The Query Arg Monitor is a much-requested feature born from the shortcomings of our Crawl Cleanup. FYI, Crawl Cleanup is a feature we developed in response to user requests for better query arg handling. It allows you to whitelist query args (URL parameters) you need on your site and automatically delete unnecessary ones.

Managing query args this way helps improve indexing and ensures you use your crawl budget efficiently.

So what’s new in AIOSEO 4.5.8?

[New] Query Arg Monitoring Module

In our 4.5.8 release, we’ve made the Crawl Cleanup module even more powerful and flexible. One way we did that is to separate the RSS feeds section (Crawl Cleanup) and the Query Arg section. The stand-alone query arg section is now called Query Arg Monitoring.

Let’s quickly look at the new changes the Query Arg Monitoring module does.

Improved Query Arg Stripping/ Query Arg Monitoring

One of the major improvements you’ll find in Crawl Cleanup 2.0 is improved query arg stripping. In version 1, the tool would strip any unknown query arg (not whitelisted). This would cause plugin conflict and reduce the functionality of some features in platforms like WooCommerce by removing functioning query args.

To solve this problem, we’ve created a query arg monitor that crawls your site and checks all your query args. Instead of stripping all query args by default, you now have to select the ones you want to strip.

To get started, you’ll have to turn the Query Arg Monitoring toggle to the On position. This will open a card with many settings for controlling your query args.

 Notable settings include:

Log Retention

This keeps a log of your query args, making it easier for you to identify and select the ones you don’t need. These are displayed in a table and are categorized as Unblocked and Blocked.

If a query arg has been logged, you can block it using the Bulk Actions feature or on the Actions tabs next to the query arg (Block Key or Block Key & Value). This will automatically add it to the Blocked list.

You can also set the period for which you want the Query Arg Monitor to keep a log of your query args in the database. This setting helps control the server resources used by the Query Arg Monitoring module.

Block Query Arg

This part of the card allows you to manually select the query arg you want to block. Even if the query arg hasn’t been logged yet, you can enter the key and value into the field: 

This feature gives you more granular control of how specific query args are handled.

Besides this significant update, we’ve made several notable improvements to many features you love. You can see all our changes in our full product changelog.

What are you waiting for? 

Update your site to AIOSEO 4.5.8 to unlock these powerful new features and rank your content higher on SERPs.

And if you’re not yet using AIOSEO, make sure to install and activate the plugin today. 

If you have questions about these features, please comment below or contact our customer support team. We’re always ready to help. Our commitment to making AIOSEO the easiest and best WordPress SEO plugin is only getting stronger as we continue to win together with our customers.

We’re so grateful for your continued support, feedback, and suggestions. Please keep those suggestions and feature requests coming!

We hope you enjoy using these new SEO features as much as we enjoyed creating them.

-Benjamin Rojas (President of AIOSEO).

In a nutshell, we’ve upgraded many features you love. We’ve enhanced the functionality and improved the user interface (UI) to make it easier for you to rank your content higher on search engines.

So, without further ado, let’s jump right into it.

Improved SERP Preview

When you update to AIOSEO 4.5.6, one of the things you’ll notice is that our SEO previews look prettier. We revamped them to reflect the current way Google displays search results.

If the new look doesn’t impress you, then the next enhancement will surely blow your mind away. That’s because we’ve now added support for schema markup in the SEO Preview. This means when you add schema to your pages, this will also reflect in the preview. For example, let’s say you add product schema to a page. This will also be displayed in the SEO preview.

This also reflects when you look at the SEO preview from the front end:

Your focus keyword will also be populated in the search bar and highlighted in bold letters in the meta description. All these new updates help you optimize your SERP snippets for better rankings and improved clickthrough rates.

Schedule Redirects

We’ve also made major improvements to our Redirection Manager. One such is the ability to schedule your redirects.

