seo/update-rss-settings sets the text Yoast prepends and appends to every item in the site feeds.
Its purpose is to link scraped copies back to the original.
At a glance
| Ability | seo/update-rss-settings |
| Toolset | Yoast SEO — toolset/yoast-seo |
| Group | Yoast SEO › Settings |
| Requires | Yoast SEO, active on the site |
| Capability | manage_options |
| Safety | Writes data |
| Repeatable | Idempotent — running it twice leaves the same result |
| Ships in | AcrossAI Abilities Manager 0.0.34 and later |
Writing for the scraper
Content scrapers republish feeds automatically, and they republish the HTML as it comes. A line appended to every feed item saying where the post came from, with a link, arrives on the scraped copy along with everything else.
That turns a scrape from pure loss into a backlink, and it gives a search engine comparing two identical pages a signal about which is the original.
The variables %%POSTLINK%% and %%BLOGLINK%% expand to the post and the site, which is what makes the line useful rather than generic.
It appears in legitimate feed readers too, which is the trade. Keep it to one short line — a paragraph of boilerplate on every item is noticeable to the people who subscribe deliberately.
Idempotent.
Input
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
settings | object | Yes | A map of setting key to new value. Keys outside this area are refused. |
What comes back
| Name | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
updated | array | The keys that changed. |
settings | object | The area after the write. |
success | boolean | Whether the call completed. |
message | string | A one-line summary of what happened, suitable for showing a human. |
error_code | string | Present only on failure — a stable machine-readable reason, such as a missing field, a wrong field type or an unmet confirmation. |
Example
Ask your assistant:
Add an attribution line to our feed items.
It resolves to one call:
{
"ability": "seo/update-rss-settings",
"parameters": {
"settings": { "rssafter": "The post %%POSTLINK%% appeared first on %%BLOGLINK%%." }
}
}Worth knowing
- The point is the backlink on scraped copies.
%%POSTLINK%%and%%BLOGLINK%%are the available variables.- Real subscribers see it too. Keep it to one line.
- Idempotent.
Related abilities
- Update Crawl Optimisation Settings — where feeds can be disabled
- Get SEO Settings — read the current text
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