shortest_team

<p>Monetize your WordPress site with Shorte.st. The official plugin provides several tools to earn you money:</p>
<ul>
<li>Links monetization (displays an interstitial ad page when visitors click through links on your website)</li>
<li>Exit and entry ads (displays an interstitial ad page when visitors exit and/or enter your website)</li>
<li>Pop under ads (displays a pop under ad in a new window below current window when visitors click anywhere on your website)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<p>Setting up the plugin is super simple and it takes just a couple of minutes to start serving ads on your website:</p>
<ol>
<li>Sign up for Shorte.st (https://shorte.st/register)</li>
<li>Install the plugin on your WordPress website</li>
<li>Enter the e-mail you used to sign up for Shorte.st in plugin configuration</li>
<li>Save configuration</li>
</ol>
<p>…and that’s it! The plugin is up and running, earning you money from each ad impression.</p>
<p>Fine-tune your plugin settings (you can turn each monetization module on/off and use advanced settings such as capping).</p>
<p>Track your earnings in real-time by logging into the Shorte.st user panel.</p>


Shorte.st Monetization

Official Shorte.st plugin. Monetize your website easily with short links and pop ads.

gavindarkvisitors

<p>Get realtime visibility into crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents browsing your website. Generate a robots.txt to opt out of AI training.</p>
<h3>Track AI agents, bot traffic, and LLM referrals</h3>
<p>Bots now make up <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/insights" rel="nofollow ugc">half of your website’s traffic</a>. Harness the activity of AI agents, crawlers, scrapers, and LLM assistants to grow your business and protect your content from unwanted bot access. For full details, visit the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dark Visitors</a> website.</p>
<h3>1. Agent Analytics</h3>
<p>Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, AI agents, and other bots browsing your website.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Monitor traffic from crawlers and scrapers</strong>: Track the hidden activity of <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/agents" rel="nofollow ugc">all known artificial agents</a> visiting your website in real time.</li>
<li><strong>Watch AI agents browse your website</strong>: Analyze sessions from AI models autonomously navigating and interacting with your website. Optimize their experience to increase conversions and human referrals.</li>
<li><strong>Spot spoofed visits with agent authentication</strong>: Detect bad actors pretending to be legitimate agents.</li>
<li><strong>Get spike alert notifications</strong>: Get notified when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li><strong>Identify the most active agents and which pages they’re accessing</strong>: Understand which agents visit your website the most, and which pages they’re most interested in.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Referral Tracking</h3>
<p>Measure human traffic coming from AI chat and search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Find out which AI platforms are mentioning you</strong>: See which LLMs are including or recommending your website in their responses.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt</h3>
<p>Protect sensitive content from unwanted scraping with a continuously updating robots.txt.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Generate your robots.txt automatically</strong>: Opt out of LLM training by generating a robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically. No need to make manual updates.</li>
<li><strong>Block agents who try to break your rules</strong>: block bad bots from accessing your website.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demos</h3>
<p>Demos can be found on the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>.</p>
<h3>Further Details</h3>
<p>This plugin connects your website to <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dark Visitors</a>. It uses the Dark Visitors API to connect to your account and provide functionality.</p>
<p>By signing up, you agree to the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://darkvisitors.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>! Otherwise, please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/" rel="ugc">ask us for help</a>.</p>


Dark Visitors – Bot & AI Agent Analytics, Robots.txt Generator & Blocker, LLM Referral Tracker


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

Get realtime visibility into crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents browsing your website. Generate a robots.txt to opt out of AI training.

Shorte.st Monetization vs Dark Visitors – Bot & AI Agent Analytics, Robots.txt Generator & Blocker, LLM Referral Tracker