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<p><strong>LFOH AEO Pulse</strong> is a WooCommerce plugin designed for <strong>Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)</strong> — the practice of making your store visible to AI-powered search engines.</p>
<p>As more customers use ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity to find products, your store needs to be discoverable in their responses. AEO Pulse helps you track, monitor, and optimize your AI search visibility.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
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<p><strong>LLMs.txt Generator</strong> — Automatically generate a <code>/llms.txt</code> file from your WooCommerce products. This structured text file helps AI language models understand your catalog, improving your chances of being recommended.</p>
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<p><strong>AI Mention Tracking</strong> — Monitor whether your store and products are being mentioned in AI search responses across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.</p>
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<p><strong>Keyword Monitoring</strong> — Track specific keywords (brand names, product names, categories) to see how your store appears in AI-generated responses.</p>
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<p><strong>Optimization Tips</strong> — Get AI-powered recommendations to improve your product titles, descriptions, and structured data for better AI search visibility.</p>
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<h4>Free vs Pro</h4>
<p><strong>Free:</strong><br />
* 2 tracked keywords<br />
* LLMs.txt generation<br />
* Weekly AI visibility check</p>
<p><strong>Pro ($79/year):</strong><br />
* 20 tracked keywords<br />
* Daily automated monitoring<br />
* Competitor tracking<br />
* Schema markup audit<br />
* Priority support</p>
<h4>Why AEO Matters</h4>
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<li><strong>40%+ of product searches</strong> now start on AI platforms, not Google</li>
<li>AI search engines recommend specific products and stores</li>
<li>Stores with structured data and LLMs.txt are <strong>3x more likely</strong> to be mentioned</li>
<li>Early adopters gain a significant competitive advantage</li>
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<h4>Requirements</h4>
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<li>WordPress 6.0 or higher</li>
<li>WooCommerce 7.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 8.1 or higher</li>
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<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the AEO Pulse cloud API at https://woo-aeo.vercel.app to provide its core features (AI search visibility tracking, llms.txt generation, keyword monitoring). The plugin will not function without this service.</p>
<p><strong>What it is and what it is used for:</strong></p>
<p>The AEO Pulse cloud API runs AI keyword monitoring (querying ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity on your behalf from our servers), generates the /llms.txt content from your WooCommerce product catalog, and stores tracked keywords and results so the WordPress admin pages can render them.</p>
<p><strong>What data is sent and when:</strong></p>
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<li>On plugin activation: site URL and a randomly generated site key are sent to register the site.</li>
<li>On the Settings page when you click “Connect to AEO Pulse”: you enter your <strong>WooCommerce REST API Consumer Key and Consumer Secret</strong>. These credentials, along with the site URL and site key, are sent to https://woo-aeo.vercel.app/api/auth/connect. They are stored on the AEO Pulse cloud service so it can read your product catalog (read-only) for keyword analysis and llms.txt generation. A JWT auth token is returned and stored locally.</li>
<li>When opening the Keywords or LLMs.txt admin pages: the locally stored JWT is sent to fetch your keyword list and llms.txt content.</li>
<li>When you add or remove a keyword: the keyword text (or its ID for deletion) is sent.</li>
<li>When you click “Regenerate” on the LLMs.txt page: the request triggers the cloud service to read your products via the stored Consumer Key/Secret and rebuild the file.</li>
<li>When the public /llms.txt URL on your site is requested by a visitor: site URL and site key are sent to fetch the cached content.</li>
<li>During scheduled keyword monitoring (Pro only): tracked keywords are sent to our servers, which then query AI providers and return results.</li>
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<p>No customer data, order data, or payment information is ever sent. Product data accessed via the WooCommerce REST API is limited to public-facing fields (name, description, price, URL).</p>
<p><strong>Service provider and legal:</strong></p>
<p>This service is provided by AEO Pulse (operated by liveforownhappiness):</p>
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<li>Terms of Service: https://woo-aeo.vercel.app/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://woo-aeo.vercel.app/privacy</li>
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LFOH AEO Pulse for WooCommerce

Track and optimize your WooCommerce store for AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.

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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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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.

LFOH AEO Pulse for WooCommerce vs Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic