Title: Aetos SEO
Author: Abdullah Fathy – Aetos SEO
Published: June 23, 2026
Last modified: June 23, 2026
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# Aetos SEO
By [Abdullah Fathy – Aetos SEO](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aetosseo/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/aetos-seo.4.0.3.zip)
* [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aetos-seo/#description)
* [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aetos-seo/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aetos-seo/#installation)
* [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aetos-seo/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/aetos-seo/)
## Description
Aetos SEO is an **audit plugin**, not another meta-writer. It runs alongside
your
existing SEO plugin (Rank Math, Yoast, AIOSEO, SEOPress, or any other) and tells
you what is actually broken, missing, or risky across technical SEO and AI-readiness,
then shows you a prioritized list of what to fix first.
Think of it as a second opinion that does not touch your meta titles, your
schema
output, or your sitemap. It only reads, diagnoses, and reports.
#### Why a separate audit plugin?
Every SEO plugin tells you it is doing a great job. None of them tell you
when
something is wrong outside of their own scope: a noindex left from staging, a canonical
pointing at the wrong domain, a schema that is valid but does not list the right
entity, an `` that does not match the title, a robots.txt that blocks an AI
crawler you actually want to be in, or a sitemap that omits half your category pages.
Aetos SEO does that read across **the whole rendered page**, then ranks the
findings
by severity so you can fix the highest-impact issues first.
#### What the free edition checks
* **Technical SEO** – indexability, canonicals, robots directives, sitemap
presence
and freshness, redirects, broken links, HTTP error pages.
* **Crawl coverage** – what search engines and AI crawlers (GPTBot, PerplexityBot,
Claude-Web, Google-Extended, etc.) can actually reach on your site.
* **On-page** – titles, meta descriptions, heading structure, duplicate
patterns,
language and `dir` correctness for Arabic / RTL sites.
* **Mobile usability** – viewport, readability heuristics, tap target sanity.
* **Media** – missing alt text, oversized images, lazy-loading hints.
* **Structured data** – is valid JSON-LD present for Organization, Article,
Breadcrumb?
Are required fields filled?
* **AI-readiness (AEO / GEO)** – is your content readable by AI answer engines?
Checks AI-crawler access in robots.txt (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-
Extended and more), llms.txt presence, JSON-LD entity coverage (Organization,
sameAs, author / E-E-A-T, publisher), FAQ / HowTo schema, H2 / H3 passage structure
for answer extraction, and Open Graph completeness.
* **Performance basics** – asset counts, cache headers, heavy CSS / JS.
* **Analytics stack** – auto-detects GA4, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft
Clarity,
and Meta Pixel.
* **Security basics** – HTTPS, mixed content, exposed admin endpoints
(informational).
#### What you actually see
Every finding includes: a plain-language title, a severity badge (High /
Medium/
Low / Info), the pages where it was detected, an “Open” / “Fixed” status, guidance
on how to verify the fix, and a “why this matters” explanation. Results are shown
directly in the Findings screen.
#### Bilingual interface (Arabic and English)
The plugin auto-detects RTL sites and switches the admin interface to
Arabic. Finding
titles, severity levels, and “why this matters” copy are all translated.
#### How it differs from Pro
Pro is sold separately at [aetosseo.com](https://aetosseo.com/) and is
**uploaded
to your site by you**, like a separate premium add-on. The WordPress.org edition
is a complete local audit tool: it shows every finding it computes in full, and
you set the scan depth yourself in Settings (the default is 50 pages, or set 0 to
analyze every page on your site).
The WordPress.org edition **diagnoses** your technical SEO and AI-readiness.
Pro
is for **acting on what it finds and going deeper**: advanced answer-engine modules,
industry modules, deeper content analysis, internal page-opportunity prioritization,
AI handoff reports with copy-paste prompts for any AI assistant, and agency-style
HTML / PDF / CSV reports. Pro audits from inside WordPress too, and it does not
connect your site to any external SEO, analytics, or AI service.
### External services
The free edition does **not** automatically contact any third-party
service. Updates
ship through WordPress.org like any other free plugin (handled by WordPress core,
not by this plugin).
