AI SEO for WordPress: A Plugin-Neutral Setup and Audit
Configure crawling, canonicals, titles, schema, performance and editorial controls with one owner per output—without depending on an AI magic plugin.
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Crawling, indexing, rendering, canonicals, redirects, robots controls, site migrations, and technical diagnosis.
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Configure crawling, canonicals, titles, schema, performance and editorial controls with one owner per output—without depending on an AI magic plugin.
Repair an existing page with a clear claim, primary evidence, worked example and limitation—then measure the result without erasing the baseline.
A seven-gate diagnostic, worked small-SaaS example and 90-day plan for improving search and AI visibility without buying tools before the constraint is known.
Combine Search Console, modeled demand, grounding reports and fixed prompt observations without pretending they share the same unit.
Audit crawl, index, citation, referral and conversion evidence in order, then prioritize fixes by confidence, business importance and reversibility.
Cloudflare AI Search has a shared 10 KiB metadata envelope per vector, but only the first 64 UTF-8 bytes of each string remain filterable. Test bytes, not characters.
Cloudflare Browser Rendering now compares /crawl contentUse with a publisher’s Content Signals ceiling. Use this controlled matrix to test reference and full without overstating what the signal proves.
Google now applies one HTML-unescape pass while extracting JSON-LD. Audit templates for double-escaped values and fix the serializer rather than individual pages.
Google is routing some result clicks through opaque /goto URLs. The change affects the clickable SERP link layer, not publishers’ canonical or indexed URLs.
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