Stedica SEO

Description

Most SEO plugins help you optimise a post while you are writing it. Stedica SEO starts from the other end: it audits the pages you already published, scores every issue by severity, and gives you one screen to work through them.

It is also built to be installed alongside whatever SEO plugin you already use. Stedica reads and writes Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress and All in One SEO metadata, so you can run an audit today without migrating anything or losing what you have.

What the free edition does

• Site audit — scans every URL on the site and groups every issue by severity: Critical, High, Medium, Low.
• Titles and meta descriptions — edit inline, with length guidance, a live Google preview, and templates with dynamic variables such as #current_year.
• Canonical URLs and meta robots — per-post noindex, nofollow, noarchive and nosnippet, merged correctly into WordPress’ own robots output.
• Open Graph and Twitter Cards — per-post social metadata with an image picker.
• Core structured data — Organization, WebSite, WebPage and BreadcrumbList JSON-LD.
• Breadcrumbs — BreadcrumbList schema on singular views.
• XML sitemap — paginated, cached and image-aware, with robots.txt integration.
• robots.txt editor — override the virtual robots.txt, with your sitemap appended automatically.
• IndexNow — submit new and updated URLs to Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver.
• Redirects — unlimited rules (301, 302, 307, 410) plus a 404 log.
• Image alt text — find every image missing alt text and fix it.
• Readability — Flesch Reading Ease, shown right in the editor.
• CSV export — take the full issue list anywhere.
• Elementor compatible — reads content, headings and images from Elementor’s own data, which a plain post_content read misses.
• Works with your existing SEO plugin — reads and writes Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress and AIOSEO fields.
• Translation ready — every string in the interface is translatable, with translations delivered through translate.wordpress.org.
• Headline analysis — length, keyword placement and structure scored as you type.
• HTML sitemap — [stedica_html_sitemap], nested and cached.
• Table of contents — a block, or [stedica_toc], with stable heading anchors.
• Cornerstone content — mark your important pages and their problems are scored higher.
• hreflang — for multilingual sites, Polylang and WPML aware.
• llms.txt — a machine-readable summary of your site for AI crawlers.
• Orphan and under-linked pages — every page with no inbound internal links, found during the audit.
• Keyword cannibalisation — your own pages competing for the same term.
• Quick wins — the pages one or two fixes away from being clean.
• Fix Mode — work through issues one at a time, approve suggestions and apply them in bulk.
• Schema editor — validate your JSON-LD and edit individual @graph nodes by hand.
• Broken link scan — check outbound links on demand.
• Undo — every write the plugin makes to a post is reversible.
• SEO permission — let a contractor do SEO without an administrator account.
• REST API — /wp-json/stedica-seo/v1/ for audits, issues and per-page SEO fields.
• Health screen — what is working, and what quietly stopped.
• Setup wizard — four questions on first install.

Stedica SEO Premium

Premium is a separate plugin that installs alongside this one and both stay active — you will see two rows in your plugins list, the same way Yoast Premium and SEOPress PRO work. Keep this plugin installed; Premium needs it and adds to it. It adds the parts that need automation, an external API, or work across your whole site at once:

• AI meta titles, descriptions, alt text, schema, FAQ blocks and content briefs — using your own API key with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral or Groq, with a screen that tracks tokens and estimated spend.
• Scheduled scans, and scan and weekly digest emails.
• Google Search Console — indexing status, impressions, clicks, average position, and per-URL indexing requests.
• Google Analytics 4 organic sessions.
• Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) via PageSpeed Insights.
• Redirect importers for Redirection, Yoast Premium, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress and Safe Redirect Manager.
• Scheduled broken-link checking on a cron, rather than on demand.
• Internal linking suggestions, with one-click insertion into the donor page.
• AI schema generation, including FAQ and HowTo blocks.
• Multi-location Local SEO — a LocalBusiness entry per branch, with address geocoding.
• Keyword rank tracking — daily positions from Search Console, with biggest movers.
• Content decay — pages whose impressions have fallen away since an earlier audit.
• Multisite support.

Details at stedica.com.

External services

This plugin can connect to third-party services. All of them are optional and only used when you explicitly enable and configure them in Settings.

Google Search Console / Google Analytics 4 — When connected, the plugin sends your site URL and individual page URLs to Google in order to retrieve indexing status and traffic metrics. Requires you to authorise access via Google OAuth.
Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google PageSpeed Insights — When you request Core Web Vitals for a page, that page’s URL is sent to Google.
Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

AI providers (OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic — whichever you configure) — When you use an AI feature (meta generation, alt text, schema generation, content briefs), the plugin sends the relevant page’s title, URL, meta description, focus keyword and an excerpt of its text content to the provider you selected, using the API key you supply. No data is sent unless AI is enabled in Settings and a key is present.
OpenAI: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use — https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
Google Gemini: https://ai.google.dev/terms — https://policies.google.com/privacy
Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms — https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

IndexNow (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver) — Off by default. If you tick the IndexNow box in Settings, the URL of each post you publish or update is sent to https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow, which passes it to those search engines so they can recrawl it. Only the URL is sent — no page content, no personal data, and nothing about your visitors. Nothing is transmitted until you enable it, and unticking the box stops it immediately.
Service: https://www.indexnow.org/
Terms of use: https://www.indexnow.org/terms
Privacy policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement

OpenStreetMap / Nominatim (Premium — Local SEO only) — When you click Find coordinates on the Local SEO settings, the business address you typed is sent to https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search to look up its latitude and longitude. It runs only on that click, and the request identifies itself with the plugin name, version and your site URL as Nominatim’s usage policy requires.
Terms: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/ — Privacy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy

Freemius (licensing, updates and optional usage data) — Freemius handles Premium licence checks and updates. The free plugin ships with tracking switched off: the SDK runs in anonymous mode, so no site or user data is sent unless you accept its opt-in notice, which you can dismiss or decline and still use every feature.
Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/ — Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

If your site serves visitors in the EU, disclose any AI provider you enable in your own privacy policy, since page content is transmitted to that provider.

Note that in the free edition the AI providers, Search Console, Analytics and PageSpeed integrations are not present in the package at all, so nothing is sent to any of them.

Licence

Stedica SEO is licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. A copy of the GPL v2 ships in LICENSE.

The plugin bundles the Freemius WordPress SDK (vendor/freemius/), which is licensed GPL-3.0; its own licence text is in vendor/freemius/LICENSE.txt. Because Stedica SEO is offered under GPL v2 or later, the two are compatible, and the combined distribution you receive is effectively governed by GPL v3. This is noted here so the presence of two different GPL versions in the package is not mistaken for an oversight.

Third-party components and their licences:

• Freemius WordPress SDK — GPL-3.0 — https://github.com/Freemius/wordpress-sdk
• Chart.js (assets/js/chart.umd.min.js) — MIT — https://www.chartjs.org/

Everything else in this package is Copyright © 2026 Stedica LLC.