AEO Ultimate makes your WordPress site readable, trustworthy and citable for AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews) and measures whether they actually cite you. It publishes connected @graph JSON-LD schema, clear publisher and author identity (E-E-A-T) and AI-agent discovery files such as llms.txt, and runs alongside your existing SEO plugin without duplicating what it already outputs.

Built for SEO professionals. Everything is free: no license, no paid tier, no feature locked away. AI features run on your own API keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, xAI or Mistral), so you pay the provider directly and choose the model. Prefer one key and one bill? Connect OpenRouter instead, by pasting a key or with one click, and pick any model it offers. The work is bulk and semi-automated: fill every missing alt text, social description and FAQ, Service or Contact schema across a site in one pass, generate product schema for a whole catalogue, and let the plugin suggest the missing E-E-A-T details and apply them for you. AI-powered bulk actions show the number of billed calls and ask before running, so there are no surprise bills. Access & Roles lets an SEO manager or a client’s marketing team use the tools without being a full administrator.

Fully modular: 29 features, each switched on or off on its own, so your site runs only what it needs.

Video tutorials

Short walkthroughs, one screen at a time, each with a written guide: E-E-A-T, Local Pack, AI Visibility, Social Graph, Schema Detector, AI Ready, the RAG Engine and Command Center. Screens that have one show a “?” beside their title that plays it right there (nothing loads from YouTube until you press Play). Watch them all at aeoultimate.com/docs/wordpress/tutorials, or read the full AEO Ultimate for WordPress documentation.

RAG Engine

AI answer engines don’t read your pages top to bottom. They cut the web into short passages, pull back the few that best match a question, and write their answer from those (retrieval-augmented generation). The RAG Engine shows your site the way that process sees it, and finds the answers your site is missing.

Documents: upload the spec sheets, manuals, catalogs and FAQs your business already works from (PDF, Word or text). They are read on your own server and the file is deleted once read; only the searchable passages are kept. Tables in PDFs come out as real tables.
Search Placement: the Google and Bing searches where you rank 4th to 15th that your documents answer and the ranking page does not, with the page to add the answer to. Searches you still rank for whose page is now in the Trash or unpublished are flagged with a one-click restore.
AI Citations: questions from your AI Visibility runs where an engine left you out, beside the passages from your documents that answer them.
Next questions: the follow-up questions the AI engines expect your buyers to ask next, checked against your pages and documents. Where your documents have the answer, you get the passage to publish; where nothing answers it yet, you get the content to write. Questions about your business itself (turnaround, warranty, shipping, reviews) are grouped by topic with the page that should answer them.
Laws, codes and safety data: quoted word for word with their citation, and checked online for changes since your copy’s date.
Chunk View: any page split into the passages a retrieval index would hold, with the ones that fall apart on their own flagged.

Nothing is published for you: every suggestion comes with a Copy button and an Edit page link.

AI Visibility

Asks eight AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Le Chat, Muse by Meta AI and DeepSeek) the questions your customers ask, on your own API keys, and shows per engine whether your site was cited, named without a link, or left out, and who was cited instead, or whether the engine cited no sources at all. Answers about your products are also checked against your real prices, stock and policies.

DeepSeek support is new: it works, and is still being tested. Most of DeepSeek’s use is outside the US, led by Asia, with Russia and India near the top, and much of India searches in English. If your buyers are mostly in the US you can leave it off; if you sell internationally, especially into India, it is worth tracking.

