Aetos SEO

Aetos SEO is an audit plugin, not another meta-writer. It runs alongside your existing SEO plugin (Rank Math, Yoast, AIOSEO, SEOPress, or any other) and tells you what is actually broken, missing, or risky across technical SEO and AI-readiness, then shows you a prioritized list of what to fix first. Think of it as a second opinion that does not touch your meta titles, your schema output, or your sitemap. It only reads, diagnoses, and reports. Why a separate audit plugin? Every SEO plugin tells you it is doing a great job. None of them tell you when something is wrong outside of their own scope: a noindex left from staging, a canonical pointing at the wrong domain, a schema that is valid but does not list the right entity, an <h1> that does not match the title, a robots.txt that blocks an AI crawler you actually want to be in, or a sitemap that omits half your category pages. Aetos SEO does that read across the whole rendered page, then ranks the findings by severity so you can fix the highest-impact issues first. What the free edition checks

• Technical SEO - indexability, canonicals, robots directives, sitemap presence and freshness, redirects, broken links, HTTP error pages.
• Crawl coverage - what search engines and AI crawlers (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-Web, Google-Extended, etc.) can actually reach on your site.
• On-page - titles, meta descriptions, heading structure, duplicate patterns, language and dir correctness for Arabic / RTL sites.
• Mobile usability - viewport, readability heuristics, tap target sanity.
• Media - missing alt text, oversized images, lazy-loading hints.
• Structured data - is valid JSON-LD present for Organization, Article, Breadcrumb? Are required fields filled?
• AI-readiness (AEO / GEO) - is your content readable by AI answer engines? Checks AI-crawler access in robots.txt (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and more), llms.txt presence, JSON-LD entity coverage (Organization, sameAs, author / E-E-A-T, publisher), FAQ / HowTo schema, H2 / H3 passage structure for answer extraction, and Open Graph completeness.
• Performance basics - asset counts, cache headers, heavy CSS / JS.
• Analytics stack - auto-detects GA4, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity, and Meta Pixel.
• Security basics - HTTPS, mixed content, exposed admin endpoints (informational).

What you actually see Every finding includes: a plain-language title, a severity badge (High / Medium / Low / Info), the pages where it was detected, an "Open" / "Fixed" status, guidance on how to verify the fix, and a "why this matters" explanation. Results are shown directly in the Findings screen. Bilingual interface (Arabic and English) The plugin auto-detects RTL sites and switches the admin interface to Arabic. Finding titles, severity levels, and "why this matters" copy are all translated. How it differs from Pro Pro is sold separately at aetosseo.com and is uploaded to your site by you, like a separate premium add-on. The WordPress.org edition is a complete local audit tool: it shows every finding it computes in full, and you set the scan depth yourself in Settings (the default is 50 pages, or set 0 to analyze every page on your site). The WordPress.org edition diagnoses your technical SEO and AI-readiness. Pro is for acting on what it finds and going deeper: advanced answer-engine modules, industry modules, deeper content analysis, internal page-opportunity prioritization, AI handoff reports with copy-paste prompts for any AI assistant, and agency-style HTML / PDF / CSV reports. Pro audits from inside WordPress too, and it does not connect your site to any external SEO, analytics, or AI service.

1. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins -> Add New and search for "Aetos SEO".
2. Click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Open the new Aetos SEO menu in your sidebar.
4. Click Start audit on the Dashboard. The first scan runs in the background and usually finishes within a few minutes on typical shared hosting, so you can keep working while it runs.
5. Open the Findings page to see the prioritized list of issues.

You do not need an account, an API key, or a third-party service to run the audit. The free edition does everything locally inside your WordPress install.

4.0.5

• Added prefixed extension hooks so separately installed add-ons can register audit checks, score categories, and category labels without replacing or deactivating Aetos SEO Lite.
• Kept the complete Lite audit and all Lite results unchanged and available without a license.

4.0.4

• Made the per-finding "Copy AI prompt" output fully language-aware. English admin screens now copy an English prompt with English site-context labels and instructions; Arabic admin screens keep the Arabic prompt.
• Made the "copied" button feedback use the Aetos admin-language setting instead of the general WordPress page language.
• This closes the last visible mixed-language risk after the 4.0.3 bilingual admin pass.

4.0.3

• Completed the bilingual interface. Every audit finding (its title, the "why it matters" explanation, and the fix steps) is now fully translated, and all remaining Dashboard and Settings labels were moved onto the same language switch. English sites now show a 100% English admin, and Arabic / RTL sites a 100% Arabic admin, with no mixed-language screens.
• Simplified the displayed plugin author to "Aetos SEO".

4.0.2

• Addressed the WordPress.org "determine file and directory locations" review in full: removed manual wp-admin / core path composition and every fixed parent-directory walk across the plugin, not only the two reported lines.
• Plugin, asset, and upload locations now use the WordPress public path APIs (plugin_dir_path, plugin_dir_url, plugins_url, wp_upload_dir, plugin_basename).
• Expanded the "External services" disclosure: documented the client-side analytics API names the audit recognizes (gtag, fbq, _paq) and clarified that detecting active SEO/performance/security/builder plugins reads their settings only from the local database and never transmits them.
• Hardened the Lite build so any of those path patterns fail the build if reintroduced.

3.3.57

• WordPress.org review feedback round: reworded audit-result description strings so no raw tag-like text remains in code or comments (the plugin's own CSS / JS always loaded through wp_enqueue APIs).
• Path resolution now avoids fixed directory walks and uses WordPress path helpers for plugin-owned paths and uploads.
• Removed a read of another plugin's filter; plugin-conflict detection now uses an internal list. All hooks, options, transients, and AJAX actions the plugin creates use the aetos_seo_ prefix.
• Removed leftover dormant Pro-edition helper code and unused CSS from the free package; the free edition continues to show every finding in full.

3.3.52

• First public release on WordPress.org (free edition).
• Built on the mature Aetos SEO audit engine.
• Audit engine: technical SEO, crawl coverage, on-page, mobile, media, structured data, AI-readiness (AEO / GEO), performance basics, analytics detection, security basics.
• Bilingual admin interface (Arabic / English) with full RTL support.
• Self-contained WordPress.org release with no automatic third-party service calls.