aeotool

AEO Tool Connect is the companion plugin for <a href="https://aeotool.io" rel="nofollow ugc">aeotool.io</a>, the Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) platform. After auditing your site against 67 AEO criteria, aeotool.io generates the fixes — this plugin applies them on your WordPress site automatically, server-side, so AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended…) actually see them.
What it does
<ul>
<li>JSON-LD structured data — injected in the page head, matched per page, with automatic deduplication against Yoast SEO and Rank Math (Organization / WebSite types are skipped when those plugins are active).</li>
<li>robots.txt AI-bot directives — appended after your existing rules. Your robots.txt is never replaced.</li>
<li>Virtual /llms.txt — served only when no physical llms.txt file exists at your site root.</li>
</ul>
Built to be safe
<ul>
<li>The plugin never writes to your posts, pages or database content — everything is injected at render time through standard WordPress hooks.</li>
<li>Global kill-switch and per-module toggles.</li>
<li>One-click rollback to any of the last 3 applied bundle versions.</li>
<li>If aeotool.io is unreachable, the plugin keeps serving its local cache — your optimizations stay online.</li>
<li>Site-scoped key (never your account API key), revocable at any time from the aeotool.io dashboard.</li>
</ul>
An aeotool.io account with a Pro plan or higher is required to connect a site.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to aeotool.io (the plugin author’s own service) to retrieve the optimization bundle generated for your site. It is required for the plugin to do anything: the optimizations (JSON-LD, robots.txt directives, llms.txt content) are generated by your aeotool.io account and pulled by the plugin.
Exactly three API calls are made, all over HTTPS to <code>https://aeotool.io</code>:
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<li>Pairing (once, when you click Connect): sends the pairing code you typed, your site URL, your WordPress version and the plugin version. Returns a key scoped to this site only.</li>
<li>Bundle pull (twice a day via WP-Cron, or when you click Sync now): sends your site domain, authenticated with the site-scoped key. Returns the optimization bundle.</li>
<li>Status ping (after a bundle is applied): sends the applied bundle version, the list of active modules (e.g. jsonld, robots, llms), your WordPress version and the plugin version, so your aeotool.io dashboard can display the sync status.</li>
</ol>
No personal data, no post or page content, no visitor data, no analytics and no usage tracking are ever transmitted. The plugin makes no other network requests.
Service provider: AEO Tool — <a href="https://aeotool.io/cgu" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of service</a> — <a href="https://aeotool.io/confidentialite" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy policy</a>

AEO Tool Connect

Applies the AEO optimizations from your aeotool.io account to your site, server-side: JSON-LD, AI-bot robots.txt directives and llms.txt.

caidance

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity “who’s a good [your industry] near me?” — what does the AI say about your site? If it can’t read you clearly, it doesn’t give you a bad review. It just doesn’t mention you. You never see the miss.
Caidance — AI-Readiness Score scans your active WordPress site for the signals AI search and AI agents look for, gives you a 0–60 score with a clear band (Starter / Builder / Operator / Leader), and tells you in plain English the top three things to fix first.
It runs entirely on your site. No account required, no data sent anywhere, no external API calls.
<h4>What gets checked</h4>
Ten local checks run against your site:
<ol>
<li>llms.txt — the file AI agents check first</li>
<li>Sitemap declared in robots.txt — so AI can find your content</li>
<li>Organization schema — so AI knows who you are</li>
<li>WebSite schema with SearchAction — so AI can map your site</li>
<li>FAQPage schema — direct answers AI can cite</li>
<li>Article schema on posts — so blog content gets surfaced</li>
<li>Author / Person schema — for E-E-A-T signals</li>
<li>Open Graph + Twitter cards — for AI preview generation</li>
<li>Canonical tags — to prevent duplicate-content confusion</li>
<li>AI crawler access — does robots.txt allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, and Google-Extended? (Toggleable.)</li>
</ol>
Each check returns a clear pass / partial / fail with a plain-English explanation. No jargon, no false alarms.
<h4>Industry-aware fix list</h4>
Pick your industry from 11 options — Financial Services, Healthcare, Legal, Home Services, Nonprofit, Professional Services, Manufacturing, eCommerce, SaaS, Education, Local Retail & Restaurants — and the fix recommendations are tailored. The fix you see is the fix that actually matters in your industry.
<h4>What this plugin does NOT do</h4>
<ul>
<li>It does not auto-fix anything. The plugin shows you the gaps; you (or your developer) close them. No invisible changes to your site.</li>
<li>It does not require a Caidance account. Install, scan, see your score.</li>
<li>It does not phone home. Zero external HTTP calls. Results are stored in your own WordPress database.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Want the full off-site picture too?</h4>
This plugin scores your WordPress site itself. If you want to see how AI agents see your business across the whole web — review sites, social, your public footprint — Caidance offers a free 60-second snapshot at <a href="https://caidance.ai/snapshot/?utm_source=wp_plugin&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=wp_org_v1" rel="nofollow ugc">caidance.ai/snapshot</a>.
For paid layers (Toolkit, Monitoring), see <a href="https://caidance.ai/pricing/?utm_source=wp_plugin&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=wp_org_v1" rel="nofollow ugc">caidance.ai/pricing</a>.

Caidance — AI-Readiness Score

See what AI says about your site. A free 60-second scan + a clear top-3 fix list, all inside your WordPress admin.

AEO Tool Connect vs Caidance — AI-Readiness Score