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 happens on your own site: schema markup, XML sitemap, robots.txt, the redirect + 404 manager, image SEO (auto alt text), local business schema, and video schema. The only requests it makes are the two listed under External services: the Broken Links scan, when you start it, and the check of your own site’s robots.txt. 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
- Focus keyword analysis
- XML sitemap
- 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 (your 200 most recent published posts and pages, checked for missing titles, descriptions, headings and alt text, thin content and duplicate titles; with WooCommerce, also your 200 most recent products, checked for titles, descriptions, focus keywords, alt text and duplicate titles)
- Content brief, content decay and the content optimizer
- A/B testing for titles + descriptions
- Priority email support with an active Pro licence
Part of the Forge Suite: twelve WordPress and WooCommerce plugins by Avakode, including Lang Forge, Form Forge and Field Forge.
External services
Rank Forge can make outbound HTTP requests. Nothing is sent until you use the feature that sends it: activating the plugin does not contact any server and does not schedule anything that would. This is the whole list: the plugin’s code makes no other request. Each one is an ordinary WordPress HTTP request, so the server it reaches sees the network address it came from.
- 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.
- Your own site’s robots.txt — only when an administrator opens a Rank Forge screen that shows the status of robots.txt (Settings, Robots.txt), the plugin fetches
/robots.txtat your own site’s address with a plain GET, no body and no credentials, to show what visitors and crawlers receive; the answer is kept for 60 seconds. The request goes to your own site, carries WordPress’s standard user-agent (which names your site’s address), and nothing is sent to any other server.
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.
Screenshots
The SEO box in the post editor: a score out of 100, the focus keyword, length meters for the SEO title and meta description, and a Google preview.
The checks behind the score: the issues that cost points and optional ideas, each in plain words.
Schema markup for the post, detected as an Article, with every field filled from the content and editable.
The dashboard: what to fix first, the score across all posts and the most common issues.
Redirects with their hit counts, one created automatically when a post's slug changed, and the missing pages visitors asked for.
The XML sitemap search engines read, with a preview people can read too.