Every feature is in every paid Rank Forge plan.
Updated October 2026
Rank Forge is a WordPress SEO plugin with AI features. Below is every feature, grouped by category, with links to dedicated pages for the ones that need a deeper dive. The paid plans have the same features and differ in the number of sites.
With the Pro add-on, the Rank Forge box has AI tools that work on the post you have open: AI Readiness scores the post from 0 to 100 for AI search engines and lists strengths and suggestions, and Optimize content suggests improvements. They work from your own post and do not fetch search results. Full AI SEO analysis feature →
One-click AI button next to the SEO title and meta description fields. Generates titles and descriptions with hard character limits (60 for title, 160 for description), factoring in your focus keyword, post type, and content. To fill many posts at once, the AI Site Audit lists the posts with a missing meta title or description among your 200 most recent, and its Fix all N with AI button opens the AI suggestions for those posts in one panel, where you review and apply them. Full AI meta feature →
Each issue that the AI can resolve in the text has a Fix button in the meta box. Click it and the AI rewrites the specific element: passive voice, no focus keyword in the first paragraph, hard-to-read text, etc. A rewrite of the post text opens in a review panel where you apply or cancel it; a new title, meta description or focus keyword is saved at once. The other checks are guidance only or have a button of their own, such as Expand with AI for content that is too short. Full AI Fix feature →
Enter a keyword and click Generate Brief to get title suggestions, a content structure (suggested headings with a target word count), questions to answer and key points to cover. The AI writes the brief from the keyword alone, without fetching search results. Perfect for content teams before they start writing. Full content brief feature →
AI site audit in one click. Checks your 200 most recent published posts and pages for 11 SEO issue types (missing or badly sized meta, duplicate titles, thin content, a missing H1, missing alt text, no internal links, pages without a focus keyword), then returns an AI-prioritized action plan telling you which fixes to make first for maximum impact. Full AI Site Audit feature →
The “Optimize content” button in the meta box. AI analyzes your existing post and suggests improvements: add a new section, expand a thin paragraph, add an FAQ block, add a comparison table, improve the intro. Apply suggestions with the Apply button. Full Content Optimizer feature →
An AI review scores the page from 0 to 100 for answer engines (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) and lists strengths and suggestions. It is in the paid plans; AI actions use credits. Full AEO feature →
Pro add-on, off until you switch it on under Rank Forge > Settings, tab Automation. When you publish a post or page, Rank Forge finds related posts, links words of the new post to them and adds a link back from each related post. For a post that is already published, the Auto-Link button adds links to that post only, with no link back. The matching runs inside WordPress, not in an AI model, and takes no credits. Full internal linking feature →
With the Pro add-on, enter your business name and city, and optionally what the business does, and AI suggests the business type, phone, email, address, price range, opening hours and social profile URLs for the Local SEO form. It does not suggest a description or coordinates, and the suggestions are guesses to check before you save. Full Local SEO feature →
In the Pro add-on, the Detect with AI button reads the post and proposes schema types (Article, FAQ, Product, HowTo, Recipe, Event, Review or BlogPosting) with their fields. It uses AI credits. Without it, the type follows the post type. Full schema feature →
Every post shows an SEO score from 0 to 100, built from 24 rule-based checks in four groups: focus keyword in the title, description, URL, first paragraph, content, subheadings and image alt text, title length (20 to 60 characters), meta description length (120 to 160), keyword density (0.5% to 3%), content length (600 words or more scores best), internal and external links, images or video, headings, table of contents and readability. Color-coded (green/amber/red) with severity icons.
Animated score circle, Focus Keyword input with content highlighting, SEO Title with character counter (60 limit), Meta Description with character counter (160 limit), SERP Preview (desktop and mobile), issues list with Fix buttons. The score updates as you type, and a full analysis runs each time you save.
Score, issues list and a schema panel. The sidebar scores the saved post when the editor opens and has no Re-analyze button; the score in the Rank Forge box updates as you edit. Works in every block editor.
Variable-based templates: {{title}}, {{siteName}}, {{siteDesc}}, {{currentYear}}, {{category}}, {{author}}, {{date}}, {{excerpt}}. Cascade: the value typed in the post, then the post type template, then the built-in default. A template block for each post type, with a Separator menu. Live Preview with sample values. Auto-cleanup of empty variables. Full templates feature →
Outputs og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, og:url, twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image. Visual preview in the meta box. Fallback cascade: Featured Image → Global OG Image → empty. Full Open Graph feature →
Set a site-wide fallback social preview image in Settings. Used whenever a post has no featured image or custom OG image.
