About this plugin
Nexal SEO is a fast, no-bloat SEO plugin for posts, pages, WooCommerce products, categories and tags. It ships as a modular dashboard so your site only loads the code for the features you actually turn on.
Titles & Meta
- Focus keyword, SEO title and meta description per post/page/product/term.
- Live Google-style snippet preview with character counters.
- Homepage title/description overrides.
Semantic content analysis (free, fully local)
- Topical Completeness — compares your content against other posts in the same category using local TF-IDF, no external calls.
- Cluster Health — checks internal linking and anchor-text quality within the category.
- Semantic Structure — heading hierarchy checks (H1 uniqueness, H2–H4 nesting, keyword variation), shown live in the block editor sidebar.
- A 0–100 score is computed locally and shown as a column on your post list.
Social
- Open Graph and Twitter Card tags with a default social image.
XML Sitemap, Redirections & 404 Monitor
- XML Sitemap (index + per post type/taxonomy).
- Redirections manager (301/302/307/410) with regex matching, search, and CSV import/export.
- 404 Monitor with one-click redirect creation and daily auto-clean.
Schema / Structured Data
- Connected-entity JSON-LD @graph (Organization, WebSite, Article, Product, BreadcrumbList and more) instead of disconnected snippets.
- Breadcrumbs via [nexal_breadcrumbs] shortcode or nexal_seo_breadcrumbs().
Local SEO
- LocalBusiness structured data, NAP (name/address/phone) consistency scanner across your site, and a geo/local-SEO checklist.
WooCommerce
- Detect-only store audit (thin descriptions, missing category copy) for shops running WooCommerce.
Optional AI assist (bring your own API key)
- Off by default. If you turn it on and paste your own key for Google Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, OpenAI or Anthropic, Nexal SEO can suggest related terms/topics and run an AI-assisted NAP consistency check. No key, no request — see “External services” below.
Setup Wizard
- Guided first-run configuration.
Translations
- Fully internationalized (i18n) and translation-ready. Translations are managed through translate.wordpress.org, so any locale the community translates is delivered automatically as a WordPress language pack — no files are bundled with the plugin. The local semantic analysis engine and the optional AI n-gram/question suggestions also follow your site’s configured language (stop-word filtering and question-style heading detection cover English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Arabic; the AI prompt explicitly asks for output in your site’s language).
External services
Nexal SEO makes no outbound network requests by default. The following integration is entirely opt-in, uses your own credentials, and only runs when you explicitly trigger it (never automatically on page load, cron, or plugin activation):
AI providers (bring your own key) — off by default. txt). Nothing is sent automatically on page load, cron, or activation, and no request is ever made without a key.
g. txt draft) your site name/tagline, Schema identity fields and your published titles/URLs/excerpts. No IP addresses, credentials, or full data exports are sent.
You choose a single provider; only that provider is contacted. Their terms and privacy policies:
- Google Gemini — Terms: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms · Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Groq — Terms: https://groq.com/terms-of-use/ · Privacy: https://groq.com/privacy-policy/
- OpenRouter — Terms: https://openrouter.ai/terms · Privacy: https://openrouter.ai/privacy
- OpenAI — Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/ · Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/
- Anthropic — Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms · Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
The built-in visitor analytics (Dashboard → Visitors) is first-party only: it records views on your own server and makes no external calls. It is off until you opt in, and never stores IP addresses (visitors are counted with a daily one-way hash).
com/contact ). These are ordinary outbound links: nothing is sent unless you click one, and only then does your browser open the destination. If you open the WhatsApp link, a short pre-filled message naming the SEO issue you clicked (and, on WhatsApp’s side, your WhatsApp identity) is handed to WhatsApp so you can review and choose whether to send it; the plugin itself transmits no data.
com ) behave the same way. com/legal/privacy-policy. com/privacy-policy/.