This is a handy feature if you want to implement temporary redirects that return to the original URL after the set time expires. Examples include when you’re:

• Carrying out site maintenance
• Running special events like short promotions
•  Moving from HTTP to HTTPS

You can also schedule a permanent redirect to be implemented on a particular day.

Scheduling your redirects this way reduces instances of 404 errors or users landing on the wrong page. It also increases the user experience on your site. Both are essential in helping you rank higher on SERPs and achieve your business goals.

Import Redirects from CSV File

If you have a large number of redirects, editing them individually can be tedious. That’s why we’ve made it easier by enabling you to import your redirects via a CSV file. You can edit the entire list in a spreadsheet program, making bulk changes and updates much easier.

This handy feature also enables you to export redirects from other redirect plugins that support the function so you can import them to your site by uploading the CSV file.

This is a time-saving feature for those who work with bulk redirects. It also helps ensure you don’t lose your search rankings by ensuring all your URLs work perfectly well.

Improved Author SEO (Google E-E-A-T) Module

We recently released our revolutionary Author SEO (Google E-E-A-T) module. While it was received with rave reviews, some of our customers had brilliant suggestions to improve the feature. 

That’s why we’ve quickly implemented many of the suggestions in this release. Examples of the improvements we’ve made include:

Dedicated tab in Search Appearance

For greater visibility and ease of access, we’ve included a dedicated tab for the Author SEO module in the Search Appearance section.

Added Ability to Add More Alumni

We’ve also added the ability to add more alumni in the Author Info section. This is pretty handy for those who have graduated from many schools.

These improvements (and more) have made the Author SEO module more powerful, making it easier to demonstrate E-E-A-T signals in WordPress.

Besides this significant update, we’ve made several notable improvements to many features you love. You can see all our changes in our full product changelog.

What are you waiting for? 

Update your site to AIOSEO 4.5.6 to unlock these powerful new features and rank your content higher on SERPs.

And if you’re not yet using AIOSEO, make sure to install and activate the plugin today. 

If you have questions about these features, please comment below or contact our customer support team. We’re always ready to help. Our commitment to making AIOSEO the easiest and best WordPress SEO plugin is only getting stronger as we continue to win together with our customers.

We’re so grateful for your continued support, feedback, and suggestions. Please keep those suggestions and feature requests coming!

We hope you enjoy using these new SEO features as much as we enjoyed creating them.

-Benjamin Rojas (President of AIOSEO).

Introducing the Author SEO addon in AIOSEO 4.5.4.

This is a powerful module that will help you meet Google’s E-E-A-T content guidelines, resulting in better rankings and increased traffic.

What is Google E-E-A-T?

Google’s E-E-A-T stands for Expertise, Experience, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. It is a set of criteria that Google uses to assess the quality of content on the web, particularly for pages that deal with topics related to health, finance, and other areas where accuracy and reliability are crucial. 

The concept is prominently mentioned in Google’s Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines, which are guidelines given to human evaluators who assess the quality of search results. Google designed these to ensure the content published online is of high quality. E-E-A-T is an acronym that stands for:

• Experience: refers to the first-hand experiences the author or other members of the team have with that particular topic.
• Expertise: refers to the expertise of the creator of the main content.
• Authoritativeness: refers to the authoritativeness of the main content creator, the content, and the website the content is published on.
• Trustworthiness: Refers to the trustworthiness of the main content creator, the content itself, and the website it’s published on.

The purpose of these standards is to help improve the quality of content published on the web. In addition, it helps ensure that content is accurate and helpful to users. This has become even more critical since the rollout of the Helpful Content Update (HCU). 

Implementing Google E-E-A-T Has Become Easier with AIOSEO 4.5.4

With AIOSEO 4.5.4, it’s now easier to showcase E-E-A-T signals on your posts and pages, thanks to the Author SEO addon. You can now specify your areas of expertise, your experience, and more. You can do that in the Users section of your WordPress Dashboard. If you update to AIOSEO 4.5.4, you’ll find a new section called Author SEO, where you can input information to boost your E-E-A-T SEO.

