PMV Agency

<p><strong>AEO Engine</strong> is a complete optimization plugin for WordPress that covers <strong>SEO</strong>, <strong>AEO</strong> (Answer Engine Optimization), and <strong>GEO</strong> (Generative Engine Optimization). It generates structured data, meta tags, and AI-readable files to maximize your visibility across traditional search engines and AI-powered platforms like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Claude.</p>
<h4>What Makes AEO Engine Different?</h4>
<p>Unlike traditional SEO plugins, AEO Engine is built from the ground up to optimize your content for the AI era. It combines classic structured data with cutting-edge features like LLMs.txt generation and GEO optimizations.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>9 Schema Types (JSON-LD)</strong>: Organization, BlogPosting, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, HowTo, WebSite + SearchAction, LocalBusiness, VideoObject, Product</li>
<li><strong>Auto-Detection</strong>: Automatically detects FAQ pairs, HowTo steps, and YouTube/Vimeo videos in your content</li>
<li><strong>LLMs.txt Generation</strong>: Creates /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt files following the llmstxt.org standard for AI crawlers</li>
<li><strong>Open Graph + Twitter Cards</strong>: Complete social media meta tags with conflict detection</li>
<li><strong>GEO Optimizations</strong>: SpeakableSpecification, quality indicators, and entity optimization</li>
<li><strong>Per-Post Controls</strong>: Meta box to disable/force schemas on individual posts</li>
<li><strong>Conflict Detection</strong>: Automatically detects Yoast, RankMath, AIOSEO, and other SEO plugins</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Ready</strong>: Enhanced Product schema with offers, ratings, and brand support</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong>: No external dependencies, no custom database tables, minimal overhead</li>
<li><strong>Developer Friendly</strong>: Hooks and filters for every schema type</li>
</ul>
<h4>Schema Types Included</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>Organization</strong> – Identifies your company/brand on the homepage</li>
<li><strong>BlogPosting / Article</strong> – Structured metadata for your articles and posts</li>
<li><strong>BreadcrumbList</strong> – Navigation breadcrumbs in search results</li>
<li><strong>FAQPage</strong> – Auto-detected FAQ pairs from heading + paragraph content</li>
<li><strong>HowTo</strong> – Auto-detected step-by-step instructions from ordered lists</li>
<li><strong>WebSite + SearchAction</strong> – Sitelinks search box on your homepage</li>
<li><strong>LocalBusiness</strong> – Complete business listing with address, hours, phone, and GPS coordinates</li>
<li><strong>VideoObject</strong> – Auto-detected YouTube and Vimeo embeds</li>
<li><strong>Product</strong> – WooCommerce products with price, availability, and ratings</li>
</ol>
<h4>LLMs.txt for AI Engines</h4>
<p>AEO Engine generates standard-compliant /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt files that help AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) better understand and cite your content. Features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Automatic generation based on your published content</li>
<li>Configurable post types, ordering, and item limits</li>
<li>Per-post exclusion from LLMs.txt</li>
<li>1-hour smart caching with automatic invalidation</li>
</ul>
<h4>GEO Optimizations</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>SpeakableSpecification</strong> – Marks content as suitable for voice assistants and AI</li>
<li><strong>Quality Indicators</strong> – Adds isAccessibleForFree and isPartOf to article schemas</li>
<li><strong>Entity Optimization</strong> – Enhanced Organization schema with @id, foundingDate, and numberOfEmployees</li>
</ul>
<h4>Meta Tags</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Open Graph</strong>: og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url, og:type, og:site_name, article:published_time</li>
<li><strong>Twitter Cards</strong>: twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image, twitter:site</li>
<li><strong>Smart Conflict Detection</strong>: Automatically skips output if Yoast, RankMath, or similar plugins are active</li>
<li><strong>Force Override</strong>: Option to output meta tags even when other plugins are detected</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why Do You Need AEO Engine?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Better visibility in AI-powered search results and answer engines</li>
<li>Improved content understanding by search engines and AI models</li>
<li>Rich snippets and enhanced search result presentation</li>
<li>Future-proof optimization for the AI era</li>
<li>Quick setup with automatic site data detection</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Blogs</strong>: Optimize articles with BlogPosting, FAQ, and HowTo schemas</li>
<li><strong>Local Businesses</strong>: Full LocalBusiness schema with hours, address, and map coordinates</li>
<li><strong>E-commerce</strong>: WooCommerce Product schema with price and availability</li>
<li><strong>Corporate Sites</strong>: Organization schema with entity optimization</li>
<li><strong>Documentation Sites</strong>: LLMs.txt for better AI comprehension</li>
<li><strong>Video Content</strong>: Automatic VideoObject schema for embedded videos</li>
</ul>
<h4>Validation Tools</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google Rich Results Test</li>
<li>Schema.org Validator</li>
<li>Facebook Sharing Debugger</li>
<li>Twitter Card Validator</li>
<li>Direct site preview</li>
</ul>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with any well-coded WordPress theme</li>
<li>Compatible with WPML and Polylang</li>
<li>Works alongside Yoast SEO, RankMath, AIOSEO (with conflict detection)</li>
<li>WooCommerce integration for Product schema</li>
<li>Translation-ready (includes .pot file)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
<h4>Available Filters</h4>
<p><strong>Schema Filters:</strong></p>
<pre><code>aeo_engine_organization_schema - Modify the Organization schema
aeo_engine_blogposting_schema - Modify the BlogPosting schema
aeo_engine_breadcrumb_schema - Modify the Breadcrumb schema
aeo_engine_faqpage_schema - Modify the FAQPage schema
aeo_engine_howto_schema - Modify the HowTo schema
aeo_engine_website_schema - Modify the WebSite schema
aeo_engine_localbusiness_schema - Modify the LocalBusiness schema
aeo_engine_videoobject_schema - Modify the VideoObject schema
aeo_engine_product_schema - Modify the Product schema
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Other Filters:</strong></p>
<pre><code>aeo_engine_registered_schemas - Add/remove registered schema classes
aeo_engine_post_schema_type - Change schema type by post type
aeo_engine_get_option - Modify any plugin option
</code></pre>
<h4>Example: Modify a Schema</h4>
<pre><code>add_filter('aeo_engine_blogposting_schema', function($schema, $post) {
    $schema['aggregateRating'] = [
        '@type' => 'AggregateRating',
        'ratingValue' => '4.5',
        'reviewCount' => '100'
    ];
    return $schema;
}, 10, 2);
</code></pre>
<h4>Example: Register a Custom Schema</h4>
<pre><code>add_filter('aeo_engine_registered_schemas', function($schemas) {
    require_once 'class-my-custom-schema.php';
    $schemas[] = new My_Custom_Schema();
    return $schemas;
});
</code></pre>
<h4>Example: Change Schema Type by Post Type</h4>
<pre><code>add_filter('aeo_engine_post_schema_type', function($type, $post_type, $post) {
    if ($post_type === 'recipe') {
        return 'Recipe';
    }
    return $type;
}, 10, 3);
</code></pre>
<h4>Get Plugin Options</h4>
<pre><code>$org_name = AEO_Engine::get_option('aeo_engine_org_name', 'Default Name');
</code></pre>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>AEO Engine does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data from users or site visitors. All configuration is stored locally in your WordPress database. The LLMs.txt files are generated from your already-public content.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, documentation, and updates:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Documentation</strong>: https://wordpress.org/plugins/alquingadev-aeo-schema/</li>
<li><strong>Support</strong>: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/alquingadev-aeo-schema/</li>
<li><strong>GitHub</strong>: https://github.com/alquingadev/aeo-engine</li>
<li><strong>Report Bugs</strong>: https://github.com/alquingadev/aeo-engine/issues</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by PMV Agency for the WordPress community.</p>
<p>Built following Schema.org, Google Structured Data, and llmstxt.org best practices.</p>


