Rank Forge – SEO Score, Schema, Sitemap & Redirects

Description

Rank Forge is a modern SEO plugin built around a single insight: an SEO score is only useful if it tells you exactly what to do next. The post-edit metabox gives you a 0-100 SEO score, a SERP preview, focus-keyword analysis, and an editable meta title / description / schema — all from one screen, with no account or API key required.

Everything in the Free plugin runs locally on your site: schema markup, XML sitemap, robots.txt, the redirect + 404 manager, image SEO (auto alt text), local business schema, and video schema. The optional Pro add-on layers AI on top — one-click AI meta generation, content optimization, and schema detection — plus Google Search Console, Site Audit, A/B testing and auto internal links.

Free

• On-page SEO score (0-100) per post
• SERP preview (Google desktop + mobile)
• Focus keyword analysis
• XML sitemap (hreflang-aware if Lang Forge is active)
• robots.txt editor
• Basic schema markup (Article, BlogPosting) and the visual Schema Builder
• Noindex / nofollow per post
• Redirect manager (301, 302, 307) with 404 log
• Broken-link scanner across all published content (SSRF-pinned for safety)
• Image SEO — automatic alt text and a bulk no-alt report
• Local Business schema (LocalBusiness / NAP / opening hours)
• Video SEO — VideoObject schema and a video sitemap
• Coexists with Yoast / Rank Math / AIOSEO / SEOPress during migration

Rank Forge Pro

Pro is a separate add-on plugin, distributed from https://rankforgewp.com and not
included in this download. Everything listed above is part of this plugin and
works without it.

• AI meta generation (title, description, focus keyword)
• AI content expansion / simplification / external-link suggestions
• Internal link suggestions and automatic internal linking
• Google Search Console integration (rankings, indexing requests)
• Site audit (technical SEO crawler)
• Content brief, content decay and the content optimizer
• A/B testing for titles + descriptions

Part of the Forge Suite — bundle includes Lang Forge, Form Forge, Field Forge.

Third-Party Services

Rank Forge connects to the following third-party services. No data is sent until you actively use the relevant feature.

• The sites your content links to — only when you start a Broken Links scan (Rank Forge → Tools → Broken Links), the plugin sends a HEAD request to each link found in your published content to see whether it still answers. The request carries WordPress’s standard user-agent, which names your site’s address; nothing else about your site or your visitors is sent, and nothing is checked until you start the scan.

Search Console, Analytics and Indexing, and the AI features, belong to the separate Rank Forge Pro add-on, which describes the services it uses in its own documentation. This plugin has no analytics, no telemetry and no licensing calls of its own.

Technical details