The Author SEO section is where you can add an author’s information to help validate your E-E-A-T signals. 

Some of the author info you can add include

• Alumni Of
• Employer
• Job Title

And because AIOSEO outputs JSON schema for said information, search engines can easily understand it and take it into consideration.

Besides your credentials and role in your organization, you can also add categories of your areas of expertise.

All this information points to your experience and expertise in your field. Plus, coupled with the JSON schema markup, it proves to search engines that you’re qualified to talk about the subject. This helps you rank higher in searches around your keyword.

Leverage Your Author Bio

Trust is one of the key pillars in Google’s E-E-A-T content guidelines. One way you can gain readers’ trust is by letting them know who you are. This is why we added some blocks to help you inject author information into your posts. To get started, fill in your author bio information in the Author SEO section:

The author bio section allows you to add your author image, an author excerpt, and a full author bio.

One way of leveraging your bio is by adding an Author Name (Written By) author block. This gives a very brief summary of the post’s author. Hovering over the author’s name reveals a tooltip with a mini bio.

You can also add an author bio at the bottom of your page. By default, this will be a compact bio.

This gives a brief summary of the author. It also:

• Links to the author’s archive page (page with all the author’s articles)
• Showcases your areas of expertise
• Links to your social media accounts

You can choose to display the full bio by going to the Author Bio block settings and turning the Show Compact Author Bio toggle off.

This results in your full bio being displayed:

Again, this helps you demonstrate your expertise, experience, authority, and trustworthiness. As a result, meeting Google’s E-E-A-T guidelines is easier.

Boost Authority and Credibility by Adding a Reviewer

Another great way to boost your credibility is by adding a reviewer for your content. This helps show that your content has been fact-checked and is accurate. That’s why we added support for showcasing a reviewer on your posts.

This is particularly important for YMYL articles, where you need to demonstrate that your content is accurate, up-to-date, and reliable. A reviewer also shows that your content is backed up by an expert and can be trusted.

Adding a reviewer goes a long way in helping you build trust and authority, boosting your Google E-E-A-T score. 

Implementing Author SEO with Shortcodes

Besides the blocks, AIOSEO’s Author SEO addon also supports shortcodes and PHP functions. Some of the shortcodes the addon supports include:

[aioseo_eeat_author_tooltip show-label="true" show-image="true" show-tooltip="true"]

[aioseo_eeat_reviewer_tooltip show-label="true" show-image="true" show-tooltip="true"]

[aioseo_eeat_author_bio compact="false"]

Supported PHP functions include:

aioseo_eeat_author_tooltip( $showLabel = true, $showImage = true, $showTooltip = $true );

aioseo_eeat_reviewer_tooltip( $showLabel = true, $showImage = true, $showTooltip = true );

aioseo_eeat_author_bio( $compact = true )

These shortcodes and PHP functions make it easier to embed Author SEO elements anywhere on a post or page.

Besides the E-E-A-T addon, we’ve also made improvements to other features you already know and love. You can see all our changes in our full product changelog.

What are you waiting for? 

Update your site to AIOSEO 4.5.4 to unlock these powerful new features and rank your content higher on SERPs.

And if you’re not yet using AIOSEO, make sure to install and activate the plugin today. 

If you have questions about these features, please comment below or contact our customer support team. We’re always ready to help. Our commitment to making AIOSEO the easiest and best WordPress SEO plugin is only getting stronger as we continue to win together with our customers.

We’re so grateful for your continued support, feedback, and suggestions. Please keep those suggestions and feature requests coming!

We hope you enjoy using these new SEO features as much as we enjoyed creating them.

-Benjamin Rojas (President of AIOSEO).

That’s why we’re so excited to announce page builder integrations for WPBakery and Avada in AIOSEO 4.5.2.

This means you can use AIOSEO right from your favorite page builder’s dashboard. As a result, optimizing your content has just become more manageable. It also helps you create an optimized site structure, giving you a solid foundation for your SEO campaigns, all from within your favorite page builder.

