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Seven SEO automation tools for WordPress, scored on what each one changes, where the change lives, who approves it and how you undo it. We make RankHive.

What Search Console’s “Discovered – currently not indexed” and “Crawled – currently not indexed” mean, the WordPress pages that usually end up there, and the fixes that work.

What Search Console’s “Duplicate without user-selected canonical”, “Alternate page with proper canonical tag” and “Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user” mean, and how to fix each one ...

What “Not found (404)”, “Soft 404” and “Page with redirect” mean in Search Console, which ones to leave alone, and how to fix the rest on WordPress with a redirect or a real 404.

Change the SEO title of a WordPress post or page in Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress or without a plugin, set site-wide title templates, and decide which titles to rewrite first.

Every Search Console Page indexing status a WordPress site runs into, what it means, whether to fix it, and the guide and free tool for each.

A WordPress checklist for a site that is missing from Google: “Discourage search engines”, noindex, “Blocked by robots.txt”, access problems, and the Search Console reports that tell you which one it ...

There is no single good click-through rate: it depends on position, the query and what else is on the results page. How to judge yours against your own Search Console data, and how to fix pages that f...

SEO tools apply changes in your CMS, through a JavaScript snippet or at the CDN edge. What each means for crawlers, cancelling, undo, speed and lock-in.

Where the meta description field is in Yoast SEO, how to set a default template, bulk-edit descriptions for many posts, do the same in Rank Math or without a plugin, and why Google sometimes shows oth...