Optimize your product pages for search engines and AI language models, generate high-quality content with AI, and manage XML sitemaps efficiently

Freemius

Kijana Omollo

<p>CranSEO is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to enhance your content’s visibility and performance for Large Language Models (LLMs). It provides real-time analysis and actionable suggestions to optimize your posts, pages, and WooCommerce products ensuring they are conversational, relevant, and well-structured. With both free and premium features, CranSEO caters to bloggers, marketers, store-owners and developers aiming to improve their content’s discoverability in AI-driven search environments.</p>
<p>CranSEO integrates seamlessly with both the Classic Editor and Gutenberg, offering a user-friendly interface for real-time content analysis, keyword management, and summary optimization.</p>
<h3>Free Features</h3>
<p><strong>Product SEO Analysis</strong><br />
Comprehensive SEO checklist for WooCommerce products</p>
<p><strong>AI Content Generation</strong><br />
You are given 3 free trial AI generations for product descriptions, titles, and meta descriptions</p>
<p><strong>Basic XML Sitemap</strong><br />
Automatically generated product sitemap for search engines</p>
<p><strong>SEO Recommendations</strong><br />
Actionable insights to improve your product pages</p>
<p><strong>User-Friendly Interface</strong><br />
Simple integration into WooCommerce product editor</p>
<h3>Premium Features</h3>
<p><strong>Unlimited AI Generations:</strong> No limits on AI content creation</p>
<h3>WooCommerce Optimization</h3>
<p>CranSEO includes a dedicated optimization engine for WooCommerce products, helping store owners create product pages that are not only search-friendly but also highly visible to LLMs and AI-driven search engines.</p>
<p><strong>How It Works: Step-by-Step</strong><br />
<em>Click “Analyze Product”</em><br />
With one click, CranSEO scans the product’s title, description, and short product description for SEO and LLM optimization factors.</p>
<p><em>Get Real-Time Scoring & Suggestions</em><br />
The plugin then displays:<br />
1. A comprehensive SEO score for the product<br />
2. Suggestions to improve keyword placement<br />
3. Warnings for missing or weak elements<br />
4. Tips to make the content more conversational and structured</p>
<p><strong>Optimization Targets</strong><br />
<em>Short Product Description</em><br />
Ensures this snippet is compelling and keyword-rich — ideal for appearing in quick previews or featured listings.</p>
<p><em>Long Description</em><br />
Analyzes for content depth, structure, and relevance to LLM queries (e.g., FAQs, benefits, comparisons).</p>
<p><strong>Built-in Product SEO Scoring</strong><br />
Each WooCommerce product is scored based on:<br />
1. Keyword relevance and density<br />
2. Conversational tone and clarity<br />
3. Content structure (headings, bullets, etc.)<br />
4. Link usage and metadata completeness<br />
5. LLM compatibility (Is the content likely to be cited or used by AI?)</p>
<p><strong>Why it matters</strong><br />
Most WooCommerce SEO plugins focus on meta tags — CranSEO goes further by optimizing the actual product content for visibility in LLM-powered platforms like ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, and voice search.</p>
<h3>XML Sitemaps</h3>
<p>CranSEO automatically generates a complete and compliant XML sitemap to help search engines easily discover and index all your important content — including pages, posts, products, categories, and custom taxonomies.</p>
<p><strong>What It Includes</strong><br />
The sitemap dynamically includes:<br />
1. Pages – All published static pages<br />
2. Posts – Blog articles and other post types<br />
3. WooCommerce Products – Product pages with SEO relevance<br />
4. Categories & Tags – Blog and product categories/tags<br />
5. Custom Taxonomies – Including WooCommerce product attributes or any CPT taxonomy</p>
<p><strong>Search Engine Ready</strong><br />
Once generated, users can submit the sitemap directly to major search engines (like Google and Bing) via:<br />
1. Google Search Console<br />
2. Bing Webmaster Tools<br />
3. Manual submission or plugin integrations</p>
<p>The sitemap is located at:<br />
yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml</p>
<p><strong>Automatic Updates</strong><br />
CranSEO ensures your sitemap:<br />
1. Updates automatically when new content is published<br />
2. Removes deleted content from the index<br />
3. It has timestamps to show when you update the content</p>
<p><strong>Why Sitempas Matter</strong><br />
<em>Search engines rely on sitemaps to:</em><br />
1. Discover your content faster<br />
2. Understand your site structure<br />
3. Prioritize what to crawl and index<br />
4. And in the AI era, structured sitemaps help LLMs and bots find and contextualize your content better — especially when paired with CranSEO’s content optimization.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h3>Accessing CranSEO</h3>
<p>After activation, a “CranSEO” menu appears in the WordPress admin sidebar with submenus for Dashboard, Settings, Support, XML Sitemap and Manage License.</p>
<p><strong>Premium Features</strong><br />