Let’s quickly see how these page builder integrations work:

AIOSEO + WPBakery

WPBakery is fast becoming one of the most popular page builders for WordPress. If you’re one of its fans, you’ll be glad to know that you can now find AIOSEO in both the front-end and back-end editor. For example, in the front-end editor, you’ll find the AIOSEO button in the top left menu corner of the page builder.

The AIOSEO button features your TruSEO score so you can quickly see how well you’ve optimized your page.

Clicking on the button will open a menu with AIOSEO settings.

You can select any menu item depending on what you want to optimize on that page. The beauty of this is that TruSEO also works right from within the page builder. This means you can work on your on-page SEO on the fly.

Because you’re able to optimize your pages and posts right from within WPBakery, you have greater flexibility in implementing your SEO. Plus, it reduces the time needed to optimize your website.

Ranking your pages has become easier as you can now implement SEO best practices right from within WPBakery. 

AIOSEO + Avada

For the Avada users, we’ve also added an integration that makes it easy for you to optimize your page as you build it. You’ll find the AIOSEO button at the top left-hand side of the Avada toolbar.

Clicking on the AIOSEO button will open a menu with most of the AIOSEO settings you’re familiar with and love.

You can optimize many aspects of your pages and posts from within the page builder. These include schema, social meta, and more. You can even use the powerful SEO Revisions and TruSEO features right inside Avada.

All these enable you to easily optimize your page on the fly with AIOSEO’s suggestions.

If you love the Avada page builder, then you’ll love it more when you experience the powerful combination of your favorite page builder and the world’s best SEO plugin.

Limit the Modified Date in WPBakery and Avada

Another handy feature you’ll love with our WPBakery and Avada integrations is the ability to limit the modified date when you make changes to your posts or pages.

When you’re working on an already published page, you’ll be able to stop the update from changing the published date.

This is perfect for those times you make minor changes on your posts or pages and don’t want to signal the change to users and search engines. It also prevents the page from being moved to the top of your sitemap as a new page.

Having AIOSEO working in your page builder gives you more control and flexibility on how you optimize your website. This definitely is a game changer for those who use these supported page builders.

Besides WPBakery and Avada, we also have integrations with Divi, Elementor, and SeedProd. Our goal is for AIOSEO to integrate seamlessly with all your favorite page builders.

We’ve also made some improvements to many other features in the plugin. You can see all our changes in our full product changelog.

What are you waiting for? 

Update your site to AIOSEO 4.5.2 to unlock these powerful new features and rank your content higher on SERPs.

And if you’re not yet using AIOSEO, make sure to install and activate the plugin today. 

If you have questions about these features, please comment below or contact our customer support team. We’re always ready to help. Our commitment to making AIOSEO the easiest and best WordPress SEO plugin is only getting stronger as we continue to win as a team with you, our customers.

We’re so grateful for your continued support, feedback, and suggestions. Please keep those suggestions and feature requests coming!

We hope you enjoy using these new SEO features as much as we enjoyed creating them.

-Benjamin Rojas (President of AIOSEO).

Introducing Index Status in AIOSEO 4.5.0.

This powerful feature lets you easily see whether Google has indexed your URLs.

What is Indexing, and Why is it Important?

When you publish a post or page on your website, search engines have to discover it. To do this, they crawl your website to find your URLs. Once they’ve crawled a URL, they put it in an index. 

Indexing in search engine optimization (SEO) refers to the process search engines use to collect, analyze, and store information from web pages. This information is stored in a database called an index.

Indexing means that the search engine has added the page to its database and can now retrieve and display it in relevant search results when users query your keyword.

This is important because it increases your visibility in search results, resulting in more traffic to your site.

Because knowing the index status of your URLs is important, many of you have been asking for a way to easily see that from your WordPress dashboard.

That’s why we’re so excited to announce Index Status.

What is Index Status?

The Index Status is a new feature in AIOSEO that shows you the indexing status of your web pages.

