articles on the left and edit/reorder as needed.
If you’re struggling to come up with a title, click Get Title Ideas, and Dashword’s AI writer will give you a few options to choose from, like this:
Once you’ve created the outline, switch over to the Brief tab to add additional information for your writers.
Here, you might want to add a target word count, specify some internal/external links to include, add a meta title and description, provide examples/reference articles, and so on.
When everything is ready, click Export & Share to grab a link to the brief, copy it to your clipboard, or export the outline to the article (content editor).
Content editor
To start writing an article with Dashword, you can either open up your content brief and click Export outline to Article, or just click Edit Article from the keyword report.
This will bring up the content editor, which looks like this:
It works just like a regular text editor: You type words and sentences onto the page and use the formatting options in the toolbar at the top to add headings and paragraphs, links, images, etc.
But there are a few extra features that take it to the next level.
First off, if you look at the right-hand sidebar, you’ll see a widget that tells you your Content score.
This grades your content between A and F depending on how well-optimized it is for search. You’ll want to aim for the best possible grade (A) to stand the best chance of ranking on page one of Google.
Below that, you’ll also see your target word count (based on the average length of your top competitor articles in the SERPs), and your current readability level.
The readability level is a nice touch as that’s something you don’t see on a lot of other content optimization tools. Ideally, you’ll want the readability level to be as low as possible for web content to make it easier for the reader to understand.
You might also notice there’s a Grammarly button in this sidebar. Dashword is fully compatible with Grammarly so all you have to do is turn that on and, if you have Grammarly installed in your browser, it’ll start checking over your work inside the content editor.
On the opposite side of the content editor, you’ll see a bunch of suggested keywords that Dashword recommends including in your article.
The more of them you include, the higher your content score will be, so try and add as many as possible.
Once you’ve written your article in the content editor, you can click the ellipsis icon in the top-right corner to copy it to your clipboard as formatted text, plain text, or markdown. Then, paste that into your CMS to publish.
AI writer
Another thing you can do in Dashword’s content editor is generate content using the power of artificial intelligence. Just click the AI Writer button to get started:
There are four things you can do with the AI writer: Generate an introduction for your article, have the AI continue writing to expand on the content you’ve already written, automatically fix your grammar and spelling, or rephrase the selected text.
Each of these comes in super useful and can significantly speed up your writing workflow.
To test the AI writer out, we had Dashword generate an introduction for our ‘how to start a business’ example article. Here’s what it came back with:
As you can see, it’s pretty good.
The content that it generated sounds just like it was written by a real human, which isn’t surprising, given that Dashword is powered by OpenAI. And they’re creators of the leading language model right now.
Next, we tested out its Continue writing feature. Here’s what it followed up with:
Again, it’s not bad! A little vague, perhaps, but a solid start.
And remember: It doesn’t have to be perfect.
The idea is to use the AI Writer as a workflow tool to help you break past writer’s block and get words on the page faster, but you’ll still probably need to edit, fact-check, and expand on the AI-generated content in order to create an article that’s good enough to be published.
Meta description generator
Before we move on, there’s one more AI writing tool we want to talk about, and that’s the Meta Description Generator.
Unlike the other AI writing templates we’ve looked at, this one isn’t accessible from inside the content editor. Instead, you can find it under AI Tools in the main dashboard:
All you have to do is describe what the article you’re working on is about and enter any keywords you want Dashword to include in the meta description, then click Generate.
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