759 comments found.
What’s included in the extended license exactly vs the standard and how to purchase one eventually?
Hello diverso,
Thank you for reaching us.
The Extended license gives you access to the payment module, this includes the ability to set prices on Plans, as well as grant you access to Tax Rates, Coupons, and Invoices, so you can charge users money to use your website via plan subscriptions.
The Regular license has the same functionality, minus the payment module.
So if you want to run a business with it, then the Extended license is required. If you want to offer your website for free, then the Regular license is sufficient.
Let us know you have any further questions.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hello diverso,
Sorry, forgot to mention.
You can either purchase the Extended license using this link: https://codecanyon.net/cart/configure_before_adding/35522081?license=extended
Or by clicking on the License selector, and selecting Extended license, see: https://i.imgur.com/VcCym9j.png
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hello! How can I use this product to sell it as a service to my clients and charge them for it? I’m gathering I need to upgrade to Extended License? Please guide me accordingly. Thank you.
Hello joed777,
Thank you for reaching us.
You’re correct. An Extended license is required to charge your users money to use it.
Once you’ve purchased the Extended license, you can use https://codecanyon.net/refund_requests/new – this only works if you’re within 180 days of your initial Regular license purchase.
If you’re past 180 days, reach out Envato explaining that you’ve already purchased an Extended license, and ask them to refund you your Regular license of phpRank.
Feel free to reach us out for any additional questions or inquiries using the Contact form at: https://codecanyon.net/user/lunatio (we generally reply faster via email).
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hi, About Meta keywords… This meta tag has been ignored by Google for a long time (Bing too), so it is irrelevant for SEO, and it is unnecessary in SEO analysis as a metric, but it can be used as a notification. Load time reading is also not well resolved (wrong reading), so you should work on that. WWW Canonicalization is a necessary data to analyze as well, add that Sitemaps generated in Yoast or some other WP plugins are not read. Broken Links is a required metric item.
Those are some of my remarks. I have been in SEO for 17 years. I use your script for client reports, but the items I wrote are really important. Best, Ivica P.S. Finally solve that update, with one click… that gives seriousness to the project.
Hello Ivan962,
1. Yandex, the 4th largest search engine in the world is still using meta keywords to influence page ranking, as such, meta keyword is still a relevant SEO test, albeit we’ve set it to have no impact on the score of the SEO report: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/controlling-robot/metatags (official Yandex documentation).
Furthermore, there are still smaller search engines that make use of this tag, so I see no reason why this SEO test should be removed or disconsidered.
Please note that we must generate SEO reports that cather to ALL search engines (this includes Yandex, Baidu, etc.), not just Google and Bing.
2. Loading time is directly reported from the cURL process on your server, and it’s as accurate as it gets for that particular HTTP request. If you click on “More info” info icon, it will state so.
3. WWW canonicalization would require an additional HTTP request, so that’s the reason is not present, as we would have to check whether both www and non-www versions are being served (with no redirect), and if they are, one of them should reference the other as canonical. I’ll think about it.
4. For the Yoast and other WP plugins, as long as they serve syntactically correct XML sitemaps, there’s no reason for them not to work. I’ve personally tested it with Wordpress’s default sitemap generator and it worked flawlessly. Feel free to PM us any sitemap examples that do not work, and we’ll look into it.
Thank you for your feedback.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hello. Tell me if it is possible for me to combine the functionality of your two products (phpRank and phpUptime) on the my site. So that the user has all the functionality in his profile?
Hello artemb3,
phpRank and phpUptime serve different purposes. They are stand-alone platforms, and cannot be combined into each other without extensive code changes.
We do have a single sign-on system so that your users can authenticate with their Google, Microsoft, and Apple accounts on each platform, without having to create accounts manually.
Additionally, we’re also looking into implementing a platform switcher soon, which will allow you to switch between phpRank / phpUptime (and all other product installations from Lunatio) from the header menu.
Regards,
Lunatio.
