knovai

AI agents and AI crawlers are increasingly the ones visiting your site — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and their bots (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai, GoogleBot-Extended) research, recommend, and act on behalf of users. Traditional SEO doesn’t cover this. OARS is AI readiness (sometimes called AI SEO, Generative Engine Optimization / GEO, or Answer Engine Optimization / AEO): it publishes the machine-readable signals AI systems need to find, read, and correctly represent you.
The Open Agent Readiness Standard (OARS) by <a href="https://knov.ai" rel="nofollow ugc">Knov.ai</a> defines what makes a site machine-operable. This plugin handles the low-hanging fruit automatically and scores the rest.
<h4>Free</h4>
<ul>
<li>oars.json — a machine-readable knowledge declaration served at your domain root, auto-populated from your site title, tagline, categories, and pages.</li>
<li>llms.txt — a clean Markdown summary for LLMs (guaranteed to meet the 200-word minimum).</li>
<li>AI bot directives — adds rules for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai and GoogleBot-Extended to robots.txt.</li>
<li>Schema.org identity — injects Organization JSON-LD on your homepage.</li>
<li>Content-Signal headers — declares your AI usage preferences (search / input / training).</li>
<li>Live readiness score — the scorecard self-fetches your real URLs and headers, so it reflects what agents actually see; every gap is flagged with a fix and a proof link.</li>
<li>Level 0 baseline — security headers, optional report-only CSP, Link headers, and CORS on your agent files.</li>
<li>/llms-full.txt, /.well-known/oars.json, sitemap fallback and a guided first-run setup wizard.</li>
<li>Bring-your-own LLM (optional) — connect OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google to enrich your identity fields and llms.txt narrative.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro (separate add-on)</h4>
OARS Pro is a separate plugin you install alongside this one (available from tylerewillis.com). It adds:
<ul>
<li>Agent API (Level 3) — read-only REST endpoints, OpenAPI 3.1 contract, and an A2A agent card.</li>
<li>Web Bot Auth signing-key directory and Agent Skills discovery (.well-known).</li>
<li>Level 4a machine-readable product catalog from WooCommerce.</li>
<li>Full Level 1–2 scoring with per-check remediation.</li>
<li>Weekly monitoring with an email alert if your score drops.</li>
<li>Advanced Schema.org — Service, Product, and FAQPage auto-generated from your pages and WooCommerce catalog.</li>
<li>Markdown content negotiation (<code>Accept: text/markdown</code>) for agents.</li>
<li>Scheduled regeneration as your content changes.</li>
<li>WP Multisite / network management.</li>
<li>One-click submission to the Knov.ai directory + verification ID.</li>
<li>OARS compliance badge shortcode.</li>
</ul>
Pro is licensed per site or per agency. Learn more at <a href="https://tylerewillis.com/tools/oars-for-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">tylerewillis.com/tools/oars-for-wordpress</a>.
<h3>External services</h3>
The OARS Agent Readiness plugin works fully without contacting any third party. Some optional features connect to external services only when you enable them:
<ul>
<li>AI enrichment (optional). If you add an API key for OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, the plugin sends the text content you ask it to process (e.g. your page titles and excerpts) to that provider to generate llms.txt narrative, identity suggestions, or FAQ content. Data is sent only when you click a generate button. Review each provider’s terms and privacy policy: OpenAI (https://openai.com/policies/), Anthropic (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy), Google (https://policies.google.com/privacy).</li>
<li>Readiness self-check. The dashboard score fetches your own site’s public URLs (e.g. /llms.txt, /oars.json, your homepage) to verify what agents actually receive. These requests go to your own domain, not a third party.</li>
</ul>
(The optional OARS Pro add-on validates a license key with tylerewillis.com; that disclosure ships with the Pro plugin, not this free plugin.)
The “Scan headers”, “PageSpeed”, and “Validate schema” buttons simply open external tools in a new browser tab; OARS does not send your data to them from the server.

OARS Agent Readiness

AI readiness & AI SEO: add llms.txt, AI bot directives, Schema.org and oars.json so AI agents and crawlers can find, read and understand your site.

