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<p><strong>AutoRankMe SEO</strong> connects your WordPress site to <a href="https://autorankme.com" rel="nofollow ugc">AutoRankMe</a> — a proactive SEO + AEO platform that handles automation tasks for you.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<p><strong>Surgical Auto-Fixer (8 fix types)</strong><br />
Fix meta titles, descriptions, H1 tags, alt text, internal links, and schema markup — applied directly to your posts without breaking your page builder layout.</p>
<p><strong>Smart Content Publisher</strong><br />
Publish AI-generated articles from the AutoRankMe dashboard. Content is automatically formatted for your page builder: Gutenberg blocks, Elementor JSON, WPBakery shortcodes, Divi shortcodes, or Classic HTML. Featured images auto-attached.</p>
<p><strong>Schema Markup Engine</strong><br />
Generate and inject Article, FAQ, BreadcrumbList, LocalBusiness, Product, HowTo, and Organization schema as JSON-LD. Applied to individual pages or batch-applied site-wide.</p>
<p><strong>Internal Linking Engine</strong><br />
Analyzes your content for linking opportunities. Suggests relevant anchor text and target pages based on topical relevance. Apply individual links or batch-apply with one click. Tracks all applied links to prevent duplicates.</p>
<p><strong>Background 404 Scanner</strong><br />
Scans your entire site for broken links — sitemap URLs, internal links, and real-time 404 captures. Integrates with Redirection plugin and Broken Link Checker for unified reporting.</p>
<p><strong>Render-Time Auditor</strong><br />
Fetches each page the way Google sees it. Extracts rendered title, meta, schema, headings, images, internal links, word count. Detects issues that external crawlers miss.</p>
<p><strong>Core Web Vitals Optimizer</strong><br />
One-click performance patches: lazy loading, image priority hints, script deferral, font-display swap, preload hints. All via WordPress filters — no theme edits required.</p>
<p><strong>Auto-Redirect Engine</strong><br />
Detects high-traffic 404 pages and automatically creates 301 redirects to the best matching page. Works with the Redirection plugin or native WordPress rewrites.</p>
<p><strong>Content Staleness Monitor</strong><br />
Identifies pages not updated in 90+ days that may be losing rankings. Flags them for AI-powered content refresh through the AutoRankMe dashboard.</p>
<p><strong>Daily Health Heartbeat</strong><br />
Sends a daily snapshot of your site health to AutoRankMe: theme, plugins, PHP version, post counts. Detects critical changes (theme swapped, SEO plugin removed, SSL disabled) and alerts you proactively.</p>
<p><strong>Cache Integration</strong><br />
Automatically flushes page cache after every fix and publish. Supports WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, and SG Optimizer.</p>
<h4>Supported Page Builders</h4>
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg (WordPress Block Editor)</li>
<li>Classic Editor</li>
<li>WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer)</li>
<li>Elementor</li>
<li>Divi Builder</li>
</ul>
<h4>Supported SEO Plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li>Yoast SEO</li>
<li>RankMath</li>
<li>SEOPress</li>
</ul>
<p>AutoRankMe SEO writes meta titles, descriptions, and focus keywords to all three SEO plugins’ meta fields simultaneously. Works alongside your existing SEO plugin — no conflicts.</p>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin</li>
<li>Paste your API token from autorankme.com <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> API Tokens</li>
<li>Click Connect</li>
<li>AutoRankMe handles the rest: crawling, fixing, publishing, linking, monitoring</li>
</ol>
<p>All operations are triggered from the AutoRankMe dashboard (autorankme.com). The plugin executes them inside WordPress with full database access — faster, more accurate, and more reliable than external API calls.</p>
<h4>Privacy & Data</h4>
<p>The plugin sends the following data to autorankme.com when connected:<br />
* Site URL, WordPress version, PHP version<br />
* Active theme name and version<br />
* Active plugin names and versions<br />
* Post and page counts<br />
* Page content when you explicitly publish or fix through AutoRankMe</p>
<p>No data is sent until you connect the plugin with your API token. You can disconnect at any time from the settings page.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin relies on the following third-party services. No data is sent until you connect the plugin with your API token (or, for Loremflickr, until you explicitly trigger an OG image generation).</p>
<h4>AutoRankMe API (autorankme-api.onrender.com)</h4>
<p>What it is: the AutoRankMe SaaS backend that performs SEO analysis, generates fixes and content, tracks keywords, and monitors site health.</p>
<p>What is sent and when:<br />
* On connect: site URL, WordPress version, PHP version, active theme/plugins (so the backend knows what your environment supports).<br />
* On every fix or publish you trigger from the AutoRankMe dashboard: the relevant page content (HTML, headings, meta), the proposed change, and the resulting state.<br />
* Once a day if enabled: a heartbeat with site-health status (counts of posts/pages, last error, plugin version).</p>
