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AI is reading your content. But is it recommending your site?
Every day, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Claude scrape WordPress sites to answer user questions. They use your content to build their answers — but without AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), they cite your competitor instead of you.
Strong Google SEO doesn’t fix this. A #1 ranking means nothing to AI citation. A competitor with weaker SEO can beat you in AI search if their structured data, FAQ schema, and authority signals are better configured than yours. Your content feeds the AI. Someone else gets the customer.
Amplest Autopilot adds the AEO layer that makes AI cite you — without touching your Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or All in One SEO configuration.
It works alongside your existing SEO setup. Never overwrites. Never conflicts. The plugin detects which SEO plugin you’re running and integrates through its official hooks — so you keep one clean <code><meta name="description"></code> and no duplicate structured data.
This plugin is the on-site engine of <a href="https://amplest.cloud" rel="nofollow ugc">Amplest</a> — an AI search optimization platform. Install it and your WordPress site connects to Amplest’s cloud intelligence: continuous LLM citation monitoring, AI-powered diagnosis, and automated fixes pushed directly to your site. The plugin handles the on-site layer; Amplest handles the strategy.
<h4>What works on your site from day one (free, no account needed)</h4>
Activate the plugin and your site immediately gets the AEO foundation that makes AI citation possible — no license key, no account, no configuration required.
<ul>
<li>Structured Data (JSON-LD) — Automatically generates and injects Organization, WebSite, Article, FAQPage, and BreadcrumbList schemas into <code><head></code>. Works alongside Yoast, Rank Math, and All in One SEO without duplicate tags.</li>
<li>Auto FAQ Detection — Scans post content for question-pattern headings (English and Japanese) and converts them into FAQPage schema automatically. No manual markup needed.</li>
<li>AEO Metabox — Add an AI summary, target keywords, and custom Q&A in the post editor to guide how AI reads and cites your content.</li>
<li>llms.txt — Dynamically serves <code>/llms.txt</code> per the llmstxt.org standard — an always-current map of your key content for AI crawlers.</li>
<li>AI Score Widget — See your AI visibility score directly in the WordPress dashboard.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What the Amplest Cloud Service adds (optional SaaS integration)</h4>
Connect a paid plan at <a href="https://amplest.cloud" rel="nofollow ugc">amplest.cloud</a> to unlock the cloud platform layer:
<ul>
<li>LLM Citation Monitoring — Your site is tested across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Claude to track whether and how they cite you.</li>
<li>AI-Powered Diagnosis — Amplest scans your site, identifies what’s limiting your AI visibility, and generates a prioritized improvement list.</li>
<li>Automated Fix Application — Approved improvements are pushed to your site through the plugin’s REST API — structured data, meta tags, and AEO fields updated without touching your theme or post content.</li>
<li>Snapshot & Rollback — Every applied fix is snapshotted before it runs. Roll back any change at any time from the Amplest dashboard.</li>
<li>Monthly / Weekly Reports — Track your AI visibility score over time with detailed diagnosis and improvement history.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plans</h4>
Free — No account needed. Structured data injection, AEO metabox, llms.txt, and AI Score widget activate immediately after installing the plugin.
Planner ($35/mo) — Monthly LLM scan, improvement suggestions, and email reports. Connects your site to the Amplest diagnosis engine.
Operator ($110/mo) — Weekly automatic LLM citation scan, full issue list, on-demand manual scan requests, and human-approved automatic fix application. For site owners who want control with less manual work.
Autopilot ($220/mo) — Fully automated optimization with no approval required. Built for agencies and businesses running multiple sites.
<a href="https://amplest.cloud/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">See full plan details →</a>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin functions as a fully standalone tool for local schema generation, llms.txt, and the AEO metabox — no external service is required for these features.
Optionally, the plugin integrates with the Amplest cloud platform to provide AI-powered diagnostics, improvement suggestions, and automated fix delivery. When this integration is active, the plugin communicates with Amplest as described below.
<ul>
<li>Service: Amplest (https://amplest.cloud)</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://amplest.cloud/legal/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://amplest.cloud/legal/privacy</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin → Amplest (outbound calls)</h4>
<ul>
<li>License activation / deactivation — When you click “Activate License” or “Deactivate License”, your license key and site domain are sent to <code>https://amplest.cloud/api/wp-plugin/activate</code> or <code>.../deactivate</code>. Data sent: license key, site domain.</li>
<li>Daily license verification — Once per day via WP-Cron, the plugin sends your license key and site domain to <code>https://amplest.cloud/api/wp-plugin/verify</code> to confirm subscription status. Data sent: license key, site domain.</li>
<li>AI Score retrieval — When you click “Refresh Score”, your site domain is sent to <code>https://amplest.cloud/api/wp-plugin/score</code> to fetch your current AI visibility score. Data sent: license key, site domain.</li>
<li>Scan request — When you click “Request Scan” (Operator / Autopilot plans only), your site domain is sent to <code>https://amplest.cloud/api/wp-plugin/scan</code> to trigger an LLM citation scan. Data sent: license key, site domain.</li>
<li>Pending action poll (1.5.0+) — Every 15 minutes via WP-Cron, the plugin polls <code>https://amplest.cloud/api/wp/pending-actions</code> for improvement actions approved on your Amplest dashboard, applies them locally to post meta, and reports the result to <code>https://amplest.cloud/api/wp/confirm-action</code>. Data sent: license key; data received: action id, action type, target page URL, after content. No content from your site is transmitted outbound.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Amplest → Plugin (inbound webhook)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Article drafts (1.4.0+) — When you approve a generated article in the Amplest dashboard, the Amplest service calls <code>/wp-json/amplest/v1/posts/draft</code> and passes the title, body HTML, meta description, tags, and FAQ. The plugin creates a new post with <code>post_status='draft'</code> — the post is never published automatically; you review and publish it from your WordPress admin. Meta description is synced to Yoast / Rank Math / All in One SEO meta keys when one of these plugins is detected.</li>
<li>Rollback — When you click rollback on the Amplest dashboard, the Amplest service calls <code>/wp-json/amplest/v1/rollback</code> to restore a previously saved snapshot. All operations are local (post meta read/write only).</li>
</ul>
These inbound endpoints authenticate via the <code>X-Amplest-License-Key</code> header using your installed license key. (Prior to 1.5.0, automated improvement delivery also used inbound <code>/apply-fix</code> — this is removed in 1.5.0 in favor of the pull-based model described above.)
No personal user data is collected or transmitted. Only your site domain and license key are used for outbound calls.