I’ve re-downloaded and uploaded the /routes/web.php file but now even the Tools page isn’t loading, it’s returning 500 Server Error again…
Please help fast…
Hello maahi_growthlab,
We’ve replied via email.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hey, how do I change the location of the script? For instance I want the website in a /tools/ folder. Thanks
Hello justifydigital,
phpRank needs to run on the top level of a domain or subdomain, it does not work in subfolders. This is a known limitation of the Laravel framework we’re using, see: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/installation#directory-configuration for more details.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Getting an error when trying to authorize my licence. Please advise on a fix.
https://pasteboard.co/Er0iCNvAoIVz.jpgHello mydigitera,
Sorry for this, we’ve sent you an email, it should work now.
Regards,
Lunatio.
1. To audit a website, do you fetch the public HTML using your own crawler inside the script (for example via cURL), or do you rely on any third-party APIs for page source analysis?
If the crawling is handled directly by the server itself, how easy or difficult would it be to integrate a third-party crawling service or API in the future (for example to reduce IP blocking or offload requests)?
2. When auditing many pages or running multiple audits, is there a risk that target websites may block our server IP due to high request volume? Do you support rate limiting, crawl delays, custom User-Agent, or similar protections?
3. Does the crawler respect robots.txt rules (Disallow, Crawl-delay), or can this be configured by the admin?
4. Which Laravel version is phpRank currently built on? Is it easy to upgrade Laravel in future versions?
Hello ranukadev,
1. Correct. We’re using our own crawler, and our own analysis, with the exception of AI suggestions, which obviously are retrieved via an API. How easy or hard it is to add additional API integrations really depends on your programming knowledge. The software is extremely well written.
2. We’re doing sequential requests to avoid making too many requests at one time. We’ve never had a single report of anyone getting blocked after crawling a website, but obviously – just like any other crawler, there’s always a chance someone blocking you. The Admin can set a global custom User-Agent. There’s no crawl delay.
3. No, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to offer on-page SEO reoports.
4. We’re using Laravel 12, the latest version of Laravel. Upgrading to future Laravel versions will depend on Laravel’s changelog. It’s impossible for us to predict how easy or hard an upgrade is going to be, prior to seeing Larave’s upgrade guide.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Thanks, I understand that future upgrades depend on Laravel’s changelog and upgrade guides.
Just to confirm: you have not modified any Laravel core files, right?
I hope all custom logic is inside the application code only, so future Laravel upgrades will be straightforward.
Hello ranukadev,
Not sure what do you mean by “core files”. Is that the vendor files? If that’s your question, then the answer is no – we haven’t touched those, as there’s no reason to.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hi, We have 12 pre-defined ad-spots so you can integrate whatever ad-unit CSS/JS/HTML based code you want.
Regards,
Lunatio.
—-—-—-— ?
Where is it? Could you please specify it in detail? Could you explain it in more detail and provide the exact steps for the setup? Can you tell me in detail exactly.
Hello rothweller,
The pre-defined ad spots have been removed about 2 years ago. You should be adding your ad-code straight into the template files. We do plan on re-adding them (this time as a plan feature), in the future. In the mean time, you can add your add your ads in the template files (e.g: /resources/views/reports/show.blade.php).
Regards,
Lunatio.
Ok. Thank you.
Is full source code provided after purchase ? Regards from Germany.
Hello phdhogi,
Yes, full source code included 
Regards,
Lunatio.
Thank you Lunatio, and the payment options are available in Regular licence ?
Hello phdhogi,
No, as per the Envato License terms, to charge users money, an Extended license is required.
Regards,
Lunatio.
I mean to say can payments ( can be tested ) on regular licences ? Yes if i go to production defiantly i need to buy the extended licence. I just want to confirm if the regular licence come with the payment settings etc.
Hello phdhogi,
No, you cannot test the payment system with the Regular license.
If you have a pre-sale question regarding anything related to the payment processors, we’re more than glad to answer it for you.
Regards,
Lunatio.
It is the same code for both licences versions ? or each licence type have its own code (separate delivered) ?
Hello phdhogi,
With a Regular license, you won’t be able to enable any payment providers, or change any payment settings.
Again, the payment module is not available under the Regular license.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Tools Page Showing
500 Server error.
after update.. same as your demo: https://phprank.lunatio.com/tools fix this ASAP.
Hello midley23,
Thanks for the headsup. We’ve updated the product, simply re-download it and upload the /routes/web.php file on your server and the issue will be resolved.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Thanks for the quick fix..It works now after uploading the new route web.php file.
Hello. I recommend integrating DeepSeek as AI. It has lower costs for website managers.
Hello alexpesavento,
Thank you for your feedback.
OpenAI is slightly cheaper than Deepseek if you use the gpt-5-nano model, which our software supports.
gpt-5-nano costs $0.40 per one million tokens output: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-5-nano
deepseek non-thinking costs $0.42 per one million tokens output: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
For the input, OpenAI is slightly more expensive, with a $0.05 per 1M tokens vs $0.028 per 1M tokens, but the difference is neglibile, so in the end it’s basically the same cost.
Regards,
Lunatio.
tried to install to update and visited the mydomain/update, and got this message on the browser: This page isn’t working sub.mydonain is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500 I CANNOT SEE ANY error_log
Please kindly work on your files and folder permissions… It’s crazy not being able to delete them or move them because of permission restrictions, and this happens down to the file path level…for now, I think I will stick with the older version. Trying to update the old version with this newer one is pointing to 500 HTTP Error something that has never happended before
Hello seowebanalyst,
That’s an issue with your FTP/SFTP account, or whatever way you’re using to upload the software.
When files are uploaded via FTP/SFTP, permissions are determined by the server and the user account doing the upload, not by us, or our software.
We cannot set file permissions in advance, and there are operating systems, such as Windows, that don’t even work with CHMOD file permissions.
On my CentOS server, I’m simply dragging and dropping the files, using the same user that owns the folder, and everything works perfectly fine, no additional changes required.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Ok…Thanks for the response. Much appreciated.
I cannot locate the SERP Tool anymore; it appears to have been omitted from the tools section. Likewise, the keyword research tool
Hello seowebanalyst,
We’ve documented this change in the changelog.
Google Custom Search uses a ranking system that differs from real Google Search results. Over time, we saw increasing inconsistencies that could lead to misleading conclusions for SEO decisions. Rather than showing data we can’t fully stand behind. Additionally, they’re terms of use appear to forbid using the search results for anything else other than that: research results, so we decided it was better to remove it.
As for the Keywords Research, at the time we’ve added KeywordsEverywhere’s API integration, they’ve said that they’re looking into expanding it to more than 6 regions. It’s been 4 years since, and no additional regions have been added since, as a result we’ve decided to remove this API as well.
With that said, we’re currently looking for affordable alternatives to potentially reintroduce these tools, stay tuned.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Just to reiterate, you are still going to add those two versions of the tools back?
Hello seowebanalyst,
As previously said, ideally yes, I’m actively looking for API alternatives at a decent price rate.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hello, I would like to bring to your attention this link: https://ibb.co/39VFgc0d. If you can tell me where I can make the edit I will appreciate it.
Hello seowebanalyst,
That would be the /lang/en.json file. We’ve updated the software and fixed this line, thanks for the heads-up!
Regards,
Lunatio.
1. I saw the following in one of your previous comments. Could I please know when this will be released? It looks like a really good feature:
AI suggestions for SEO reports. – New SEO tests. – New Tools. – Revamped Projects section (now called Websites), with Overview section. – Progressive Web App support.
2. I would really appreciate it if you could allow adding PHP code when creating pages. Also, could you add a WYSIWYG HTML editor for pages? It would make updating page content much easier.
3. If you could provide an option to easily change colors—for example, replacing green with blue—that would be very helpful. I mean it should not be overridden by future updates.
Hello ranukadev,
1. It’s still being worked on, rushing as fast as possible but it’s taking time, as this is an extensive update.
2. No plans to add a text editor for the Pages. They generally are a one-time edit, and can be done on any WYSIWYG online editor and pasted into the pages area. The reason behind this is to avoid adding unnecessary javascript libraries to the software.
