CranSEO

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.

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.

Free Features

Product SEO Analysis
Comprehensive SEO checklist for WooCommerce products

AI Content Generation
You are given 3 free trial AI generations for product descriptions, titles, and meta descriptions

Basic XML Sitemap
Automatically generated product sitemap for search engines

SEO Recommendations
Actionable insights to improve your product pages

User-Friendly Interface
Simple integration into WooCommerce product editor

Premium Features

Unlimited AI Generations: No limits on AI content creation

WooCommerce Optimization

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.

How It Works: Step-by-Step
Click “Analyze Product”
With one click, CranSEO scans the product’s title, description, and short product description for SEO and LLM optimization factors.

Get Real-Time Scoring & Suggestions
The plugin then displays:
1. A comprehensive SEO score for the product
2. Suggestions to improve keyword placement
3. Warnings for missing or weak elements
4. Tips to make the content more conversational and structured

Optimization Targets
Short Product Description
Ensures this snippet is compelling and keyword-rich — ideal for appearing in quick previews or featured listings.

Long Description
Analyzes for content depth, structure, and relevance to LLM queries (e.g., FAQs, benefits, comparisons).

Built-in Product SEO Scoring
Each WooCommerce product is scored based on:
1. Keyword relevance and density
2. Conversational tone and clarity
3. Content structure (headings, bullets, etc.)
4. Link usage and metadata completeness
5. LLM compatibility (Is the content likely to be cited or used by AI?)

Why it matters
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.

XML Sitemaps

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.

What It Includes
The sitemap dynamically includes:
1. Pages – All published static pages
2. Posts – Blog articles and other post types
3. WooCommerce Products – Product pages with SEO relevance
4. Categories & Tags – Blog and product categories/tags
5. Custom Taxonomies – Including WooCommerce product attributes or any CPT taxonomy

Search Engine Ready
Once generated, users can submit the sitemap directly to major search engines (like Google and Bing) via:
1. Google Search Console
2. Bing Webmaster Tools
3. Manual submission or plugin integrations

The sitemap is located at:
yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Automatic Updates
CranSEO ensures your sitemap:
1. Updates automatically when new content is published
2. Removes deleted content from the index
3. It has timestamps to show when you update the content

Why Sitempas Matter
Search engines rely on sitemaps to:
1. Discover your content faster
2. Understand your site structure
3. Prioritize what to crawl and index
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.

Usage

Accessing CranSEO

After activation, a “CranSEO” menu appears in the WordPress admin sidebar with submenus for Dashboard, Settings, Support, XML Sitemap and Manage License.

Premium Features
* Purchase a license from cranseo.com/pricing.

• You will receive the license key from freemius

• Enter your license key in the “Manage License” page to unlock premium features.

External Services

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.

• Service Purpose: The service validates license keys to unlock premium features (e.g., LLM Visibility, Voice Search Optimizer) and provides API keys for enhanced content optimization.
• Data Sent: When activating a license or retrieving an API key, the plugin sends the following data:
  • License key (a unique key purchased from cranseo.com).
  • Fingerprint (a unique identifier for your WordPress installation).
  • API key or shared secret (used for authentication with the service).
• When Data is Sent: 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.
• Service Provider: CranSEO, accessible at https://freemius.com.
• Terms of Service: https://cranseo.com/privacy-policy/
• Privacy Policy: https://cranseo.com/privacy-policy/

2.0.5

Tested with the latest WordPress Version

2.0.4

• The error that was preventing sitemap generation has been fixed.
• More information is needed before dividing the sitemaps

2.0.3

• Multi-sitemap architecture with individual sitemaps for each content type
• Main sitemap index that automatically references all content sitemaps
• Taxonomy support for categories, tags, and custom taxonomies
• Eliminated file system dependency and permission issues
• Automatic Content-Type: application/xml headers
• On-demand generation for always-fresh content
• Reduced server load with efficient database queries

2.0.2

Updated the handling of user licenses.
Introduced one-time payment as opposed to subscription model

2.0.1

We have improved the documentation to specifically guide on how to interact with CranSEO for WooCommerce

1.0.8

• Users can now generate product descriptions automatically using AI.
• The tool integrates seamlessly with an API to interact with OpenAI

1.0.7

• Scaled down CranSEO to focus on WooCommerce products optimization for search engines and AI
• Integrated Freemius for activating premium

1.0.6

• Improved the “Features” checker in the product description editor to check for both ordered and unordered list items. This broadens the scope under
  assessment.
• Enahnced the “Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)” checker in the product description to widen the scope to include
  other titles like FAQs/Frequently Asked Questions and both ordered and unordered listicles.

1.0.5

• Tested with WordPress 6.8.2

1.0.4

• Introduced LLM optimization for WooCommerce products by modifying the product title, product description and the short description
• Introduced the XML sitemap generation
• Replaced the generic dashicon on the admin menu with properly branded Inclusion

1.0.3

• Updated the Documentation link in the Support page
• Removed error logs within the code for security

1.0.2

• Updated Contributors list in readme to include valid WordPress.org username (chiqi).
• 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.
• Fixed domain consistency in API calls to ensure all use https://cranseo.com.
• Ensured sslverify is set to true for all API calls in premium activation for improved security.

1.0.1

• Fixed AJAX nonce verification for improved security.
• Improved Gutenberg compatibility for post ID detection.
• Added related keywords field to analysis results.

1.0.0

• Initial release with free and premium features.
• Real-time content analysis for Classic Editor and Gutenberg.
• API key and license management for premium functionality.

Testing

Test locally using a WordPress environment with debugging enabled (WP_DEBUG set to true).
Ensure compatibility with WordPress versions 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+.