SEO by platform
SEO for WordPress.com
Sites hosted on wordpress.com cannot use the self-hosted WordPress connectors: /wp-json/ is not reachable there, and plans below Business cannot install plugins. This connection exists for exactly those sites, and you connect it with your WordPress.com account rather than a pasted credential.
Writing opens to customers in October.
Publishing to WordPress.com
You connect by signing in: choose WordPress.com on the Publishing grid, approve access on wordpress.com, and the connection is made without typing a token. Articles then publish into the site's blog as ordinary posts, flow off the same content calendar as every other platform, and each publish is verified by fetching the public URL.
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Choose WordPress.com
Open the project's Publishing tab. The WordPress.com card is also what site detection recommends when your site is hosted there.
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Approve access on wordpress.com
Click through to WordPress.com and approve the connection while signed in to the account that owns the site. No token is typed or pasted.
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Send a test publish
Publish an article and open it in your WordPress.com dashboard. Once the first posts reach Published, the chain is proven end to end.
Articles come off a planned calendar
Plan items on the content calendar and write them two ways: click Write on a card, or let Auto-write pick each one up at midnight on its calendar date. Both run the same researched pipeline, which drafts the article and then revises it against the content score across sweeps.
Docs: Content calendarInternal links point at pages that exist
With a website selected and an audit completed, the writer links to real crawled URLs from your site, never paths it invents. The 1-to-6 slider is enforced after generation as a hard rule, so the count you set is the count you get.
Docs: Internal linksEvery article is scored before you ship it
The content score runs 36 fixed checks in 6 categories, with no randomness anywhere: the same page always produces the same score. Each check comes back as a pass, a warn or a fail, and each failure names its specific fix.
Docs: Content scorePublished means the public URL answered
After every publish we fetch the public URL and record what came back. Published shows only when the page was found, a fresh 404 waits out a grace window, and a server error never concludes the page is missing.
Docs: Publish verificationThe connection is probed daily
A daily authentication probe runs against every connection. A failure marks it unhealthy with the cause named, authentication, permissions, or unreachable target, so you find out before the next article tries to publish into a dead connection.
Docs: Connection health
What it won’t do on WordPress.com
Better to know before your first publish.
The connection cannot carry JSON-LD: WordPress.com strips script tags out of post content, so sending it would publish the schema as visible text. Add structured data with a WordPress.com SEO plugin where your plan allows one.
There is no separate SEO title to write: WordPress.com hosts no SEO plugin on the plans this connector exists for, so the post title is the one readers and Google see. Rename the post if it must differ.
What SearchBlueprint does for a WordPress.com site
A planning tool, not an editor: it doesn't change your WordPress.com settings. It crawls your site and tells you which searches to go after and which page should win each one.
Try each one below, on SearchBlueprint’s own plan for its own site
1Starting from a blank list
Your keyword list, started from your own site.
Most keyword tools hand you thousands of phrases. Your plan starts from your own WordPress.com site instead: the searches you already show up for, and the ones a site like yours could rank for.
- Your current position for each search you rank for
- Searches a site like yours could rank for, marked not ranking yet
- Monthly searches and cost per click for each keyword
- #71
free website traffic rankings
170 searches a month · $6.33 a click
- #71
web traffic statistics free
110 searches a month · $10.71 a click
- #50
spy seo
30 searches a month · $20.47 a click
- #80
what is my hosting
30 searches a month · $3.45 a click
2Which page gets which search
Give each search its own page.
You've watched two of your own pages chase the same search and neither win. Every keyword you confirm goes to one page. Where two pages compete, you're told which ones, and where nothing fits, the plan suggests a page to create.
- One main keyword per page, across the site
- A warning when two of your pages compete
- Pages to create, where no page answers a search
40 pages mapped · 2 to build
Primary keyword
seo automation
1,900 searches a month · KD 14
Page
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3What people ask ChatGPT
Questions to answer for ChatGPT and AI Mode.
People ask ChatGPT full questions, not two-word searches. From the keywords you pick, your plan drafts the questions a buyer might ask and ties each one to a page. You keep the ones that sound like your customers.
- Questions for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Mode
- Each question tied to a page
- Remove any that don't sound like your customers
5 of 5 kept
4On a paid plan
A title and description for every page.
Confirm your keywords once and every page gets a title and a meta description in one list, ready to paste into WordPress.com's title and description fields. Your WordPress.com site only changes when you paste them in.
- A row for every page, not just the homepage
- Based on the keywords you confirmed for each page
- New pages to consider, listed with your current ones
- Keyword
- seo tool for agencies
- Secondary: client seo reporting, seo software for agencies
- Meta title
- SEO Tool for Agencies: Every Client Site | SearchBlueprint
- Meta description
- Run SEO and AI search plans for every client site, with branded reports and share links your clients open without a login.
- Recommended H1
- SEO for every client site, in one workspace
Questions people ask
Why not use the normal WordPress connection?
Because it cannot reach a wordpress.com-hosted site. The self-hosted connector talks to /wp-json/, which 404s on wordpress.com hosting, and the plugin cannot be installed below the Business plan. This connector goes through WordPress.com itself.
I moved my site to self-hosted WordPress. Which connection now?
Switch to the WordPress or WordPress Plugin connection. Those speak to your own install directly and, through the plugin, also carry structured data and the SEO title, which wordpress.com hosting has no place for.
Do my published posts survive disconnecting?
Yes. They are ordinary posts on your site. Disconnecting removes our access, nothing on the site changes.
See the plan for your own WordPress.com site
Your first plan is free and needs no card. It shows your rivals, the searches people type to find sites like yours, and which page should answer each one.
- Free first plan
- No credit card
- Keep your plan