During an audit, the plugin performs HTTP requests **against your own
WordPress
site
to inspect your public pages, robots.txt, sitemaps, and
internal links. These
are same-site requests; no page content leaves your server. To run audits in the
background it may also trigger WordPress cron through a same-site loopback request
to this same WordPress installation (the standard WP-Cron mechanism); this never
contacts Aetos servers or any third-party API in the free edition. The admin interface
also contains a few user-clicked links to documentation, pricing, changelog, and
support on aetosseo.com — those open only when you click them; the plugin never
requests those pages itself.
Some checks look for analytics or tag-manager fingerprints already present in
your
site’s rendered HTML. The plugin may recognize strings such as googletagmanager.
com, google-analytics.com, analytics.google.com, connect.facebook.net, clarity.ms,
clarity.microsoft, plausible.io, cdn.plausible.io, cdn.segment.com, segment.com,
posthog.com, matomo.js, matomo.php, and piwik.js, plus the matching client-side
API names these tools place in page scripts (for example gtag, fbq, and _paq). These
are **detection strings only**: Aetos SEO does not contact those providers, does
not send them data, and does not load their scripts. If your public pages already
include one of those scripts, the plugin records that it was detected so the audit
can avoid false “analytics missing” findings.
To put findings in context, the audit also detects which SEO, performance,
caching,
security, and page-builder plugins or themes are active on your site and reads their
settings from your **local** WordPress database through the standard options API.
This information is shown only inside your own WordPress admin, to explain a finding(
for example, that a caching plugin controls a header the audit flagged). It is never
transmitted anywhere, and the plugin never contacts those plugins’ vendors.
## Screenshots
[⌊Dashboard: overall score, latest run, plugin / theme stack detection.⌉⌊Dashboard:
overall score, latest run, plugin / theme stack detection.⌉[
Dashboard: overall score, latest run, plugin / theme stack detection.
[⌊Findings page: prioritized list of issues with severity and status.⌉⌊Findings
page: prioritized list of issues with severity and status.⌉[
Findings page: prioritized list of issues with severity and status.
[⌊Finding detail: explanation, affected pages, and how to verify the fix.⌉⌊Finding
detail: explanation, affected pages, and how to verify the fix.⌉[
Finding detail: explanation, affected pages, and how to verify the fix.
[⌊Settings: admin language, scan limits, crawl delay, email summary.⌉⌊Settings:
admin language, scan limits, crawl delay, email summary.⌉[
Settings: admin language, scan limits, crawl delay, email summary.
[⌊Upgrade page: what Pro adds (advanced answer-engine modules, AI handoff reports,
and exports).⌉⌊Upgrade page: what Pro adds (advanced answer-engine modules, AI handoff
reports, and exports).⌉[
Upgrade page: what Pro adds (advanced answer-engine modules, AI handoff reports,
and exports).
## Installation
1. In your WordPress admin, go to **Plugins -> Add New** and search for “Aetos SEO”.
2. Click **Install Now**, then **Activate**.
3. Open the new **Aetos SEO** menu in your sidebar.
4. Click **Start audit** on the Dashboard. The first scan runs in the background and
usually finishes within a few minutes on typical shared hosting, so you can keep
working while it runs.
5. Open the **Findings** page to see the prioritized list of issues.
You do not need an account, an API key, or a third-party service to run the audit.
The free edition does everything locally inside your WordPress install.
## FAQ
### Does it replace my SEO plugin?
No. Aetos SEO is an audit layer that runs **alongside** your existing SEO
plugin.
It does not write meta titles, does not output schema, and does not generate your
sitemap. It only reads your rendered pages and reports what it sees.
### Is the free version really useful on its own?
Yes. It runs a complete technical SEO **and AI-readiness** audit and shows
every
finding it computes, with no hidden or blurred results. You control how deep the
crawl goes in Settings.
### Can I control how many pages it scans?
Yes. On the Aetos SEO **Settings** page you set how many pages the audit
analyzes(
and the crawl page limit). The default is a performance-friendly 50 pages so the
first scan stays light on shared hosting; set it to 0 to analyze every page, or
lower it on a very large site. The page count is controlled by your settings.
