rankalseo

Rankal SEO Optimizer is a fast, clean, and powerful SEO plugin for WordPress. It adds approximately 4KB to your frontend — no render-blocking JavaScript, no CSS files — while delivering a complete suite of SEO tools for publishers, bloggers, and developers.
🌐 Plugin website: <a href="https://rankalseo.com" rel="nofollow ugc">rankalseo.com</a> · <a href="https://rank.al" rel="nofollow ugc">rank.al</a>
<h4>Free Features</h4>
Meta Titles & Descriptions 
Global title and description templates per post type. Per-post override with a live character counter and SERP preview. Supports dynamic variables like <code>%title%</code>, <code>%sitename%</code>, <code>%excerpt%</code>, and more.
XML Sitemaps 
Auto-generated split sitemaps for posts, pages, and custom post types. Configurable per-page limits, priorities, and change frequencies. Automatic ping to Google and Bing on publish.
Schema & Structured Data 
JSON-LD schema output for every page type — WebSite, WebPage, Article, BreadcrumbList, Organization, and Person. Outputs a complete schema graph automatically with no configuration required.
Open Graph & Twitter Cards 
Full <code>og:</code> meta tag support for Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social platforms. Twitter Card support. Auto-generates from post featured image. Configurable default social image.
Breadcrumbs 
Configurable breadcrumb trail with BreadcrumbList JSON-LD built in. Shortcode and PHP function available for theme integration. Supports custom separators and home label.
Image SEO 
Auto ALT text on upload. Auto ALT text injection in post content. Lazy loading, dimension stripping, hotlink protection, and attachment page redirect — all configurable.
Webmaster Tools 
Google, Bing, and Yandex site verification. Visual robots.txt editor. llms.txt editor for AI crawler control.
Titles & Meta Per Post Type 
Configure default title templates, description templates, noindex/nofollow rules, and schema type per post type and taxonomy — all from one screen.
RSS Feed 
Add custom footer content to your RSS feed. RSS canonical tag to protect against feed scrapers.
Blocks & Shortcodes 
Schema blocks and shortcodes for advanced structured data output within content.
One-Click Migration 
Import all titles, descriptions, and settings from Yoast SEO, RankMath, SEOPress, and All in One SEO in under two minutes.
Developer Friendly 
Zero frontend overhead — ~4KB total. No render-blocking JS or CSS. Compatible with any theme or page builder.
Redirections 
301/302/307 redirect manager with hit counting and quick create from 404 errors.
404 Monitor 
Automatic broken link log with referrer tracking and one-click redirect creation.
<h4>PRO Features</h4>
Upgrade to Rankal SEO Optimizer Pro at <a href="https://rankalseo.com/product/rankal-seo-premium-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">rankalseo.com</a> to unlock:
<ul>
<li>✨ Magic AI — Scans your entire site and fills every missing title, description, and SEO field using AI (Groq, OpenAI, or Anthropic).</li>
<li>⚡ Instant Index — Submit URLs to search engines instantly via the IndexNow protocol. No Google Cloud Console setup required.</li>
<li>Content AI — Per-post AI title and description generation directly in the editor sidebar.</li>
<li>SEO Audit — Full site crawl with percentage-based scoring. Identifies thin content, duplicate titles, missing meta tags, and noindex pages.</li>
<li>Internal Links — Automated internal link suggestions and injection.</li>
<li>WooCommerce SEO — Product schema, category SEO fields, noindex out-of-stock products.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://rankalseo.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://rankalseo.com/product/rankal-seo-premium-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO Upgrade</a></li>
<li><a href="https://rankalseo.com/docs.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dashboard.rank.al/support.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the following external services:
<ul>
<li>
Rank.al License API (rank.al)
<ul>
<li>Used for: Pro license activation, verification, and deactivation. Only used when a Pro license key is entered. Free features work without any connection.</li>
<li>Data sent: Domain name, email address, license key.</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://rank.al/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://rank.al/terms</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Rankal SEO Website (rankalseo.com)
<ul>
<li>Used for: Plugin promotion, documentation, and purchasing the Pro version. This domain is not contacted by the plugin itself — it is only referenced as a link for users to visit in their browser.</li>
<li>Data sent: None. No data is sent by the plugin to this domain.</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://rankalseo.com/privacy.html</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://rankalseo.com/terms.html</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Rank.al Dashboard API (dashboard.rank.al)
<ul>
<li>Used for: Verifying connect tokens and checking site connection status during Pro account linking. Only used during account connection in the Pro dashboard flow.</li>
<li>Data sent: A temporary connect token and the site domain.</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://rank.al/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://rank.al/terms</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Google (www.google.com)
<ul>
<li>Used for: Sitemap ping on publish — notifies Google of new or updated content. Opt-in only, disabled by default.</li>
<li>Data sent: Your sitemap URL only.</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://policies.google.com/terms</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Bing (www.bing.com)
<ul>
<li>Used for: Sitemap ping on publish — notifies Bing of new or updated content. Opt-in only, disabled by default.</li>
<li>Data sent: Your sitemap URL only.</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
IndexNow (api.indexnow.org)
<ul>
<li>Used for: Instant URL submission to IndexNow-compatible search engines (Bing, Yandex). Opt-in only, triggered manually by the site owner.</li>
<li>Data sent: Your site’s URLs and IndexNow key.</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://www.indexnow.org/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://www.indexnow.org/documentation</li>
</ul>
</li>
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Groq (api.groq.com)
<ul>
<li>Used for: AI-powered SEO meta generation (titles, descriptions, keywords) when Groq is selected as the AI provider. Only activated when the site owner enters a Groq API key.</li>
<li>Data sent: Post content (text only, up to 3,500 characters) to generate SEO metadata.</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://groq.com/privacy-policy/</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://groq.com/terms-of-use/</li>
</ul>
</li>
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OpenAI (api.openai.com)
<ul>
<li>Used for: AI-powered SEO meta generation when OpenAI is selected as the AI provider. Only activated when the site owner enters an OpenAI API key.</li>
<li>Data sent: Post content (text only, up to 3,500 characters) to generate SEO metadata.</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Anthropic (api.anthropic.com)
<ul>
<li>Used for: AI-powered SEO meta generation when Anthropic is selected as the AI provider. Only activated when the site owner enters an Anthropic API key.</li>
<li>Data sent: Post content (text only, up to 3,500 characters) to generate SEO metadata.</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Rankal SEO Optimizer

