About this plugin
Pylon SEO gives you everything you need to optimize your WordPress site for search engines. Built by Bytenovo, every core feature is free and fully functional — no locked features, no blurred pages, no limits.
Core Features
- Meta Tags — Edit titles, descriptions, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, canonical URLs, and robots meta per post. Full control over your <head> output.
- XML Sitemaps — Dynamic sitemaps with per-post-type pagination, priority and changefreq settings. Replaces WordPress core sitemap.
- Schema Markup — Injects JSON-LD for Article, Product, FAQ, LocalBusiness, BreadcrumbList, and more. Auto FAQ extraction from page headings.
- Redirect Manager — Create and manage 301/302/307/308/410/451 redirects. Built-in 404 monitor tracks hits per URL. Supports regex patterns. Import/export in CSV. 410/451 serve the correct HTTP status without redirecting.
- LLMs.txt — Publish a machine-readable /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt so AI engines (Google AI, ChatGPT, Perplexity) can understand your site.
- Titles & Crawl Rules — Optional Title Case conversion for generated titles and automatic noindex for password-protected pages.
- Content Analysis — On-page readability check with keyword density, heading structure, image alt attributes, and internal link analysis.
- Image SEO — Scan your media library for missing alt text, bad filenames, and oversized images. Edit alt text right from the table.
- Link Assistant — Smart internal link suggestions based on content similarity with one-click insertion.
- Broken Link Checker — Detect and fix broken links and outbound link issues.
- Content Freshness — Automatic stale content detection with freshness score (0-100). Daily cron identifies posts needing updates.
- Author E-E-A-T — Enhanced author profiles with photo, bio, credentials, and topical expertise. Outputs structured Person schema markup.
- IndexNow Protocol — Auto-submit URLs to IndexNow-compatible search engines on publish or update. Serves API key file.
- Breadcrumbs — Shortcode [pylon_breadcrumb] and Gutenberg block for Schema.org BreadcrumbList markup.
- Local SEO — LocalBusiness schema, location data, and an embedded map preview.
- Robots.txt Editor — Read and edit your robots.txt with automatic fallback to WordPress defaults.
- HTML Sitemap — Human-readable sitemap via [pylon_html_sitemap] with pages, posts, taxonomies, and CPTs.
- Keyword Research — Content gaps and AEO question ideas derived from your on-site coverage.
- Multilingual / Hreflang — Automatic hreflang for WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, and Weglot.
- Conflict Detector — Warns when other SEO plugins would duplicate meta, schema, or sitemaps.
- Site Verification — Verify your site with Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Pinterest, Norton, and Alexa in one place.
- RSS Optimization — Add custom content before and after feed items.
- Migrator — One-click import from Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress, Slim SEO, and 15+ other plugins.
- SEO Pulse Dashboard — At-a-glance health, usage stats, and quick actions in one place.
- System Status — Environment and plugin diagnostics for troubleshooting.
External Services
IndexNow Protocol
The IndexNow feature notifies IndexNow-compatible search engines when content is published or updated on your site, so they can crawl it sooner.
- What is sent: your site’s host name, your IndexNow API key, and the URLs of published or updated posts.
- When: immediately after a post is published or updated, while the feature is enabled (Pylon SEO → IndexNow).
- The service is provided by the IndexNow protocol sponsors (Microsoft Bing, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yandex, and Yep). Submissions are made to the IndexNow endpoint and shared with participating search engines. The verification key file proving site ownership is hosted on your own site and accessed by participating search engines.
- Terms of use: https://www.indexnow.org/terms
- Privacy policy: https://www.indexnow.org/terms (the IndexNow Terms of Service include a privacy statement)
OpenStreetMap
The Local SEO module shows an embedded map preview in the admin settings using OpenStreetMap.
- What is sent: the latitude and longitude bounds of the configured location when the admin map preview is loaded.
- When: only when you open the Local SEO settings page with the map preview enabled.
- The service is provided by OpenStreetMap.
- Terms of use: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
- Privacy policy: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy
Source Code
The complete source code of this plugin is publicly available at:
com/bytenovo/pylon-seo
All JavaScript and CSS shipped with this plugin is hand-written, human-readable source code. Nothing is compiled, bundled, minified, or generated by build tools — the files in assets/js/ and assets/css/ are the original, complete source and can be reviewed, studied, and modified directly:
- assets/js/gutenberg-sidebar.js — Gutenberg sidebar (plain ES5, no framework build)
- assets/js/admin.js — admin application logic
- assets/css/admin.css — shared admin styles
- assets/css/modules/*.css — per-module admin styles
- assets/js/modules/*.js — per-module scripts
min files anywhere in the plugin.