Name: GrowRanko AI Search Optimizer
Author: 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:

What you get for free

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.
llms.txt + llms-full.txt generator — automatic machine-readable content index served at your site root.
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.
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.
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.
Live robots.txt preview — see exactly what bots see at /robots.txt right now, including rules from other plugins.
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.
Schema preview per post — pick any post or page and see the exact JSON-LD being injected into the HEAD.
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.
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).
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.
Per-page fix recommendations — actionable list of what to improve on each audited URL.
Clean admin UI — focused on action.

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.

Optional external services (run on plugins.growranko.com)

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.

Pro tier (external service) — unlimited daily audits, AI-powered rewrite suggestions, and priority email support.
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.

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.

Privacy and external services

This plugin connects to plugins.growranko.com to:

Verify your email and issue a site token (one OTP email).
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.
Validate license keys (only when one is entered).