Guides
How to do everything in OnlyAI SEO
Plain, step-by-step guides. Each one says how long it takes and what you need, uses the real button names, and ends with what to read next. If you only read four, read these:
- 01Install OnlyAI SEO and finish setting it up in ten minutes10 minutes
- 02Understand your scores and decide what to fix first10 minutes
- 031-click SEO, step by step: what it does and how to undo it5 minutes per post
- 04Use the Inbox: what each agent proposes and how to act on a card10 minutes
Start here
Install, connect and switch over. About half an hour in all.
- Install OnlyAI SEO and finish setting it up in ten minutesDownload, upload, activate and walk through the setup guide: cloud key, Google, agents, import and your first scores. No technical skills needed.
- Connect OnlyAI Cloud: get a free key and switch on the AI buttonsCreate a free account, make an API key, paste it into the plugin, and understand the daily limit. Includes what each error message means.
- Connect Google Search Console and Analytics with one sign-inLink Search Console and Google Analytics 4 to the plugin in one step, what it can and cannot see, what it feeds, and how to disconnect.
- Choose which agents to switch on (and what each one needs)The ten agents, the Ready to go preset, the four that need Google, the optional daily briefs, and how to switch any agent on or off.
- Switch from Yoast SEO to OnlyAI SEO, step by stepHow to move your titles, descriptions, focus keywords and settings from Yoast SEO to OnlyAI SEO safely: what carries over, what does not, and the order to do it in.
- Switch from Rank Math to OnlyAI SEO, step by stepHow to move your titles, descriptions, focus keywords and settings from Rank Math to OnlyAI SEO safely: what carries over, what does not, and the order to do it in.
- Switch from All in One SEO to OnlyAI SEO, step by stepHow to move your titles, descriptions, focus keywords and settings from All in One SEO to OnlyAI SEO safely: what carries over, what does not, and the order to do it in.
- Switch from SEOPress to OnlyAI SEO, step by stepHow to move your titles, descriptions, focus keywords and settings from SEOPress to OnlyAI SEO safely: what carries over, what does not, and the order to do it in.
Improve your posts
Scores, the editor, 1-click SEO, links, titles, rich results and writing new articles.
- Understand your scores and decide what to fix firstHow to read the Overview, the Content Scores page and the Fix-next column: what the numbers mean, what the colours are, and how to work through the list.
- Use the editor sidebar: focus keyword, synonyms, checks and previewsA tour of the OnlyAI SEO sidebar in the block editor and the panels in the Post tab: the focus keyword, synonyms, prominent words, the checks, the Google preview, and the AI Search tab.
- 1-click SEO, step by step: what it does and how to undo itPress one button in the editor and the plugin fixes the keyword, title, description, URL, alt text, headings, table of contents, FAQ, internal links and tags. How to use it, check it, and undo it.
- Internal linking, step by step: while you write and after you publishUse link suggestions in the editor, 1-click links, links from older posts to a new post, the Link Builder agent, sponsored and UGC link types, and a rule of thumb.
- Set up titles and descriptions: templates, variables and per-post overridesHow SEO titles and meta descriptions are built, how to write templates for whole kinds of pages with variables like %title% and %sitename%, and how a single post overrides them.
- Write a new article with AutoArticle AI (the AutoArticle AI plugin is required)OnlyAI SEO cannot write new articles on its own. It needs the separate AutoArticle AI plugin installed, active, connected and subscribed. How to set it up, brief an article, write several in a row, and finish the draft.
- Add FAQ, How-to, Table of contents and Breadcrumbs blocksHow to add and set up the four OnlyAI SEO blocks, what structured data each one prints, and how to use breadcrumbs by block, shortcode or theme template.
- Structured data and rich results: what to switch on and how to check itHow OnlyAI SEO prints Article, FAQ and breadcrumb data, how to mark a page as a Product, Recipe, Event, Job and more with the Rich result panel, and how to test the result.
- Tell Google who you are: logo, local business and authorsFill in your logo, profiles, a local business address with opening hours and author details so search engines and AI assistants recognise your brand.
- Make shared links look good: Open Graph and X cardsSet a default share image, X and Facebook details, and a share title, description and image per post, so links look right on Facebook, LinkedIn, X and messengers.
