CranSEO

Description

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

Conversational Checker
Ensures your content sounds natural, human, and engaging — a crucial factor for LLMs and modern readers. LLMs like ChatGPT prefer conversational, easy-to-follow content when surfacing answers or generating responses based on web content.
It evaluates:

• Sentence flow and tone (formal vs. conversational)

• Use of transition words and varied sentence length

• Readability levels (based on tools like Flesch-Kincaid)

• AI-friendliness: How likely LLMs are to understand and reuse the content in helpful ways

Relevance Booster
It nalyzes your content’s alignment with the focus keyword and related keywords, ensuring you’re staying on-topic. Relevance is crucial for both search engines and LLMs to accurately classify and serve your content to the right audience.

It highlights:

• Semantic relationships to the target keyword

• Topic drift (when your content veers off-topic)

• Use of latent semantic indexing (LSI) keywords

Structure Optimizer
It scans your content for proper HTML and visual hierarchy to ensure clarity and skimmability. LLMs and users alike prioritize structured content that’s easy to digest — especially in long-form articles or product pages.

It checks:

• Correct usage of H1, H2, H3 tags

• Logical flow of sections

• Paragraph length and spacing

• Use of lists, quotes, and other scannable elements

Link Analysis
This evaluates both internal and external links for SEO health and discoverability. Internal links help search engines and LLMs discover more of your content. External links build trust and provide context.
It provides:

• Ratio of inbound to outbound links

• Contextual relevance of link anchor text

• Suggestions to add links to related posts or products

Keyword Density
It keeps track of how often your focus keyword appears in your content, and where. Balanced keyword usage helps LLMs and search engines understand your content without penalizing you for spammy practices.

It warns when:

• You’re underusing keywords (keyword scarcity)

• You’re overusing keywords (keyword stuffing)

• The keyword is missing from critical areas (titles, first paragraph, headings)

Title Optimizer
Analyzes your page/post/product title for SEO impact and engagement. A great title improves your click-through rate and helps LLMs understand the core topic of your page.

It evaluates:

• Title length (ideal is 50–60 characters)

• Inclusion of power words and emotional triggers

• Keyword placement (closer to the beginning is better)

• Use of numbers or brackets for CTR boost

Article Summary
Automatically creates and optimizes a short summary (meta description or AI preview text). Meta summaries are often pulled directly into AI-generated search results or previews — so make them count.

• Contains your focus keyword naturally

• Encourages clicks with strong calls-to-action

• Matches the tone of your content

• It is LLM-optimized for use as a snippet or answer summary

Premium Features

LLM Visibility
Optimizes your content to be easily understood, indexed, and referenced by Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and Gemini. LLMs are the new front page of the internet. CranSEO helps ensure your content becomes a source in AI-generated answers.

It enhances:

• Semantic clarity (clear topic definition and supporting detail)

• Use of structured, factual statements for AI citation

• Alignment with AI-preferred content formats (FAQs, summaries, how-tos)

AI Enhancer
Uses built-in AI tools to polish your content’s tone, clarity, and structure. Clear, polished content boosts your credibility and improves how both users and AI models perceive your expertise.
You can instantly:

• Improve sentence clarity without rewriting manually

• Adjust tone (professional, friendly, persuasive, etc.)

• Refine grammar and remove redundant phrases

Query Simulator
Simulates how LLMs might interpret and respond to user queries related to your content. You get insight into how LLMs understand your page, not just how it ranks, enabling true AI-first optimization.
It provides:

• Sample AI-generated answers your content might trigger

• Suggestions to adjust your content for better alignment

• Gaps analysis — what’s missing that LLMs might need?

Authority Builder
Boosts the perceived authority and trustworthiness of your content by offering.

• Suggestions to add expert quotes or original research

• External link recommendations to high-authority sources

• Schema markup for author credibility and publishing info

LLMs and search engines favor authoritative content that is well-sourced and trustworthy — not just keyword-rich.

Localized optimization
Adapts your content for regional or multilingual audiences, based on:

• Localized keywords and phrasing

• Regional search trends

• Currency, units, and cultural context
  Localization improves both human and AI understanding in geo-specific queries — essential for global growth.

Freshness Monitor
Keeps your content up to date by:

• Scanning for outdated references or statistics

• Suggesting timely updates based on publishing date

• Highlighting stale content that could impact rankings

LLMs often prefer citing fresh content. Updating regularly helps you stay in rotation in AI answers and search results.

Social Amplification
Analyzes your content’s shareability and virality potential across social media platforms.
It evaluates:

• Headline appeal and emotional triggers

• Image and metadata readiness (OpenGraph, Twitter cards)

• Call-to-share and quote-worthy snippets

Shared content is more likely to be indexed, linked, and cited by LLMs — increasing your reach and visibility.

Voice Search Optimizer
Tailors your content for natural language voice queries, like those from Google Assistant, Alexa or Siri.
It helps you:

• Rephrase headings as questions

• Add concise, spoken-style answers (ideal for featured snippets)

• Optimize long-tail conversational keywords

Voice queries are inherently LLM-driven. CranSEO positions your content to be spoken aloud by smart assistants and AI devices.

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
Enter a Seed Keyword
The user begins by entering a focus keyword — the main term they want the product to rank for. This keyword will guide the optimization process.

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:
* A comprehensive SEO score for the product
* Suggestions to improve keyword placement
* Warnings for missing or weak elements
* Tips to make the content more conversational and structured

Optimization Targets
Product Title
Evaluates length, keyword usage, emotional appeal, and clarity for both search engines and AI-generated results.

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, internal links, and relevance to LLM queries (e.g., FAQs, benefits, comparisons).

Built-in Product SEO Scoring
Each WooCommerce product is scored based on:

• Keyword relevance and density
• Conversational tone and clarity
• Content structure (headings, bullets, etc.)
• Link usage and metadata completeness
• 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:
* Pages – All published static pages
* Posts – Blog articles and other post types
* WooCommerce Products – Product pages with SEO relevance
* Categories & Tags – Blog and product categories/tags
* 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:
* Google Search Console
* Bing Webmaster Tools
* Manual submission or plugin integrations

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

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

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

Optimizing Content
When editing a post or page, the CranSEO analysis panel appears below the editor.

• Enter a Seed Keyword (e.g., “coffee maker”) to focus your optimization.

• Add up to 15 Related Keywords (comma-separated) to enhance relevance.

• Write a brief Article Summary (max 60 words, including the seed keyword).

• Save your inputs using the “Save” button.

Real-Time Analysis

• As you type in the editor, CranSEO analyzes your content, title, keywords, and summary.

• After editing your post, save/publish to refresh

• Results display checks (Pass, Warning, Fix) and suggestions for each feature (e.g., Conversational Checker, Keyword Density).

Premium features are locked unless a valid license is activated.

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

• You will receive the license keyw alongside the shared key

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

External Services

CranSEO connects to an external service provided by CranSEO (https://cranseo.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://cranseo.com.
• Terms of Service: https://cranseo.com/privacy-policy/
• Privacy Policy: https://cranseo.com/privacy-policy/

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+.