Descrição
AuditAE is a free AI SEO / AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) toolkit that makes your WordPress site easier for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews to read, trust, and cite. Everything works the moment you activate — zero signup, no account.
AI Readiness Score. One 0–100 number, with a letter grade, that summarizes how ready your site is to be read and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — computed entirely from local signals (are citation bots blocked in robots.txt, FAQ and Article schema coverage, Organization schema, unresolved AI-bot 404s, content freshness, llms.txt). Every check that isn’t passing shows exactly what to fix and how many points it’s worth, and the score tracks a 7-day delta so you can see it climb as you ship fixes. Surfaced on its own tab and on the wp-admin Dashboard widget. A companion per-post AI Readiness checklist appears right in the editor sidebar — grading the post you’re writing on an answer-first opening, question-shaped headings, FAQ + structured data, depth, and freshness, so you fix it before you publish.
1. AI Crawler Tracker. Identifies hits from ~30 AI search-engine crawlers — GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Bingbot, and more. Get a real-time count of AI bot hits over the last 30 days, a by-bot breakdown with time-since-last-hit per bot, a per-day activity table, top crawled paths, one-click CSV export, and an at-a-glance wp-admin Dashboard widget. A built-in robots.txt audit flags any tracked AI bot your robots.txt is blocking — the silent killer of AI visibility. Answers the question Google Search Console can’t: “Are AI engines actually reading my site?”
2. llms.txt Generator. Serves a live /llms.txt file at the root of your site, conforming to the llmstxt.org spec — a markdown manifest that helps LLM-powered tools find the right pages on your site. Builds defaults automatically from your public post types, with per-section customization, optional links list, and a one-click “Reset to defaults” if you want to start fresh.
3. Schema Graph. Per-post and site-wide schema.org JSON-LD injection. Add structured data for Organization, Article, Product, HowTo, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList — all linked together by @id so AI engines can resolve “this org wrote this article” without guessing. Designed to coexist with Yoast and Rank Math: when one of them is active, AuditAE defers the schema types they already emit (Organization, Article) and only adds the types they don’t, so your pages never carry duplicate structured data.
4. IndexNow auto-ping. When you publish or update a post, the plugin instantly notifies the IndexNow API so Microsoft Bing — and the engines that read its index, including ChatGPT and Copilot retrieval — re-crawl the URL in minutes instead of waiting days to discover it on their own. A site ownership key is generated and served automatically (no manual setup), per-post noindex flags from Yoast/Rank Math are respected, and a “Submit all published URLs” button seeds the index in one shot for sites that installed the plugin after publishing. One submission fans out to Bing, Yandex, Seznam, and Naver.
5. Image filename rename. A “Rename file” action in the Media library turns a generic IMG_4821.jpg into a descriptive, keyword-bearing red-running-shoes.jpg — the filename is one of the few image-SEO signals AI engines and image search actually read. It renames the original and every generated thumbnail size in one move, then rewrites the old URL to the new one inside your existing posts so your live images and srcset never break. Free, no account, gated by your normal WordPress permissions.
6. Query Fan-Out coverage. AI engines don’t search for the phrase your reader typed. They split it into 8–12 parallel sub-queries, retrieve one passage per sub-query, and assemble the answer from those passages — so citations are won passage by passage, not page by page. A panel under the editor models the fan-out for the post you’re writing (from your own focus keyword, categories, post titles and Organization schema — nothing leaves your site), splits your draft at its headings, and shows which sub-queries each passage actually answers. Missing ones sort to the top with the sub-query spelled out, so a vague “add more depth” becomes a specific “you never say what this costs”. Sub-queries are grouped by the six documented fan-out types — implicit, comparative, entity-expanded, related and personalized. Free, offline, and no account.
7. Broken internal links + orphaned content. The Links tab answers both halves of the same question. Broken internal links are links in your content pointing at pages of your own that no longer resolve — a dead end for a crawler, and crawl budget spent going nowhere. Rank Math charges for a broken link checker in PRO; Yoast removed theirs. This one runs entirely on your own site with no external requests, and is deliberately conservative: archives, custom post types, uploaded files, paginated URLs, ?p= shortlinks and paths already covered by one of your redirects are all resolved before anything is called dead, because a checker that flags a working link is worse than one that misses a broken one. Links pointing at drafts, private or trashed posts are listed separately — they work while you’re logged in, which is exactly why they survive so long. Orphaned content is the same problem from the other end: the tab lists every published post and page that nothing else on your site links to. A page with no incoming internal links is hard for a crawler to reach and gives an AI engine no signal that it matters. Pick one and AuditAE shows which of your existing pages already say its name in ordinary prose, and offers to link the phrase for you in one click — wrapping exactly one occurrence and changing nothing else in the post. Suggestions are verified before they’re offered, so the button never fails on you. Both of these are Premium features in the big SEO plugins; here they’re free.
Plus FAQ schema injection. Add question-and-answer pairs to any post or page from the FAQ schema box in the editor — free, no account — and AuditAE publishes them as a schema.org FAQPage <script type="application/ld+json"> block on the post view. The pairs live in post_meta; your post content is not modified, and removing them is one click. If a Yoast or Rank Math FAQ block already covers the post, AuditAE stands down so the page never carries two FAQPage nodes.
No external service is required for any of the above. All data is stored locally — crawler hits in one small dedicated table (90-day retention, dropped on uninstall), everything else in wp_options. No telemetry.
Optional — pair with AuditAE (auditae.app). AuditAE is a separate paid service that measures whether AI engines cite your brand for the prompts your buyers ask. Pairing this plugin with an AuditAE account lets the AuditAE assistant (AEBOT) also draft posts, update existing posts, edit Yoast/Rank Math meta, manage the schema graph, curate /llms.txt, and edit your images end to end — rename files in bulk across the posts that matter, and write every image field (alt text, title, caption, description) — for you. On sites running the companion AuditAE AI Autopilot theme, AEBOT can additionally edit page copy, brand colors, and structured records (services, locations, FAQs, testimonials, team) in place, and your wp-admin dashboard shows live AI-citation, Analytics, and Search Console figures pulled from your AuditAE account. Pairing is fully optional; everything above remains free regardless. $5 free credit at signup, no subscription.
External Services
This plugin connects to two external services.
IndexNow (https://api.indexnow.org) — On by default; toggle off any time.
When the IndexNow feature is enabled, the plugin notifies the IndexNow API each time you publish or update a public post or page (and when you click “Submit all published URLs”). Each request sends only: the URL(s) that changed, your site’s hostname, and a randomly generated site-ownership key (served as a verification file at your site root). No post content, personal data, analytics, or telemetry is transmitted. IndexNow is an open protocol operated by the participating search engines (Microsoft Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver); one submission notifies all of them. You can turn auto-ping off under Settings AuditAE AI Crawlers.
- IndexNow documentation: https://www.indexnow.org/documentation
- Bing terms of use: https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/indexnow-faq
AuditAE (https://auditae.app) — Optional, opt-in only.
The free features (crawler tracker, llms.txt, schema graph, FAQ schema, internal links, broken link checker, Query Fan-Out coverage, IndexNow) do not call AuditAE. The broken link checker and Query Fan-Out coverage make no network requests of any kind — both resolve entirely against your own database. The plugin only contacts AuditAE after you pair the site from the “Connect to AuditAE” tab — in two ways, both authenticated over HTTPS with the per-site bearer token you can revoke from the admin at any time:
- Inbound (AuditAE your site). The AuditAE service sends authenticated REST API requests to this site to read posts, write drafts, manage schema, or update SEO metadata — only for the capabilities you grant.
- Outbound (your site AuditAE). When a paired site runs the companion AuditAE AI Autopilot theme, its wp-admin dashboard requests a small scorecard from
https://auditae.app/api/wp/summaryto show your AI-citation rate, Google Analytics, and Search Console figures in one place. Each request transmits only your site URL and the bearer token; the response is your own data, cached locally for ~15 minutes. No post content, analytics, or telemetry is sent.
- Terms of service: https://auditae.app/terms
- Privacy policy: https://auditae.app/privacy
The admin UI uses the Instrument Serif typeface, which is bundled locally in assets/fonts/ under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. No font requests are made to Google or any third party.
Capturas de tela
/llms.txt manifest at your site root, with per-section control over what AI tools see.
Instalação
- Install and activate the plugin.
- Go to Settings AuditAE. You’ll land on the AI Readiness Score tab — a 0–100 grade, with a letter grade and 7-day trend, of how ready your site is to be read and cited by AI engines, with a one-click fix on every check that isn’t passing yet.
- Open the AI crawlers tab to see which AI bots are reading your site (hits populate automatically as they crawl) and whether your robots.txt is blocking any citation engines like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot.
- Visit the llms.txt tab to review or edit the manifest served at
https://example.com/llms.txt. - (Optional) Visit the Connect to AuditAE tab to pair with an AuditAE account if you want the citation-audit and AEBOT writing features.
Perguntas frequentes
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Do I need an AuditAE account to use the plugin?
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No. The Crawler Tracker, llms.txt generator, schema graph, FAQ schema, internal linking, and Query Fan-Out coverage are all fully free and standalone. They work the moment the plugin is activated. The Connect to AuditAE tab is optional and only relevant if you want the paid citation-audit + AEBOT writing features.
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Why does the broken link checker miss some dead links?
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By design. It only reports links it can prove are dead, because the fix a user applies to a false positive is deleting a link that was working. Anything it can’t positively classify is left out of the report rather than guessed at. It also checks internal links only — external link checking needs real HTTP requests to other people’s servers, which is a separate feature with its own throttling and failure modes.
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Are the fan-out sub-queries the real ones Google ran?
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No, and the panel says so. Query fan-out is probabilistic and Google doesn’t publish the sub-queries it generates, so nobody can show you the exact set — every tool in this space either models them or asks an LLM to guess. AuditAE models them from your own site: your focus keyword, your categories, your post titles, and your Organization schema. The wording won’t match Google’s, but the themes do, and that’s what decides whether a passage of yours can be retrieved. Nothing is sent off your server to produce them.
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Why do reformulations like “what is X” never appear in the list?
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Because they can’t be scored honestly. A reformulation restates your seed topic in different words, so there’s no distinguishing term to look for — any on-topic post covers it by construction. Including such a row would mean either always passing it (meaningless) or reporting a post that opens with a textbook definition as missing its own definition (wrong). The gaps that matter live in the other five fan-out types, so those are what the panel shows.
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Which AI bots does the Crawler Tracker identify?
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GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, cohere-ai, Diffbot, FacebookBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, Bingbot, YouBot, Amazonbot, DuckAssistBot, PetalBot, TimpiBot, MistralAI-User, AI2Bot, iaskspider, AwarioRssBot, AwarioSmartBot, plus a few others. The list is curated to AI engines; we deliberately exclude Googlebot because that’s already covered by Google Search Console.
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Will the plugin slow down my site?
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No. Crawler detection is a single substring scan of the User-Agent on
template_redirect, and the write towp_optionsis bounded to 500 entries (oldest entries are pruned). The/llms.txtresponse is cached in a transient and regenerated only when you save changes. Schema injection runs once per page render inwp_head. On any reasonable host, the per-request cost is well under a millisecond. -
Where is data stored?
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Locally, on your own site — no telemetry, and no data leaves your site unless you opt in to pairing with AuditAE. AI crawler hits live in one small custom table,
{prefix}auditae_crawler_hits(pruned to 90 days, dropped on uninstall); everything else is inwp_options:auditae_crawler_rollup(per-bot first-seen + lifetime totals),auditae_redirects(redirect rules),auditae_audit_log(action log for the optional Connect tab),auditae_llms_txt_config(llms.txt manifest),auditae_organization_schema(site-wide schema),auditae_score_history/auditae_score_best(AI Readiness Score trend),auditae_score_email(the optional digest opt-in),auditae_link_index(the internal link graph), and IndexNow settings — plus per-post meta_auditae_schema_graphand_auditae_faq_schema. Uninstalling removes all of it. -
Does the schema graph conflict with Yoast or Rank Math?
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No. If Yoast or Rank Math is active and emitting their own JSON-LD, AuditAE detects their
@idvalues and links to them instead of duplicating Organization/WebSite nodes. You can layer AuditAE’s per-post schema on top of any SEO plugin. -
What does the AuditAE connection cost?
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Pairing is free. AuditAE itself is pay-per-use ($0.05 per AI-engine prompt check, $0.05 per WordPress mutation action) with $5 free credit at signup, no subscription. Sign up at https://auditae.app.
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How do I revoke the AuditAE connection?
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Settings AuditAE Connect to AuditAE tab Disconnect. The bearer token is wiped instantly.
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Does AuditAE conflict with Yoast SEO or Rank Math?
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No — it’s designed to run alongside them. AuditAE is an AI-search toolkit, not an SEO plugin: it never changes your title tags, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, Open Graph tags, or sitemaps, so it won’t trigger a “you have two SEO plugins active” warning. Where the two genuinely overlap — structured data and IndexNow — AuditAE detects your SEO plugin and steps aside: it stops emitting Organization and Article schema (so you never get duplicate JSON-LD), skips FAQ schema on posts that already use a Yoast/Rank Math FAQ block, and turns its IndexNow auto-ping off if Rank Math (or a standalone IndexNow plugin) is already submitting. You keep AuditAE’s AI-specific features — crawler tracking, AI Readiness Score, llms.txt — on top of your existing SEO setup. The settings page shows a notice describing exactly what’s been deferred.
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What is IndexNow and do I need to set it up?
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IndexNow is an open protocol that lets your site tell search engines “this URL just changed” instead of waiting for them to re-crawl on their own. Microsoft Bing uses it, and because ChatGPT and Copilot retrieval lean on the Bing index, faster indexing means faster eligibility to be cited. There’s nothing to set up — the plugin generates and serves the required ownership key automatically, and starts pinging on your next publish. To turn it off, go to Settings AuditAE AI Crawlers and uncheck auto-ping. Google does not use IndexNow (it has no public submission API), so this complements rather than replaces normal Google crawling.
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Registro de alterações
Recent releases are below. WordPress.org truncates this section at 5,000
characters, so older entries are kept in the plugin’s development history
rather than here, where they would push the current release out of view.
0.28.0
- New free feature: broken internal link checker. The Links tab now lists links in your content that point at pages of your own that no longer resolve, with the anchor text and the post each one lives in. Rank Math charges for this in PRO and Yoast removed theirs. It runs entirely on your own site — no external requests, nothing to configure — and rescans daily.
- The checker is deliberately conservative, because a checker that flags a working link is worse than one that misses a broken one: category and tag archives, custom post types, author and date archives, post type archives, uploaded files, paginated URLs,
?p=shortlinks, and any path already covered by one of your redirects are all resolved before a link is called dead. - Links pointing at drafts, private, scheduled or trashed posts are reported separately from 404s. They resolve fine while you’re logged in, which is why they go unnoticed for months, and 404 for everyone else.
- The link scan runs in short background slices with its progress saved between them, so it finishes reliably on large sites and slow shared hosting instead of timing out — the Links tab shows progress while a scan is underway.
- New free feature: Query Fan-Out coverage, in the post editor. AI engines split one search into 8–12 parallel sub-queries and quote a single passage for each, so a page can rank for its head term and still lose every citation slot. AuditAE models the fan-out for the post you’re editing, splits your draft at its headings, and shows which sub-queries your passages actually answer — with the misses sorted to the top as a worklist. Runs entirely on your own server: the sub-queries are built from your focus keyword, categories, post titles and Organization schema, and nothing is sent anywhere.
- Sub-queries are typed by the six documented fan-out categories (implicit, comparative, entity-expanded, related, personalized), so you can see which kind of question your content keeps skipping rather than just how many.
- Coverage is scored on concept groups with synonyms, not literal words, so a section headed “Pricing” correctly answers “how much does it cost”. A concept named in a heading scores higher than the same concept buried in body text — which is what makes a passage retrievable once an engine detaches it from the page.
- Posts built with a page builder (Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Beaver Builder, WPBakery) are skipped with an explanation rather than scored, since their content isn’t in the field this analysis can read.
0.27.0
- New free feature: orphaned content report. A new Links tab lists every published post and page that nothing else on your site links to. A page with no internal links pointing at it is hard for a crawler to find and hard for an AI engine to judge important — and until now you had no way to see which of yours were in that state. Yoast charges for this report in Premium.
- New free feature: internal linking suggestions with one-click insertion. Pick an orphan and AuditAE shows you which existing pages already say its name in ordinary prose, and offers to link the phrase for you. Adding the link changes nothing else in the post: one phrase is wrapped, exactly once, in a page that already mentions it. Yoast Premium and Rank Math PRO both charge for internal link suggestions.
- Fix: the link graph is now site-wide instead of one page deep. Incoming links used to be counted only within the current page of results, so anything linked from an older post reported zero incoming links — on any real site, most of the answer was wrong. The graph is now built across the whole site, cached, and refreshed daily and whenever you edit a post.
- Fix: internal link insertion can no longer corrupt a post. The anchor phrase used to be matched anywhere in raw content — including image alt text, Gutenberg block comments, and scripts — where wrapping it in a link breaks the tag or the block. It now only ever links visible prose, and declines entirely on malformed markup.