Caidance
When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity “who’s a good [your industry] near me?” — what does the AI say about your site? If it can’t read you clearly, it doesn’t give you a bad review. It just doesn’t mention you. You never see the miss. Caidance — AI-Readiness Score scans your active WordPress site for the signals AI search and AI agents look for, gives you a 0–60 score with a clear band (Starter / Builder / Operator / Leader), and tells you in plain English the top three things to fix first. It runs entirely on your site. No account required, no data sent anywhere, no external API calls. What gets checked Ten local checks run against your site: llms.txt — the file AI agents check first Sitemap declared in robots.txt — so AI can find your content Organization schema — so AI knows who you are WebSite schema with SearchAction — so AI can map your site FAQPage schema — direct answers AI can cite Article schema on posts — so blog content gets surfaced Author / Person schema — for E-E-A-T signals Open Graph + Twitter cards — for AI preview generation Canonical tags — to prevent duplicate-content confusion AI crawler access — does robots.txt allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, and Google-Extended? (Toggleable.) Each check returns a clear pass / partial / fail with a plain-English explanation — and when your own firewall or CDN blocks the scan itself, checks report Unverified and stay out of your score instead of pretending to fail. No jargon, no false alarms. The Fix Engine — four one-click fixes, applied for you Caidance now closes four of its checks for you — always with your approval, never behind your back: llms.txt — creates the file AI agents check first, built from your real site name, tagline, industry, and a curated key-page list: cart, checkout, account, and legal boilerplate are excluded, homepage duplicates collapse into one Home line, and on WooCommerce stores the shop page and top product category and brand pages lead. Create-only: an existing file or an SEO plugin serving one is detected, named, and left alone. Sitemap declaration — appends the missing Sitemap: line to robots.txt. The sitemap URL is verified live first (your SEO plugin’s index, else the WordPress core sitemap — it must load and be real sitemap XML before the fix is even offered). Works in both robots.txt states: a physical file gets the append with the complete original stored for byte-for-byte restore; a WordPress-generated robots.txt gets a standing output line with no file written and instant revert. Never adds a second line next to an existing declaration. AI-crawler access — surgically removes robots.txt groups that block only AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended). The complete original file is stored first; one click restores it byte-for-byte. Groups covering other crawlers are never auto-edited. Organization + WebSite schema — outputs homepage JSON-LD built live from your real site settings. A pure output switch: no files written, revert is instant, and it goes silent automatically if you install an SEO plugin. Every fix follows the same flow: preview the exact change → approve → Caidance applies it, re-checks your site, and shows the before/after score → one click reverses it. Every apply, revert, and refusal lands in a local, append-only evidence log. And the weekly scan now watches for drift: if an applied fix stops holding — a deploy removed your llms.txt, a migration reverted robots.txt — Caidance flags it and offers the one-click re-apply. Stack Sense — your stack, as an AI operator sees it The Tools page gains a Stack tab: your active plugins mapped into ten categories (forms, CRM, email, automation, SEO, and more) plus a handful of plain-English observations — two form plugins means intake is split; an automation plugin means alignment matters more, not less. Detected locally, nothing leaves your site, and deliberately unscored: the scored systems diagnostic is the Alignment Review on caidance.ai, which the Stack tab can pre-fill with what it detected. Industry-aware fix list Pick your industry from 11 options — Financial Services, Healthcare, Legal, Home Services, Nonprofit, Professional Services, Manufacturing, eCommerce, SaaS, Education, Local Retail & Restaurants — and the fix recommendations are tailored. The fix you see is the fix that actually matters in your industry. What this plugin does NOT do It changes nothing without your approval. Every fix shows you the exact change first — the file content, the precise lines, the exact markup — and applies only when you click approve. One click reverses each fix, every action lands in a local evidence log, and anything owned by another tool (an existing file, an SEO plugin’s output) is detected and left alone. No invisible changes, ever. It does not require a Caidance account. Install, scan, see your score. It does not phone home. Zero external HTTP calls. Results are stored in your own WordPress database. Want the full off-site picture too? This plugin scores your WordPress site itself. If you want to see how AI agents see your business across the whole web — review sites, social, your public footprint — Caidance offers a free 60-second snapshot at caidance.ai/snapshot. For paid layers (Toolkit, Monitoring), see caidance.ai/pricing.
GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO
Become the Brand AI Recommends. GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO helps your WordPress site become easier for AI answer engines to understand, trust, cite, and recommend across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. The GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO optimizes your WordPress site for the three layers of modern search at once: classic SEO so you rank on Google, AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) so AI engines pull your content as the direct answer, and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews cite your pages by name. One plugin to get you found by both search engines and AI. Why GEO and AEO matter now Search is splitting in two. People still type into Google, but more and more they just ask an AI. Google AI Overviews now appear on a large share of results and reduce clicks to the classic blue links, while ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini answer hundreds of millions of questions every week, usually by quoting a few trusted sources. Traditional SEO gets your page indexed. AEO and GEO get your page chosen as the answer and cited. The GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO does all three, so you do not have to choose. AEO and GEO features GEO/AEO Audit – scores how ready each page is to be cited by AI: a direct-answer block near the top, question-style headings, lists and tables, content depth, freshness, and FAQ / HowTo / Article schema. AI crawler control – decide how GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and other AI bots can access your content, straight from your robots rules. llms.txt and llms-full.txt – generate, upload and serve the emerging llms.txt standard so generative engines understand your best content. LLM Indexing – push new and updated URLs to the IndexNow API and the Google Indexing API so search and AI engines discover them fast. Answer-ready Schema / structured data – FAQ, HowTo, Article, Q&A, Organization and more: the machine-readable formats AI engines lift word for word. Inner Links and Link Opportunities – build topical authority by linking the right pages for the right keywords. SEO features Focus Pages – see exactly why a page is not ranking and what to fix, page by page. AI Keyword Research – find keywords you can actually rank for, with real competition and search-intent analysis. Live Assistant – real-time, on-page optimization guidance as you write in Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi and other builders. SEO Goals – a guided, prioritized plan of what to do next. Technical SEO on autopilot – XML sitemaps, canonical links, meta robots, Open Graph and Twitter / X cards, redirects and favicons. Audits and tracking – SERP and rank tracking, traffic, authority and backlink audits, plus competitor analysis. Built for how AI reads the web AEO and GEO reward content that is easy for a machine to extract: a clear answer up front, headings phrased as the questions people ask, lists and tables instead of walls of text, accurate schema, and a fresh last-updated date. Squirrly checks every one of these for you and tells you exactly what to fix, so the same work that helps you rank on Google also helps you get quoted by AI. Getting started in 3 steps Install and activate the plugin, then connect your free Squirrly account to unlock the cloud tools (audits, keyword research, rank tracking). Add your important pages to the GEO/AEO Audit. Squirrly scores each page for SEO and answer-readiness and gives you a prioritized “fix these first” list. Turn on the AEO/GEO essentials: generate your llms.txt, allow the AI crawlers you want, and switch on LLM Indexing so new and updated URLs are pushed to search and AI engines automatically. Works with your stack Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, WooCommerce, WordPress Multisite, WPML, and PHP 7.0 to 8.x. Migrate safely Import your existing SEO data from Rank Math, Yoast, All in One SEO, SEO Framework, SEO Press, SEO Pressor, Add Meta Tags, Greg’s High Performance SEO, HeadSpace2, Platinum SEO Pack, SEO Title Tags and SEO Ultimate. Trusted worldwide Built by Squirrly Limited (United Kingdom) since 2012, used in 150+ countries, and a multiple-time award-winning SEO tool. Powered by Squirrly’s own AI from AISQ.com: Ranking Vision AI, Keyword Research AI and Ask AI. BENEFITS / CUSTOMER SUCCESS / ALL FEATURES / LIVE DEMO What’s Next If you like our WordPress SEO plugin, then consider checking out our other projects: Squirrly Social – One Year of Social Media Posts in a Flash. Starbox PRO – Your Authors Will Shine Like Stars. Squirrly SPY – Your Competitor’s SEO Growth. In Your Hands.. Education Cloud PLUS – It’s like Netflix for Marketing Education. RankJumps – Managed SEO. Done-for-you by Experts from Squirrly. Learning Solutions by Squirrly – Teach Online. Starting Tomorrow. Hide My WP Ghost – WordPress Security Layer and Security Enhancements. WordPress Developers Page – Innovations and Partnerships. Plugins – Other Plugins created by Squirrly. Credits Florin Muresan – CEO at Squirrly Calin Vingan – CTO at Squirrly Sorel Nagy – Developer Andreea Leau – VP Marketing Cristina Leau – Squirrly mascot designer Alexandra Nicola – COO at Squirrly Teodora Vingan – SEO Analyser Irina Pogor – Content Writer Ana Darstaru – Chief of Customer Service Lucian Nertan – VP of Agency Rares Papita – CHO Investors Ibrahim Evsan, serial entrepreneur, one of the best known bloggers in Germany Philipp Kandal, co-Founder and CTO of Skobbler (recently acquired for $24M by Telenav) Many Thanks. License Squirrly is Free to use. The version from the WP directory will install the Free Version. You’ll be able to use this seo software once you install the plugin and use your email to connect to Squirrly.co For higher content marketing and SEO needs, you can check our Official Site and see what the PRO Plan offers.
