Alex Khomichenko

The leader in content syndication for WordPress publishers now helps protect you from Artificial Intelligence companies using your content without compensation. If you are not blocking the AI companies access, they have no incentive to license your content.
Features include:
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<li>Block the bots of leading AI companies from scraping your content</li>
<li>See the bots name, IP address and last seek date</li>
<li>Add/remove bots from the block list</li>
<li>Opt in to create a common AI bot list and give blocked bots instructions on how to license your content.</li>
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SimpleFeed is the leading content syndication solution for WordPress Publishers. We work with over 500 publishers to syndicate their content to Apple News, MSN, SmartNews, Newsbreak, Opera News, Samsung News, Yahoo and just about anywhere your users consume content. We are working with these publishers, and publishers who use this plugin and want to participate, to license their content to leading AI companies.
SimpleFeed has a non-public plug-in which also enables publishers to be more successful in their syndication efforts. SimpleFeed customers get the complete plug in, best practices for successful syndication, and technical support.
Please note that blocking the wrong bot and/or presenting the wrong Robots.txt can lead to traffic declines. This plug in is free and offered “as is” without warranty or support.
Install now to preserve your rights to potential future compensation from the AI companies.
<h3>Use of 3rd Party Services</h3>
The AI Rights Protection by SimpleFeed plugin communicates with an external service hosted at <a href="https://www.simplefeed.com/wp-content/simplefeed/wp-simplefeed-bots-protection-admin-rest.php" rel="nofollow ugc">SimpleFeed</a> to perform the following functions:
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Storage of Plugin Settings: The plugin sends and retrieves plugin settings to/from the SimpleFeed service. This ensures that your settings are securely stored and synchronized with the external service.
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Bot Request Statistics: The plugin collects and stores statistics about bot requests on your WordPress site. These statistics are sent to SimpleFeed for analysis and reporting purposes.
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Premium Access Validation: The plugin checks with the SimpleFeed service to verify if your WordPress user account has premium access to the plugin features.
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For more information, please review the <a href="https://www.simplefeed.com/other/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">SimpleFeed Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.simplefeed.com/other/tos/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a>.
By using this plugin, you agree to the data transmissions to SimpleFeed’s external services for the purposes outlined above.

AI Rights Protection by SimpleFeed

Protect your rights by reviewing and blocking AI bots from using your content without compensation.

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Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.
<h3>Track, control, and optimize your website for AI agents and bots</h3>
You have <a href="https://knownagents.com/insights" rel="nofollow ugc">40% more visitors than you think</a>. Protect your content from unwanted AI scraping and crawling, and turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business. For full details, visit the <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Known Agents</a> website.
<h3>1. Agent Analytics</h3>
Get realtime insight into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website.
<ul>
<li>Monitor traffic from crawlers and scrapers: Track the hidden activity of <a href="https://knownagents.com/agents" rel="nofollow ugc">all known artificial agents</a> visiting your website in real time.</li>
<li>Analyze how AI agents browse your website: Review sessions from AI models autonomously navigating and interacting with your website. Optimize their experience to increase conversions and human referrals.</li>
<li>Detect bots spoofing legitimate agents: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot.</li>
<li>Get alerted to bot traffic spikes: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li>See which agents visit most frequently and which pages they target: Break down bot traffic by agent and URL to understand where crawlers and scrapers are focused.</li>
<li>Export reports to CSV: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Referral Tracking</h3>
Measure human conversions from AI chat and search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and more.
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<li>Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic: See which LLMs are recommending your website and measure how many humans click through to visit.</li>
<li>Export reports to CSV: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt</h3>
Protect IP, reduce server cost, and save time by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously.
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<li>Block crawlers and scrapers by category: Control access for entire agent categories including AI crawlers, scrapers, SEO bots, and more. One selection covers every current and future agent in that group.</li>
<li>Stop tracking new bots manually: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits.</li>
<li>Enforce robots.txt rules with the WordPress plugin: The WordPress plugin detects and blocks bots that ignore your robots.txt rules, protecting your content from unauthorized access.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demos</h3>
Demos can be found on the <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>.
<h3>Further Details</h3>
This plugin connects your website to <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Known Agents</a>. It uses the Known Agents API to connect to your account and provide functionality.
By signing up, you agree to the <a href="https://knownagents.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://knownagents.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.
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Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic


Please remind me in a month to provide an update on the performance of this plugin on a heavily visited website.


Begun my review...


An easy improvement would be to link to the settings page from the plugin entry like other plugins, other than that, in general this plugin and its online dashboard is generally well thought out and useful. My website is small and has limited resources that get overrun by crawlers making it unavailable. This plugin helps identify the culprits and decide if I should block them or not. For free you can block them in robots.txt, as I have a physical file, the plugin won't touch that but its easy to add manually. It will report those crawlers that ignore the robots file and the paid version will enforce those rules, but I just update ".htaccess" myself.



I'm reducing my rating by a star since you won't get much "Agent Analytics" (per month) and for my tiny site it quickly ran out, we are a NFP so don't have money to burn on subscriptions.  The the description for the plan incorrectly states "Unlimited Agent Analytics" when the plan only includes 100,000 events.


Very Useful Plugin


Very good: shows all bot-crawlers.Our website was sometimes down due to bot-crawlers, with this tool it is easy to solve. Very good logging of bots.This was the only good plugin I could find for this purpose.Some bots ignore robots.txt. So I manually changed htaccess, that worked very good.


Very very helpful

Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.

AI Rights Protection by SimpleFeed vs Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic