Advance Canonical URL
by Usman Ali Qureshi · SEO
Also makes 5 other plugins · 4K+ installs across the portfolio →
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Health
A 86/100
Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈1.5K estimated
Momentum
-10%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “duplicate content” for “urls”. “duplicate content” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “urls” sits at #24 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
86 health vs 65 average across 2,230 SEO plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →4.0%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 25.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median SEO plugin keeps 1.2%, across 1,195 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other SEO plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 3 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 3 reviews to 2025-07-05Reviewers say it does one job and does it well, with one noting it fixed Yoast ignoring the primary category right after install.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 10 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.17★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
37
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
16%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| custom canonical your tag | #1 | #4 | 0 |
| canonical url your tag | #1 | #4 | 0 |
| advance | #2 | #4 | 0 |
| canonical urls | #2 | #4 | 0 |
| canonical your tag | #3 | #7 | down 1 |
| advance seo plugin | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| seo advance plugin | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| url | #14 | #17 | down 1 |
| urls | #24 | #21 | 0 |
| preferred | #24 | #24 | down 5 |
| from url | #15 | #19 | up 1 |
| post url | #19 | #23 | up 2 |
| site url | #20 | #21 | up 1 |
| pages url | #21 | #21 | down 1 |
| custom url | #24 | #23 | 0 |
| duplicate content your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| seo your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
36 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 15 listed. 21 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “duplicate content” for “urls”. “duplicate content” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “urls” sits at #24 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 2.9K · peaks are release surges
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
3
releases in the last 12 months
10d ago
latest release · v1.1.1 · 23 Oct 2026
8
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 7 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 25 Jun 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ peroted1.3y ago
the plugin did what I wanted. Thanks alot.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Mimi5.1y ago
For some reason my Yoast was not respecting the “primary category” and creating multiple instances of duplicate content when a post was in more than one category. I just installed this and hit “save” on the basic settings and the problem was resolved. Fast, easy, and WORKS, can’t do better than that. Thank you!!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Frontkom5.4y ago
Pretty usefull and fast forward. Add link to plugin reviews u will get for sure more stars. Greetngs This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Frontkom. This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Frontkom.
Read on wp.org ↗
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
5 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ✓ Has a FAQ 7 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 7 of 7 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,691 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "custom canonical", "duplicate content" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-03-30 2K+ → 1K+ down after 179 days in tier
- 2025-10-02 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-09-30 2K+ → 1K+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2025-09-27 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-09-25 2K+ → 1K+ down after 34 days in tier
- 2025-08-22 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1030 days in tier
- 2022-10-27 900+ → 1K+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
- C Canonical SEO 9K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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Canonical Link 2K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI 10M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings 4M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 2M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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