* Purchase a license from cranseo.com/pricing.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>You will receive the license key from freemius</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enter your license key in the “Manage License” page to unlock premium features.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>CranSEO connects to an external service provided by CranSEO (https://freemius.com) to activate premium features and retrieve API keys. This service is used only when users activate a premium license or request an API key for premium functionality.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service Purpose</strong>: The service validates license keys to unlock premium features (e.g., LLM Visibility, Voice Search Optimizer) and provides API keys for enhanced content optimization.</li>
<li><strong>Data Sent</strong>: When activating a license or retrieving an API key, the plugin sends the following data:
<ul>
<li>License key (a unique key purchased from cranseo.com).</li>
<li>Fingerprint (a unique identifier for your WordPress installation).</li>
<li>API key or shared secret (used for authentication with the service).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>When Data is Sent</strong>: Data is sent only when a user submits a license key in the “Manage License” page or requests an API key in the plugin settings.</li>
<li><strong>Service Provider</strong>: CranSEO, accessible at https://freemius.com.</li>
<li><strong>Terms of Service</strong>: https://cranseo.com/privacy-policy/</li>
<li><strong>Privacy Policy</strong>: https://cranseo.com/privacy-policy/</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.0.4</h3>
<ul>
<li>The error that was preventing sitemap generation has been fixed. </li>
<li>More information is needed before dividing the sitemaps</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.0.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multi-sitemap architecture with individual sitemaps for each content type</li>
<li>Main sitemap index that automatically references all content sitemaps</li>
<li>Taxonomy support for categories, tags, and custom taxonomies</li>
<li>Eliminated file system dependency and permission issues</li>
<li>Automatic Content-Type: application/xml headers</li>
<li>On-demand generation for always-fresh content</li>
<li>Reduced server load with efficient database queries</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.0.2</h3>
<p>Updated the handling of user licenses.<br />
Introduced one-time payment as opposed to subscription model</p>
<h3>2.0.1</h3>
<p>We have improved the documentation to specifically guide on how to interact with CranSEO for WooCommerce</p>
<h3>1.0.8</h3>
<ul>
<li>Users can now generate product descriptions automatically using AI.</li>
<li>The tool integrates seamlessly with an API to interact with OpenAI</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.7</h3>
<ul>
<li>Scaled down CranSEO to focus on WooCommerce products optimization for search engines and AI</li>
<li>Integrated Freemius for activating premium</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved the “Features” checker in the product description editor to check for both ordered and unordered list items. This broadens the scope under<br />
assessment.</li>
<li>Enahnced the “Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)” checker in the product description to widen the scope to include<br />
other titles like FAQs/Frequently Asked Questions and both ordered and unordered listicles.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Tested with WordPress 6.8.2</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.4</h3>
<ul>
<li>Introduced LLM optimization for WooCommerce products by modifying the product title, product description and the short description</li>
<li>Introduced the XML sitemap generation</li>
<li>Replaced the generic dashicon on the admin menu with properly branded Inclusion</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Updated the Documentation link in the Support page </li>
<li>Removed error logs within the code for security</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.2</h4>
<ul>
<li>Updated Contributors list in readme to include valid WordPress.org username (chiqi).</li>
<li>Added External Services section to readme, documenting the use of https://cranseo.com for premium feature activation and API key retrieval, including data sent, purpose, and links to terms of service and privacy policy.</li>
<li>Fixed domain consistency in API calls to ensure all use https://cranseo.com.</li>
<li>Ensured sslverify is set to true for all API calls in premium activation for improved security.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed AJAX nonce verification for improved security.</li>
<li>Improved Gutenberg compatibility for post ID detection.</li>
<li>Added related keywords field to analysis results.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Initial release with free and premium features.</li>
<li>Real-time content analysis for Classic Editor and Gutenberg.</li>
<li>API key and license management for premium functionality.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Testing</h3>
<p>Test locally using a WordPress environment with debugging enabled (WP_DEBUG set to true).<br />
Ensure compatibility with WordPress versions 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+.</p>


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