- Work faster from the Posts list: columns, Quick Edit and Bulk EditShow the SEO title, description, focus keyword and link counts in your Posts and Pages lists, edit them in place and change many posts at once.
Search and indexing
Sitemaps, Google indexing, redirects, robots.txt, .htaccess and AI search.
- Set up sitemaps, the Google News sitemap and IndexNowCheck your XML sitemap, switch the news and video sitemaps on, test them, submit them in Search Console, and ping Bing and others with IndexNow.
- Fast Google indexing from WordPress: set it up step by stepTell Google about new, changed and removed posts through the Google Indexing API from your own site: the Google Cloud steps, the key, Search Console ownership, quotas, and the honest limits.
- Redirects and the 404 monitor: keep old addresses aliveAdd 301, 302, 307, 410 and 451 redirects, use regular expressions, import and export lists, bring redirects from another plugin, fix 404s people actually hit, and let the plugin redirect when a slug changes.
- Edit robots.txt safely: check, test and undoUse the robots.txt editor that reads your file the way Google does, tests it against your home page, sitemap and latest posts, and keeps the previous version.
- Edit .htaccess safely: tested before and after, undone if it breaksUse the .htaccess editor for Apache and LiteSpeed: what is checked, how the live test and automatic rollback work, how to restore an earlier version, and when the editor is read-only.
- Be found and quoted by AI search: llms.txt, Markdown copies and crawler rulesSwitch on llms.txt and Markdown copies, write your one-line summary, decide which AI crawlers may read your site, and see which bots visit.
- Clean up crawl clutter and thin archive pagesSwitch off WordPress head clutter, hide empty archives, redirect date and author archives and image attachment pages, and keep your feed credit line. Every switch is off until you choose.
Agents and the Inbox
What the ten agents propose, and how to act on each card.
- Use the Inbox: what each agent proposes and how to act on a cardOpen the Inbox, run your agents, and handle each kind of card: Refresher, Keyword Scout, Link Builder, Auditor, AI Visibility, Rank Digest, CTR Fixer, Link & 404 Keeper and Cannibalization Resolver.
- Evergreen Renewer: keep old guides fresh, safelyHow the Renewer picks posts, what a renewal changes (at most about 100 words), how to review and publish, the optional automatic mode on paid plans, and how to undo.
Site setup
Roles, languages, WooCommerce, page builders, multisite, data and updates.
- Decide who can do what: roles and rightsGive editors, authors and other roles exactly the OnlyAI SEO rights they need: manage everything, redirects, the Inbox, advanced SEO fields and AI help.
- Run OnlyAI SEO on a multilingual site (Polylang and WPML)What changes automatically with Polylang or WPML, how to translate your title templates, how links, sitemaps and redirects behave per language, and why hreflang is left to your language plugin.
- Set up SEO for a WooCommerce shopThe three WooCommerce switches (cart pages, filtered pages, product sharing), product structured data, product breadcrumbs and what to check on a shop.
- Use OnlyAI SEO with Elementor, Divi, Bricks, WPBakery and AvadaHow pages built with a page builder are scored and read, what 1-click SEO does and does not change on them, and what the agents skip.
- Set up OnlyAI SEO on a WordPress multisite networkActivate for the network, set the cloud key and defaults once as a super admin, choose what to force on every site, and read the sites table.
- Copy settings to another site, run big jobs with WP-CLI, and uninstall cleanlyExport and import your look-and-feel settings, run imports and scoring from the command line on big sites, re-score or clear scores, and what uninstalling removes.
- Update OnlyAI SEO: automatic updates, manual updates and how it is verifiedUpdate from the Plugins screen, turn automatic updates on, update by uploading a zip, and how the download is checked. Includes how to switch the update check off.
Help
When something does not work, and what leaves your site.
- Troubleshooting: fix the most common problemsTitles printed twice, scores that do not move, AI buttons that do nothing, error 401, 429, 502 and 503, Google not connecting, redirects not working, sitemap and robots.txt surprises, and how to ask for help.
- What leaves your site, and what never doesA plain list of what OnlyAI SEO keeps on your server, what it sends to OnlyAI Cloud and only when, how keys and Google access are stored, and how to turn things off.
Looking for reference rather than steps? See the documentation, the blog or the comparisons.