Blog SEO
Configure SEO metadata, broken-link checks, and discoverability settings for blog posts.
What to optimize per post
- Meta title and meta description
- Slug quality and readability
- Category/tag relevance
- Social image and OG preview fields
- Featured image alt text and in-post image alt text coverage
- Canonical and indexing behavior when applicable
Workflow
Open a post settings panel
Review Blog Health
Open Blog Health to check the score, focus areas, traffic, ranking visibility, and open SEO tasks for the post.
Refresh post SEO
Use Refresh Blog SEO after editing to refresh health signals, links, traffic, rankings, and AI suggestions.
Refresh the score only
Use the score refresh button when you want to rerun checks and broken-link status without applying suggestions.
Improve Blog SEO
Use Improve Blog SEO to refresh safe metadata suggestions, generate target keywords when needed, fill missing image alt text, and rerun the Blog Health checks.
Set metadata and taxonomy
Update title/description and align tags and categories with the post topic.
Publish and verify
Publish (or schedule), then verify preview cards and metadata output.
Notes
- Keep blog metadata aligned with page-level SEO strategy.
- Use consistent naming patterns for categories when you publish frequently.
- Revisit older posts when your SEO strategy changes.
- For post-level controls and publishing workflow, use Blog Post Settings, Drafts and Publishing, and SEO Automation and Bulk Actions.
Blog insights in post settings
Post settings now include an insights view to help you prioritize SEO work:
- Traffic: 7/30/90 day visits and views for the post.
- Ranking Visibility: tracked keyword ranks, rank movement, impressions, and clicks.
When rankings are missing, confirm your tracked keywords are configured and give snapshots time to populate.
Blog Health tab
The Blog Health tab helps you decide what to fix before publishing or updating a post.
- Draft Preview shows the current score and marks when publishing is needed before live health updates.
- Score Breakdown summarizes content, technical, links, and accessibility checks.
- Traffic shows recent visits and views across 7, 30, and 90 day windows.
- Ranking Visibility shows tracked search terms or suggested targets.
- Generate Keyword Targets creates suggested search targets from the post and business context when search query data is not available yet.
- Improve Blog SEO can apply safe metadata updates and generate missing alt text for uploaded post images.
- Unresolved Broken Links shows open link issues for the post so you can fix them before publishing or re-sharing older content.
- When a broken link has an exact edit location, use Change Link to replace the destination or Remove Link to keep the visible text and remove the link from the draft.
- If a fix is staged, publish the post when you want the live health score to reflect it.
- Heading fixes can be staged when Hiveality can safely identify the exact heading.
- Suggested keyword targets can be edited or removed so post-level SEO work stays aligned with the search intent you actually want to pursue.
- Task Status and Top Focus Areas show the highest-priority edits to make next.
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