🗂️ Overview

This article covers three related OTTO workflows that are commonly misunderstood: bulk-deleting title tag suggestions, scoping an existing OTTO instance to include a new subdirectory, and understanding why Twitter/X (and other external platform) recommendations cannot be deployed directly through OTTO.

🗑️ How to Batch-Delete Title Tag Suggestions in OTTO

OTTO does not currently support a single "select all and delete" button for title tag suggestions. However, you can remove multiple suggestions efficiently using the bulk-selection method below.

1. Navigate to OTTO SEO in the left sidebar, then open SEO Automation.
2. Open the relevant OTTO instance and go to the Title Tags section under On-Page recommendations.
3. Check the checkbox at the top of the suggestion list to select all visible items on the current page.
4. Click Reject or Delete from the bulk-action toolbar that appears.
5. Repeat for each additional page of suggestions until all unwanted items are removed.

Important limitation: Bulk selection applies only to the suggestions visible on the current page. If you have hundreds of suggestions across multiple pages, you will need to repeat the selection and deletion step for each page. There is no platform-wide "delete all" option at this time. If you need to clear a very large volume of suggestions, contact support via the chat widget for guidance on the most efficient approach.

🌐 Managing a Subdirectory Under an Existing Domain with OTTO

OTTO instances are scoped at the domain or subdomain level, not at the subdirectory level. This means one OTTO instance covers your entire root domain, including all subdirectories beneath it.

If a client adds a new subdirectory (for example, example.com/new-section/) to a domain already connected to OTTO, you do not need to create a new OTTO instance. The existing instance will automatically discover and surface recommendations for pages within that new subdirectory once they are crawled.

To ensure the new subdirectory is picked up promptly:

1. Go to OTTO SEO in the left sidebar, then open SEO Automation.
2. Open the existing OTTO instance for the domain.
3. Trigger a recrawl by navigating to OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Overview (Website Overview) and clicking the Recrawl Site button so OTTO indexes the new subdirectory pages.
4. Once the crawl completes, new recommendations for the subdirectory will appear alongside existing ones.

Subdomains are different: A subdomain such as blog.example.com is treated as a separate property and requires its own dedicated OTTO instance. If you are unsure whether your client's new section is a subdirectory or a subdomain, check the URL structure — a subdirectory uses a forward slash after the root domain, while a subdomain uses a dot prefix before it.

⚠️ Twitter/X Recommendations Are Read-Only in OTTO

OTTO can generate SEO and social recommendations for external platforms such as Twitter/X and LinkedIn, but it cannot deploy or publish these changes automatically. This is a known platform limitation caused by API restrictions on third-party write access to these external services.

What this means in practice:

• Twitter/X meta tag and profile recommendations appear inside OTTO for review purposes only.
• The Deploy button is disabled or absent for these recommendation types.
• Changes must be applied manually by logging into the respective external platform and updating the settings there.

📤 How to Export Twitter/X Recommendations and Apply Them Manually

To action Twitter/X or other external platform recommendations without losing the OTTO-generated suggestions, follow this export workflow:

1. Navigate to OTTO SEO in the left sidebar, open SEO Automation, and then open the relevant OTTO instance.
2. Locate the Social / External Platform recommendations section.
3. Click the Export button (CSV or copy-to-clipboard, depending on your plan) to save the recommendations.
4. Open the exported file or your clipboard notes and review each suggestion.
5. Log in directly to your Twitter/X account (or LinkedIn, as applicable) and apply the changes manually — for example, updating your bio, profile description, or pinned post metadata.
6. Once applied, return to OTTO and mark the recommendations as Resolved or Dismissed to keep your task list clean.

Tip: If you do not see an Export button, check that your account plan includes data export. Lower-tier plans may require an upgrade to access bulk export features.

📋 Quick Reference: OTTO Capability Summary

• Title tag bulk deletion: Supported per-page via checkbox selection; no global delete-all option.
• Subdirectory management: Covered automatically by the existing domain-level OTTO instance after a re-crawl.
• Subdomain management: Requires a separate OTTO instance per subdomain.
• Twitter/X recommendations: Read-only in OTTO — export and apply manually.
• LinkedIn recommendations: Same read-only limitation as Twitter/X.

💬 Need More Help?

If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.