Discourage Search Engines – Dashboard notification
by Flint · SEO
Show a dashboard notification to remind you that 'Discourage Search Engines' is still enabled in the settings.
69 health vs 62 average across 803 SEO plugins
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.
Well optimized
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
86
now · peak 503
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-02-14 200+ → 100+ down after 537 days in tier
- 2023-08-27 100+ → 200+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2023-08-22 200+ → 100+ down after 34 days in tier
- 2023-07-19 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-07-18 200+ → 300+ up after 11 days in tier
- 2023-07-07 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2023-07-05 200+ → 300+ up after 152 days in tier
- 2023-02-03 300+ → 200+ down after 4 days in tier
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