How To Upload A Local SEO Project To WordPress With YACSS

The Local SEO Module is a tool designed to help improve a business's Google Business Profile (GBP) rankings in local search results. It works by generating a large number of driving direction signals — URLs and embeds that simulate real users navigating to the business from various locations around it — and publishing these across Google's own properties such as Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, Blogger, and WordPress.

How it works

Google sees its own properties (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Forms) linking to a business's Maps listing and treats these as trust signals — reinforcing relevance and prominence in the local area.

What you define

A business, a keyword, a radius, and a number of URLs. YACSS generates hundreds of unique driving direction links — each from a different random point within the radius — and publishes everything in one click.

The result

Publicly accessible Google-hosted pages — each containing the business description, map embeds, and direction links — all pointing back to the same GBP listing, building local authority at scale.

Prerequisite

Before uploading a Local SEO project to WordPress, you must first connect your WordPress account to YACSS. Follow this tutorial: How To Connect WordPress To YACSS →

Click The Drive Icon Beside Your Project

In the YACSS sidebar, go to the Local SEO Module. You will see a table listing all your local projects, each showing the project name, number of URLs, company, and creation date. In the Action column on the right side of each row, click the Drive icon (the cloud/upload icon) to open the export options for that project.

Step 1: Local Projects table with Drive icon highlighted in the Action column of a project row

Select Export To WordPress (.org) Or (.com)

Clicking the Drive icon opens a dropdown menu with the available export destinations. Select either Export To WordPress (.org) if you are publishing to a self-hosted WordPress site, or Export To WordPress (.com) if you are publishing to a WordPress.com hosted blog. Both options open the same upload popup and produce identical post content.

Step 2: Dropdown menu open showing Export To Drive, Export To Blogger, Export To WordPress .org and .com options

Select Your WordPress Account

The upload popup will open. The first field is Select Account — a required dropdown listing all the WordPress accounts you have connected of the type you selected. For .org these are self-hosted WordPress sites you added by providing your site URL, username, and a WordPress Application Password. For .com these are WordPress.com blogs connected via OAuth. Select the account for the site you want to publish to. Once you select a valid account, the system automatically fetches the available post categories from that site and populates the category dropdown below.

Choose A Category (Optional)

The Choose Category field is a multi-select dropdown that populates automatically after you select an account. It lists all the post categories that exist on the selected WordPress site. You can select one or more categories to assign the post to, or leave it blank entirely — the post will publish successfully either way. This field is not required.

Enter A Title For The Post

The Enter Title field is a required text input for the title of the WordPress post. When you open the popup from the project table this field is pre-filled with the project's main keyword, so you do not need to type anything unless you want a different title. You can edit it freely before publishing.

Choose Which Google Drive Embeds To Include

The Include section contains five optional checkboxes that let you embed Google Drive documents as iframes inside the post body. This section only appears if you have previously completed a successful Google Drive export for the project, since without a Drive upload there are no Google-hosted files to embed. You can tick any combination of these — if none are ticked the post will still publish with all the standard content, just without any Drive embeds.

Embed From Sheet — Embeds the Google Sheet containing all the driving direction URLs and embed codes as an iframe inside the post.

Embed From Slide — Embeds the Google Slides presentation as an iframe. Each slide contains one driving direction link.

Embed From Doc — Embeds the Google Doc containing the business description and all driving direction links as an iframe.

Embed From Calendar — Embeds the Google Calendar created during the Drive export as an iframe. The calendar contains a recurring daily event with the business information.

Embed From Google Form — Embeds the Google Form created during the Drive export as an iframe inside the post.

Click Create Post To Publish

Once you have filled in the required fields and selected any embeds you want to include, click the Create Post button. The post is published immediately as a live, publicly visible post — not a draft. The system assembles the content in the following order: a project image at the top if one was uploaded, followed by the business description (processed through Spintax if enabled), then any Drive embeds you selected, then all driving direction cards each showing a Google Maps iframe and address details, then all direction URLs listed individually as Google Maps Location link blocks, and finally any GBP Visit Profile links at the bottom.

Once published successfully a green success message appears inside the popup showing the live URL of the newly created post as a clickable link. If the publish fails a red error message appears saying "Failed to post."

Done! Your Local SEO project has been published to WordPress and is live with all driving direction signals in place.