<p>Why: to surface fixable SEO issues, generate the change suggestions, and confirm fixes landed.</p>
<p>Service provider: AutoRankMe.<br />
Terms of service: https://autorankme.com/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://autorankme.com/privacy</p>
<h4>Loremflickr (loremflickr.com)</h4>
<p>What it is: a free placeholder-image service that returns a Creative-Commons photograph keyed to provided keywords.</p>
<p>What is sent and when: only when you explicitly request OG image generation for a post (Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> AutoRankMe SEO <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Generate OG image, or from the dashboard) and the post has no existing featured image. The plugin sends 1–3 keywords derived from the post title to fetch a representative image.</p>
<p>Why: to give Open Graph previews a default image when the author hasn’t uploaded one, so social shares don’t render image-less.</p>
<p>Service provider: Loremflickr.<br />
Terms of service: https://loremflickr.com/<br />
(Loremflickr does not publish a separate privacy policy; the service is keyword-only and does not personally identify users.)</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>AutoRankMe SEO is a SaaS-companion plugin: it connects your WordPress site to the AutoRankMe service hosted at <code>https://autorankme-api.onrender.com</code>. Using this plugin requires an AutoRankMe account and an API token, which you generate at <a href="https://app.autorankme.com/settings" rel="nofollow ugc">autorankme.com</a> and paste into the plugin’s settings page.</p>
<h4>What data is sent to AutoRankMe</h4>
<p>When you connect the plugin with your API token and use its features, the following data is transmitted to <code>https://autorankme-api.onrender.com</code>:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Site identity:</strong> site URL, WordPress version, PHP version</li>
<li><strong>Site inventory:</strong> active theme name and version, list of active plugin names and versions, post and page counts</li>
<li><strong>Audit data (on demand):</strong> post and page titles, meta descriptions, headings, internal link targets, schema markup, image alt attributes, and word counts — collected so AutoRankMe can identify SEO/AEO issues</li>
<li><strong>Post content (only when you explicitly act):</strong> the body of a post is sent only when you publish AI-generated content from the AutoRankMe dashboard, or when you trigger a one-click fix that needs the post content</li>
<li><strong>Daily heartbeat:</strong> a once-per-day snapshot of the items above so AutoRankMe can detect critical regressions (theme swap, plugin removal, SSL change)</li>
</ul>
<h4>What data is NOT collected</h4>
<ul>
<li>No site visitor information, IP addresses, cookies, or analytics-style tracking</li>
<li>No WordPress administrator credentials or password hashes — authentication is one-way via the API token you generate</li>
<li>No passive data collection — every transmission is triggered either by an action you take in the AutoRankMe dashboard or by the daily heartbeat you can disable by deactivating the plugin</li>
<li>No data is sent until you connect the plugin with your API token</li>
</ul>
<h4>User control</h4>
<p>You can disconnect at any time from <strong>AutoRankMe <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings</strong> in the WordPress admin. Disconnecting stops all data transmission immediately. Schema markup already injected into your posts remains in place; you can remove it by deleting the <code>_autorankme_schema</code> post meta or uninstalling the plugin.</p>
<p>For the full AutoRankMe privacy policy, see <a href="https://autorankme.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://autorankme.com/privacy</a>.</p>
<h3>Third-Party Services</h3>
<p>This plugin relies on one external service to function:</p>
<h4>AutoRankMe API</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service:</strong> AutoRankMe (the SaaS platform this plugin connects WordPress to)</li>
<li><strong>Endpoint:</strong> <code>https://autorankme-api.onrender.com</code></li>
<li><strong>Purpose:</strong> Receives audit data and content from your site, runs SEO/AEO analysis and AI content generation, and returns fixes/articles for the plugin to apply</li>
<li><strong>When it is contacted:</strong> Whenever you trigger an action from the AutoRankMe dashboard (audit, fix, publish), and once per day for the site health heartbeat</li>
<li><strong>Required:</strong> Yes — this plugin is a SaaS-companion (not a standalone tool). Without an AutoRankMe account and API token, the plugin has no functionality</li>
<li><strong>Terms of Service:</strong> <a href="https://autorankme.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://autorankme.com/terms</a></li>
<li><strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> <a href="https://autorankme.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://autorankme.com/privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<p>No other third-party services are contacted by this plugin.</p>


AutoRankMe SEO

Connects your WordPress site to AutoRankMe to find SEO issues, apply fixes, generate content, build internal links, and monitor site health automatica …

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.

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