### Does the free version send my data anywhere?
No. All audit work happens inside your WordPress install, using same-site
requests
to read your public pages during an audit. Updates ship through WordPress.org like
any other free plugin.
### Is there a Pro version?
Yes, sold separately at [aetosseo.com](https://aetosseo.com/) and
uploaded to your
site like any premium add-on. It adds extra audit modules and reporting workflows,
all running locally inside WordPress. If you never install Pro, the WordPress.org
edition keeps working on its own.
### Will it conflict with Rank Math, Yoast, AIOSEO, or SEOPress?
No. Aetos SEO does not emit meta tags, schema, or sitemap output. It only
reads,
so it cannot conflict with another SEO plugin.
### Does it support Arabic / RTL sites?
Yes. The admin interface auto-switches to Arabic on RTL sites, and the
audit understands`
lang` and `dir` attributes when checking on-page correctness.
### How often should I run an audit?
After every significant change: a redesign, a migration, a new
SEO / cache / security
plugin, or a content batch. Running it weekly on a production site is also fine.
### Does the plugin require any third-party services?
No. The free edition does not contact any third-party service automatically.
During
an audit it performs same-site HTTP requests against your own WordPress site to
read your public pages, robots.txt, sitemaps, and internal links. No page content
leaves your server. The only external links are documentation, pricing, changelog,
and support links that open when you click them.
## Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
## Contributors & Developers
“Aetos SEO” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.
Contributors
* [ Abdullah Fathy – Aetos SEO ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aetosseo/)
[Translate “Aetos SEO” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/aetos-seo)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/aetos-seo/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/aetos-seo/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/aetos-seo/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/aetos-seo/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 4.0.3
* Completed the bilingual interface. Every audit finding (its title, the
“why
it matters” explanation, and the fix steps) is now fully translated, and all
remaining Dashboard and Settings labels were moved onto the same language switch.
English sites now show a 100% English admin, and Arabic / RTL sites a 100% Arabic
admin, with no mixed-language screens.
* Simplified the displayed plugin author to “Aetos SEO”.
#### 4.0.2
* Addressed the WordPress.org “determine file and directory locations” review
in full: removed manual wp-admin / core path composition and every fixed parent-
directory walk across the plugin, not only the two reported lines.
* Plugin, asset, and upload locations now use the WordPress public path APIs
(
plugin_dir_path, plugin_dir_url, plugins_url, wp_upload_dir, plugin_basename).
* Expanded the “External services” disclosure: documented the client-side
analytics
API names the audit recognizes (gtag, fbq, _paq) and clarified that detecting
active SEO/performance/security/builder plugins reads their settings only from
the local database and never transmits them.
* Hardened the Lite build so any of those path patterns fail the build if reintroduced.
#### 3.3.57
* WordPress.org review feedback round: reworded audit-result description
strings
so no raw tag-like text remains in code or comments (the plugin’s own CSS / JS
always loaded through wp_enqueue APIs).
* Path resolution now avoids fixed directory walks and uses WordPress path
helpers
for plugin-owned paths and uploads.
* Removed a read of another plugin’s filter; plugin-conflict detection now
uses
an internal list. All hooks, options, transients, and AJAX actions the plugin
creates use the aetos_seo_ prefix.
* Removed leftover dormant Pro-edition helper code and unused CSS from the
free
package; the free edition continues to show every finding in full.
#### 3.3.52
* First public release on WordPress.org (free edition).
* Built on the mature Aetos SEO audit engine.
* Audit engine: technical SEO, crawl coverage, on-page, mobile, media,
structured
data, AI-readiness (AEO / GEO), performance basics, analytics detection, security
basics.
* Bilingual admin interface (Arabic / English) with full RTL support.
* Self-contained WordPress.org release with no automatic third-party service calls.
## Meta
* Version **4.0.3**
* Last updated **3 hours ago**
* Active installations **Fewer than 10**
* WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher **
* Tested up to **7.0**
* PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
* Tags
* [ai readiness](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai-readiness/)[schema](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/schema/)
[seo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)[site audit](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/site-audit/)
[technical seo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/technical-seo/)
* [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aetos-seo/advanced/)
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## Contributors
* [ Abdullah Fathy – Aetos SEO ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aetosseo/)
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