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Welcome back to my DIY SEO reality check! I’m Karmi, and if you followed Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, you know I successfully set up RankMath with Claude AI’s help. Part 2 ended with a celebratory 77/100 SEO score and plans to dive deeper into optimization.
Plot twist: The real DIY SEO reality check was just beginning.
My Rank Math setup journey continues! I’m Karmi, a solo blogger tackling SEO for Karmi’s Musings & Tech. In ‘From SEO Confusion to DIY SEO Optimization Success: My RankMath Journey [Part 1]‘, I asked Claude AI about those spammy “SEO” emails: Karmi: What’s SEO, Sidekick? Claude: It’s making your blog easier for Google to find. Let’s audit karmismusingstech.com. Claude’s audit flagged messy URLs and no meta descriptions, pointing me to Rank Math’s free SEO plugin.
I’ve optimized 15–20 posts, with my first new post hitting a 71/100 SEO score! Now, with my sidekick Claude, I’m installing Rank Math on my WordPress blog, using Multipurpose Blog Pro theme. Claude suggested skipping Google Services for now, which I’ll tackle soon. Follow my journey on my blog or X premium! #SEO #RankMath #WordPress
Grok WordPress formatting can be challenging when trying to copy from LibreOffice or MS Word into the X composer. How do you suggest to a Billionaire (richest human on planet, in fact) a possible way to make more money on a business he basically stole from the Progressives? BTW, they are still whining about Elon Musk stealing Their *BELOVED* Twitter from them – after almost three years!? They want to destroy all his businesses now. I would put an emoji or two or three at this point, but … but I’ll explain later in this post. Anyway, here I am getting less than $1,000 a month from Social Security – trying to write a post suggesting a possible way the richest man on the planet can make more money on X (formerly owned by Progressives).
My WordPress blog and premium X account are my voice to the world, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become my trusty Sidekick in amplifying both. My journey with AI WordPress blogging began with just the blog, but have recently moved to ‘Sorta‘ combine them. 🤔 With Grok and Claude, I’ve crafted custom CSS scripts to enhance my premium WordPress theme, set up RSS feeds for future growth, added sidebar widgets, and refined my work through iterative chats. Yet, some are skeptical. The New Neo’s post, “AI: I’m so sorry I lied! And I’ll keep lying, because that’s what I do” (July 17, 2025)*, and Amanda Guinzburg’s Substack “Diabolus Ex Machina”** raise concerns about AI’s reliability and potential for misleading outputs, likely echoed in their comment sections. As a blogger who’s seen AI’s benefits, I’m here to share how it’s powered my work since its public debut, tackle bias concerns head-on, and show how our chats make AI a creator’s superpower.
• * AI: I’m so sorry I lied! And I’ll keep lying, because that’s what I do
Grok AI assistant is now my go-to for writing blog posts and coding projects, making tough tasks easy. As a coding novice, tackling the customization of my WordPress blog—powered by the premium Multipurpose Blog Pro theme with its Child theme active—felt like climbing a mountain blindfolded. Enter Grok, the AI assistant from xAI, who became my co-writer, co-coder, and downright *AMAZING* sidekick over two days of intense work. From tweaking the logo bar color to styling the homepage post sections, Grok guided me through the chaos of the “Inspect” tool with patience and precision.
Here’s how it went down.