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Amplest LLC

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.

Smalker001

See the AI agents and AI Search visitors your site actually receives — and never lose an event again.
The web is shifting from search results to answer engines. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and dozens of other AI crawlers visit your pages every day, and a growing share of your human traffic now arrives from an AI assistant rather than a classic SERP. Most analytics tools were built for the old web and miss all of it.
Smalk AI Analytics adds an AI-aware tracking layer to your WordPress site: every public-page visit (AI agent OR human-from-AI-search) is captured, classified, and pushed to your Smalk dashboard where you can see which engines cite you, which pages they prefer, and how that AI exposure converts into real human traffic.
Unlike crawler-blocking plugins, Smalk does not block AI bots. It helps you measure, optimize, and turn AI exposure into growth.
<h3>KEY FEATURES</h3>
Tracking
<ul>
<li>Real-time capture of AI agent visits (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GeminiBot, GoogleOther, OAI-SearchBot, Mistral, AppleBot-Extended, and 30+ others) plus human visitors arriving from AI search engines.</li>
<li>Two tracking layers: a lightweight hook captures bot traffic (which never executes JavaScript) AND a <code>tracker.js</code> snippet captures human session context. Both feed the same Smalk dashboard.</li>
<li>Rich proxy header capture (Cloudflare, geo, X-Forwarded-For, X-Real-IP, X-Smalk-CMS) so bot classification stays accurate even behind CDNs.</li>
</ul>
Reliability (new in 1.1.0)
<ul>
<li>Local MySQL queue buffers visits when the Smalk API is briefly unreachable — no more lost events during transient outages.</li>
<li>Background cron flushes the queue every minute via a batched endpoint (up to 500 visits per request).</li>
<li>Built-in circuit breaker pauses outbound calls after repeated failures and resumes automatically.</li>
<li>Per-row exponential-backoff retry + daily cleanup of stale entries.</li>
<li>“Direct” fallback mode for sites that prefer the old fire-and-forget behavior (no queue table).</li>
</ul>
Privacy & compliance
<ul>
<li>Per-site redact list for query parameters (passwords, tokens, credit-card and SSN-style keys are redacted by default before any value leaves your server).</li>
<li>Deny-paths textarea with wildcards on top of a strict built-in exclusion list (<code>/wp-admin</code>, <code>/wp-login</code>, <code>/wp-json</code>, <code>/xmlrpc.php</code>, REST API calls, favicon, etc.).</li>
<li>Per-request-type skip toggles (admin / cron / AJAX / REST) — admin / cron / AJAX skipped by default.</li>
<li>No cookies are set on visitors.</li>
</ul>
Admin experience
<ul>
<li>Modern card-based settings page with a 4-tile Status & Diagnostics panel: queue size, last successful send, circuit-breaker state, last error — refreshed live on every action.</li>
<li>One-click Send test event (probes the Smalk API with a <code>X-Smalk-Probe: 1</code> header so the test never appears in your real analytics), Force-flush queue now, Resume sending (reset circuit breaker), and Clear page caches (purges WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Autoptimize, WP Super Cache, Hummingbird, FlyingPress, SG Optimizer, WP Fastest Cache, Cache Enabler, WP Engine, plus the WordPress object cache and PHP OPcache).</li>
<li>Auto-save when you paste a new API key — no scrolling to “Save changes”.</li>
<li>Debug report generator: collects plugin version, queue + sender stats, cron schedules, detected cache plugins, live connectivity probes, and active plugins into a single text blob you can email to support — never dumps raw <code>error_log</code> (no risk of leaking unrelated secrets).</li>
</ul>
Performance
<ul>
<li><code><link rel="preconnect"></code> + <code><link rel="dns-prefetch"></code> for the tracker origin before the async script tag — saves ~50–150 ms TLS+DNS handshake on cold connections (mostly mobile / first-time visitors).</li>
<li>Tracker JS auto-excluded from 10+ caching/minify plugins (WP Rocket, Autoptimize, W3TC, LiteSpeed, SG Optimizer, Hummingbird, FlyingPress, Asset CleanUp, …) so caching never strips it.</li>
<li>Zero impact on TTFB: every flavor of outbound call is either non-blocking (direct mode) or deferred to cron (queued mode, the default).</li>
</ul>
<h3>WHY CHOOSE SMALK AI</h3>
<ul>
<li>See AI traffic accurately. Most analytics drop AI agents entirely (they don’t run JS); Smalk catches them and classifies them in real time.</li>
<li>Never lose an event. The queued mode keeps tracking your site even when our API is briefly unreachable.</li>
<li>Privacy-first defaults. Sensitive query parameters are redacted, admin / cron / AJAX requests are skipped, no cookies on visitors.</li>
<li>No bot blocking. Smalk helps you grow your AI footprint, not shrink it.</li>
<li>Plays nicely with every host and cache. Tested on WP 5.0 / PHP 7.0 through WP 6.9 / PHP 8.3. Auto-detects and works around the major caching / minify plugins.</li>
</ul>
<h3>EXTERNAL SERVICES</h3>
This plugin connects to Smalk AI’s API services for analytics and tracking functionality. The following data transmissions occur:
<ol>
<li>
Analytics Tracking:
<ul>
<li>The plugin sends website visit data to api.smalk.ai when AI agents visit your site</li>
<li>Data sent includes: visit information, page URLs, and user agent data</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Project Configuration:
<ul>
<li>The plugin connects to the Smalk API to retrieve project settings when the API key is saved or updated</li>
<li>Project data is cached locally and reused — no API calls are made on page loads</li>
<li>Only authenticated API requests are made using your project key</li>
<li>No personal user data is transmitted during these requests</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
For more information about our data handling practices, please visit: 
– Terms of Service: https://smalkapp.notion.site/Terms-of-service-Smalk-9f047b4200b84b70a4fb38142cfb5799 
– Privacy Policy: https://smalkapp.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-Smalk-08a503612b3e481596b0a434e96dd7c1?pvs=74

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