Clifford Williams

HiveEO is an Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) toolkit for WordPress. It helps you get your business, products, and services cited and recommended by AI assistants including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Claude.
Add <code>[hiveeo]</code> to any WordPress page. The full tool renders immediately — no complex setup required.
Free features (WP.org):
<ul>
<li>AEO Checklist — Setup, Entity, and Presence categories</li>
<li>Organisation, Product, and FAQ schema builder — copy/paste ready</li>
<li>Schema auto-inject into site <code><head></code> — no copy/paste needed</li>
<li>Unlimited products with FAQs</li>
<li>AI comment generator — unlimited (Gemini BYOK)</li>
<li>AI thread creator — unlimited (Gemini BYOK)</li>
<li>AI Visibility Tracker — probe ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini (BYOK)</li>
<li>Infrastructure panel — llms.txt editor, AI bot allowlist, crawler log, entity strength score</li>
<li>Action Guide — Module 1 (4 lessons)</li>
<li>Settings — business entity, social profiles, Gemini / OpenAI / Perplexity API keys</li>
<li>Dashboard — progress metrics</li>
</ul>
Additional features available at haiv3.com/hiveeo:
<ul>
<li>Brand Defence comment mode</li>
<li>Reverse Discovery — find who AI cites in your space</li>
<li>URL scraper and AI product description generator</li>
<li>Sitemap batch importer</li>
<li>Full AEO checklist — all 13 categories including per-engine strategies</li>
<li>Action Guide — all 18 lessons (Modules 2–4)</li>
<li>Agency white-label and multi-client dashboard</li>
</ul>
Bring Your Own API Key (BYOK)
HiveEO uses your own API keys (Gemini, OpenAI, Perplexity). Keys are stored in your WordPress database. AI generation requests are routed through the haiv3.com relay service (see External Services below) which fetches the prompt template and returns it to your server — your API key is then used on your server to call the AI provider directly.
Get a free Gemini key at <a href="https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey" rel="nofollow ugc">aistudio.google.com</a> — no billing required.
Privacy
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the following external services:
1. Google Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com) 
Used to generate community comments, seed threads, AI product descriptions, and visibility probe responses. Requests are made only when you click a generate button — never automatically. Your Gemini API key is sent directly from your WordPress server to Google. Data sent includes your prompt text (business context, product details, thread content). See Google’s <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.
2. OpenAI API (api.openai.com) 
Used optionally in the Visibility Tracker to probe ChatGPT responses. Only used if you add an OpenAI API key in Settings. See OpenAI’s <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.
3. Perplexity API (api.perplexity.ai) 
Used optionally in the Visibility Tracker to probe Perplexity responses. Only used if you add a Perplexity API key in Settings. See Perplexity’s <a href="https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.
4. Reddit API (reddit.com) 
Used in the Threads tab to fetch live trending threads from relevant subreddits. Requests are made only when you click “Refresh live threads” — never automatically. No personal data is sent. Data received includes public post titles, scores, and URLs. See Reddit’s <a href="https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/policies/user-agreement" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.
5. Hacker News API (hacker-news.firebaseio.com) 
Used in the Threads tab to fetch live trending Hacker News stories. Requests are made only when you click “Refresh live threads” — never automatically. No personal data is sent. Data received includes public story titles, scores, and URLs. See Y Combinator’s <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/legal#privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.
<h3>Local Data Storage</h3>
AI Bot Visit Log 
The plugin optionally logs visits from known AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.) to your site. This data is stored entirely within your own WordPress database — no data is sent to any external service. Each log entry stores: the bot name, the URL visited, the timestamp, and a 12-character hash of the visitor IP address (derived using your site’s WordPress salt — the original IP is never stored). This log is used only to display AI crawler activity in the Infrastructure panel.
<h3>Third-Party Libraries</h3>
This plugin bundles the following open-source libraries locally (no CDN):
<ul>
<li>Alpine.js v3.15.12 — MIT License. Source: https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine</li>
<li>Tailwind CSS v3.4.19 — MIT License. Source: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss</li>
<li>Tabler Icons v2.47.0 — MIT License. Source: https://github.com/tabler/tabler-icons</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
HiveEO is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

HiveEO — AI Search Visibility Suite

Get your business cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude. Schema auto-inject, AEO checklist, comment generator, and AI visibility tracking.

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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.

HiveEO — AI Search Visibility Suite vs Citevera – AI Search Optimization