u/anupam-mondal

Freelance dev since 2016. On basically every client project I'd hit the same wall — the SEO features I actually needed (real schema, redirects, audit tools) were behind a Premium tier. Paying per-site adds up fast when you manage a lot of them.

So I built Smart SEO Booster and released the whole thing free, GPLv2, no premium version.

The hard parts, if you're curious:

- Getting 14 schema types to output correctly across posts, WooCommerce products, and CPTs without conflicting with themes

- Building a 1-click importer from Yoast/Rank Math (parsing another plugin's meta safely was fiddly)

- The AI/GEO stuff — llms.txt + crawler controls — since that's moving fast right now

It's on the WordPress.org directory now. The scary part: going up against plugins with millions of installs as a solo dev. My bet is on being lightweight and not paywalling basics.

Would love feedback from other builders — on the plugin, the listing, or how you'd approach getting the first 100 real users. Links in comments.

I've been a freelance dev and SEO guy since 2016, and on almost every client site I kept running into the same wall: the SEO essentials I needed (proper schema, redirects, decent audit tools) were locked behind Yoast Premium or Rank Math Pro. So I built my own and put the whole thing out free under GPLv2.

It's called Smart SEO Booster. Full disclosure — I'm the developer, this is my plugin, and I'm posting because I want real feedback, not just installs.

What it does:

14 JSON-LD schema types, output automatically

XML sitemaps (posts, pages, CPTs, images)

Automated titles/meta with template variables + per-post control

Open Graph / Twitter cards with live preview

Breadcrumbs, redirects + 404 logging

AI/GEO SEO — llms.txt output + AI-crawler opt-out, for the AI Overviews / ChatGPT / Perplexity era

WooCommerce + Local SEO, GA4 + Clarity

1-click migration from Yoast or Rank Math (imports your titles/meta/settings)

Everything's included — no premium tier, no "unlock this feature" nags. It's genuinely free.

I know I'm going up against plugins with millions of installs, so I'm not pretending to replace them for everyone. I focused on the stuff heavier plugins do poorly: staying lightweight, and not gating basics behind a subscription.

It's on the WordPress.org directory and there's a short demo video if you want to see it before installing. Honestly the most useful thing for me right now would be blunt feedback — what's missing, what breaks, what you'd never switch for. Happy to answer anything in the comments.

[WordPress.org link] /plugins/smart-seo-booster/advanced/· [demo video link]

After changed Chrome extension category to Tools from Developer tools users suddenly Dropping. Is there any defined algorithm to rank it ?