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Backup and Restore SEO

What it is

Under AISA → Utility, Backup SEO takes a full snapshot of your SEO data and stores it in the database (the last 5 snapshots are kept, FIFO) and/or downloads it as a JSON file. A snapshot captures, for every published item:

  • SEO title, meta description and focus keyphrase, read through the active plugin's adapter (so it works even for AIOSEO's custom table);
  • the AISA AI Search Context;
  • rotation variants (title and description, including multilingual ones) plus the per-post rotation cap and sync flag;
  • the URL slug;
  • term SEO for enabled taxonomies, and image alt text + titles.

Restore writes the snapshot back using the active adapter. It is an exact restore: items that were empty at backup time are returned to empty if they gained SEO afterwards — so "Restore" genuinely undoes a One-Click run, not just a partial overwrite. (Older v4 backups without the full ID universe restore only the items present in the backup.) The Bulk feature can also auto-create a backup via AJAX before a mass operation.

Questions people ask

Where are snapshots stored? In the option aisa_seo_backups (not autoloaded), keeping the 5 most recent; you can also download any snapshot as JSON and restore from a file later.

Can Restore undo a One-Click? Yes. Because the snapshot records which items existed and were empty, restoring resets them to empty, fully reversing a One-Click batch.

Does Backup work without an SEO plugin? Backup needs an adapter to read core SEO fields; in pure Standalone mode the AISA fields and AI context are still captured. If there is nothing to save, no snapshot is created.

Related

  • Migrate SEO between plugins
  • Export and import settings
  • Repair invisible SEO and database maintenance

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