Amplest Autopilot — AEO & AI Search Optimization for WordPress

AI reads your content, then recommends your competitor. Amplest adds AEO on top of your SEO — without breaking Yoast or Rank Math — so AI cites you.

Known Agents

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 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.
<h3>1. AI Agent & Bot Analytics</h3>
Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website
<ul>
<li>Watch traffic from crawlers and scrapers as it happens: 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>Replay AI agent navigation patterns: 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>Catch bots spoofing legitimate agents: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot.</li>
<li>Never miss a bot traffic spike: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li>Reveal which agents visit most, and which pages they target: Break down bot traffic by page to understand what they’re interested in.</li>
<li>Export reports to CSV: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Citation & Referral Tracking (GEO, AEO)</h3>
Measure citations and human click-throughs from AI chat platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
<ul>
<li>Increase citations in AI chat responses: See which pages LLMs recommend most often. Double down on content that’s working.</li>
<li>Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic: Measure how many humans are clicking through to your website from a citation.</li>
<li>Export reports to CSV: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt & Bad Bot Detection</h3>
Protect your content and reduce server cost by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously
<ul>
<li>Set robots.txt rules for entire categories of bots: 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>We track new bots, you don’t have to: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits.</li>
<li>Block misbehaving crawlers and scrapers: Detect and block bots that ignore your robots.txt rules using the WordPress plugin, or our automation detectors.</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>.
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>.

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.

Amplest Autopilot — AEO & AI Search Optimization for WordPress vs Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic