PublishRank is a nonprofit WordPress SEO plugin specifically designed for news publishers. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools to enhance search engine visibility and news discovery. The plugin focuses on core SEO functionalities, including technical SEO, news sitemaps, structured data (Schema), and readiness for Google Discover.

• Article Intelligence: Score headlines, keyphrases, metadata, structure, readability, links, and newsroom signals to optimize individual articles.
• Content Graph: Identify orphan content, understand content relationships, and generate editor-approved internal link suggestions to improve site navigation and SEO.
• Discovery Infrastructure: Features robust news, image, video, and XML sitemap systems built with scalable processing patterns to ensure efficient indexing.
• Technical SEO Core: Manages titles, canonicals, robots directives, and social meta tags.
• Editorial Intelligence: Provides scoring for content cannibalization and duplicate headlines to maintain content quality and uniqueness.

PublishRank is built with a newsroom at heart, catering to publishers of all sizes, from independent reporters to large news organizations. Its architecture is designed for high-volume WordPress sites, utilizing keyset/cursor processing to avoid pagination issues in the sitemap engine. The plugin aims to streamline the publisher's SEO workflow, allowing teams to concentrate on journalism.

The project emphasizes practical guides and honest answers, offering documentation on installation, setup, news SEO, structured data, and technical SEO. It also provides comparative guides for choosing SEO plugins and preparing content for search engines and Google Discover. PublishRank operates as a fully nonprofit project, dedicated to serving publishers rather than generating profit.