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What CitedSEO changes on your site, and what it never does

CitedSEO adds new articles and changes only the articles it wrote. It never redirects, deletes or hides a page, and never touches pages you made yourself.

Written By Damian

Last updated About 2 hours ago

CitedSEO adds new articles to your site and changes only the articles it wrote itself. Pages you made, like your home page, product pages or posts you wrote, are read but never changed. Every page stays live at its address: CitedSEO never redirects, deletes, merges away or hides a page from Google, and it only takes down one of its own articles when you ask it to.

What it adds

A new article, for a search you don't have a page for yet. It goes live on your feed under the path in Settings › Site details › Where articles go, and, with WordPress connected, as a new post there. See How articles reach your site.

What it changes, and only in its own articles

Every kind of opportunity except Content gap works on articles CitedSEO wrote and put live. A page it didn't write is never raised as a card, so it's never changed. Each kind keeps to its own part of the article:

ChangeWhat it touches
New titleThe article's title and search snippet. Nothing in the body.
Links addedA link on words in a sentence that's already there, or one short new sentence leading to the page. A link to a page that has gone is pointed at a live page, or its words stay without it. Nothing else in the article changes.
Page updatedOnly the sections named in the card's What we'll change. Every other section stays word for word.
A change you ask forWhat you asked for, in that one article. See Ask for a change in your own words.

New links always go inside CitedSEO's own articles. They can point at any page of your site, including ones you wrote, but nothing is added to those pages.

A Cannibalisation card's What we'll change: keep one article as the main page, refocus the other, and link it to the main page

What it never does

  • Redirect, delete or hide a page. When two of its articles compete for one search, one is kept as the main page and the other is refocused on searches of its own. Both stay live. A plan that would redirect a page, add a canonical tag or noindex, unpublish a page, set it back to draft or merge pages is refused before it reaches a card. See Two of your articles competing for one search.
  • Change a page it didn't write, its words, its title or its links. A broken link on one of your own pages isn't raised either.
  • Change anything in Search Console, Google Analytics or Plausible. It only reads them.

On WordPress

CitedSEO writes only its own posts, each found again by its post id or a mark it puts in the post, and adds its images to your media library. It doesn't change your pages, your other posts, your menus, theme, plugins or settings.

An update changes that same post. Taking an article down, which only happens when you take it down yourself (Take down in Opportunities › Shipped or on the article's Versions card), moves its post to the trash, where you can bring it back. CitedSEO never deletes a post for good.

How much changes, and when

CitedSEO starts one change a day, after your site's publish time. While your site is on Approve first, every change waits for your OK; Autopilot decides which kinds go ahead on their own. Each change is kept as a new version of the article, so anything that went live can be undone.

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