SEO Agent vs WhoKnew Directory SEO – Repository Ranking & Readme Optimizer

1. AI Alt Text — 30 images every month on the free plan Missing alt text hurts your image SEO and your accessibility compliance. This plugin scans your media library, finds every image without alt text, and writes natural, SEO-friendly alt text automatically — in English or Hebrew, based on what is actually in the picture. Alt texts fill automatically each month, up to your plan’s quota. 2. SEO Doctor — free full-site scan Missing meta descriptions, duplicate titles, missing schema markup, broken links — the scan finds them and you see every finding, free, right on the plugin page. 3. AI Articles Want content too? Through the SEO Agent service you also get AI-written, SEO-optimized articles based on real keyword research for your niche — reviewed and approved by you before anything reaches your site. The free plan includes monthly articles; paid plans add the fixing Doctor and a fully automatic blog. What this plugin does Scans your media library and fills missing image alt text with AI Runs a full SEO site scan and shows every finding on the plugin page Receives and publishes articles prepared by SEO Agent — content you have reviewed and approved through the SEO Agent dashboard before it reaches your site Applies SEO metadata to each published post (Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress) Injects Organization schema markup for structured data Syncs published post URLs back to SEO Agent so the service can update its internal links Removes duplicate-content query parameters (?nocache=, ?elementor_popup=) from canonical URLs Consent first The plugin sends nothing anywhere until you approve. After activation, open the SEO Agent page in your WordPress admin, review exactly what will be shared, and click Connect. Until then the plugin stays idle. External Service Notice This plugin connects to seo-agent.io to scan your site, generate alt text and publish articles. Your site URL, published post URLs, and image URLs are transmitted to this service — only after you consent on the plugin page. See: https://seo-agent.io/privacy and https://seo-agent.io/terms External Services This plugin communicates with seo-agent.io for all core functionality — starting only after you consent on the plugin page: What is sent: Site URL, published post URLs and titles (on publish/update/delete), page URLs (site audit), image URLs (for alt text generation), plugin version (on each poll), crash reports (on fatal errors). If WooCommerce is installed: product titles, URLs, and status changes are synced automatically via webhooks to power internal linking. When: After consent; then every 5 minutes via WP-Cron, on post publish/update/delete, and on WooCommerce product changes (if WooCommerce is installed). Privacy policy: https://seo-agent.io/privacy Terms of service: https://seo-agent.io/terms

WhoKnew Directory SEO tracks your plugin ranking inside the WordPress.org plugin directory — and gives you the tools to improve it. Most developers have no idea where their work appears in the plugin repository search results, or what drives those positions. This changes that. This plugin is a frontend client for the whoknew.io ranking service. All keyword scans, readme analysis, ranking calculations, and keyword research are performed exclusively on whoknew.io’s servers — this plugin contains no ranking or analysis logic of its own. An internet connection to whoknew.io is required for any scan or analysis to run. The ranking process requires querying the WordPress.org Plugin Directory API across a shared, rate-limited infrastructure, running a multi-signal scoring algorithm against hundreds of results, and caching those results in a shared pool so every user’s scan benefits from work already done for the same keyword. This cannot be replicated locally inside a WordPress plugin — doing so would require every user’s own server IP to hit WordPress.org directly for each scan, risking individual rate-limiting or blocking by WordPress.org. whoknew.io absorbs that infrastructure cost centrally. Usage is governed by the whoknew.io Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (linked in the External Services section below). The plugin directory indexes 7 specific fields in your readme and weighs them differently. Every field you’re missing is a ranking signal your competitors are using against you. WhoKnew shows you exactly which fields are covered and which aren’t — so you know precisely what to fix. The free service plan includes: Keyword Scan — Enter your slug and a keyword to see your exact position in the plugin directory search. Track your plugin ranking for every term that matters to you. Readme Optimizer — See which of the 7 indexed readme fields contain your keyword and which don’t. Get concrete, field-by-field suggestions to improve your coverage and climb the repository rankings. How Ranking Works — A transparent explainer of the repository’s two-phase algorithm: relevance score (keyword coverage across your readme and metadata) and quality score (active installs, support threads, rating, freshness, compatibility). The free whoknew.io service plan includes 10 API credits per month. Each scan or readme analysis consumes one credit — this reflects real processing performed on whoknew.io’s servers (querying the WordPress.org Plugin Directory API, running the ranking algorithm, and caching results). Upgrade to a paid plan for higher credit limits, competitor keyword intelligence, AI readme suggestions, and full ranking history with visual diffs. External Services This plugin contacts the following external services. No connection is made until you perform an action that requires it (a scan, a readme analysis, or a daily background sync). No data is sent passively on page load. WhoKnew.io Ranking API (whoknew.io) whoknew.io provides the ranking infrastructure this plugin depends on. It accepts scan requests from the plugin, queries the WordPress.org Plugin Directory API from its own servers, runs the multi-signal scoring algorithm, caches results in a shared pool, and returns ranked data to the plugin for display. None of this processing occurs inside the plugin or on the user’s WordPress installation. When contacted: When you run a keyword scan — whoknew.io performs the full ranking analysis on its servers and records one API credit against your service account. When you run a Readme Analysis — whoknew.io analyses your readme content against a keyword on its servers. Once per day via a background task (WordPress Cron) — to sync your API credit balance locally so the plugin does not need to contact the service on every page load. When you click “Test connection” in Settings — to verify connectivity and retrieve the current credit balance. (Pro only) When you activate, deactivate, or refresh your licence — to validate the licence key and retrieve a JWT token used for higher service-tier credit limits. Data sent: your site URL (used as an anonymous domain identifier for API credit tracking), the plugin slug and keyword you scan, and — for Pro users — a licence key and a signed JWT token. No personally identifiable visitor data is transmitted. Service: https://whoknew.io Privacy policy: https://whoknew.io/privacy/ Terms of service: https://whoknew.io/terms/ WordPress.org Plugin Directory API (api.wordpress.org) When contacted: When you run a keyword scan — whoknew.io contacts the WordPress.org Plugin Directory API from its own servers to retrieve live search results, then scores and returns your ranking position. When you look up a plugin by slug or name in the Scan or Readme Optimizer tabs — your browser contacts api.wordpress.org directly (client-side) to fetch public plugin metadata. No credits are consumed and whoknew.io is not involved. When the Readme Optimizer loads a plugin’s readme.txt — your WordPress installation fetches it directly from plugins.svn.wordpress.org. No credits are consumed and whoknew.io is not involved. When using the Competitor Keyword Spy feature (Pro) — whoknew.io contacts the WordPress.org Plugin Directory API on your behalf for each competitor keyword scan. All WordPress.org API requests made during a ranking scan originate from whoknew.io’s servers (not your WordPress installation), using the public plugins/info/1.2/ and query_plugins endpoints. Results are cached on whoknew.io’s servers for up to 6 hours and shared across all users scanning the same keyword, minimising total requests to WordPress.org. Data sent: the search keyword, plugin slug, locale, and a standard WordPress HTTP user-agent string. No account credentials or personal data are sent. Service: https://api.wordpress.org Privacy policy: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/ Affiliate Program Earn 30% commission promoting WhoKnew™ plugins. Instant approval, real-time tracking, monthly payouts. Sign up free: https://whoknew.io/affiliates/ Third-Party Libraries WhoKnew Directory SEO includes the following third-party libraries to enhance functionality and provide a better user experience. All minified files below link to their publicly accessible source code: Chart.js (v4.5.1) – Author: Chart.js Contributors – Source: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/tree/v4.5.1 – Minified Files: chart.min.js – License: MIT License – License URI: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT – Location: /assets/js/vendor/chart.min.js diff / jsdiff (v5.2.0) – Author: Kevin Decker and contributors – Source: https://github.com/kpdecker/jsdiff/tree/v5.2.0 – Minified Files: diff.min.js – License: BSD 3-Clause License – License URI: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause – Location: /assets/js/vendor/diff.min.js All included libraries are used under their respective open-source licenses, which are compatible with this plugin’s GPL-2.0-or-later licensing.