SEO Defend
by SEO Defend · SEO
Ongoing protection and monitoring of your Wordpress website and domain against negative SEO, black hat SEO techniques and bad SEOs.
43 health vs 68 average across 339 SEO plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.18.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2174 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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
112
now · peak 116
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 “30+”. 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-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-14 20+ → 30+ up after 6 days in band
- 2026-05-08 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-06 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-05 30+ → 20+ down after 21 days in band
- 2026-04-14 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-04-13 30+ → 20+ down after 16 days in band
- 2026-03-28 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-03-27 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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SEO Friendly Images 20K+ installs · 3.2★ · 2 shared tags F -
SEO Ultimate 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D -
Internal Links Manager 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
WP All Import – Import SEO Settings for Rank Math SEO 7K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
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