GrowRanko

The AI SEO plugin for WordPress. GrowRanko helps your pages get selected and cited by AI search engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. This is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): the new layer above traditional SEO that decides which sites AI assistants quote when answering questions.
Run alongside your existing SEO plugin (Yoast, RankMath, AIOSEO). They handle Google rankings; GrowRanko adds the AI-search layer they don’t cover yet.
Background reading on the GrowRanko blog:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://growranko.com/blog/what-is-llms-txt-wordpress-guide" rel="nofollow ugc">What is llms.txt? A complete WordPress guide for 2026</a></li>
<li><a href="https://growranko.com/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">How to get your WordPress site cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini</a></li>
<li><a href="https://growranko.com/blog/generative-engine-optimization-geo-wordpress-2026" rel="nofollow ugc">Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) for WordPress: the 2026 playbook</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>What you get for free</h4>
<ul>
<li>AI Visibility Score + history sparkline — every audited page receives a 0–100 citability score across structural and content signals. Plus a 30-entry rolling history so you can see whether your fixes are working over time.</li>
<li>llms.txt + llms-full.txt generator — automatic machine-readable content index served at your site root.</li>
<li>Custom llms.txt sections — add your own markdown blocks (About, Services, FAQ, Locations) that get prepended to the auto-generated index so LLMs see your most important context first.</li>
<li>AI crawler controls — one-click Allow / Block for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bingbot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, DuckAssistBot and others, written into your robots.txt.</li>
<li>AI crawler visit counter — see exactly which AI bots have fetched pages from your site in the last 7 days. Proof your work is paying off.</li>
<li>Live robots.txt preview — see exactly what bots see at /robots.txt right now, including rules from other plugins.</li>
<li>Auto schema injection — detects FAQ blocks, ordered-list how-tos, and article structure on every published post and page, and injects FAQPage / HowTo / Article JSON-LD into the page head. No setup, included for everyone.</li>
<li>Schema preview per post — pick any post or page and see the exact JSON-LD being injected into the HEAD.</li>
<li>Schema dedupe with Yoast / Rank Math / AIOSEO / SEOPress — auto-detects your existing SEO plugin and skips the schema types it already emits, so Google Search Console doesn’t flag duplicates.</li>
<li>Sitemap picker for audits — discover and audit any URL on your site from a dropdown that reads your existing sitemap (works with core WP, Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO).</li>
<li>IndexNow integration — automatically pings Bing / Yandex / Naver / Seznam every time you publish or update a post, so they see your changes within seconds instead of waiting for crawl. Free, no API key setup needed.</li>
<li>Per-page fix recommendations — actionable list of what to improve on each audited URL.</li>
<li>Clean admin UI — focused on action.</li>
</ul>
All schema generation, llms.txt rendering, and robots.txt rule writing run locally on your site and are free for every user. No local feature in this plugin is gated by a license, account, email verification, time limit, usage quota or any other restriction — once activated, every in-plugin feature works immediately.
<h4>Optional external services (run on plugins.growranko.com)</h4>
The plugin offers one optional connection to an external service: the AI Visibility Score audit. The audit fetches and analyses a URL’s HTML on plugins.growranko.com (which calls the Gemini API on our server using our paid API key), then returns the score and fix list. Because the actual processing happens on external servers — and cannot be done locally without distributing our paid API key — the audit qualifies as Serviceware under WordPress.org Plugin Guideline 6.
To use the audit you enter an email and confirm a 6-digit code so the service can issue a per-site quota. This step is only requested inside the audit card itself; it never blocks the rest of the plugin.
A license key is purely optional and only raises the quotas of those external services. It never enables or disables any code that ships inside the plugin.
<ul>
<li>Pro tier (external service) — unlimited daily audits, AI-powered rewrite suggestions, and priority email support.</li>
<li>Agency tier (external service) — Pro features plus a weekly AI Visibility Tracker that queries ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews for your target keywords (Perplexity coming Q3) and logs whether your site is mentioned, plus competitor mention gap analysis, and up to 5 sites.</li>
</ul>
The free tier of the external audit service (20 audits / day) remains usable indefinitely. Even if you never register an email at all, the local features keep working forever.
<h4>Privacy and external services</h4>
This plugin connects to plugins.growranko.com to:
<ul>
<li>Verify your email and issue a site token (one OTP email).</li>
<li>Compute the AI Visibility Score for an audited URL — the URL’s HTML is fetched on our server and analysed; results are returned. The HTML is not stored after analysis.</li>
<li>Validate license keys (only when one is entered).</li>
</ul>
Privacy Policy: https://plugins.growranko.com/privacy 
Terms of Service: https://plugins.growranko.com/terms

GrowRanko AI Search Optimizer

AI SEO for WordPress. Get your pages cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews. Generates llms.

OARS Agent Readiness vs GrowRanko AI Search Optimizer