The plan your buyers are on: a citation check usually asks one model and treats that as the answer, but the plan decides the model. A free ChatGPT account gets GPT-6 Luna where Plus gets Sol, a free Google account has had Flash-Lite and nothing else since October, and an account past its daily allowance drops smaller again. Those answers cite different sources. Choose consumers or businesses, and each plan level is asked and reported on its own line rather than averaged into one number, with the model behind every level listed on screen.
Search location: each run searches from a place: automatically your business address (Local Pack) or store country, or any country, state and city you choose, so a Tampa shop is measured the way Tampa buyers see the answers. Engines whose APIs take a search location use it; the others are told where the user is.
Buyer personas: ask as one of your buyers (“machine shop owner”, “manufacturing engineer”). The persona reaches the engine as background about the user, the way the consumer apps personalise, and the question is sent exactly as written. Type your own, or have them suggested from your main pages. Switch personas off to ask as nobody in particular.
Follow-up questions: every answer comes back with the questions that engine expects the buyer to ask next.
Follow the conversation: optionally ask the engine its own top follow-up in the same conversation, one or two turns deep, and see whether you are still cited further into the buyer’s research. Follow-up turns are kept out of the headline numbers so runs stay comparable.
Your own questions: add the questions you want asked, one per line, and reword any built-in question. Both are kept when the list is rebuilt.
Is this you?: when an engine cites a listing that carries your name (your Shopify app, Clutch profile, plugin page or LinkedIn page), you are asked once whether it is yours. Yes counts it as you and re-scores your past runs for free; pages other sites wrote about you get their own slice instead of counting as competitors.
CSV export: every question, answer, verdict and follow-up in one file, with the persona, the full answer text and pattern columns (where a brand or subject falls in the question, model numbers, places, hiring or how-to). Each row names the site and business type, so exports from several client sites stack into one sheet for analysis.

These are controlled simulations through the engines’ APIs, not a copy of any one user’s private chat history: the consumer apps personalise and change daily, and a run is the closest reproducible measure.

AEO Score & Setup

The AEO Score grades your site from 0 to 100 and shows exactly where each point is lost, with every gap linked to its fix. The Setup Wizard gets you there in one click with Autopilot, in two steps with The Basics, or in five with Expert.

WooCommerce AEO

Built for stores: every commerce feature exists so an answer engine can quote your catalogue accurately.

Product Schema Engine: every product publishes a connected Product or ProductGroup @graph with per-variant offers, identifiers (GTIN, MPN, SKU), images, reviews, shipping from your live zones, and your return policy.
Extension-Aware Pricing: products from Bookings, Subscriptions, Bundles and similar extensions publish “From” prices or ranges, never a price their own page contradicts.
Product FAQs: every FAQ source on a product page is assembled into one FAQPage node, with free and AI generators for the questions shoppers ask.
Products Dashboard: walks your whole catalogue, names exactly what each product is missing, and generates schema in bulk.
Google and Bing Merchant Center: compares your catalogue with what each engine lists, surfacing missing products, rejected items and price mismatches.
Smart Collections: publishes “Starter Kit” or “Under $500” style categories as real Collections with structured data an assistant can quote.
Promotions & Price Rules: quantity breaks and member prices published as honest price specifications, with coupon codes sent to Merchant Center.
AI Image Alt Text: fills missing product image alt text in bulk.
Plays nicely: WooCommerce’s own Product schema is replaced only with your consent, and if AEO Ultimate for WooCommerce runs alongside, this plugin stands down so nothing publishes twice.

Schema Markup & Structured Data

The core engine detects the schema already on each page, classifies the page (homepage, service, article, location or product), and adds JSON-LD only where it’s missing: Organization, Article, NewsArticle, Person, FAQPage, Service, Product, LocalBusiness, ContactPoint, Event, Review, AggregateRating and BreadcrumbList. Everything on a page is woven into one connected @graph (WebSite Organization WebPage, cross-referenced by @id), so AI crawlers read your site as one set of facts. The Knowledge Graph screen defines your entities and links them to Wikipedia and Wikidata, and duplicate-schema conflicts between plugins are flagged.

AI Ready: llms.txt & Crawler Control

llms.txt and `llms-full.txt`, Markdown content negotiation for AI agents, Content-Signal headers, agent-discovery endpoints (Agent Skills Index, MCP and WebMCP, OAuth/OIDC discovery, RFC 9727 API catalog, RFC 8288 Link headers), and per-bot blocking and rate limits for 20+ AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended. You decide which AI systems may read, cite or train on your content. Where creating `/.well-known/` files needs server access the plugin doesn't have, you get copy-and-paste instructions.

