Alex Khomichenko

<p>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.</p>
<p>Features include:</p>
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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>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Install now to preserve your rights to potential future compensation from the AI companies.</p>
<h3>Use of 3rd Party Services</h3>
<p>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:</p>
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<p><strong>Storage of Plugin Settings</strong>: 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.</p>
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<p><strong>Bot Request Statistics</strong>: The plugin collects and stores statistics about bot requests on your WordPress site. These statistics are sent to SimpleFeed for analysis and reporting purposes.</p>
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<p><strong>Premium Access Validation</strong>: The plugin checks with the SimpleFeed service to verify if your WordPress user account has premium access to the plugin features.</p>
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<p>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>.</p>
<p>By using this plugin, you agree to the data transmissions to SimpleFeed’s external services for the purposes outlined above.</p>


AI Rights Protection by SimpleFeed

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

gavindarkvisitors

<p>Get realtime visibility into crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents browsing your website. Generate a robots.txt to opt out of AI training.</p>
<h3>Track AI agents, bot traffic, and LLM referrals</h3>
<p>Bots now make up <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/insights" rel="nofollow ugc">half of your website’s traffic</a>. Harness the activity of AI agents, crawlers, scrapers, and LLM assistants to grow your business and protect your content from unwanted bot access. For full details, visit the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dark Visitors</a> website.</p>
<h3>1. Agent Analytics</h3>
<p>Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, AI agents, and other bots browsing your website.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Monitor traffic from crawlers and scrapers</strong>: Track the hidden activity of <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/agents" rel="nofollow ugc">all known artificial agents</a> visiting your website in real time.</li>
<li><strong>Watch AI agents browse your website</strong>: Analyze sessions from AI models autonomously navigating and interacting with your website. Optimize their experience to increase conversions and human referrals.</li>
<li><strong>Spot spoofed visits with agent authentication</strong>: Detect bad actors pretending to be legitimate agents.</li>
<li><strong>Get spike alert notifications</strong>: Get notified when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li><strong>Identify the most active agents and which pages they’re accessing</strong>: Understand which agents visit your website the most, and which pages they’re most interested in.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Referral Tracking</h3>
<p>Measure human traffic coming from AI chat and search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Find out which AI platforms are mentioning you</strong>: See which LLMs are including or recommending your website in their responses.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt</h3>
<p>Protect sensitive content from unwanted scraping with a continuously updating robots.txt.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Generate your robots.txt automatically</strong>: Opt out of LLM training by generating a robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically. No need to make manual updates.</li>
<li><strong>Block agents who try to break your rules</strong>: block bad bots from accessing your website.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demos</h3>
<p>Demos can be found on the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>.</p>
<h3>Further Details</h3>
<p>This plugin connects your website to <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dark Visitors</a>. It uses the Dark Visitors API to connect to your account and provide functionality.</p>
<p>By signing up, you agree to the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
<p>Are you finding this plugin useful? Please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">leave us a ★★★★★ review</a>! Otherwise, please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/" rel="ugc">ask us for help</a>.</p>


Dark Visitors – Bot & AI Agent Analytics, Robots.txt Generator & Blocker, LLM Referral Tracker


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

Get realtime visibility into crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents browsing your website. Generate a robots.txt to opt out of AI training.

AI Rights Protection by SimpleFeed vs Dark Visitors – Bot & AI Agent Analytics, Robots.txt Generator & Blocker, LLM Referral Tracker