RooSEO – Search Optimization and Redirects
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Lightweight WordPress plugin for XML sitemaps, 301 redirects, 404 monitoring, dynamic llms.txt, schema markup, and real-time content scoring.
RooSEO is a lightweight search engine optimization (SEO) plugin for WordPress. It provides essential tools to optimize your website content, manage 301 redirections, track 404 errors, and generate XML sitemaps without database bloat.
Features
- Real-Time Content Scoring: Dynamic 100-point content quality audit analyzer providing instant feedback across Basic SEO, Subheadings, Title sentiment, Power words, and Content readability.
- XML Sitemaps: High-performance index and sub-sitemaps for Posts, Pages, Categories, Tags, and Authors.
- Redirect Rules Manager: Easily create and monitor 301, 302, 307, 410, and 451 redirections.
- 404 Error Monitor: Log and analyze 404 page requests to fix broken links.
- Dynamic llms.txt Generator: Provide structured pages and content references for Language Models (LLMs) and search crawlers.
- Social Share Optimization: Built-in Open Graph and Twitter Card tags.
- JSON-LD Schema Markup: Basic semantic metadata structure to help search engines understand your site.
- Search Query Optimization: Filter search queries, prevent search crawl indexing, and block search spam.
External Services
This plugin can optionally connect to third-party services to submit real-time URL indexing notifications.
- IndexNow API (api.indexnow.org / Bing / Yandex):
- What it does: Instantly notifies search engines when content is published or updated.
- Data sent: Site URL, updated post/page URLs, and a unique IndexNow API key.
- When sent: Only when explicitly enabled by the user in settings, upon publishing or updating a post/page.
- Terms of Service: https://www.indexnow.org/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement