Minorank SEO is a full-featured SEO plugin for WordPress that covers every layer of on-page and technical SEO — meta tags, structured data (JSON-LD schema), XML sitemaps, redirects, and real-time content analysis — plus a set of proactive site-health tools most plugins don’t include at all: a broken internal link checker, a keyword cannibalization detector, orphan content detection, and a bulk editor for updating SEO fields across many posts or taxonomy terms at once. Every feature works standalone from a clean, built-in admin interface — no external platform account, no API keys, and no AI dependency required.
Running a multilingual site with WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress? The optional Hreflang Health addon audits your existing hreflang setup for broken or duplicate translation links — and it never outputs any tags of its own, so there’s no risk of conflicting with what your multilingual plugin already generates. It also stays completely out of the way (no visible option at all) on single-language sites.
Core Features
Meta Management Write and read SEO title, meta description, and focus keywords for posts, pages, custom post types, and all taxonomies (categories, tags, WooCommerce product categories, etc.).
Gutenberg SEO Metabox A 4-tab SEO panel appears in the block editor sidebar for every post and page:
- General — SEO title & description with live SERP preview and character-count indicators; focus keywords with per-keyword scoring.
- Advanced — noindex / nofollow / nosnippet / noimageindex checkboxes; max-snippet and max-image-preview controls; canonical URL field; pillar content toggle.
- Schema — per-post JSON-LD schema type override (Article, BlogPosting, FAQPage, HowTo, Product, LocalBusiness, and more).
- Social — Facebook Open Graph preview with OG title / description / image; Twitter/X Card preview with independent title / description / image fields; all fields fall back to core meta automatically.
Elementor Support A floating, draggable SEO analysis panel appears inside the Elementor editor — same keyword scoring and meta fields, no page reload needed.
Content Analysis Real-time scoring for each focus keyword: placement in title, meta description, slug, and headings; content length; image alt text; internal and external links. Each keyword gets an independent green / yellow / red score chip. A sortable SEO Score column also appears on the Posts, Pages, Products, and custom post type list tables.
Readability Analysis Flesch Reading Ease, passive voice percentage, long-sentence percentage, paragraph length, transition words, and a title power-word check — independent of the keyword-based SEO score. Auto-detects Greek vs. Latin content and adapts its checks accordingly instead of showing scores that don’t apply cross-lingually.
Term & Taxonomy SEO SEO title, description, focus keyword, social share image, and noindex control for categories, tags, WooCommerce product categories, and any custom taxonomy — the same coverage posts and pages get.
Bulk SEO Editor Edit SEO Title, Meta Description, and Focus Keyword for many posts, pages, or taxonomy terms at once from a single filterable, searchable screen — with a live SEO Score that recomputes after every edit, and a one-click no-index toggle.
Keyword Cannibalization Detector Finds published posts competing for the same focus keyword, with an inline editor warning, a dedicated report page, and an admin notice — so you catch it at the moment it happens, not months later in Search Console.
Internal Links & Broken Link Checker Finds published pages with zero internal links pointing to them (orphan content), surfaces link suggestions while you write, and separately scans every internal link on your site — including custom fields and WooCommerce product variations — for ones that no longer resolve. Built to stay fast at full catalog scale: incremental background scanning, no full-page rendering, no external requests.
WooCommerce Filter & Faceted-Navigation SEO Automatically noindexes and canonicalizes filtered/sorted shop and category URLs (price, attribute, sort order) to prevent duplicate-content and crawl-budget waste from the near-infinite combinations these widgets create — opt-in, off by default.
Hreflang Health (Addon) For WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress sites — audits the translation-link data those plugins use to build their own hreflang tags, flagging broken or duplicate links. Never outputs hreflang tags itself, and stays completely out of the way on single-language sites.
XML Sitemap
Automatically generates a sitemap index at /sitemap.xml with per-type sub-sitemaps (posts, pages, categories, WooCommerce products and product categories). Supports pagination, image entries (Google image sitemap namespace), and per-post-type exclusions. Toggle each post type and taxonomy independently from the Settings page.
Image SEO Addon
Automatically fills missing alt text and title attributes on images using configurable token-based format strings (%post_title%, %filename%, %focus_keyword%, etc.). Supports casing rules and find-and-replace rules. Operates on rendered HTML — the database is never modified.
Redirections Full CRUD admin UI for managing 301, 302, 307, 410, and 451 redirects stored in the database. Features: search by source or target, filter by type and group, bulk delete, group autocomplete. Redirections fire before WordPress loads any templates — zero overhead.
404 Monitor Logs every 404 hit with URL, referrer, user agent, IP address, and cumulative hit count. Lets you sort by any column, bulk-dismiss entries, and convert any 404 directly into a redirect with one click.
JSON-LD Schema Outputs structured data for every page type: WebSite + SearchAction on the homepage, LocalBusiness (with address, geo, opening hours, social profiles), Article / BlogPosting / NewsArticle on posts, WebPage on pages, Product on WooCommerce products, CollectionPage on category archives, and BreadcrumbList on all content pages.
Local Business Schema Addon Full Local Business JSON-LD configuration — business name, type (110+ schema.org types in grouped categories), address, phone, email, and logo.
IndexNow Automatically pings the IndexNow API (Bing, Yandex) whenever a post is published or updated. Also lets you manually ping any URL or the homepage on demand.
LLMs.txt
Generates a /llms.txt file following the llmstxt.org specification so AI crawlers can understand your site structure.
Post Type & URL Monitor Detects new custom post types registered by newly activated plugins and notifies you in the admin so you can configure their SEO settings. Also monitors URL changes (renamed slugs, trashed or deleted posts) and creates redirects automatically.
REST API
Every feature is exposed via a versioned REST API at /wp-json/minorank/v1/. Endpoints accept either an X-Minorank-Key header or a standard WordPress admin session — no separate auth plugin needed.
Why Minorank SEO?
- No bloat — vanilla PHP and JavaScript, no npm build step, no React dependency for admin pages, loads only on the pages that need it.
- No AI required — every feature works standalone: no API keys to manage, no per-generation costs, no external platform account needed.
- Proactive site health, not just page-level checklists — broken link checking, keyword cannibalization detection, and orphan content detection ship in the free plugin, catching problems most SEO plugins leave to a separate audit tool (or a paid tier).
- Built to stay fast at scale — the broken link checker, internal link graph, and bulk editor all use incremental background scanning and cursor-paginated queries, not full-site re-scans, so they stay usable on stores with tens of thousands of products.
- Data-safe updates — all settings and logs are stored in WordPress options and custom database tables using
dbDelta(); plugin updates never wipe your data. - WooCommerce-aware — product sitemaps, product category schema, WooCommerce detection, and opt-in faceted-navigation SEO built in.
- Standards-compliant — GPL-2.0-or-later, follows WordPress Coding Standards,
declare(strict_types=1)throughout.
External Services
This plugin connects to the following external services:
1. IndexNow API
* URL: https://api.indexnow.org/
* When: Automatically when a post is published or updated (if IndexNow is enabled), and on-demand via the Settings page.
* Data sent: Your site’s IndexNow key and the URL of the published/updated post. No personal data is included.
* Purpose: Notifies Bing, Yandex, and other IndexNow-compatible search engines of content changes for faster indexing.
* Privacy policy: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement
Plugin privacy policy: https://minorank.com/privacy-policy