MUQ SEO Site Checker

Description

MUQ SEO Site Checker is an enterprise-grade AEO, GEO, and Technical SEO audit suite for WordPress. It prepares your website for both traditional search engines and modern conversational AI engines — including Google AI Overviews, Perplexity AI, ChatGPT Search, Claude, and Bing Copilot.

As search transforms from 10 blue links to AI-synthesized summaries, websites need more than basic meta tags. MUQ SEO Site Checker provides real-time Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) tools directly inside WordPress, ensuring your content is recognized, cited, and recommended by AI engines.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)

• Direct Answer Sweet Spot Engine: Audits whether question headings (H2/H3) are followed immediately by a concise, authoritative 40–60 word direct answer — the exact format favored by Google AI Overviews and Perplexity.
• Conversational Question Detection: Identifies interrogative natural language patterns (What is, How to, Why does, Can you) to capture voice and chat-based queries.
• Structured Chunking & Takeaways: Audits presence of bulleted lists, numbered steps, and comparison tables that answer engines require for extraction.
• Inverted Pyramid Snippet Formula: Built-in copywriting guidance to structure content for instant snippet capture.

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) & AI Governance

• Centralized AEO & GEO Intelligence Hub: Dedicated admin dashboard auditing sitewide answer readiness, factual information gain, and AI crawler permissions across all published posts.
• AI Search & Citation Preset: Dedicated virtual robots.txt configuration that permits AI Search and retrieval bots (PerplexityBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-Web) so your site gets cited as a source, while blocking raw scrapers and bulk training harvesters (CCBot, Bytespider, Google-Extended).
• AI Search Standard (/llms.txt & /llms-full.txt): Automatically serves standard markdown summaries at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt to guide LLMs and AI search crawlers.
• Single-Post AI Markdown Stream (?output=md): Zero-bloat clean markdown feeds served dynamically for generative retrieval engines.
• Author E-E-A-T & Speakable Schema: Structured microdata (Person with sameAs, knowsAbout, and SpeakableSpecification) to establish author credentials for AI overviews.

Core Technical SEO & Schema Suite

• Structured Data (Schema.org JSON-LD): Generate compliant schema for Organization, WebSite, LocalBusiness, Article, Product, and build interactive FAQPage markup.
• Instant IndexNow Notification: Send automated publish pings to participating search engines (Bing, Yandex, Naver) via the IndexNow protocol for rapid indexation.
• Interactive XML Sitemaps: Native, dynamic XML sitemaps with custom XSL stylesheets with zero physical file writes.
• 1-Click Fix Center: Identify and resolve missing image alternative (ALT) attributes, meta descriptions, and Open Graph tags across existing posts.
• URL Redirects & 404 Logging: Monitor 404 errors in real time and set 301, 302, and 410 URL redirects with regex pattern support.
• Privacy Focused & Zero Bloat: Built purely with native WordPress APIs, no external scripts loaded by default, and minimal server footprint.

External Services

This plugin optionally connects to the following external services. All connections are user-initiated and require explicit configuration by the site administrator.

Google Search Console API

When you connect a Google Service Account in Rank Tracker > Google Search Console Connection, the plugin queries the official Google Search Console API (https://www.googleapis.com/webmasters/v3/) to retrieve search performance metrics, impressions, clicks, CTR, and average SERP positions for your verified property. This connection is completely optional and disabled by default.

• Data sent: Property URL and query date range parameters for Search Analytics reporting. No personal user data is transmitted.
• Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Google Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
• Google API Services User Data Policy: https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-policy

Google PageSpeed Insights API

When you add a Google PageSpeed API key in Settings, the plugin queries the PageSpeed Insights API to retrieve performance scores for your pages.

• Data sent: The public URL of the page being analyzed.
• Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

IndexNow API (Bing / Yandex)

When IndexNow is enabled by the administrator, the plugin sends a URL ping to https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow whenever a post is published or updated, to notify search engines of new content. IndexNow is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled in Settings.

• Data sent: The public URL of the updated post and your site’s IndexNow API key.
• IndexNow FAQ / Terms: https://www.indexnow.org/faq
• Bing Privacy Policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

Google & Bing Sitemap Ping

When “Search Engine Auto-Ping” is explicitly enabled in Settings > Sitemaps, the plugin sends a GET ping request to Google (https://www.google.com/ping) and Bing (https://www.bing.com/ping) whenever a post or page is published, providing the public URL of your sitemap index. This feature is disabled by default and requires explicit user activation.

• Data sent: The public XML sitemap index URL of your website.
• Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Bing / Microsoft Privacy Policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

Google Gemini AI

When you enter a Google Gemini API key in Settings > AI and enable AI features, the plugin sends post content to the Gemini API to generate SEO suggestions. When the AI-generated ALT text feature is enabled, image files may also be sent to Gemini Vision for analysis.

• Data sent: Post title, content, focus keyword, and optionally image data (thumbnail) for ALT text generation.
• Google AI Privacy Policy: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
• Google Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms

OpenAI

When you enter an OpenAI API key in Settings > AI and select OpenAI as the provider, the plugin sends post content to the OpenAI API. When the AI-generated ALT text feature is enabled, image files may also be sent to OpenAI Vision for analysis.

• Data sent: Post title, content, focus keyword, and optionally image data (thumbnail) for ALT text generation.
• OpenAI Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
• OpenAI Terms of Use: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use