ABDS SEO

Description

ABDS SEO analyzes your site both technically and by content, and gives you concrete, actionable recommendations — down to the individual Gutenberg block, not just the meta fields.

The whole free feature set works with no account, no external service, and no API key. Optional integrations (AI, SERP data, Search Console) are strictly bring-your-own-key: your site talks to the provider you chose, with your own credentials, and never through a vendor proxy.

Free features

• Technical SEO audit via an internal scanner (WP_Query) — no mandatory external crawler.
• One-click migration of existing SEO data from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and All in One SEO — nothing is deleted without your confirmation.
• Rule-based content analysis right in the editor: focus-keyword density and placement, readability, and a pixel-accurate Google snippet preview.
• Block-level recommendations in the Gutenberg sidebar.
• Meta title / description / focus-keyword editor with a changes log for the fields the plugin owns.
• Schema (JSON-LD) validation during scanning.
• All heavy work runs asynchronously in the background via Action Scheduler, so the plugin never slows down the front end.

Pro / Business / Agency features (a separate add-on)

These come with ABDS SEO Pro — a separate plugin you download from your ABDS account after buying a plan and activate with your license key. This free plugin contains none of the paid code; installing that add-on is what enables the features below.

• AI assistance (BYOK): rewrite titles/descriptions and fix content issues using your own OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, or Google Gemini key, with an enforced spend limit.
• SERP competitor analysis and content-gap detection (BYOK: SerpApi).
• Keyword volume/difficulty and backlink data before you commit to a focus keyword (BYOK: DataForSEO).
• Local rank tracking with location support, decay detection, and drop alerts.
• Local SEO: NAP consistency checker and LocalBusiness JSON-LD validation.
• Google Search Console integration (your own account) for real search-analytics-driven priorities.
• Internal-linking suggestions (orphan detection) and site-vs-site competitive analysis.
• Behavioral analytics (CRO): cookieless click/scroll heatmaps, rage-click detection, a guardrailed popup builder, and sequential meta-CTR tests. Off by default.
• Monthly white-label-ready reports and a weekly e-mail digest of the top priority actions.
• Agency: push a multi-site overview to the ABDS agency cabinet.

The free plugin is fully functional on its own; the paid tiers add capabilities, they do not cripple the free ones.

External services

This free plugin contacts exactly one third-party service, and only when you choose to activate a license:

• ABDS License Server (https://license.abds-seo.com) — contacted only when you activate a license key (to validate it) or by the ABDS SEO Pro add-on (to check your license and deliver the add-on’s own updates). When contacted, the request sends your license key, your site URL, and a random per-install identifier (not derived from any WordPress secret). A free install with no license key never contacts it. Governed by the ABDS Terms of Service (https://abds-seo.com/en/terms) and Privacy Policy (https://abds-seo.com/en/privacy).

Nothing else in this free plugin makes third-party network calls. The technical audit, rule-based content analysis, migration, and snippet preview all run locally, and the scanner only fetches your own site’s pages (a same-site loopback request) to inspect their markup.

The optional paid integrations — AI assistants (OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, Google Gemini), SERP/competitor analysis, DataForSEO keyword and backlink data, Google Search Console, and the agency multi-site cabinet — are not part of this free plugin. They live in the separate ABDS SEO Pro add-on and connect to their own services only after you enable each one there with your own credentials; those services are documented with that add-on.

Source code

The JavaScript and CSS in the build/ folder are compiled with @wordpress/scripts (webpack). The uncompiled, human-readable sources are included in this package under /src (admin.js, index.js, sidebar.js, snippet-width.js, style.css). To rebuild them, run npm install and then npm run build in the plugin folder.

Third-Party Libraries

• Action Scheduler (Composer dependency woocommerce/action-scheduler) — licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Because this plugin is distributed as “GPLv2 or later”, combining it with a GPLv3 component is compatible: the combined work is distributed under GPLv3. All other direct dependencies (@wordpress/* packages) are GPL-2.0-or-later, matching directly.