Bare Bones SEO is built on the premise that 95% of ranking-moving SEO work happens outside plugin settings. So the plugin stays out of your way.
No telemetry. No upsells. No dashboard widgets. Just clean control over the things a plugin should actually handle: indexing, sitemaps, titles, descriptions, schema, and redirects.
Built for developers and agencies managing sites where precision matters more than wizard-style automation.
Key Features
- Global Indexation Controls: Set indexing and sitemap behavior by post type across your entire site from a single screen.
- Page-Level Overrides: Title, description, JSON-LD schema, and indexing controls on every post and page. Page-level settings can only be more restrictive than site-level — never more permissive.
- Bulk Page Meta Editor: Audit and edit titles, descriptions, and indexing across your entire site in a paginated AJAX grid without opening individual editors.
- 301 Redirect Manager: Handle moved pages and external redirects. Runs only on 404s to avoid any frontend overhead.
- 404 Monitor: A read-only log of 404 errors by path, paginated and capability-checked.
- Health Notices: Detects common configuration problems (site set to discourage search engines, entire post types noindexed) with one-click fixes.