AI Search Optimization – llms.txt, Schema & AEO Audit – Citevera vs WPSOLR

Your content is not getting cited by AI answer engines. Classic SEO plugins (Yoast, RankMath, AIOSEO) optimize for Google’s blue links. Citevera optimizes for the new layer that sits above them – the one that writes the answer. Citevera is the WordPress plugin for AI search optimization. It makes your site citable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, with one-click fixes that don’t require editing theme code or touching header templates. Who this is for Site owners who have noticed their brand never appears in AI-generated answers. Marketing teams that want to stay ahead of the AI-search shift. Agencies supporting clients through the AEO / GEO transition. Why Citevera Written for AI answer engines, not retrofitted from classic SEO. Plays nicely with Yoast, RankMath, and AIOSEO – never duplicates schema they already emit. Free tier makes zero external HTTP calls. Your data stays on your WordPress server. Paid tier connects to the same audit pipeline behind scan.citevera.com, so your WP plugin and your SaaS account share one license. Citevera also supports non-WordPress sites through a SKILL.md export for Claude Code. Full documentation at https://citevera.com/docs/claude-code-integration. Free features One-click site audit with the rule-based checklist used by scan.citevera.com. llms.txt generator, served dynamically at yoursite.com/llms.txt with a 1-hour cache. AI-crawler robots.txt control: per-agent Allow / Disallow for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, YouBot, cohere-ai, and Meta-ExternalAgent – plus legacy tokens (anthropic-ai, Claude-Web) honored for older robots.txt files. Schema.org JSON-LD for Organization, WebSite, Article, BreadcrumbList. FAQPage schema, auto-detected from FAQ blocks on posts and pages. Monthly scheduled audit with email alerts when your AI-search readiness score drops. Yoast, RankMath, and AIOSEO compatibility detection. Premium features (active Citevera license required) The premium tier connects the plugin to the Citevera cloud service at api.citevera.com. These features call our AI inference pipeline and require an active subscription. See the External services section below for the exact data sent and the Terms / Privacy links. AI-powered cloud audit (calls api.citevera.com). Recommendations marked auto-applicable can be applied from your Citevera dashboard at app.citevera.com; this plugin then applies them on your site (llms.txt, schema JSON-LD, robots rules) within a few minutes. Gutenberg block toolbar: select any paragraph, click “Optimize for AI”, see a diff, accept or decline (calls our AI rewrite service). Sidebar AI-answerability score inside the Gutenberg editor (instant, computed locally). Competitor tracking and monthly client portfolio reports at app.citevera.com. External services Citevera Free does not connect to any external service. (The free tier performs self-requests to your own site’s /llms.txt, /robots.txt and sitemap URLs to verify they are being served – loopback checks of the same kind WordPress core’s Site Health uses. No third party is involved.) When you paste a license key to unlock premium features, Citevera connects to api.citevera.com (operated by Citevera) to: Verify the key and return your tier entitlements (one request on activation; background refresh every 12 hours after). Run cloud audits when you explicitly click “Run full audit”. Rewrite selected content when you explicitly click “Optimize for AI” in the Gutenberg editor. The data sent to api.citevera.com during a cloud audit is a summary of your site: post counts, active plugins, active theme, detected schema types, and a sample of up to 10 page contents. The admin previews this exact payload before the first cloud audit runs. Rewrite requests send only the text you selected plus minimal surrounding context (post title, post type, adjacent paragraphs) for a single AI call. Terms of service: https://citevera.com/legal/terms Privacy policy: https://citevera.com/legal/privacy Development This plugin ships its full source code inside the deployed zip to comply with WordPress.org Guidelines 1 and 4 (public access to source code and build tools). PHP source: src/ JavaScript / TypeScript source for the admin React app and the Gutenberg editor integration: assets/admin/src/ and assets/editor/src/ Build configuration: package.json, tsconfig.json, composer.json To rebuild the compiled JS bundles in assets/admin/build/ and assets/editor/build/: npm install npm run build The build uses @wordpress/scripts (webpack under the hood). PHP autoloading is generated by Composer with: composer install –no-dev –optimize-autoloader

