SEOGeoX

Description

SEOGeoX is a lean, fast SEO plugin built around one idea: do the
same core job as Yoast/RankMath, with less admin overhead and a fully
transparent scoring model — no opaque single-number score, no bundled JS
admin framework, and no assets loaded outside the one screen that needs
them. The “Geo” in the name is the built-in Local SEO toolkit further
down this list (address/geo-coordinate fields, LocalBusiness schema, and
a multi-location “SEO Locations” post type) rather than a separate
add-on — everywhere else, “geo” isn’t used as a stand-in for features
that don’t exist yet. This is a new plugin looking for real-world
testers before it grows further; see “Has this been tested on a live
site?” in the FAQ below for exactly where your testing would help most.
It currently includes:

• A single per-post meta box: SEO title, meta description, up to 5 focus
  keyphrases (the first treated as primary), a live Google/Facebook/
  Twitter-X preview, optional noindex, optional canonical override,
  optional cornerstone-content flag, and an optional per-post schema type
  override.
• Frontend <title> override, meta description, canonical link, Open
  Graph tags, and Twitter Card tags — rendered from data already loaded on
  the page request, with no extra database queries.
• A social preview + snippet editor right in the meta box: live, no-
  network-request previews of how a page will look in Google search
  results, a Facebook/X link share, and a Twitter/X card, with optional
  title/description/image overrides for the social cards (via the media
  library) that never touch the SEO title or meta description search
  engines see. Twitter/X reuses the Facebook card’s content unless you
  opt into a separate title/description/image for it.
• JSON-LD structured data: an Organization/WebSite graph sitewide, plus
  Article and BreadcrumbList nodes on singular content. When WooCommerce
  is active, product pages automatically get a Product node instead —
  with Offer (or AggregateOffer for variable products), stock
  availability, SKU, AggregateRating, and up to 10 individual Review
  nodes (most recent first) when the product has reviews with a star
  rating. A per-post Schema Type Override (in the meta box’s advanced
  fields) can replace the automatic Article/Product node with an Event,
  Course, Podcast Episode, Dataset, or FAQ Page node instead, each with
  its own small set of type-specific fields. A GTIN/MPN/brand-override
  section appears on WooCommerce product edit screens, feeding straight
  into the Product node for better Google Merchant Center / Shopping
  eligibility. When Organization type (SEOGeoX > General Settings) is set to
  a business type (LocalBusiness, Store, Restaurant, etc.), the sitewide
  Organization node also carries address, geo coordinates, phone, price
  range, and opening hours from the new “Local Business Info” section
  there. For multi-location businesses, a new “SEO Locations” post type
  (nested under the SEOGeoX menu) gives each branch its own page,
  its own LocalBusiness
  node (same address/hours/geo fields, per location), and — since it’s a
  public post type — its own entry in the XML sitemap automatically.
• A cached XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml (index) and
  /sitemap-{post_type}.xml, rebuilt only when content changes — not on
  every visit. When WPML or Polylang is active, each per-type sitemap
  covers every active language in one file, with every translation
  cross-linked via hreflang alternate tags — built against both
  plugins’ public APIs, but not yet exercised against a live multilingual
  install. Please verify the sitemap output on a real WPML/Polylang site
  before relying on it, and let us know what you find. Each URL entry can
  also carry <image:image> tags for its featured image and any images
  found in the post content (toggle in SEOGeoX > General Settings) — pulled
  with a lightweight regex scan, not a DOM parser, so it doesn’t add a
  hard dependency on an extension not every host has enabled. Two more
  specialized sitemaps are available, both off by default: a Google News
  sitemap (/sitemap-news.xml, only for sites approved as a Google News
  publisher — lists content published in the last 48 hours from
  whichever post types you choose) and a video sitemap
  (/sitemap-videos.xml, auto-detects self-hosted <video> tags and
  YouTube/Vimeo embeds already in your post content — nothing extra to
  fill in).
• A client-side, in-browser on-page analyzer with per-check pass/warn/fail
  reasoning (title length, description length, sentence length, passive