You can see the index status of your web pages in the AIOSEO Details section on the Posts page of your WordPress dashboard.

You can also see it in the Content Performance sections of Search Statistics and the Content Rankings report.

And when you hover your cursor over the index status, you get more information about that URL. 

This includes:

• Last Crawl: The date the URL was crawled
• Crawled As: The user agent that crawled the page (mobile or desktop user agent)
• Crawl Allowed: Whether crawling for that URL is permitted in your robots.txt file
• Indexing allowed: Whether indexing for that URL is permitted by the robots.txt meta
• Page Fetch: Whether fetching of the page was successful

It also shows the user-declared and Google-selected canonicals.

All this vital information helps you understand how Google indexes your content.

Supercharge Your Rankings with Index Status

Index Status is a powerful feature that can help boost your search rankings. One way it does that is by letting you easily notice URLs that are not indexed.

This allows you to quickly troubleshoot any indexing issues that a URL may have. As a result, you increase your chances of ranking as all your content will be indexed.

Besides this significant update, we’ve made several notable improvements to many features you love. For example, the AIOSEO Details section on the Posts overview page in WordPress has been revamped. 

Apart from the Index Status and TruSEO score, it now also shows the Headline Analyzer score. Plus, you can now change your Title and Description using smart tags right in the AIOSEO Details section.

You can see all our changes in our full product changelog.

What are you waiting for? 

Update your site to AIOSEO 4.5.0 to unlock these powerful new features and rank your content higher on SERPs.

And if you’re not yet using AIOSEO, make sure to install and activate the plugin today. 

If you have questions about these features, please comment below or contact our customer support team. We’re always ready to help. Our commitment to making AIOSEO the easiest and best WordPress SEO plugin is only getting stronger as we continue to win as a team with you, our customers.

We’re so grateful for your continued support, feedback, and suggestions. Please keep those suggestions and feature requests coming!

We hope you enjoy using these new SEO features as much as we enjoyed creating them.

-Benjamin Rojas (President of AIOSEO).

This new page is your go-to resource for learning the strategies behind websites with explosive organic growth.

We’ll share their winning techniques so that YOU can boost traffic and rankings on YOUR site.

SEO case studies are at the heart of this exciting addition, offering real-world examples and actionable insights.

Why SEO Case Studies?

Many website owners struggle to climb the search engine results page (SERP) and get the traffic that comes with higher rankings.

You look at the competition and wonder: What are they doing so differently to come out on top? And how can I get the same results for my website?

That’s where our SEO case studies come into play.

SEO case studies allow us to uncover the precise strategies fueling a website’s organic growth.

Then, we share these findings with you.

What You’ll Discover

Our Trends page is your backstage pass to SEO strategies that unlock your website’s organic performance.

Here’s what you can expect in each SEO case study:

1. Success Stories: We’ll take you behind the scenes of websites that have achieved outstanding organic traffic growth. From niche blogs to eCommerce giants, these case studies span an array of industries, providing valuable insights for all.
2. Traffic Strategies: We won’t just showcase success; we’ll decode the strategies that powered it. You’ll gain a clear understanding of the tactics and techniques these websites employed to make it to the top of the SERP.
3. Replication Guides: It’s not enough to know what others did. Our SEO case studies will guide you on how to implement these strategies on your website. You’ll receive step-by-step instructions to kickstart your own journey toward greater organic traffic.
4. Why These Strategies Matter: Understanding the why is just as important as the how. We’ll share insights into why these strategies work so you’re empowered to use their potential on your website.
5. Tools of the Trade: Success often hinges on having the right tools. We’ll recommend the tools and resources you need to implement the strategies effectively on your WordPress site.

Trends: Helping YOU Win by Learning From the Best

At All in One SEO, we’re dedicated to helping you achieve online success.

Our new Trends page lifts the veil on SEO and shares the growth strategies that actually make a difference.

We hope these SEO case studies serve as your playbook to boost your website’s rankings and drive more organic traffic.