AEO Engine

Complete SEO + AEO + GEO optimization engine. Generates Schema.org JSON-LD (9 types), Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and LLMs.

Known Agents

<p>Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.</p>
<h3>Track, control, and optimize your website for AI agents and bots</h3>
<p>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 turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots visiting 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.</p>
<h3>1. AI Agent & Bot Analytics</h3>
<p>Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Watch traffic from crawlers and scrapers as it happens</strong>: 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><strong>Replay AI agent navigation patterns</strong>: Follow a single agent’s session as it navigates your website. Find where agents get stuck, identify dead ends, and help them complete their tasks.</li>
<li><strong>Catch bots spoofing legitimate agents</strong>: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot.</li>
<li><strong>Never miss a bot traffic spike</strong>: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li><strong>Reveal which agents visit most, and which pages they target</strong>: Break down bot traffic by page to understand what they’re interested in.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Citation & Referral Tracking (GEO, AEO)</h3>
<p>Measure citations and human click-throughs from AI chat platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Increase citations in AI chat responses</strong>: See which pages LLMs recommend most often. Double down on content that’s working.</li>
<li><strong>Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic</strong>: Measure how many humans are clicking through to your website from a citation.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt & Bad Bot Detection</h3>
<p>Protect your content and reduce server cost by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Set robots.txt rules for entire categories of bots</strong>: 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><strong>We track new bots, you don’t have to</strong>: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits.</li>
<li><strong>Block misbehaving crawlers and scrapers</strong>: Detect and block bots that ignore your robots.txt rules using the WordPress plugin, or our automation detectors.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demos</h3>
<p>Demos can be found on the <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>.</p>
<h3>Further Details</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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>.</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>! Questions or issues? <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/" rel="ugc">Ask us for help</a>.</p>


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.

AEO Engine vs Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic