Greenlog SEO Tools

Know your SEO score before you hit Publish. Greenlog SEO Tools scores your posts and pages from 0 to 100, shows what to fix first, and previews how your content may appear in Google search results. SEO analysis runs locally on your WordPress site: no AI service is called, and no account is required. Your post content is never sent anywhere. The plugin can also send anonymous technical statistics to Greenlog — but only if you explicitly allow it (see External services and Privacy below). Why site owners use Greenlog SEO Tools

• Stop guessing. A color-coded SEO score sits directly in your posts and pages list — and in the admin bar when you visit a post on your own site.
• Fix the right things first. Quick Wins shows the 5 highest-impact actions for each post, with priority, difficulty and estimated point gain.
• Preview your search result. Check your title, URL and meta description with live character counters before publishing.
• Use it alongside your current SEO plugin. It reads meta description, social image and noindex status from Yoast SEO, Rank Math or SEOPress automatically — it does not replace or modify their data.
• No extra load for your visitors. Scores are cached and only recomputed when you save a post, and the checker runs in the WordPress admin — nothing is added to the pages your visitors load.

Who it is for

• Bloggers and content creators who want actionable SEO guidance without a subscription.
• Site owners who need to spot underperforming content quickly across a large site.
• Developers and agencies who want a lightweight, independent SEO check alongside their main SEO plugin.
• Yoast SEO, Rank Math or SEOPress users who want a second, focused layer of scoring and prioritized recommendations.

What gets checked Every post and page is scored against these checks:

• Title — presence and length (30–70 characters)
• URL slug — presence and length
• Content — word count, H2 / H3 heading structure, stray H1 detection
• Images — presence, and alt text on every image
• Links — internal links, external links
• Meta description — presence and length, read from Yoast SEO, Rank Math or SEOPress (falls back to the excerpt)
• Social — Open Graph image detection (for social sharing)
• Indexation — noindex warning, so a post is not accidentally excluded from Google
• Readability — overly long paragraphs
• Focus keyword — in the title, URL, first 100 words and meta description, plus density in the content

Checks apply to posts and pages. Custom post types are not analyzed. Focus keyword analysis Set a focus keyword directly in the post editor. The plugin checks:

• Is the keyword in the page title?
• Is the keyword in the URL slug?
• Does the keyword appear in the first 100 words?
• What is the keyword density in the content? (target: 0.5–2.5%)
• Is the keyword in the meta description?

Google SERP preview See how your post may appear in Google search results — title, URL and meta description — with character count indicators for both the title (60 chars) and the meta description (160 chars). Google ultimately decides what it displays, so treat the preview as a guide rather than a guarantee. How the SEO score works The score (0–100) is computed locally from all the checks above. In the posts and pages list, on the dashboard and in the admin bar, it appears as a color-coded badge:

• 80–100 — Excellent. The content is well optimized.
• 60–79 — Good. A few improvements are still worth making.
• 40–59 — To improve. Several quick wins are available.
• 0–39 — Critical. Needs significant work.

Because the badge sits directly in the posts and pages list, you can audit your whole site at a glance. Features

• SEO score badge in the posts and pages list (color-coded), sortable, with a trend indicator.
• Quick Wins SEO — the 5 most important actions to do next on this post, ranked by priority (🔴🟠🟡🟢), with the SEO impact, the difficulty, and the estimated point gain for each.
• Detailed checklist in the post editor with prioritized issues and recommendations.
• Focus keyword field — enter your target keyword and get 5 dedicated checks.
• Google SERP preview — title, URL, description with live character counters.
• Social image check — detects missing Open Graph image for sharing.
• Noindex warning — alerts you if a post is accidentally set to noindex.
• H1 in content detection — warns when a post content has an H1 (incorrect hierarchy).
• Dashboard with global stats, score distribution, and the posts that need attention first.
• Opportunities page — analyzed posts and their issues, filterable by type, with CSV export.
• Admin bar badge — the SEO score of the post you are viewing, for logged-in editors.
• Yoast SEO, Rank Math & SEOPress compatible — reads meta description, social image and noindex automatically.
• Score caching — results are cached in post meta and refreshed automatically on save.

Compatibility

• Gutenberg (block editor) and Classic Editor — the SEO meta box works with both.
• Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress — read-only: the plugin reads their data without modifying or replacing it.
• WordPress multisite — activate network-wide or per site. Each site gets its own dashboard and its own scores; there is no combined network-wide dashboard.

Get your first SEO score

1. Install and activate Greenlog SEO Tools.
2. Open SEO Audit in your WordPress admin menu.
3. Open a post or page to see its score, Google preview, Quick Wins and detailed checklist.

No account or API key is required. Need to automate the corrections? Greenlog SEO Tools detects, explains and prioritizes SEO improvements. That is the full scope of this plugin, and all of it is free. Greenlog SEO Automation is a separate, optional paid product that can apply some of those corrections for you — today: meta descriptions, image alt text, internal links, and thin content. It is not required to use anything described on this page, and no feature described here is locked behind it. What this plugin does NOT do

• No AI content generation.
• No external requests for the SEO analysis itself.
• No account or license required.
• No premium tier, and no locked features inside Greenlog SEO Tools.

Install Greenlog SEO Tools and get your first SEO score in a few clicks. External services The SEO analysis itself makes no external request — your content is analyzed entirely on your own server. Two external endpoints can be involved, both described here. 1. Anonymous usage statistics — api.greenlog.fr (opt-in, off by default) If — and only if — you explicitly allow it via the notice shown after activation, the plugin sends anonymous technical data to https://api.greenlog.fr/api/telemetry/collect: a random site identifier (UUID), your site domain and URL, the plugin / WordPress / PHP versions, the site language, whether the site is multisite, and the install and last-activity dates. It is sent when you activate or deactivate the plugin, then at most once every 7 days. Nothing is sent until you allow it, and you can change your choice at any time. Details: https://greenlog.fr/telemetry — see also the Privacy section below. The same request also carries a handful of aggregate whole numbers describing how the plugin is used, so development effort goes where it is actually needed: how many posts and pages are published, how many have been analyzed, the average SEO score, how many scored higher after you edited them, how many days passed between install and first analysis, and whether the Automation suggestion has been displayed at least once. These are site-wide totals only — never per-post figures. No post content, no titles, no post URLs, no keywords, no WordPress user identifiers and no personal data are ever sent. 2. Static links to Greenlog SEO Automation — suite.greenlog.fr The plugin contains static links to Greenlog SEO Automation, a separate, optional paid product. These links appear on the dashboard's dedicated "Automation" tab, the admin menu, the WordPress dashboard widget, the Quick Wins panel, and next to specific SEO issues in the post editor (missing meta description, missing image ALT text, missing internal links, thin content). They carry standard campaign parameters (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content) identifying which screen the link was clicked from — no site data and no personal data. Clicking any of these links is entirely voluntary, and the plugin itself sends no data to that service. The plugin also links to the official WordPress.org review page for this plugin (https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/greenlog-seo-tools/reviews/), shown as a dismissible notice on the plugin's own admin pages once 15 of your posts have scored 80 or above. This notice never appears on a fresh install, is never shown site-wide, and can be permanently dismissed or snoozed.

1. Upload the greenlog-seo-tools folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
3. Go to Audit SEO in the admin menu to see your dashboard.
4. Open any post or page and find the Analyse SEO meta box to see your score and checklist.

The SEO score badge appears immediately in the posts/pages list after activation.

1.8.0

• Improvement: the welcome notice shown after activation now states how many of your published posts and pages can be scored right away, so the very first screen contains a real figure from your own site instead of a generic sentence.
• Improvement: on a site where nothing has been analyzed yet, "Analyze now" is now the primary button of the dashboard — it was styled as a secondary action while being the only action that produces a result, and it now says the analysis runs on your own server.
• New: the opt-in usage statistics now include a few aggregate whole numbers — published items, items analyzed, average score, items whose score improved, days between install and first analysis, and whether the Automation suggestion was displayed. They are site-wide totals derived from the analyses already cached locally: no post content, no titles, no post URLs, no keywords and no user identifiers. Still off by default, still one request at most every 7 days, and the consent notice states what is sent. See == External services == and == Privacy ==.
• Fix: the welcome notice counted drafts, trashed and auto-draft items in its total; it now counts published posts and pages only.

1.7.0

• New: contextual estimates on every detected issue. Each issue in the post editor now tells you how many other posts share the same problem, and the dashboard shows the estimated manual time needed to fix everything plus the total score points still available. All figures are estimates, computed from the analysis already cached — no extra database query and no external call.
• New: "Your site is well optimized" state on the dashboard, shown when no low-scoring content and no automatable issue remain — instead of an empty panel.
• New: developers can adjust the manual-time estimates with the greenlog_seo_tools_manual_time_estimates filter.
• Improvement: the WordPress dashboard widget now shows the estimated manual workload rather than a bare issue count.
• Improvement: Automation links are now built from a single place and carry a utm_content parameter identifying the exact screen they were clicked from (in addition to utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign). No site data and no personal data are added.
• Documentation: the == External services == section now documents the telemetry endpoint (api.greenlog.fr), the exact data sent, its frequency and how to opt out. It previously stated that the plugin made no automatic external request, which was inaccurate once telemetry was allowed. The behaviour itself is unchanged — telemetry remains opt-in and off by default.
• Documentation: listing copy rewritten; the readme no longer claims "zero external requests", "no tracking or analytics", or that the plugin adds no frontend code (a small score badge is added to the admin bar for logged-in editors; nothing is loaded for logged-out visitors).
• Translations: French, Spanish, Italian and German updated to cover the new strings.