So, what are you waiting for?

Hop on over to Trends, and let us know what you think!

We think you’re going to like it there.

– Benjamin Rojas
President, All in One SEO

Introducing Cornerstone Content.

This game-changing feature will help you boost your search rankings in so many ways. 

What is Cornerstone Content?

Cornerstone content refers to the crucial and foundational set of web pages or articles on your website. These pieces of content are typically comprehensive, in-depth, and highly informative, covering core topics or themes central to your site’s overall subject matter or niche. 

Cornerstone content serves several important purposes in the realm of content marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), some of which include:

• Authority and expertise: Cornerstone content helps you establish topical authority. It also helps you better showcase your expertise. Both are important elements in meeting Google’s E-E-A-T quality standards.
• Improved crawling: Creating cornerstone content helps you create a more optimized internal linking structure. This improves crawling by search bots and boosts your SEO.
• Improved indexing: When search engines identify your cornerstone content, they can better index it for relevant search terms.

How do you let search engines know which content on your site is cornerstone content?

Introducing the Cornerstone Content Feature

The new Cornerstone Content feature allows you to mark the important posts and pages on your site as cornerstone content.

Marking your content as cornerstone content makes your marked articles a priority in Link Assistant for internal linking suggestions (marked by a building icon).

This helps ensure that your cornerstone content is prioritized for inbound and outbound internal link suggestions whenever you publish an article. When you add these link suggestions, search engines will “see” that most links point to your cornerstone content. As a result, they’ll place more value on these content pieces.

Why is this important?

Optimize Your Internal Linking Strategy

One of the primary reasons the Cornerstone Content feature is important is that it helps optimize your internal linking strategy. This is because cornerstone content is the hub for internal linking within a website. It connects to other related articles or pages, creating a web of interconnected content that helps with navigation and SEO.

Build Topic Clusters and Boost Topical Authority

Using the Cornerstone Content features also helps you build topic clusters. These result in a boost in topical authority. It also enables you to show up for related searches around your topic, thus helping increase your chances of ranking higher on search engine results pages (SERPs).

Boost Your Semantic SEO

Semantic SEO is an approach to search engine optimization that focuses on understanding and optimizing for the meaning and context of search queries and web content rather than just individual keywords. It considers the intent behind user queries and leverages semantic search technology to provide more relevant search results.

Using the Cornerstone Content feature helps optimize for semantic search as the strategic internal linking makes it easier for search engines to understand your site’s main theme.

Better Management of Your Primary Posts and Pages 

When you mark your content as Cornerstone Content, it gets added to a new post list filter dedicated to cornerstone content.

This gives you an easy way to get an overview of your important pages, making it easier to keep tabs on their performance. It also makes it easier to see which ones are due to be updated. Managing your important pages just got easier!

Cornerstone Content is a superpower many WordPress users wish they had. 

And AIOSEO has just given you that superpower.

With this game-changing update, outranking your competitors has just become easier.

Besides this significant update, we’ve made several notable improvements to many features you love. For example, we’ve refreshed our user interface, making it sleeker and more fluid. You can see all our changes in our full product changelog.

What are you waiting for? 

Update your site to AIOSEO 4.4.8 to unlock these powerful new features and rank your content higher on SERPs.

And if you’re not yet using AIOSEO, make sure to install and activate the plugin today. 

If you have questions about these features, please comment below or contact our customer support team. We’re always ready to help. Our commitment to making AIOSEO the easiest and best WordPress SEO plugin is only getting stronger as we continue to win together with our customers.

We’re so grateful for your continued support, feedback, and suggestions. Please keep those suggestions and feature requests coming!

We hope you enjoy using these new SEO features as much as we enjoyed creating them.

-Benjamin Rojas (President of AIOSEO).

Here at AIOSEO, we’re delighted to make your on-page optimization easier than ever with our TruSEO Highlighter!

This is the most requested feature from our users. Here’s what it does.