Give your WooCommerce clients a better search experience — without building the technology yourself. Shorts playlist 100 Days of Weaviate 100 Days of Vespa.ai 100 Days of Elasticsearch 100 Ways WooCommerce Agencies Can Grow Client What is WPSOLR? WPSOLR is a professional search and product discovery platform for WordPress and WooCommerce agencies. Use it as the technology behind advanced search, product recommendations, personalization and AI-powered product discovery for your clients. ⚠️ This isn’t a simple WordPress plugin We’re deliberately upfront about this. WPSOLR is powerful because it’s not a one-click search widget. It can connect WooCommerce stores to powerful search technologies such as PostgreSQL AI, OpenSearch, Weaviate AI, Vespa AI, Elasticsearch and Apache Solr. That means technical configuration, indexing, relevance tuning and infrastructure can be involved. For an agency, that’s an advantage. You get the flexibility to build the right solution for each client instead of being locked into a black-box search SaaS. If your clients only need basic WordPress search, WPSOLR is probably overkill. If you build serious WooCommerce stores where search and product discovery impact revenue, keep reading. Turn search into a service you can sell Your clients already pay you to build and improve their WooCommerce stores. WPSOLR gives you another capability to bring to those clients: 🔎 Advanced WooCommerce Search Deliver better product discovery with powerful relevance controls, filters, facets, synonyms and ranking. 🛍️ Product Recommendations Add relevant product recommendations to key areas of the customer journey. 🧠 AI & Semantic Search Go beyond keyword matching with semantic and AI-powered search technologies. 🎯 Personalization Build more relevant discovery experiences based on customer behavior and context. 📈 Conversion Optimization Make search and product discovery part of your client’s conversion strategy — not just a technical feature. Built for agencies, not just developers WPSOLR gives your agency the technology layer. You bring the client relationship. You design the solution. You deliver the project. You create the recurring service. WPSOLR provides the search and recommendation technology underneath. That means you can build your own WooCommerce search, discovery and conversion offering without developing an entire search platform from scratch. And yes, it requires technical expertise That’s intentional. WPSOLR is designed to give agencies control over: Search infrastructure Indexing Relevance Ranking Facets and filters Synonyms Product discovery Recommendations Semantic search AI integrations Custom development You can start simple and add sophistication as the client’s requirements grow. The complexity is the capability. Why agencies use WPSOLR Add another high-value service Offer advanced search and product discovery without developing your own technology. Increase revenue from existing clients Bring new optimization opportunities to WooCommerce clients you already manage. Create recurring revenue Search, recommendations and conversion optimization can become ongoing services rather than one-off development projects. Differentiate your agency Don’t compete only on design and development. Offer capabilities that directly influence your client’s ecommerce performance. Keep control Use your own expertise and implementation approach instead of handing your client relationship to another SaaS provider. Is WPSOLR right for your agency? Yes, if you: Build or manage WooCommerce stores Work with medium to large product catalogs Have technical development capabilities Want to offer advanced search or recommendations Want to improve ecommerce conversion Want additional revenue opportunities from existing clients Probably not, if you: Only build small brochure websites Need a basic search box Don’t want any technical configuration Are looking for a completely managed, zero-configuration SaaS That’s OK. WPSOLR is built for agencies that want to do more. Start with a client project Install WPSOLR and explore what you can build. Then, when you find a client who needs more powerful search, better product discovery or conversion-focused recommendations, turn it into a service your agency can sell. Want to see how agencies can use WPSOLR? Book a demo. We’ll show you the technology, the possible client use cases and how you can integrate WPSOLR into your agency offering. → Book an Agency Demo Your clients don’t need another plugin. Your agency needs another revenue opportunity. WPSOLR gives you the technology to build it. Ready for More? Start with WPSOLR Free, then unlock enterprise-grade search and AI capabilities with WPSOLR Enterprise.