SEO built for publishers.

Write, review and publish

Article SEO Intelligence reviews headlines, descriptions, headings, readability, featured images, bylines, dates and links. Use the results as a practical editorial checklist, not a prediction of where an article will rank.

Live previews let writers inspect desktop and mobile search snippets, social cards, canonical settings and JSON-LD while reviewing a draft. Search engines and social networks still decide how a page is displayed.

• Story-level SEO checks
• Search and social previews
• Author expertise and editorial identity

Connect stories with structured data

The Schema Suite connects your publication, website, authors, articles, images and breadcrumbs in a JSON-LD graph. Match the type to the content: a news report and an opinion blog are not interchangeable.

Article, NewsArticle, ReportageNewsArticle, BlogPosting and LiveBlogPosting are among the supported types described in the supplied product documentation. Required fields and editorial accuracy matter; markup is not a guarantee of a rich result.

A dedicated newsroom with assigned roles

PublishRank ships with a dedicated newsroom module. Editors, reporters and contributors are assigned roles for the stories they own, so reviews, bylines and publication handoffs stay clear — the workflow newsrooms usually need a separate tool for lives inside WordPress.

Combined with story-level SEO checks, the newsroom keeps editorial accountability and technical optimization in the same place.

• Assigned editorial roles for editors, reporters and contributors
• Story ownership, review and publication handoff
• Newsroom workflows built for news publishers

The Schema Aggregator endpoint

The Schema Aggregator endpoint collects the structured data PublishRank generates across templates into one machine-readable feed, making it easy to audit the graph your pages emit as themes, blocks and settings change.

Point validation tools at the endpoint to confirm your publication, author and article markup stays accurate over time.

Maintain news and XML sitemaps

Sitemap providers cover public content and editorial archives, with news, image and video output where configured. Sitemap Health helps review XML, duplicate URLs, child references and eligibility.

Set your publication identity, eligible content types and exclusions before submitting a sitemap. A sitemap helps discovery but cannot guarantee indexing or Google News inclusion.

Look after the archive

Redirects, an optional 404 Monitor, internal-link tools and bulk metadata editing support content maintenance after publication. Review missing destinations and preserve useful paths when a story moves.

Image optimization creates smaller attachment files while retaining originals. Optional social-image watermarking is a separate control and depends on image processing support on the WordPress host.

• Redirect and missing-page review
• Internal linking and bulk editorial maintenance
• Image optimization and optional social watermarking

Technical controls, with clear limits

Robots.txt previews, URL testing, diagnostics and llms.txt controls help owners inspect their output. Robots.txt is guidance for crawlers, not protection for confidential content; llms.txt does not guarantee AI citations.

IndexNow and read-only search reports require configuration. Traffic Guard is optional request control, not a replacement for a firewall, strong account security or a managed DDoS service. Automatic migration from other SEO plugins is planned, not currently promised.

Security: WP Hide Login built in

PublishRank includes WP Hide Login built in, so site owners can move the WordPress login URL away from the default /wp-login.php path and cut the constant automated sign-in traffic most sites receive.

Login-URL protection is a hardening measure, not a replacement for strong passwords, two-factor authentication or a firewall.

• Moveable WordPress login URL
• Reduces automated sign-in attempts
• Included in the core edition — no separate plugin

Everything the major plugins cover — and more

The toolkit covers the ground publishers expect from Yoast SEO and Rank Math: titles and meta, XML and News sitemaps, structured data, redirects, content analysis and search previews.

On top of that come the dedicated newsroom with assigned roles, the Schema Aggregator endpoint and built-in WP Hide Login — included in the free core edition.