Rilea SEO documentation.

Install Rilea SEO for WordPress

Needs WordPress 6.0 or later and PHP 7.4 or later.

1. 1

   Download the zip

   Download the WordPress version. Don't unzip it.

2. 2

   Upload and activate

   In WordPress go to Plugins, then Add New, then Upload Plugin. Choose the file, click Install Now, then Activate Plugin.

3. 3

   Save permalinks once

   Go to Settings, then Permalinks, and click Save so your sitemap URLs work.

4. 4

   Check the settings

   Open Rilea SEO, then Settings. The defaults work for most sites, so review them and change only what you need.

Import from Yoast SEO or Rank Math

Your old plugin's data isn't changed or deleted, so you can run the import again or switch back.

1. 1

   Keep the old plugin active

   The importer reads the old plugin's saved data, so leave it on until the import finishes.

2. 2

   Open the importer

   Go to Rilea SEO, then Tools. Click Import from Yoast SEO or Import from Rank Math.

3. 3

   Deactivate the old plugin

   Once the import finishes, deactivate the old plugin so meta tags and schema aren't printed twice.

4. 4

   Spot-check a few pages

   Open a few posts and check the Rilea SEO box shows your old titles, descriptions and keyphrases.

• SEO titles and meta descriptions
• Focus keyphrases and synonyms
• Robots settings and canonical URLs
• Facebook and X titles, descriptions and images
• Category and tag settings
• Redirects

Set titles and meta descriptions

1. 1

   Set site-wide templates

   Go to Rilea SEO, then Settings, then Titles & Meta. Set a title and description template for each post type and taxonomy using variables such as the post title and site name.

2. 2

   Override a single page

   In the post editor, open the Rilea SEO panel and write a custom SEO title and meta description. The Google preview updates as you type.

3. 3

   Set a focus keyphrase

   Add a focus keyphrase, up to 4 related keyphrases and synonyms. The analysis checks your title, description, URL, introduction and headings for them.

Set up sitemaps

If the sitemap shows a 404, save your permalinks once under Settings, then Permalinks.

1. 1

   Find your sitemap

   Your sitemap index is at yoursite.com/sitemap_index.xml. It links to a sitemap for each post type and taxonomy.

2. 2

   Choose what's included

   Go to Rilea SEO, then Settings, then Sitemaps. Turn post types, taxonomies, images, news and video sitemaps on or off. You can also exclude single pages from their editor panel.

3. 3

   Submit it to Google

   In Google Search Console, open Sitemaps, enter sitemap_index.xml and click Submit. Do the same in Bing Webmaster Tools.

Manage redirects and 404s

1. 1

   Add a redirect

   Go to Rilea SEO, then Redirects. Enter the old URL, the new URL and the redirect type, usually 301. Rules can match exactly, by pattern or by regex.

2. 2

   Let Rilea SEO handle moved pages

   When you change a post's URL, Rilea SEO creates a 301 from the old address automatically.

3. 3

   Fix broken URLs

   Open Rilea SEO, then 404 Monitor, to see which missing URLs visitors are hitting, and redirect them.

4. 4

   Import in bulk

   Moving a whole site? Import redirects from a CSV file instead of adding them one by one.

Install the Shopify app

The Shopify app is self-hosted, so setup is a developer task.

1. 1

   Check what you need

   A Shopify Dev Dashboard account, Node.js 22.12 or later, PostgreSQL, Redis and an HTTPS server.

2. 2

   Install and set up the database

   Unzip the download, run npm install, copy .env.example to .env, start Postgres and Redis, then run the migrations.

3. 3

   Link and deploy

   Run npm run config:link to connect to an app in your Dev Dashboard, deploy to your server with your keys set as secrets, then run npm run deploy.

4. 4

   Install on your store

   Choose custom distribution in the Dev Dashboard, open the install link, then click Turn on Rilea SEO in theme editor and Save.