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# WP SEO Workflow

> Run a complete WordPress SEO optimization workflow, from initial audit to batch optimization…

A unified, seven-step WordPress SEO workflow that coordinates content/meta optimization, REST API batch operations and performance profiling into one repeatable pipeline. It takes a site from 'messy plugin soup' to a clean, fast, optimized machine using sustainable mu-plugin code that survives theme updates, plus REST-driven batch meta updates that turn hours of admin clicking into minutes.

## Use cases
- Running a full WordPress SEO optimization from audit to report
- Batch-updating meta titles and descriptions via REST API
- Installing mu-plugin SEO code (GSC, GA4, Ads, schema)
- Auditing plugins and themes for bloat and conflicts
- Capturing before/after performance baselines
- Adding JSON-LD schema for local business and services

## Benefits
- mu-plugin architecture keeps SEO and tracking code alive even when the theme is updated
- REST API batch turns hour-long manual meta edits across 50+ pages into minutes
- Measure-fix-validate loop forces proof of improvement before claiming results
- Plugin minimalism (target under 15) reduces speed, security and maintenance overhead at once

## What’s included
- Seven-step workflow: access prep, plugin/theme audit, baseline, SEO audit, mu-plugin, batch optimize, validate
- Ready mu-plugin with GSC verification, GA4, Ads tracking and LocalBusiness JSON-LD
- REST API batch commands for page meta and Rank Math meta updates
- Performance baseline and before/after comparison tables
- On-page, technical and schema SEO audit checklists
- Anti-pattern table (theme file edits, plugin overload, unauthenticated REST, Rank Math override)

## Who it’s for
Agencies and SEO engineers optimizing WordPress client sites who want a repeatable audit-to-report workflow, not one-off fixes.

## How it runs
A fixed 7-step cycle that takes a WordPress site from plugin soup to a measured, optimized state, with before-and-after proof built in:
1. Verifies access before anything runs: admin login, REST API response, Application Password, and SFTP for mu-plugin upload.
2. Audits the plugin and theme stack against hard criteria: more than 20 active plugins triggers cleanup, duplicates and stale plugins get flagged, child theme presence is checked.
3. Records a performance baseline (TTFB, LCP, CLS, INP, PageSpeed) before touching anything, because improvement claims without a baseline are banned in this workflow.
4. Installs a mu-plugin carrying the durable SEO code: search verification, analytics and ads tracking, LocalBusiness schema, so theme updates cannot erase it.
5. Batch-optimizes through the REST API: page titles, descriptions and focus keywords updated programmatically in minutes instead of hours of admin-panel clicking.
6. Re-measures the identical metrics, reports before versus after side by side, and closes with sitemap submission plus rich-results validation as proof.

## FAQ
### I manage several client WordPress sites, does this work as a repeatable process?
That is its design goal: a seven-step pipeline from access prep and plugin/theme audit through baseline, SEO audit, mu-plugin install, batch optimization and validation. Because every step has a defined output, you can run the same workflow on each client site instead of improvising per project.

### What does the mu-plugin approach give me that pasting code in functions.php doesn't?
Theme survival. GSC verification, GA4, Ads tracking and LocalBusiness JSON-LD live in a must-use plugin, so a theme update or switch cannot wipe them. The workflow explicitly lists theme-file edits as an anti-pattern for exactly this failure mode.

### Will it write all my page content and blog posts too?
No. It optimizes what exists: batch meta titles and descriptions over the REST API, schema injection, plugin cleanup and before/after performance proof. Producing new long-form content is outside the workflow, which ends at audit, optimization and reporting.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

Related guide: [How to automate SEO and AEO with Claude](https://forgehouse.ai/guides/automate-seo-claude/)