Fast WordPress SEO: meta tags, XML sitemaps, schema, Open Graph, breadcrumbs & robots.txt. ~4KB footprint, zero render-blocking JS or CSS.

Rolf Allard van Hagen

Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap. Compatible with WordPress Multisite, Polylang and WPML and most caching plugins. There are no static files created.
NEW: Connect your site to your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors. 
NEW: Submit your sitemaps right from the WordPress admin. Yes, you read that correctly: Sitemap Pings are back!
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Control the WordPress core XML Sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add a Google News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Connect your site to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors.</li>
<li>Submit/ping sitemaps to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for fast reindexation.</li>
<li>Add custom robots.txt rules.</li>
</ul>
XML Sitemap
<ul>
<li>Option to disable the main XML Sitemap Index.</li>
<li>Select sitemaps to include in the sitemap index: post types, taxonomies, authors and google news.</li>
<li>Select which (custom) post types, taxonomy archives and users to include in respective sitemaps.</li>
<li>Exclude specific posts, pages and custom post type posts from sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add a custom sitemap with external URLs.</li>
<li>Add external sitemaps.</li>
<li>Choose the sitemap server/generator: WordPress core or Plugin.</li>
<li>Plugin server: Include featured images or attached images with title.</li>
<li>Choose to update Last modification date only on post modification (default) or also on comments.</li>
<li>Sitemap stylesheet templates can be overridden by theme template files.</li>
</ul>
Google News Sitemap
<ul>
<li>Optionally activate the Google News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Includes the required news sitemap tags: Publication name, language, title and publication date.</li>
<li>Set a News Publication Name (site name by default).</li>
<li>Supports custom post types.</li>
<li>Limit inclusion of certain post categories.</li>
<li>Google News Sitemap stylesheet template can be overridden by theme template files.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Extensions</h4>
<a href="https://premium.status301.com/downloads/xml-sitemap-advanced/" rel="nofollow ugc">XML Sitemap Advanced</a>
<ul>
<li>Sitemap notifier: Automatic XML Sitemap Index update notification to Google and Bing.</li>
<li>Sitemap notifier log</li>
<li>Set a custom sitemap URL (slug)</li>
<li>Exclude posts and pages in the Bulk Editor.</li>
<li>Optionally include empty taxonomy term and empty author archives</li>
<li>Yoast SEO and Rank Math compatibility: exclude posts set to noindex</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://premium.status301.com/downloads/google-news-advanced/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google News Advanced</a>
<ul>
<li>Sitemap norifier: Automatic Google News Sitemap update notification to Google.</li>
<li>Sitemap notifier log</li>
<li>Multiple post types – Include more than one post type in the same News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Keywords – Add the keywords tag to your News Sitemap. Keywords can be created from Tags, Categories or a dedicated Keywords taxonomy.</li>
<li>Stock tickers – Add stock tickers tag to your News Sitemap. A dedicated Stock Tickers taxonomy will be available to manage them.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy / GDPR</h4>
This plugin does not collect any user or visitor data nor set browser cookies. Using this plugin should not impact your site privacy policy in any way.
Data that is published
An XML Sitemap index, referencing other sitemaps containing your web site’s public post URLs of selected post types that are already public, along with their last modification date and associated image URLs, and any selected public archive URLs. 
An author sitemap can be included, which will contain links to author archive pages. These urls contain author/user slugs, and the author archives can contain author bio information. If you wish to keep this out of public domain, then deactivate the author sitemap and use an SEO plugin to add noindex headers to the respective archive pages.
A Google News Sitemap containing your web site’s public and recent (last 48 hours) URLs of selected news post type, along with their publication time stamp and associated image URL.
Data that is transmitted
when a connection between your site and Google Search Console is configured in this plugin, the sitemap index and google news sitemap can be submitted to Google. No data is transmitted to any third party.
<h4>Contribute</h4>
If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">rating</a> or helping other users out on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed" rel="ugc">support forum</a>.
If you wish to help build this plugin, you’re very welcome to <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate it into your language</a> or contribute code on <a href="https://github.com/RavanH/xml-sitemap-feed/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.
<h4>Credits</h4>
XML Sitemap Feed was originally based on the discontinued plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator by Patrick Chia. Since then, it has been completely rewritten and extended in many ways.
NOTES:
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If you do not use fancy URL’s or you have WordPress site running in a subdirectory, a dynamic robots.txt will NOT be generated.
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On large sites, it is advised to use a good caching plugin to improve your site and sitemap performance.
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</ol>

XML Sitemap & Google News


I've been trying several plugins to generate a proper sitemap on our site. This one has a simple yet effective setup and really works like a charm with my CPT's.


Really works with custom post types


This is probably the best sitemap plugin available.


Best Sitemap Plugin

Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap.

Rankal SEO Optimizer vs XML Sitemap & Google News