I understand this is a bit dated, but thought others may be researching the same issue. I get around this by duplicating page with a similar need of updates required by not ready to be published. Once duplicated, I remove the SEO to the “waiting page” so it’s not crawled should the site need to be published before this page is ready so no one will accidentally stumble upon it until it’s ready. (could even put a password on it if you’d feel better.) I can then make updates and corrections to the page until it’s ready to be published. Then I change the name of the original URL page so I can replace the copy with the correct URL named page and turn on the SEO settings again. I can then delete the outdated page. This way any previous SEO will still follow the corrected updated page with the same URL name. (Full disclosure…I am not as concerned with the SEO because my sites are smaller (small non-profits and ind. contractors that just need a confirmation presence) but it’s a good work around for me this situation.