Per-post, per-taxonomy, per-archive checkboxes to control indexing. Outputs <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> in wp_head. Full noindex feature →
Auto-alt text from filenames when images are uploaded. A note in the Media Library marks images without alt text. The free plugin has no bulk alt-text screen; with the Pro add-on, Site Audit lists the posts whose content has images without alt text. Full Image SEO feature →
Supported types: Article, BlogPosting, Product + Offer + AggregateRating, FAQPage (added automatically when a page has at least two H2 or H3 headings that end with a question mark, with the text under each as the answer), HowTo with steps (when you pick it as the schema type of a post, or when Detect with AI in Rank Forge Pro finds it), BreadcrumbList (auto-generated), Organization (site name, homepage address and tagline), LocalBusiness. Auto-detect type based on post type. JSON Preview in the Schema Builder of the Rank Forge box. Full schema feature →
Form-based editor in the SEO box. Pick a type, fill in fields and check the JSON preview. A warning shows when a required field is empty. Reset button. Part of the free plugin; AI type detection needs the Pro add-on. Full Schema Builder feature →
/sitemap_index.xml with per-post-type sub-sitemaps (posts, pages, custom post types), where the entry of a post lists its featured image in an <image:image> tag. lastmod from the most recent update. Cached for one hour and cleared when you save or delete a post. Noindex pages excluded. Full XML sitemap feature →
Edit robots.txt in the Settings screen. WordPress answers /robots.txt with the text Rank Forge builds, and Rank Forge writes the file to the site root when you save, where WordPress can write to it. The Sitemap line is added for you. Default rules: wp-admin blocked, admin-ajax.php allowed. Full robots.txt feature →
Manual 301/302/307 redirects. Auto-301 on slug change (when you rename a post, the old URL redirects to the new one automatically). The Redirects screen lists the missing URLs that visitors hit most, with their hit counts. A redirect matches one exact path: there are no regex or wildcard rules and no CSV import or export. Full redirect manager feature →
Scans the links in your 200 most recent published posts and pages in the background when you click Scan Now. Checks internal and external links with a HEAD request and lists the ones that return an error, next to the post they are in. Free in the plugin. Full broken links feature →
When Lang Forge is active, Lang Forge outputs the hreflang tags in the page head and serves its own hreflang sitemap at /sitemap-hreflang.xml. Rank Forge does not output hreflang tags, and its XML sitemap lists no language alternates.
OAuth 2.0 integration with Google Search Console. Daily sync of positions, clicks, impressions, CTR. Winners and losers by page clicks, last 7 days against the 7 days before. Site-wide totals for the last 28 days, compared with the previous 28 days, on Rank Forge > Analytics, tab Performance. Full rank tracking feature →
Rank Forge compares the last 28 days of GSC data to the previous 28 days. Lists pages whose clicks fell by more than 30% or whose average position got worse by more than 3 places. The Content Decay screen shows the clicks change and the position change for each page, with a Fix button that opens the post in the editor. Full content decay feature →
30 business types (Restaurant, MedicalClinic, Hotel, LegalService, Dentist, Plumber, etc., plus Organization for online businesses). One business profile per site: name, business type, phone, email, address (street, city, state or region, ZIP or postal code, country), latitude and longitude (typed in by hand, there is no map picker), price range, logo URL, opening hours (one entry per line, no holiday field) and social profile URLs. AI Auto-Fill (Pro add-on) suggests several of these fields from a business name and a city, for you to check before saving. The LocalBusiness JSON-LD is written on the homepage and on pages. There is no multi-location support. Full Local SEO feature →
Time-based split: Week 1 = variant A, Week 2 = variant B, and so on. The variant depends on the week, not on the visitor. The box counts the visits of each variant on your site and, with Google Search Console connected, compares the variants by Search Console’s clicks, impressions, CTR and average position; you pick the winner yourself. Full A/B testing feature →
Analyze all published posts, pages, products and other public content at once, with the Analyze All Posts button in Rank Forge > Settings, tab Automation, or the Analyze your content card on the Dashboard. A progress bar shows how far it has got. The analysis runs in your browser, so keep the screen open until it finishes. Each score then shows in the SEO column of the posts list.
The AI Site Audit checks your 200 most recent published posts and pages. For each issue that AI can fix, such as a missing meta title or meta description, a Fix all N with AI button opens one panel with the current value and an AI suggestion for every affected post. Edit any suggestion you like, then click Apply All. You can also tick some posts and click Fix selected with AI. This uses AI credits, and nothing is saved until you apply.
The SEO Overview widget on the WordPress admin dashboard shows the average SEO score and how many analyzed posts are Good, Needs Work and Poor. It also shows how many posts are missing a meta description, when there are any, and a Full Dashboard button.
The Rank Forge > Dashboard screen has four parts. Today’s focus lists up to five cards with the next fixes. At a glance shows the tiles Avg score, Analyzed, Good (80+), Needs work, Poor (<50) and Missing meta. Most common issues counts how often each issue appears. Posts needing attention lists the posts that score below 50, lowest first, each with a Fix button. Search Console data is on the Performance tab of Rank Forge > Analytics, not on the dashboard.
10+ endpoints covering SEO score retrieval, AI operations, schema output, redirect management, rank data. Standard WordPress authentication.
Rank Forge has 10 filters and 7 actions of its own; their names start with rankforge. For example, the filters rankforge_meta_title and rankforge_meta_description change the title and the description that Rank Forge prints, and the action rankforge_schemas_emitted runs after the schema markup is printed.
Import from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress on the Migration screen (Rank Forge > Migration, button Start Migration). Rank Forge has no button that exports your SEO data or settings.
VideoObject schema (JSON-LD) for videos embedded in content. Detects YouTube and Vimeo embeds. The Video SEO section in the Advanced tab of the Rank Forge box sets a video by hand. Video sitemap (/video-sitemap.xml) with a title, description, thumbnail and video address for each page that holds a detected video. Full Video SEO feature →
Rank Forge works with the tools your WordPress site already runs:
The same features in every paid plan. AI credit packs are sold separately. 14-day refund.
Score any post 0–100 with AI recommendations across title, meta, content, and schema — then fix the flagged issues with the Fix all button.
Generate and validate structured data for articles, products, FAQs, and more. No code required.
Create and monitor 301/302 redirects, auto-detect 404s, and find broken links before Google does.
Automatic XML sitemaps and a robots.txt editor.
Track positions over time and catch content decay before it costs you traffic.
Per-post titles, descriptions, canonicals, and social cards — with AI-generated suggestions.
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