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Your content is not getting cited by AI answer engines. Classic SEO plugins (Yoast, RankMath, AIOSEO) optimize for Google’s blue links. Citevera optimizes for the new layer that sits above them – the one that writes the answer.
Citevera is the WordPress plugin for AI search optimization. It makes your site citable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, with one-click fixes that don’t require editing theme code or touching header templates.
Who this is for
<ul>
<li>Site owners who have noticed their brand never appears in AI-generated answers.</li>
<li>Marketing teams that want to stay ahead of the AI-search shift.</li>
<li>Agencies supporting clients through the AEO / GEO transition.</li>
</ul>
Why Citevera
<ul>
<li>Written for AI answer engines, not retrofitted from classic SEO.</li>
<li>Plays nicely with Yoast, RankMath, and AIOSEO – never duplicates schema they already emit.</li>
<li>Free tier makes zero external HTTP calls. Your data stays on your WordPress server.</li>
<li>Paid tier connects to the same audit pipeline behind scan.citevera.com, so your WP plugin and your SaaS account share one license.</li>
<li>Citevera also supports non-WordPress sites through a SKILL.md export for Claude Code. Full documentation at https://citevera.com/docs/claude-code-integration.</li>
</ul>
Free features
<ul>
<li>One-click site audit with the rule-based checklist used by scan.citevera.com.</li>
<li>llms.txt generator, served dynamically at yoursite.com/llms.txt with a 1-hour cache.</li>
<li>AI-crawler robots.txt control: per-agent Allow / Disallow for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, YouBot, cohere-ai, Meta-ExternalAgent, and more.</li>
<li>Schema.org JSON-LD for Organization, WebSite, Article, BreadcrumbList.</li>
<li>FAQPage schema, auto-detected from FAQ blocks on posts and pages.</li>
<li>Monthly scheduled audit with email alerts when your AI-search readiness score drops.</li>
<li>Yoast, RankMath, and AIOSEO compatibility detection.</li>
</ul>
Premium features (active Citevera license required)
The premium tier connects the plugin to the Citevera cloud service at api.citevera.com. These features call our AI inference pipeline and require an active subscription. See the External services section below for the exact data sent and the Terms / Privacy links.
<ul>
<li>AI-powered cloud audit with per-page apply-fix buttons (calls api.citevera.com).</li>
<li>Gutenberg block toolbar: select any paragraph, click “Optimize for AI”, see a diff, accept or decline (calls our AI rewrite service).</li>
<li>Sidebar AI-answerability score inside the Gutenberg editor (cloud-scored).</li>
<li>Competitor tracking and monthly client portfolio reports at app.citevera.com.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
Citevera Free does not connect to any external service.
When you paste a license key to unlock premium features, Citevera connects to api.citevera.com (operated by Citevera) to:
<ul>
<li>Verify the key and return your tier entitlements (one request on activation; background refresh every 12 hours after).</li>
<li>Run cloud audits when you explicitly click “Run full audit”.</li>
<li>Rewrite selected content when you explicitly click “Optimize for AI” in the Gutenberg editor.</li>
</ul>
The data sent to api.citevera.com during a cloud audit is a summary of your site: post counts, active plugins, active theme, detected schema types, and a sample of up to 10 page contents. The admin previews this exact payload before the first cloud audit runs.
Rewrite requests send only the text you selected plus minimal surrounding context (post title, post type, adjacent paragraphs) for a single AI call.
Terms of service: https://citevera.com/legal/terms 
Privacy policy: https://citevera.com/legal/privacy
<h3>Development</h3>
This plugin ships its full source code inside the deployed zip to comply with WordPress.org Guidelines 1 and 4 (public access to source code and build tools).
PHP source: src/
JavaScript / TypeScript source for the admin React app and the Gutenberg editor integration: assets/admin/src/ and assets/editor/src/
Build configuration: package.json, tsconfig.json, composer.json
To rebuild the compiled JS bundles in assets/admin/build/ and assets/editor/build/:
<ol>
<li>npm install</li>
<li>npm run build</li>
</ol>
The build uses @wordpress/scripts (webpack under the hood). PHP autoloading is generated by Composer with: composer install –no-dev –optimize-autoloader

Citevera – AI Search Optimization

Optimize WordPress for AI search engines. Generate llms.txt, inject schema.org for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.

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.

Citevera – AI Search Optimization vs Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic