How we automated on-page SEO with an AI agent — 497 pages in 7 minutes for $0.45
On-page SEO is tedious. A specialist opens a site and manually edits page copy, categories and tags, H1-H6 headings, Title and Description meta tags, image Alt attributes, and optimizes the images themselves for faster loading.
We decided to rethink that process entirely.
So we built our own AI assistant on top of a Hermes Agent, gave it specialized skills, trained it on SEO best practices, and integrated it with WordPress sites via the REST API.
Now the agent runs under a specialist's supervision and handles most of the routine on-page SEO work. The specialist sets strategy and reviews results; the AI does the heavy lifting.
Test results
We ran a series of tests on real projects. One was a corporate site with a blog totaling 497 pages.
Full SEO processing of every page took the agent just 7 minutes. To speed it up, the work was split across three sub-agents.
The total cost was just $0.45.
For comparison: doing it by hand, a specialist would need more than three working days, and the cost would exceed $100.
The numbers
- 🚀 205× faster than manual work;
- 💰 222× cheaper than the traditional approach;
- ✅ consistent quality across every page;
- ✅ scales to sites with thousands of pages.
What's next
The agent currently works with WordPress sites. We're actively developing the platform and already building connectors for other popular CMSes.
If you want to automate your site's SEO, cut costs, and speed up the work by dozens of times — get in touch.
The Hermes Agent makes SEO faster, cheaper, and more scalable.
