Nexal SEO

Nexal SEO is a fast, no-bloat SEO plugin for posts, pages, WooCommerce products, categories and tags. It ships as a modular dashboard so your site only loads the code for the features you actually turn on.

Titles & Meta

• Focus keyword, SEO title and meta description per post/page/product/term.
• Live Google-style snippet preview with character counters.
• Homepage title/description overrides.

Semantic content analysis (free, fully local)

• Topical Completeness — compares your content against other posts in the same category using local TF-IDF, no external calls.
• Cluster Health — checks internal linking and anchor-text quality within the category.
• Semantic Structure — heading hierarchy checks (H1 uniqueness, H2–H4 nesting, keyword variation), shown live in the block editor sidebar.
• A 0–100 score is computed locally and shown as a column on your post list.

Social

• Open Graph and Twitter Card tags with a default social image.

XML Sitemap, Redirections & 404 Monitor

• XML Sitemap (index + per post type/taxonomy).
• Redirections manager (301/302/307/410) with regex matching, search, and CSV import/export.
• 404 Monitor with one-click redirect creation and daily auto-clean.

Schema / Structured Data

• Connected-entity JSON-LD @graph (Organization, WebSite, Article, Product, BreadcrumbList and more) instead of disconnected snippets.
• Breadcrumbs via [nexal_breadcrumbs] shortcode or nexal_seo_breadcrumbs().

Local SEO

• LocalBusiness structured data, NAP (name/address/phone) consistency scanner across your site, and a geo/local-SEO checklist.

WooCommerce

• Detect-only store audit (thin descriptions, missing category copy) for shops running WooCommerce.

Optional AI assist (bring your own API key)

• Off by default. If you turn it on and paste your own key for Google Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, OpenAI or Anthropic, Nexal SEO can suggest related terms/topics and run an AI-assisted NAP consistency check. No key, no request — see “External services” below.

Setup Wizard

• Guided first-run configuration.

Translations

• Fully internationalized (i18n) and translation-ready. Translations are managed through translate.wordpress.org, so any locale the community translates is delivered automatically as a WordPress language pack — no files are bundled with the plugin. The local semantic analysis engine and the optional AI n-gram/question suggestions also follow your site’s configured language (stop-word filtering and question-style heading detection cover English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Arabic; the AI prompt explicitly asks for output in your site’s language).

External services

Nexal SEO makes no outbound network requests by default. The following integration is entirely opt-in, uses your own credentials, and only runs when you explicitly trigger it (never automatically on page load, cron, or plugin activation):

AI providers (bring your own key) — off by default. If you enable AI in Settings → AI and paste your own API key, Nexal SEO sends a request to the ONE provider you selected only when you explicitly trigger an AI-assisted feature (topic/term suggestions, “Questions to answer”, the “Verify with AI” NAP consistency check, the AI category-description generator, the AI snippet generator, and “Write with AI” for llms.txt). Nothing is sent automatically on page load, cron, or activation, and no request is ever made without a key.

What is sent: only the text needed for the requested feature — e.g. your focus keyword, the current post/page content or excerpt, a category name and its product/post titles, or (for the llms.txt draft) your site name/tagline, Schema identity fields and your published titles/URLs/excerpts. No IP addresses, credentials, or full data exports are sent.

You choose a single provider; only that provider is contacted. Their terms and privacy policies:

• Google Gemini — Terms: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms · Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Groq — Terms: https://groq.com/terms-of-use/ · Privacy: https://groq.com/privacy-policy/
• OpenRouter — Terms: https://openrouter.ai/terms · Privacy: https://openrouter.ai/privacy
• OpenAI — Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/ · Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/
• Anthropic — Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms · Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

The built-in visitor analytics (Dashboard → Visitors) is first-party only: it records views on your own server and makes no external calls. It is off until you opt in, and never stores IP addresses (visitors are counted with a daily one-way hash).

Agency help links (WhatsApp / nexalseo.com) — inside a Semantic Analysis criterion’s “how to fix” popup, an optional “Chat on WhatsApp” button and a “Delegate to Our Agency” button link out to WhatsApp (https://wa.me/) and to the plugin author’s site (https://nexalseo.com/contact). These are ordinary outbound links: nothing is sent unless you click one, and only then does your browser open the destination. If you open the WhatsApp link, a short pre-filled message naming the SEO issue you clicked (and, on WhatsApp’s side, your WhatsApp identity) is handed to WhatsApp so you can review and choose whether to send it; the plugin itself transmits no data. The plugin’s Documentation, Support and Pro links (https://nexalseo.com) behave the same way. WhatsApp is a service provided by Meta — Terms: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service · Privacy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy. nexalseo.com — Terms: https://nexalseo.com/terms-of-service/ · Privacy: https://nexalseo.com/privacy-policy/.