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# Existing page SEO repair

Open *Writrex → SEO Repair*. Two tabs: **Generated pages** (pages Writrex created) and **Existing pages** (everything else on the site). This page covers Existing pages.

**Metadata only.** Repairs can change the *meta title*, *meta description* and *focus keyphrase*. They never touch page content, layout, templates, slugs, canonicals or robots settings.

## Allowance by plan

| Plan | Scan | Repairs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | Included | 5 lifetime repairs (never resets) |
| Starter | Included | 15 per calendar month, resetting on the 1st in your site's timezone |
| Professional and above | Included | Unlimited |

Undo restores the original metadata but does not refund allowance.

## Scanning

Scanning reads your saved metadata — no AI calls, no changes. It runs in batches with a cursor so it can resume, and results are cached. On slower shared hosting, lower the *batch size*. Saving a page invalidates its cached verdict.

| Status | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| Optimised | The field looks usable under the current scan rules. |
| Plugin default | Your SEO plugin appears to use a template. An empty meta title often means the plugin generates it from its title template — not that the page is broken. |
| Needs improvement | Present, but too short, too long, duplicated, generic or worth reviewing. |
| Missing | No usable saved value. |

## Single-page repair

1. Pick the fields to repair — title, description, focus keyphrase.

2. **Propose** — Writrex asks your AI provider for suggestions (one request per page) and stores the proposal. Nothing on the live page changes yet.

3. **Apply** — the current values are backed up, then the proposal is written to your SEO plugin.

4. **Undo** — restores the backup for the fields that were written.

Fields that already contain a value are skipped unless you tick *overwrite*. Changing an existing focus keyphrase changes what your SEO plugin scores the page against.

## Bulk repair

Select pages, generate proposals in a chunked queue, review, and apply them together. Each batch is recorded so it can be undone as a group, and field-scoped restore only reverts the fields that were written.

**API credit.** Bulk suggestions use one AI request per page, so large sites consume provider credit accordingly.

## Generated pages tab

Diagnoses meta descriptions on pages Writrex created, proposes a better description and applies it, with backup and restore. Available on every plan.
