🔍 Overview
When using OTTO SEO to deploy improvements across your site, you may notice that the platform applies a limit of 100 improvements per bulk deployment action. This is a deliberate safeguard designed to protect site stability, prevent server overload, and ensure each batch of changes is applied cleanly before the next set begins.
This article explains why the limit exists, how to work within it effectively, and what to expect as the feature continues to evolve.
⚙️ Why the 100-Improvement Limit Exists
Deploying large numbers of on-page changes simultaneously can put significant strain on both your website's server and Search Atlas's processing infrastructure. The 100-improvement cap helps to:
- Prevent database and server overload — large uncapped batches can cause performance issues that affect your site and other users.
- Ensure deployment accuracy — smaller batches allow the system to verify each change was applied correctly before continuing.
- Maintain platform stability — our engineering team is actively working on scaling bulk operations safely (see the roadmap section below).
📋 How to Deploy More Than 100 Improvements
Even with the current limit, you can still deploy hundreds or thousands of improvements — you just need to do it in sequential batches. Follow these steps:
- Open OTTO SEO from your Search Atlas dashboard and navigate to the site you want to optimise.
- Filter or sort your improvements by category, priority, or page to identify the first group you want to deploy.
- Select up to 100 improvements from the list using the bulk-select checkboxes.
- Click Deploy and wait for the confirmation that the batch has been successfully applied.
- Repeat the process for the next group of improvements. There is no limit on how many batches you can run — only on the size of each individual batch.
Tip: Start with your highest-priority improvements first — such as missing title tags, meta descriptions, or critical schema fixes — so your most impactful changes go live quickly while you work through the remaining batches.
💡 Best Practices for Large-Scale Deployments
- Group improvements by type or page template — this makes it easier to review results and roll back a specific category if needed.
- Allow time between batches — giving Search Atlas a few minutes to process and verify each batch before starting the next one helps ensure accuracy.
- Monitor your site after each batch — check that pages are rendering correctly and that no unintended changes have occurred before continuing.
- Use filters inside OTTO — filtering by improvement status (e.g. Suggested vs Deployed) helps you keep track of where you are across multiple sessions.
🛠️ What We're Building: Roadmap Update
Our engineering team is actively working on improvements to bulk deployment capabilities. Planned work includes:
- Expanded bulk deployment limits — we are developing the infrastructure to safely support larger batches without risking performance issues.
- Bulk write-from-spreadsheet — an upcoming feature will allow you to upload improvements via spreadsheet with enforced validation, making large-scale deployments faster and more structured.
- Enhanced OTTO Agent bulk actions — the OTTO Agent will gain the ability to suggest and deploy fixes in bulk with greater automation and control.
These features are at various stages of development and will be announced in the platform when they become available.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I run multiple batches in the same session? Yes. You can deploy as many batches of up to 100 improvements as needed within a single session. There is no daily or session cap on the number of batches.
- Will my progress be saved between sessions? Yes. Any improvements you have already deployed are marked as such in OTTO, so you can pick up where you left off in a future session.
- Can I undo a batch after deploying it? OTTO SEO includes rollback functionality for deployed changes. Check the deployment history within your OTTO dashboard to revert specific batches if needed.
- Is the 100-limit the same for all plan types? Currently, yes. As our bulk deployment infrastructure scales, higher limits may become available on certain plans. Watch for platform announcements.
💬 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.