Conqueror – SEO

Description

Conqueror is an SEO service that researches keywords, then improves the pages on
your site to rank for them. Its agents read your published content and propose a
rewrite; you review each proposal as a diff inside Conqueror and decide whether
to apply it.

This plugin is the starting point inside wp-admin. It does five things:

  • Checks the three things that make connecting fail – HTTPS, application
    passwords, and REST API reachability – and tells you which one to fix.
  • Gives you a button that opens Conqueror with this site’s URL prefilled.
  • Explains what Conqueror will and will not do to your site.
  • Prints the revenue attribution tag, once you turn that on from Conqueror,
    so there is no snippet to paste into your theme.
  • Lets an approved change update the title and description Google shows for a
    page, when the site uses Yoast SEO or Rank Math.

Nothing on this site changes until you apply a rewrite. Conqueror never
publishes on its own.

What this plugin sends

Nothing. It stores no credentials, contains no tracking, and makes no requests to
Conqueror or any other external service. The one network request it makes is a
loopback request to your own site’s REST API, to check that an outside caller can
reach it.

Search listing (Yoast SEO and Rank Math)

Google usually shows the title and description your SEO plugin prints, not the
post title. Yoast SEO and Rank Math keep those in fields WordPress does not let
outside apps change, so without this plugin a rewrite cannot reach them.

With it, a change you approve in Conqueror updates the SEO title and meta
description in Yoast SEO or Rank Math, and rolling the change back puts the
previous ones back. If someone edits them in the Yoast or Rank Math box after a
change was prepared, Conqueror refuses to overwrite that edit.

Conqueror can only do this as the user you connected with, and only for posts
that user is allowed to edit.

Revenue attribution

Off unless you turn it on from inside Conqueror. When you do, Conqueror writes a
site key to this site over the connection you already granted, and the plugin
adds a small script to your pages.

That script sends nothing to Conqueror. It keeps a cookie on your own domain
recording which page a visitor first arrived on, and passes that to Stripe when
they check out – so Conqueror learns where a sale came from only when a sale
happens. Visitors who never buy are never reported anywhere.

Turn it off in Conqueror and the tag stops being printed immediately.

Access is granted by WordPress itself, through the core application-password
screen (wp-admin/authorize-application.php), which you approve while logged
into this site. The plugin never sees the resulting password. Revoke it any time
under Users Profile Application Passwords, or by disconnecting in
Conqueror.

A Conqueror account is required

The plugin is a connector; the service does the work. Conqueror is a paid
third-party service operated by Conqueror. See
the site for terms and pricing.

Installation

  1. Install and activate the plugin.
  2. Open Conqueror in the wp-admin menu.
  3. Fix anything the readiness panel reports as failing.
  4. Click Connect this site to Conqueror, choose your project, and approve the
    connection on your own site.

FAQ

Will it publish or change my posts?

Not on its own. Rewrites are proposals you review and apply from inside
Conqueror. Nothing on the site changes until you do.

Does it work with Yoast SEO and Rank Math?

Yes. With this plugin active, approved changes update the SEO title and meta
description those plugins print. Without either of them, Conqueror updates the
post title, which is what WordPress prints on its own.

Do I need HTTPS?

Yes, for the one-click connection – WordPress core refuses to issue application
passwords over plain HTTP (local development installs are exempt). Without HTTPS
you can still connect by creating an application password manually under
Users Profile.

The readiness panel says application passwords are turned off.

Some hosts and security plugins disable them via the
wp_is_application_passwords_available filter. Ask your host to enable it, or
use the manual connect form in Conqueror.

How do I disconnect?

Revoke the “Conqueror” entry under Users Profile Application Passwords,
or click Disconnect in the project’s settings in Conqueror. Deleting this plugin
does not disconnect the site, because the connection is not stored here.

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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

0.3.0

  • Search listing: approved changes can now update the SEO title and meta
    description in Yoast SEO or Rank Math, and roll them back.
  • Edits made on the site in between are never overwritten.
  • No new data leaves this site. The plugin still makes no outbound requests.

0.2.0

  • Adds revenue attribution: Conqueror can now turn on the tracking tag from the
    app, so there is no snippet to paste into your theme.
  • No new data leaves this site. The plugin still makes no outbound requests.

0.1.0

  • First release: readiness panel and one-click connect handoff.