AutoRankMe SEO

AutoRankMe SEO connects your WordPress site to AutoRankMe — a proactive SEO + AEO platform that handles automation tasks for you.

Key Features

Surgical Auto-Fixer (8 fix types)
Fix meta titles, descriptions, H1 tags, alt text, internal links, and schema markup — applied directly to your posts without breaking your page builder layout.

Smart Content Publisher
Publish AI-generated articles from the AutoRankMe dashboard. Content is automatically formatted for your page builder: Gutenberg blocks, Elementor JSON, WPBakery shortcodes, Divi shortcodes, or Classic HTML. Featured images auto-attached.

Schema Markup Engine
Generate and inject Article, FAQ, BreadcrumbList, LocalBusiness, Product, HowTo, and Organization schema as JSON-LD. Applied to individual pages or batch-applied site-wide.

Internal Linking Engine
Analyzes your content for linking opportunities. Suggests relevant anchor text and target pages based on topical relevance. Apply individual links or batch-apply with one click. Tracks all applied links to prevent duplicates.

Background 404 Scanner
Scans your entire site for broken links — sitemap URLs, internal links, and real-time 404 captures. Integrates with Redirection plugin and Broken Link Checker for unified reporting.

Render-Time Auditor
Fetches each page the way Google sees it. Extracts rendered title, meta, schema, headings, images, internal links, word count. Detects issues that external crawlers miss.

Core Web Vitals Optimizer
One-click performance patches: lazy loading, image priority hints, script deferral, font-display swap, preload hints. All via WordPress filters — no theme edits required.

Auto-Redirect Engine
Detects high-traffic 404 pages and automatically creates 301 redirects to the best matching page. Works with the Redirection plugin or native WordPress rewrites.

Content Staleness Monitor
Identifies pages not updated in 90+ days that may be losing rankings. Flags them for AI-powered content refresh through the AutoRankMe dashboard.

Daily Health Heartbeat
Sends a daily snapshot of your site health to AutoRankMe: theme, plugins, PHP version, post counts. Detects critical changes (theme swapped, SEO plugin removed, SSL disabled) and alerts you proactively.

Cache Integration
Automatically flushes page cache after every fix and publish. Supports WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, and SG Optimizer.

Supported Page Builders

• Gutenberg (WordPress Block Editor)
• Classic Editor
• WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer)
• Elementor
• Divi Builder

Supported SEO Plugins

• Yoast SEO
• RankMath
• SEOPress

AutoRankMe SEO writes meta titles, descriptions, and focus keywords to all three SEO plugins’ meta fields simultaneously. Works alongside your existing SEO plugin — no conflicts.

How It Works

1. Install the plugin
2. Paste your API token from autorankme.com → Settings → API Tokens
3. Click Connect
4. AutoRankMe handles the rest: crawling, fixing, publishing, linking, monitoring

All operations are triggered from the AutoRankMe dashboard (autorankme.com). The plugin executes them inside WordPress with full database access — faster, more accurate, and more reliable than external API calls.

Privacy & Data

The plugin sends the following data to autorankme.com when connected:
* Site URL, WordPress version, PHP version
* Active theme name and version
* Active plugin names and versions
* Post and page counts
* Page content when you explicitly publish or fix through AutoRankMe

No data is sent until you connect the plugin with your API token. You can disconnect at any time from the settings page.

External services

This plugin relies on the following third-party services. No data is sent until you connect the plugin with your API token (or, for Loremflickr, until you explicitly trigger an OG image generation).

AutoRankMe API (autorankme-api.onrender.com)

What it is: the AutoRankMe SaaS backend that performs SEO analysis, generates fixes and content, tracks keywords, and monitors site health.

What is sent and when:
* On connect: site URL, WordPress version, PHP version, active theme/plugins (so the backend knows what your environment supports).
* On every fix or publish you trigger from the AutoRankMe dashboard: the relevant page content (HTML, headings, meta), the proposed change, and the resulting state.
* Once a day if enabled: a heartbeat with site-health status (counts of posts/pages, last error, plugin version).

Why: to surface fixable SEO issues, generate the change suggestions, and confirm fixes landed.

Service provider: AutoRankMe.
Terms of service: https://autorankme.com/terms
Privacy policy: https://autorankme.com/privacy

Loremflickr (loremflickr.com)

What it is: a free placeholder-image service that returns a Creative-Commons photograph keyed to provided keywords.

What is sent and when: only when you explicitly request OG image generation for a post (Settings → AutoRankMe SEO → Generate OG image, or from the dashboard) and the post has no existing featured image. The plugin sends 1–3 keywords derived from the post title to fetch a representative image.

Why: to give Open Graph previews a default image when the author hasn’t uploaded one, so social shares don’t render image-less.

Service provider: Loremflickr.
Terms of service: https://loremflickr.com/
(Loremflickr does not publish a separate privacy policy; the service is keyword-only and does not personally identify users.)

Privacy

AutoRankMe SEO is a SaaS-companion plugin: it connects your WordPress site to the AutoRankMe service hosted at https://autorankme-api.onrender.com. Using this plugin requires an AutoRankMe account and an API token, which you generate at autorankme.com and paste into the plugin’s settings page.

What data is sent to AutoRankMe

When you connect the plugin with your API token and use its features, the following data is transmitted to https://autorankme-api.onrender.com:

• Site identity: site URL, WordPress version, PHP version
• Site inventory: active theme name and version, list of active plugin names and versions, post and page counts
• Audit data (on demand): post and page titles, meta descriptions, headings, internal link targets, schema markup, image alt attributes, and word counts — collected so AutoRankMe can identify SEO/AEO issues
• Post content (only when you explicitly act): the body of a post is sent only when you publish AI-generated content from the AutoRankMe dashboard, or when you trigger a one-click fix that needs the post content
• Daily heartbeat: a once-per-day snapshot of the items above so AutoRankMe can detect critical regressions (theme swap, plugin removal, SSL change)

What data is NOT collected

• No site visitor information, IP addresses, cookies, or analytics-style tracking
• No WordPress administrator credentials or password hashes — authentication is one-way via the API token you generate
• No passive data collection — every transmission is triggered either by an action you take in the AutoRankMe dashboard or by the daily heartbeat you can disable by deactivating the plugin
• No data is sent until you connect the plugin with your API token

User control

You can disconnect at any time from AutoRankMe → Settings in the WordPress admin. Disconnecting stops all data transmission immediately. Schema markup already injected into your posts remains in place; you can remove it by deleting the _autorankme_schema post meta or uninstalling the plugin.

For the full AutoRankMe privacy policy, see https://autorankme.com/privacy.

Third-Party Services

This plugin relies on one external service to function:

AutoRankMe API

• Service: AutoRankMe (the SaaS platform this plugin connects WordPress to)
• Endpoint: https://autorankme-api.onrender.com
• Purpose: Receives audit data and content from your site, runs SEO/AEO analysis and AI content generation, and returns fixes/articles for the plugin to apply
• When it is contacted: Whenever you trigger an action from the AutoRankMe dashboard (audit, fix, publish), and once per day for the site health heartbeat
• Required: Yes — this plugin is a SaaS-companion (not a standalone tool). Without an AutoRankMe account and API token, the plugin has no functionality
• Terms of Service: https://autorankme.com/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://autorankme.com/privacy

No other third-party services are contacted by this plugin.