Rank Math now has an AI remote control
Rank Math MCP is a bridge that lets an AI agent talk directly to your WordPress site's SEO settings. Before this, you had to click around the Rank Math dashboard yourself. Now an AI connects to the site over a secure link and does the SEO work for you, hands-off.
- Rank Math = the SEO plugin you already have on every WordPress site.
- MCP = a secure API protocol that AI agents use to call tools on external services.
- Together: the AI logs into Rank Math remotely and runs SEO tasks without you clicking.
6 things the AI can do on your site
The MCP server exposes 6 tools. Five are read-only (they observe and report). One writes (it fixes things). This split makes it safe: the agent can audit and analyze freely, but any change goes through the one write tool so you always know what moved.
- audit-site-seo: runs a full SEO audit across the whole site.
- fix-site-seo: the ONLY write tool. Auto-fixes failing SEO tests.
- get-post-seo-details: reads a page's title, description, focus keyword, and canonical URL.
- get-post-schema: reads a page's structured data (schema markup).
- get-post-links: reads internal and external links on any page.
- get-site-link-report: site-wide link health: broken links, redirects, nofollow counts.
WordPress + Rank Math + a secure HTTPS endpoint
The MCP server runs inside WordPress. It exposes a single HTTPS endpoint that an AI client connects to. Authentication uses a scoped app-password user (not the admin account) so the AI has exactly the access it needs, nothing more.
- The AI client sends a tool call over HTTPS to the Rank Math MCP endpoint.
- WordPress authenticates the request using a scoped, non-admin app password.
- Rank Math executes the tool and returns results directly to the AI.
Hands-off SEO audits and fixes across many sites
The real payoff is scale. Point your AI fleet at any client WordPress site, have it run a full SEO audit, flag the issues, and push the fixes, all without you sitting in a dashboard. One agent can cover sites you would normally touch manually.
- Audit a client site in minutes, not an afternoon.
- Fix failing SEO tests automatically without clicking through Rank Math manually.
- Run the same audit across 10 client sites in parallel.
- Get a link health report for any site on demand.
Live on your own server with all 6 tools verified
We set up a persistent install on your brain box server with a Cloudflare tunnel for HTTPS, Rank Math Pro installed, and all 6 tools tested with a real read-plus-write round trip. The endpoint is live right now.
- Server: your brain box (persistent, always-on).
- HTTPS: Cloudflare tunnel (no open ports, encrypted).
- Endpoint: https://rankmath-mcp.imerlino.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server
- All 6 tools: read and write verified with a clean round trip.
Install the same setup on real client sites
The pattern is proven. Roll it out to client WordPress sites that meet the requirements: PHP 8.3 or newer, Rank Math installed, a scoped non-admin app password, and the write tool (fix-site-seo) kept under human approval for each client. The fleet can then run SEO ops on those sites the same way.
- Requires PHP 8.3 or newer on the client site.
- Create a scoped non-admin WordPress user with an app password.
- Keep fix-site-seo (the write tool) human-approved on client sites.
- Once wired: the fleet audits, flags, and fixes client SEO without manual clicks.