TruSEO Highlighter

As All in One SEO (AIOSEO) analyzes your page content and makes readability recommendations, it will highlight items that need fixing.

This makes it easy to find exactly where the problem is.

Simply click on the eye icon to turn on these blue highlights.

In this example, AIOSEO tells us a section of our text needs a subheading. So, we click the eye icon.

Immediately, the section of our text that needs another subheading is highlighted in blue. And a floating toolbar appears.

If you have more than one instance of an item to fix, click the arrows in the floating toolbar to find the next item.

We’re confident the TruSEO highlighter will save you time and make your on-page optimization more enjoyable.

To use TruSEO Highlighter, update your All in One SEO (AIOSEO) plugin to the most recent version. Then, in the AIOSEO sidebar, click on Readability.

The highlighter appears on these Readability items:

• Paragraphs Length
• Sentences Length
• Passive Voice
• Consecutive Sentences
• Subheading distribution

Do On-Page SEO Faster

Even the smallest time savings can add up. That’s why our users requested this feature: it shaves minutes off the process of locating on-page SEO issues.

With TruSEO Highlighter, there’s no need to scroll up and down looking for errors. Instead, you can instantly spot items needing correction thanks to the handy blue highlighting.

TruSEO Highlighter lets users spend their time on higher-value tasks by taking the hassle out of error identification.

How to Get Our All in One SEO (AIOSEO) Plugin

If you don’t already have All in One SEO (AIOSEO), download it here.

We continue to be inspired by the incredible things our users accomplish with their SEO. And we’re grateful for the thousands of 5-star reviews on WordPress.org: your feedback means everything.

Remember to follow our blog and YouTube channel for straightforward SEO tips.

Thank You for Your Support and Feedback!

We’re continuing to provide tools and guidance to help our users succeed.

Thank you for choosing our product and being part of our community. We look forward to seeing all that you’ll achieve!

Please keep those feature requests coming!

Have a question? Simply drop it in the comments below this article or contact our world-class support team. They’re happy to assist.

We hope you enjoy using these new SEO features as much as we enjoyed creating them.

— Benjamin Rojas (President of AIOSEO).

Then you’ll be as excited as we are about our latest plugin update!

We’ve listened to your feedback and added more power and functionality to our robots.txt editor.

Clean-param: Reduce Unnecessary Crawls

One of the new crawl directives we’ve added to our robots.txt editor is the Clean-param directive. 

This powerful directive instructs search bots to ignore URL parameters like GET parameters (such as session IDs) and tags (UTMs). These can result in many problems for your SEO, including:

• Duplicate content issues
• Wasted crawl budget
• Indexation issues

These factors result in search engines taking longer to reach and crawl important pages on your site.

The Clean-param is a powerful feature that gives you more granular control of how search engines crawl your site. As a result, you increase the chances of the right pages ranking on search engines.

Crawl-delay: Regulate the Frequency Of Crawling 

Another new directive in our robots.txt editor is the Crawl-delay directive.

Crawl-delay is a directive used in the robots.txt file to instruct search engine bots on the rate at which they should access and crawl your site. This directive is particularly useful when you want to control the frequency of bot visits to avoid overloading your server, especially if you have limited server resources or high traffic. This can impact the performance of your website or, in some extreme cases, make it inaccessible.

Adding the crawl delay directive can help you avoid overloading your server during times you anticipate a lot of traffic.

Import Robots.txt Rules From Any Site

If you’re setting up a new website and want to implement a basic robots.txt file, you can save time and effort by simply using an existing site’s rules as a starting point.

To help you do this, we’ve added an Import function to our robots.txt editor.

You can use this function to import a robots.txt file from a site by inputting the URL or by visiting the site and then copying and pasting the robots.txt file.

If you’re working on a website similar to another one, you might find that they have implemented useful rules that are applicable to your site as well. This can save you time in crafting your own rules. It can also help you avoid making mistakes if you’re still new to editing robots.txt files.