  voice, paragraph length) instead of one opaque numeric score, scored
  separately against every focus keyphrase you’ve added — not just one —
  so each gets its own title/description/content-presence and density
  checks. No external requests.
• One lean settings screen built on WordPress’s core Settings API — no
  bundled JS admin framework.
• A redirect manager (SEOGeoX > SEO Redirects): add 301/302 redirects,
  see hit counts and last-hit time per redirect, and get one created
  automatically whenever a published post or page’s URL slug changes —
  so old links don’t silently start 404ing. Matching is a single indexed
  database lookup per request, not a cached map that has to be rebuilt
  and unserialized on every page load. Alongside exact-path redirects,
  wildcard patterns are supported too — e.g. old path /blog/* to target
  /new-blog/$1 — checked only as a small cached fallback when the exact
  lookup misses, so sites without any wildcard redirects pay nothing extra.
• A bulk editor (SEOGeoX > SEO Bulk Editor): filter by post type, see a
  paginated table of posts with inline SEO title/description fields and
  live character counters, and save every row in one submit — instead of
  opening each post individually. Focus keyword, noindex, and canonical
  overrides already set on a post are left untouched by a bulk save. The
  same screen flags duplicate SEO titles and duplicate meta descriptions
  across every post of the filtered type — a summary list with edit
  links, plus a “Duplicate” badge on affected rows in the current page.
• A robots.txt editor (SEOGeoX > Robots.txt), using WordPress’s own
  virtual-robots.txt filter — no file written to disk. Prefilled with
  WordPress’s current effective default as a starting point, with a
  “Sitemap:” line added automatically when the XML sitemap is enabled.
  Warns when a physical robots.txt file on the server would override it,
  and when the site’s “discourage search engines” setting is on (custom
  content would override WordPress’s own blanket Disallow in that case).
• Redirect CSV export/import, right on the Redirects screen: export
  every redirect (including hit counts) as a CSV, or upload a CSV with
  “source”/”target” columns (an optional “type” column, 301 default) to
  bulk-add redirects — handy for migrating off another redirect plugin.
• A Yoast SEO / Rank Math data migration screen (SEOGeoX > SEO
  Migration): detects existing per-post titles, descriptions, focus
  keywords, noindex flags, and canonical URLs from either plugin and
  imports them in one click. Only fills posts that don’t already have
  SEOGeoX data — nothing already set here is overwritten. Common
  template variables (%%title%%, %sitename%, etc.) are resolved; anything
  less common is left as literal text to clean up afterward in the Bulk
  Editor.
• A 404 monitor (SEOGeoX > 404 Monitor): logs real front-end 404s
  (path, hit count, first/last seen), ranked by frequency, with a
  one-click “Add Redirect” button that opens the Redirects screen with
  the path pre-filled. Once a redirect exists for a logged path, it stops
  accumulating new hits automatically — the redirect manager catches it
  first. Noisy paths (wp-admin, wp-content, favicon.ico, etc.) are
  excluded, and the log self-prunes to the least-hit, longest-stale 5,000
  entries so bot scanning can’t grow it without bound.
• A settings export/import screen (SEOGeoX > General Settings): export the
  organization/logo/Twitter/sitemap/schema settings and robots.txt content
  as a JSON file, or upload one to apply those same settings on another
  site — handy for staging → production deployment. Imported data is run
  back through the same validation a manual save uses, not trusted as-is.
• Instant Indexing (SEOGeoX > Instant Indexing): pings search engines the
  moment a public post is published, updated, or unpublished, instead of
  waiting for their next crawl. IndexNow (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, and
  others) needs no account — just a generated key, verified by a plain-text
  file this plugin serves automatically — and is off by default, so nothing
  is sent anywhere until you turn it on in SEOGeoX > Instant Indexing. An
  optional Google Indexing API integration is also included, off by default
  and clearly flagged: Google officially restricts that API to JobPosting/
  BroadcastEvent pages, so using it for ordinary content isn’t sanctioned by
  Google even though it works in practice for many sites. Neither call ever
  blocks a post save — both run a few seconds later via WP-Cron, with the
