Core SEO
Set up Core SEO and Core SEO Premium: titles and the Google preview, checks, sitemaps, analytics, the AI assistant, redirects, the site crawl and more.
Thank you for choosing Core SEO. This guide covers the free plugin and Core SEO Premium, from installation to a site that shows exactly what Google shows. If something is unclear, contact support from xolius.com.
Setup
- Requirements & installation What Core SEO needs, and how to install the free plugin and Core SEO Premium.
- Switching from Yoast SEO or Rank Math Copy titles, descriptions, keyphrases and settings in one go; your old sitemap addresses keep working.
- The Core SEO box in the editor The Google preview, the keyphrase, the checks and the social and advanced settings of every page.
- SEO and readability checks Every check, what makes it green, and how the SEO and readability scores are calculated.
Settings
- Titles, templates & variables The separator, the home page, and the title and description templates for every content type and archive.
- Social sharing What Facebook, LinkedIn, X and messengers show when someone shares a link.
- Site identity & structured data Who is behind the site, for Google’s knowledge panel and rich results.
- Sitemaps The XML sitemap that helps search engines find your content.
- Webmaster tools & Google Analytics Verify your site with Google, Bing and others, and add Google Analytics 4 or Tag Manager with Consent…
Premium
- Core SEO Premium & licence What Premium adds, and how the licence key brings updates and support.
- Dashboard, health score & to-do list One score for the whole site, a ranked to-do list, and fixes you review before they are applied.
- The Content screen Every page as Google shows it: find what needs work and fix it in bulk, with or without…
- Redirects & 404 log Send old addresses to the right page, find the missing ones visitors still try, and import redirects from…
- Site crawl Check every page like a search engine: broken links, redirects, duplicates, speed and more.
- Internal links & cornerstone content Which pages link where, pages nothing links to, and link suggestions while you write.
- WooCommerce, local business & news Product data for Google Shopping, your business in Google Maps, a Google News sitemap and IndexNow.
- llms.txt & cleaner page code A map of your site for ChatGPT, Claude and other AI search, and less clutter in your pages’…
AI
- AI settings & your API key Connect your own Anthropic API key, and choose the model, language and tone.
- The SEO assistant Ask in plain words; the assistant looks at your real pages and proposes changes you apply or undo.
- Writing with AI Titles, descriptions, keyphrases, drafts, FAQs, alt texts and category texts — always for you to check.
Help
- Languages & multilingual sites The languages the content checks understand, the translations, and WPML and Polylang.
- FAQ & troubleshooting Answers to the questions people ask most.
- For developers Filters, actions, shortcodes and JavaScript hooks to extend Core SEO.
- Changelog What changed in each version.