Open Knowledge Format (OKF) bundle: your site as a machine-readable knowledge directory at /okf/, on by default and linked from llms.txt.
Clean llms.txt: pages set to noindex in your SEO plugin, password-protected pages and WooCommerce cart, checkout and account pages are left out. Switch llms.txt off if another plugin already serves it.
WordPress Abilities (WordPress 6.9+): ask your own AI assistant about your AEO data. It can read your AI Visibility results, AI crawler activity, pages no AI crawler has visited, any page’s AEO report and your RAG Engine content gaps. Read-only and administrators only; nothing leaves your site unless you connect an AI tool yourself.

Company & Author Identity (E-E-A-T)

Organization JSON-LD (legal name, logo, contact points, sameAs), a clean article:publisher / article:author Open Graph split, a sitewide fb:app_id for Meta Domain Insights, and one-click import from Yoast or Rank Math. Author profiles output as Person schema with credentials, expertise, years of experience and social links, with an E-E-A-T scorecard for both authors and the company, optional author boxes and hover cards.

Image SEO & Open Graph

Alt text and Open Graph titles, descriptions and share images, generated from your content or with AI. One screen manages Open Graph and Twitter/X cards across every page. Bulk actions fill every missing description, alt text and FAQ, Service or Contact schema at once; AI-powered ones show the number of billed calls and ask first.

Local SEO

LocalBusiness schema with a business-type picker, opening hours, service area and geo coordinates. A NAP (name, address, phone) audit against Google Knowledge Graph, Google Business Profile and Bing Maps, plus the directories your industry should be listed in.

Sitemaps & Indexing

A cached XML sitemap and a Google News sitemap, with IndexNow pinging Bing and other engines on publish. The Not Indexed report finds published pages missing from Google’s index and flags likely causes, and warns about indexed pages Google has stopped crawling before they drop out.

Command Center

Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4 and Bing Webmaster Tools in one view, with Google PageSpeed audits (Lighthouse score and Core Web Vitals). AI Crawler Watch shows which AI bots read your site and what they waste requests on, and the plugin counts visits that arrive from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Copilot, with no cookies and no per-visitor data. A traffic-leak scan finds high-traffic pages that lose mobile visitors to slow loads, and a content scan flags inline scripts, base64 images and other page-builder leftovers.

Lead Attribution

See which leads AI assistants sent you. Each form entry, email-link click and phone-link tap is tagged Confirmed (the visit came from an AI engine’s link), Correlated (an AI assistant read the page just before a direct visit), Self-reported (the visitor named an AI tool in “How did you hear about us?”) or Earlier AI visit, with the evidence. Works with Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, WPForms, Forminator and HubSpot forms, and adds the result to your notification email. Off by default; it keeps the visitor’s first and latest visit source in their own browser storage and stores no names, email or IP addresses.

Use with Claude

Ask Claude about your AI citations, AI crawler visits, Google indexing, schema, content gaps and your Google Analytics, Search Console and Bing Webmaster reports, and let it make fixes you approve. Switch the connector on under Settings MCPs (off by default, administrators only) and connect Claude Code or Claude Desktop with one command, or Claude on the web and mobile through an aeoultimate.app account (free for one site; more sites are a paid plan with a 14-day trial). Every change is previewed first, logged, and can be reverted.

More Tools

Google Reviews: see new Google reviews in WordPress, get alerts, and reply from your dashboard, with AI drafts you edit before sending. Connect with Google in one click, no Google Cloud project needed.

Customer reviews with AggregateRating and Review schema, a “Last Updated” freshness badge, PR Bridge AI for press releases, and an AI Prompt Rate Limiter to protect your API budget.

External Services

Optional AI features connect to Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Perplexity, xAI Grok, Mistral, Meta (Muse) and DeepSeek using your own API keys. Other optional integrations cover Google and Microsoft APIs, IndexNow and press-release services. Nothing is sent anywhere until you configure a feature and use it. See the FAQ for the full list with terms and privacy links, and the bundled external-services.txt for the complete inventory.

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