1.6.0

• New: full internationalization. The plugin now ships with French, Spanish, Italian and German translations, with English as the source language — fixing the previous "not translated" status on WordPress.org and enabling official language packs.
• New: optional anonymous usage statistics (opt-in) to help guide development. Nothing is sent until you allow it. Only technical metadata is then sent (plugin/WordPress/PHP versions, site language, site domain, install/last-activity dates). No post content and no personal data are ever collected. Enable it from the admin notice shown after activation. See the Privacy section.
• Improvement: previously hard-coded admin strings are now translatable — including the Quick Wins "Impact" labels and the CSV export column headers.
• Improvement: translations are now (re)generated and compiled automatically at build time.

1.5.0

• New: one-time "what's new" admin notice shown after a plugin update (never on a fresh install), summarizing what changed. Dismissible, and auto-clears once you open one of the plugin's own pages.
• New: discreet WordPress.org review prompt, shown only on the plugin's own admin pages once 15+ of your posts have scored 80 or above. Includes "Leave a review", "Remind me later" (30 days), and "Don't show again" — never shown site-wide, never repeated once dismissed.

1.4.0

• New: dedicated "Automation" tab on the dashboard page — feature comparison and SEO Tools vs SEO Automation table, previously mixed into the bottom of the main dashboard.
• New: "Découvrir Automation" entry in the admin menu, linking directly to the Automation tab.
• New: "Support" and "Découvrir Automation" quick links at the top of the plugin's admin pages.
• Improvement: the main dashboard now shows a short one-line teaser instead of the full comparison table, which moved to its own tab — less repetitive on every visit.
• Improvement: WordPress dashboard widget shows an estimated manual-correction time and a link to the Automation tab, only when there are actual issues to fix.
• Improvement: Quick Wins panel (post editor) now ends with a single link to the Automation tab.
• Improvement: post editor issues for missing meta description, missing image ALT text, missing internal links, and thin content now note that these can also be fixed automatically with Greenlog SEO Automation.

1.3.0

• New: Quick Wins SEO panel in the post editor meta box — the 5 most important actions to do next, each with a priority level (🔴 critical / 🟠 high / 🟡 moderate / 🟢 quick win), a plain-language explanation, the SEO area it impacts, a difficulty rating, and the estimated point gain.
• New: "Score moyen (30j)" stat card on the dashboard — rolling 30-day average score.
• Improvement: Dashboard's alert card now shows the combined count of critical + to-improve posts ("À améliorer") instead of critical-only.
• Improvement: Score history now retains 30 daily entries (was 8) to support the 30-day average.

1.2.1

• Fix: assets are now loaded exclusively via wp_enqueue_style() / wp_enqueue_script() / wp_add_inline_style() (no more inline <style> tag printed on wp_head/admin_head).
• Fix: removed a translation call that used a variable instead of a literal string as the translatable text.
• Fix: internal option, transient, AJAX hook and nonce names now use the unique greenlogst_ prefix instead of the too-short gst_ prefix (with automatic migration of existing option values, no data loss).

1.2.0

• New: Redesigned SEO dashboard with tab navigation and a 4-level grade distribution (Excellent / Good / To improve / Critical).
• New: Dedicated "Opportunities" page listing analyzed posts with their problems, filterable by type, with one-click edit.
• New: Score history — previous score saved on each post save, with trend indicator (up / down / stable) in the list column and dashboard.
• New: WordPress dashboard widget with a compact SEO overview.
• New: Sortable "SEO Score" column in the posts and pages list.
• New: CSV export of all opportunities.
• New: Welcome notice after activation with a direct link to the SEO audit (auto-clears once the dashboard is opened).
• Improvement: Global stats are cached (transient, 1 h) and recomputed only on post save — no full scan on each page load.
• Improvement: Styled empty states on the dashboard and opportunities page.

1.1.0

• New: Focus keyword field in the post editor — checks keyword in title, URL, first paragraph, density, meta description.
• New: Google SERP preview in the post editor with character count indicators.
• New: Open Graph / social image check (Yoast SEO, RankMath, SEOPress, featured image).
• New: Noindex warning — alerts when a post is set to noindex.
• New: H1 in content detection.
• New: SEOPress meta description and OG image compatibility.
• Fix: Score calculation bug — missing title and empty content now correctly lower the score.
• Fix: Word count now uses Unicode-safe regex (handles French and other accented languages).
• Fix: load_plugin_textdomain for proper translation support.
• Improvement: "Tableau de bord" link added to plugin action links in the plugins list.
• Improvement: Comparison table Free vs Premium in the dashboard.
• Improvement: Updated readme.txt for WordPress.org search optimization.

1.0.0

• Initial release.