  actual sent/failed result shown on the settings screen.
• Internal linking (SEOGeoX > Internal Linking, plus a new “Cornerstone
  content” checkbox in the meta box): an on-site internal-link graph is
  kept in its own small table and rebuilt whenever a post is saved. An
  Orphaned Content Finder lists cornerstone content with no incoming
  internal links from anywhere else on the site; a Stale Cornerstone
  Content Finder lists cornerstone content untouched for a configurable
  number of months. While editing a post, a “Link suggestions” panel
  shows other published posts worth linking to (cornerstone pages
  surfaced first), with a one-click “Copy link” button — the only network
  request this plugin’s admin JS makes anywhere, and it never leaves the
  site.
• A Role Manager (SEOGeoX > Role Manager): control which WordPress roles
  can see and use each of this plugin’s settings screens, and which roles
  can edit the “advanced” per-post fields (noindex, canonical override,
  cornerstone). Built on WordPress’s own capabilities system, not a
  separate permission layer. Defaults preserve exactly what already
  worked before this screen existed — screen access defaults to whichever
  roles already had manage_options, and advanced-field access defaults
  to whichever roles already had edit_posts — and any role that already
  has full admin access is never editable from this screen, so there’s no
  way to use it to lock yourself out.
• Google Search Console integration (SEOGeoX > Search Console):
  connects with a Google Cloud service account (the same auth approach
  the Google Indexing API integration uses) and reads Search Console’s
  own Search Analytics report — never by scraping live search results,
  which would violate Google’s terms of service. One cached report
  (refreshed every 6 hours) powers a sitewide clicks/impressions/CTR/
  position overview, a Keyword Ranking table for up to 20 tracked
  keywords/phrases (their real average position, clicks, impressions, and
  CTR, straight from Search Console), and a Top Queries table that flags
  queries already earning meaningful impressions but ranking past
  position 10 as an “Opportunity” — a keyword suggestion backed by this
  site’s own real search demand, not a generic volume guess.
• A second, independent Google Keyword Suggestion tool sits right in the
  meta box: a “Get keyword ideas” button next to focus keyphrases that
  calls Google’s own public autocomplete endpoint — the same suggestions
  the Google search box itself shows as you type. Off by default and
  flagged the same way the Google Indexing API is (it’s not a documented,
  supported Google API); enable it in SEOGeoX > General Settings.
  Only the typed keyphrase is ever sent, and results are cached for 12
  hours per term.
• Automated Image SEO: fills in missing alt text automatically and for
  free — from an image’s own caption or title, or a cleaned-up version of
  its filename (WordPress’s own resize suffix and camera-generated
  prefixes like “IMG_”/”DSC_” stripped) — never by looking at the image
  itself, so it never claims to describe what’s actually depicted. Runs
  once, automatically, right when an image is uploaded (only ever filling
  an empty alt field), and a new Image SEO screen lists every image
  already in the Media Library with missing alt text, with an editable
  suggestion for each, fixed in bulk. The on-page analyzer also now flags
  images in the post being edited that are missing alt text.

Assets (JS/CSS) load only on the specific admin screen that needs them —
never sitewide across wp-admin.

Roadmap ideas (not yet built)

Every item originally on this list — including every purely in-house
batch toward RankMath Pro / Yoast Premium parity, and the Search
Console / keyword ranking / keyword suggestion integrations that used to
be queued here as “bring your own API key” ideas — has now been built.
The only thing still queued is:

• AI-assisted title/content suggestions, using your own OpenAI/
  Anthropic-style API key. This is the one item that genuinely can’t be
  done as plain code — everything else originally queued for a
  “bring-your-own-API-key” integration (keyword rank tracking, a Search
  Console dashboard inside wp-admin) turned out to be buildable as a
  fully-authenticated Search Console integration instead, needing only a
  free Google Cloud service account rather than a paid third-party key.
  AI-assisted content will always be off until you supply your own
  credentials — this plugin will never bundle or resell access to
  someone else’s API.

Technical details