Improved Rule Validation and Error Handling

Besides the powerful directives and import functionality, we’ve also improved the rule validation and error handling in our robots.txt editor. This helps you quickly spot conflicting rules or other errors in your robots.txt.

You can easily delete the erroneous rule by clicking on the trash can icon next to it.

With these latest additions to our plugin, improving your crawlability and indexability has just become easier. As a result, your site and content stand a better chance of ranking high on search engine results pages.

Besides this significant update, we’ve made several notable improvements to many features you love. You can see all our changes in our full product changelog.

What are you waiting for? 

Update your site to AIOSEO 4.4.4 to unlock these powerful new features and rank your content higher on SERPs.

And if you’re not yet using AIOSEO, make sure to install and activate the plugin today. 

If you have questions about these features, please comment below or contact our customer support team. We’re always ready to help. Our commitment to making AIOSEO the easiest and best WordPress SEO plugin is only getting stronger as we continue to win together with our customers.

We’re so grateful for your continued support, feedback, and suggestions. Please keep those suggestions and feature requests coming!

We hope you enjoy using these new SEO features as much as we enjoyed creating them.

-Benjamin Rojas (President of AIOSEO).

Well, your wish has just been granted! Introducing All in One SEO Analyzer by AIOSEO, our novel Chrome extension that makes SEO checks a breeze.

This powerful Chrome extension gives you a big-picture view of your SEO, bringing problem areas into crisp focus. And we’re thrilled to offer it at no cost to all our users. You can download it immediately from the Chrome Web Store.

AIOSEO Analyzer lets you quickly check webpage and technical SEO elements.

You don’t even have to log into WordPress. You can use the Analyzer to check your unpublished or published pages. And you can analyze competitor sites too.

Whether you’re a business owner, blogger, or marketer, you won’t want to miss out on these benefits.

Speed Up Content Reviews

Content is a vital aspect of SEO. And content quality is the #1 ranking factor. High-quality content drives conversions, sales, and increases in market share.

Use the All in One SEO Analyzer to speed up pre-publication checks and editorial reviews.

• Quickly Check Titles and Meta Descriptions: Instantly see if they’re compelling and use all available space.
• Review Content Structure: Get an outline view of web pages to ensure well-organized content. Logical structure is a key aspect of quality content.
• Examine Links: Check the quality of internal and external links and ensure your linking strategy is on track.
• Check Image SEO: See if alt text and titles are present to get optimal traffic from image searches.
• Verify Schema: Confirm schema is implemented to maximize click-throughs from search results.
• Increase Social Media Traffic: Find out if your pages are optimized for social sharing.

Simplify Technical SEO Checks

While you’re doing your content checks, you can quickly see if there are technical issues that will prevent your pages from ranking.

• Check homepages for Sitemaps and Robots.txt: It takes 1 click to confirm these important files exist.
• Indexable URL: Verify that search engines can index the page.
• Canonical URL: Make sure the page you’re testing is a self-referencing canonical URL.

Work Smart

SEO takes time, but the All in One Analyzer by AIOSEO saves you effort with fast SEO checks.

Focus on creating great content while our tool tackles the SEO details. The Analyzer will help you work smarter and take your SEO to the next level!

Download the All in One SEO Analyzer today.

How to Get Our All in One SEO (AIOSEO) Plugin

What happens if the Analyzer reveals a problem, like lack of schema or pages that aren’t optimized for social media?

This is where our WordPress plugin comes in. Designed for beginners, AIOSEO provides click-button solutions for all SEO issues.

You can download All in One SEO here.

We continue to be impressed by what our users do with their SEO! And we thank you for the thousands of 5-star reviews on WordPress.org.

Thank you!

We sincerely appreciate your ongoing support, constructive feedback, and creative suggestions.

And we encourage you to keep sharing your ideas and feature requests with us!

Have a question? Simply drop it in the comments below this article or contact our world-class support team. They’re happy to assist.

To higher rankings,

Benjamin Rojas
President, All in One SEO