SEO and AEO Audit for WordPress with AI, Step by Step
An SEO audit used to mean exporting pages into a spreadsheet and checking titles, descriptions and headings one by one. Today there is a second audience as well: AI answer engines such as ChatGPT Search, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, which quote pages that answer questions clearly. Optimising for them is often called AEO, Answer Engine Optimization.
With RemoteWP, Claude or ChatGPT can audit your real WordPress site for both, give you a prioritised list of problems and, after one approval, fix them.
What you need
- RemoteWP connected to your AI agent. If you have not done that yet, follow How to Connect Claude to WordPress in 5 Minutes.
- An AI agent that can send HTTP requests, such as Claude Code or OpenAI Codex.
- The audit itself works on the Free plan, because it only reads. To apply fixes you need a Pro plan or the 7-day Pro trial.
An SEO plugin such as Yoast, Rank Math or SEOPress is not required, but if you use one, the agent reads and writes its title and description fields directly.
What the audit checks
| Area | What the agent looks for |
|---|---|
| Titles | Missing, duplicated, or outside 50–60 characters. |
| Meta descriptions | Missing, duplicated, or outside 120–155 characters, without a clear reason to click. |
| Headings | Exactly one H1 per page, and H2/H3 in a logical order without skipped levels. |
| Images | Missing or meaningless alt text. |
| Internal links | Pages with no links pointing to them, and anchor text such as “click here”. |
| Answer engines (AEO) | Questions your pages should answer, short direct answers under each heading, FAQ sections, and comparisons as tables or lists. |
| Technical basics | Pages marked noindex by mistake, canonical tags, and whether missing pages return a real 404. |
For the technical checks, the agent also opens your public pages the way a visitor or a search engine does.
Step 1: Run the audit
Start with a request that only reads:
Audit all published pages and posts for SEO and AEO.
Check titles, meta descriptions, H1 and heading order,
image alt text and internal links. Do not change anything.
Give me the results as a table, most important problems first.On a small site the agent can check every page. On a large blog, ask for one section at a time, for example the 50 most visited posts or one category.
Step 2: Read the report and set priorities
A useful report groups problems by impact, not by page. A typical order:
- Important pages marked noindex or missing from the sitemap.
- Missing or duplicated titles and descriptions on pages that bring traffic.
- Pages without an H1, or with several.
- Pages no other page links to.
- Missing alt text and FAQ sections.
If you have Google Search Console, paste the list of your top pages and queries into the conversation. The agent cannot open Search Console itself, but it can use that data to decide where to start.
Step 3: Optimise for answer engines
AI answer engines quote pages that answer a question directly. Ask the agent to adapt your key pages:
For the 10 most important pages, list the questions a customer
would ask about the topic. Under each H2, propose a direct answer
of 25 to 40 words. Suggest an FAQ section where it fits.
Use only facts already on the site. Show me everything first.Comparisons work best as tables or bulleted lists, which both people and AI systems read easily. If your SEO plugin has an FAQ block (Yoast and Rank Math both do), the agent can use it, and the plugin adds the FAQ structured data for you.
Step 4: Approve the fix list once
When the plan is ready, ask for the changes as one list:
Prepare the fixes for the titles, descriptions and alt text
you found. Show me a table with the page, the current value
and the new value. Apply it only after I approve the list.You review the table and approve it once. The agent then updates the pages one by one. RemoteWP backs up each page before changing it and keeps a WordPress revision, so every change can be undone. Changes to published pages always wait for your approval, which is exactly what the list gives.
Step 5: Verify on the live site
Open five of the updated pages and confirm the new title and
description are in the page source, there is one H1, and the
FAQ structured data is valid.Search engines need time to recrawl. In Search Console you can ask for the most important pages to be indexed again.
What an AI audit cannot do
- Guarantee rankings. Better titles, structure and answers help, but rankings also depend on competition and links from other sites.
- Build backlinks. Authority comes from other websites mentioning yours.
- Invent expertise. Tell the agent to use only facts that are already on the site, and review new text before you approve it.
Frequently asked questions
Can I run the audit on the Free plan?
Yes. The audit only reads, so it works on the Free plan. Applying fixes needs a Pro plan or the 7-day Pro trial.
Which SEO plugins does it work with?
The agent reads and writes the title and description fields of Yoast, Rank Math and SEOPress. Without a plugin, it works with your page content and headings.
Will it change my URLs?
Only if you ask, and changing the address of a published page always needs your separate approval, because it can break existing links.
Does it work with ChatGPT as well as Claude?
Yes. Any AI agent that can send HTTP requests can use the same RemoteWP connection prompt. See ChatGPT + WordPress and Claude + WordPress.