3. This is something I’m aiming to add, however we’re using compiled CSS files, which makes it difficult to do it programatically. I’ll look into this in 2026.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hello ranukadev,
phpRank v18 has been released: https://lunatio.com/phprank/changelog?v=18
Featuring: AI suggestions for SEO reports, new SEO reports, new SEO tools, new payment methods for Stripe, new Cloudflare R2 Storage driver, Progressive Web App, improved Admin Panel (self-documented), and so much more.
COlor Changing is still something I’m planning on adding, I’ll try to address this when I’ll be overhauling the UI, next year.
Merry Christmas.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Is there a way to add PHP code for custom pages created by this?
Hello ranukadev,
Pages only support HTML, CSS, and JS code. If you need a PHP page, you’ll need to upload it in /public folder of our software, and access it using example.com/page.php
Regards,
Lunatio.
Thanks, I can do that, but each update would lose those modifications. Isn’t it? Is there a way to do such a modification without issues when updating the script? I mean, is there a way like WordPress themes… Basically, core updates don’t affect theme modifications in WordPress.
Hello ranukadev,
No, your custom .PHP file will NOT be removed, because our update procedure states that you should “upload and replace” (not “delete and upload”) current files, meaning existing files that do not match our structure will remain in place.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Could you please let me know whether this can be installed under a website directory like example.com/seo-audit or if it should be under the root like example.com? If it can be installed under example.com/seo-audit, do I need to do something special?
Hello ranukadev,
phpRank must be installed in the root directory of a domain, or subdomain, this is a Laravel (the framework we’re using) requirement. So instead of installing it in example.com/seo, you should be installing it in seo.example.com (subdomain).
Regards,
Lunatio.
I hope this message finds you well. Could you please provide clarity on when your next product update is scheduled? Additionally, I would appreciate a brief overview of what key features or enhancements will be included in this upcoming release, if such information is available.
Hello Stambol,
The next update should be available withing the next 2 weeks, and will bring major new features and improvements.
To name a few:
- AI suggestions for SEO reports. - New SEO tests. - New Tools. - Revamped Projects section (now called Websites), with Overview section. - Progressive Web App support.
And so much more, stay tuned.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hello Stambol,
phpRank v18 has been released: https://lunatio.com/phprank/changelog?v=18
Featuring: AI suggestions for SEO reports, new SEO reports, new SEO tools, new payment methods for Stripe, new Cloudflare R2 Storage driver, Progressive Web App, improved Admin Panel (self-documented), and so much more.
Merry Christmas.
Regards,
Lunatio.
hi guys, do we have any affiliate feature for SaaS/extended version?
Hello FUBAco,
We do not have such functionality, and currently there are no plans for an affiliate system.
With that said, we’re working on some major new features for our next update, which should be available pretty soon, stay tuned.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Does the purchase come with the landing page you have?
Hello ileasc,
Do you mean with the landing page at: https://phprank.lunatio.com/
If that’s what you mean, then the answer is yes – it is included.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Yes, thank you.
Hello ileasc,
You’re welcome. All our products come with landing pages, and if you don’t like it or want to display something else, then you can simply set a redirect from Admin > Settings > General > Custom index to point the homepage to a different page.
Regards,
Lunatio.
Hello. Thank you very much for your work. Could you please add in the next update (if it is expected) payment systems such as Payeer and Yumani, people will thank you.
Hello finprofit,
I’ve looked into your suggestion.
Sadly, Payeer has been closed down.
As for YooMoney does not have a recurring/subscription API endpoint.
We do have Crypto.com and Coinbase crypto checkout for the CIS region.
I’m also currently looking for fiat payment processors for the CIS region (this includes russia).
I’ll update you if I find a stable service that also has support for recurring payments.
With that said, we’ve just released phpRank v18 and v19 with Artificial Intelligence support for SEO reports, Progressive Web App, Data Retention plan feature, and so much more, have a look at: https://lunatio.com/phprank/changelog
Regards,
Lunatio.