All in One SEO's meta tags, Open Graph tags, and schema.org output are baked into the page head at render time, the same shape as Yoast SEO and Rank Math — captured as-is in the static build, along with its virtual robots.txt output. Its XML sitemap is tracked as a refreshable fragment rather than assumed permanently static. The one feature that pulls this toward Hybrid is its optional Redirects addon, which isn't part of AIOSEO's core SEO output and not every site enables it.
No single mode applies — All in One SEO doesn't influence which serving mode a site should use; see the notes below for what it actually does.
Meta tags, Open Graph tags, schema.org markup, and the virtual robots.txt output are all rendered into the static release.
Only relevant if the optional Redirects addon is enabled: it has to check every incoming request against a live rules table before deciding whether to redirect, which needs WordPress on every request and can't be narrowed down to one bridgeable route.
No bridge needed for the SEO output itself. The XML sitemap is its own public route the crawler captures like any other page, but it needs to be regenerated on each rebuild — without that, it can advertise URLs that no longer match the live static build.
No special setup — detected automatically once active.
This Hybrid recommendation is really only relevant if this site has the Redirects addon enabled — many AIOSEO installs never turn it on. If it is enabled, a redirect rule only fires on a request that actually reaches WordPress: under Fully Static or Zero-WordPress/Vault Mode, a visitor hitting the old URL directly can land on a static 404 instead of being redirected, unless that URL is specifically bridged or the rule is mirrored in the host/CDN's own redirect configuration. This classification is rule-derived from AIOSEO's known architecture, not from an automated end-to-end test.
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