Cloudflare
WordPress Integration for Cloudflare
HaloSEO connects to your WordPress site once and publishes finished posts to it. This page explains how that works when your site sits behind Cloudflare.
How HaloSEO connects and what permission it needs
You connect your WordPress site to HaloSEO once. HaloSEO needs permission to create and publish posts on that site. It does not need access to your Cloudflare account, and it does not ask for your Cloudflare login. Cloudflare sits in front of your site and serves it to visitors. HaloSEO talks to WordPress, and Cloudflare passes the traffic through as it does for any other request. If your site is behind a firewall rule or a challenge that blocks automated requests, you may need to allow the connection. That is a setting on your side, and we will tell you what to check if a publish fails.
What the published post looks like on a Cloudflare site
The post is a normal WordPress post. It uses your site's own theme, your header, your footer and your fonts. It sits on your own domain, at the URL your WordPress settings produce. Cloudflare caches and serves it the same way it serves every other page on the site. Nothing about the post is hosted by HaloSEO. There is no separate blog subdomain and no embedded widget. If you change your theme later, the post changes with it, because it is part of your site.
What happens on Cloudflare that does not happen elsewhere
Cloudflare is a proxy and a cache in front of your origin. When a new post is published, Cloudflare may keep serving a cached copy of the page until the cache clears. Your WordPress site is the source of truth, and Cloudflare is a copy of it. If you use Cloudflare's cache rules, you control how long that copy lives. HaloSEO does not purge your Cloudflare cache and does not manage your Cloudflare settings. If a fresh post does not appear right away, the cause is usually the cache, and clearing it is a step on your side.
What breaks, and what happens when it does
A publish can fail. Common causes are a changed WordPress password, a revoked connection, a security plugin that blocks the request, or a Cloudflare rule that challenges it. When a publish fails, HaloSEO reports the failure and keeps the post so it can be retried. It does not publish a partial post and it does not change anything else on your WordPress site. Nothing is deleted from your site by HaloSEO. If the connection is broken, you reconnect it and retry. We do not host your blog, so there is no second copy of your site to fall out of sync.
Who this is not right for
This is not right for you if you want HaloSEO to host your blog. It does not. It is not right for you if you need a plugin installed and maintained on your site, because there is no plugin. It is not right for you if you want HaloSEO to manage your Cloudflare account, purge your cache or change your Cloudflare settings. It does not do any of that. It is also not right for you if you expect a guaranteed ranking, a set position or a fixed date for results. We do not control search engines and we do not promise any of those.
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How it runs, once it is connected
You do the first step. HaloSEO does the other six, on its own, every week.
- 01
Connect your website
- 02
HaloSEO researches keywords
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Writes blog posts
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Publishes automatically
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Creates internal links
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Builds backlinks
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Improves rankings on Google and AI search engines