EEAT WP vs Unsourced – AI Bot Monitor & AI Search Citation Tracker

Showcasing trustworthiness is becoming more and more important for ranking on Google. Improve your SEO by demonstrating E-E-A-T through well-researched content and clear authorship. Create People-First Content with EEAT WP EEAT WP is designed to help authors and editors convey trustworthiness within their content, specifically as it relates to Google’s EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) Quality Rater Guideline. Trustworthiness can be demonstrated through well-researched content by qualified individuals on a given topic. To help with this, EEAT WP can: Automatically generate scientific MLA/APA citations based on hyperlinks within the content Display author knowledge and experience with custom bylines (before article) and author boxes (after article) Integrated author schema tells Google what your Author’s expertise (knows about) and knowledge (alumni) is EEAT WP Plugin At A Glance * Auto Citations: Hyperlinks can be added within the WordPress article as normal. Once your article is finalized, click “Scan Post Links” to generate full citations of the referenced hyperlinks using MLA or APA standards. Citations will automatically display at the bottom of the article (or via shortcode). All hyperlinks will be numbered in superscript; clicking the number will scroll the page down to the referenced source. Additional settings allow you to change the references header title, summary, and appearances. The free plugin is limited to 30 generated citations per month; the Pro version is unlimited. * Author Bylines: The author byline excellently showcases Experience and Expertise. Hovering over the author name or photo displays an occupation title, short bio, skillset, and social profiles, all of which are added in the settings. The job title, skill sets, and social profiles are directly tied into the author schema, giving Google a direct view into who you are. * Author Boxes: Author Boxes are similar to bylines, also providing author schema on the backend, but are placed at the end of an article. Rather than relying on a user to hover over the author name, Author Boxes display the full bio, title, skills, and social profiles by default. Author boxes are a great way to display your author’s EEAT to readers. * Full Appearance and Typography Control: Author Bylines and Boxes can both be activated in settings to display on all posts by default, or you can choose to use shortcodes. Font size and colors are available for Bylines, and font size, colors, borders, and background colors are available for Author Boxes and Citations. EEAT WP Pro Features Auto Citations (Unlimited): Same functionality for Auto Citations, but with unlimited use. No monthly caps on the API. Guest Author:** Avoid the need to create a new user manually; simply add the Guest Author’s content into an article and add their name in the Guest Author box. Provides a simple and straightforward way to properly credit another user’s content who won’t be a frequent contributor. Co-Author: Assign multiple authors to a single article, complete with Author Byline, Author Box, and Author Schema integration. Author byline will dynamically add multiple authors in a consolidated view. Particularly helpful for large pieces of content that’s thoroughly researched. Reviewed By: Having content reviewed by a knowledgeable subject matter expert is an excellent way to show trustworthiness. For the website owner, it’s typically more cost effective to have, let’s say a Registered Nurse, review a medical article, rather than having them write it. This functionality allows you to display who reviewed the content versus who wrote it. In addition to saying “reviewed by”, a checkmark is applied next to the Reviewer’s name and title. Credits & 3rd Party Services api.citeas.org: EEAT WP uses an MIT Licensed API from CiteAs.org to generate citations. CiteAs uses a pattern of web-based searches to try to discover and represent the best way to cite a given scholarly artifact. CiteAs is a small part of a collaborative grant between OurResearch and James Howison at the University of Texas-Austin. API Documentation | Terms of Use, Privacy Policy & More Details EEATWP.com: EEAT WP uses its own website as an API to communicate general details like About us section of the plugin, version updates, etc. Terms & Policies jQuery: This plugin uses jQuery which is a javascript library to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animations, and Ajax. Select2: This plugin uses Select2 which is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. CodeMirror: This plugin uses CodeMirror which is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser.

AI assistants now answer the questions your readers used to type into Google, often using your content. Are they citing you, or sending people to a competitor? Unsourced is the WordPress plugin for Unsourced, the evidence layer for AI search, also known as GEO (generative engine optimization), AEO (answer engine optimization), or AI SEO. Unsourced shows independent publishers and content creators which AI assistants cite them, who is really crawling their site, and whether their fixes actually move the needle, backed by verified evidence, not the inferred “AI visibility scores” most tools sell. The AI companion to your SEO plugin. Yoast SEO and Rank Math optimize your pages for Google. Neither can tell you whether AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity actually cite you. Unsourced adds the missing layer: your AI search visibility plus verified crawler evidence, running alongside the SEO plugin you already use. Server-side bot detection: catches the bots that skip JavaScript Most analytics tools are blind to AI crawlers because bots like GPTBot and ClaudeBot never execute JavaScript. This plugin runs inside WordPress at the PHP level, checks every request against 22 known AI bot signatures, and logs each visit to your Unsourced dashboard with zero impact on page load time. The server-side layer is what actually catches AI crawlers, and the plugin adds no JavaScript to your pages. Bot Trust: verified, impostor, or unverifiable Anyone can put “GPTBot” in a User-Agent string. Unsourced verifies each crawler’s true identity against the operator’s published IP ranges and forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS), then sorts every visitor into Verified, Impostor, or Unverifiable, with honest, copy-paste block rules. You see who is genuinely OpenAI or Anthropic, and who is just wearing the badge. AI citation monitoring: are they citing you or a competitor? Beyond crawl detection, Unsourced runs weekly citation checks across 8 AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity and Bing / Copilot. It generates high-intent questions tailored to your actual content topics (the same kind of questions your audience types into AI assistants), then checks whether the AI cites your domain or sends users to a competitor instead. Every check is logged: which AI platform, which prompt, whether you were cited, what context surrounded the mention, and which competitor domains appeared instead. You get a clear picture of your AI search presence across all 8 models Unsourced monitors. Origin Signal: live crawl or training data? When an AI assistant’s answer reproduces your wording, Unsourced checks whether a verified AI crawler (caught by this plugin’s server-side detection) actually fetched that page in the same window. If it did, the citation is backed by a live crawl rather than older training data. Each match is logged with a timestamp and the scan window it belongs to. Combined with your bot-visit logs and citation results, that gives you a documented, timestamped record of live use of your content, a starting point for licensing conversations or escalation. Measured lift: did your fix actually work? When Unsourced flags a gap (a topic where AI recommends a competitor instead of you) and you act on it, you can mark it actioned. Unsourced then re-checks that exact topic about a week later and tells you whether your citations actually moved: measured evidence of a change, not a promise. No causation is overclaimed; you simply see the before and after. What you see in your dashboard: Which AI bots visited, which pages, and how often, and which are Verified, Impostor, or Unverifiable Your citation rate across all 8 AI models: ChatGPT, ChatGPT (web search), Claude, Gemini (grounded search), Grok, Meta Llama, Perplexity and Bing / Copilot Which competitor domains are cited instead of you, and for which topics Whether each citation came from a live crawl of your page or from older training data Whether a fix you actioned produced measured lift on its topic Weekly AI Visibility Audit and Evidence Report PDFs, generated from your live data Detected bots (22 signatures): * GPTBot, ChatGPT-User & OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI) * ClaudeBot & anthropic-ai (Anthropic) * PerplexityBot & Perplexity-User * CCBot (Common Crawl) * Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Google-CloudVertexBot * Bytespider (ByteDance / TikTok) * cohere-ai, Diffbot, Amazonbot, YouBot * Meta-ExternalAgent * Applebot-Extended * omgilibot, PetalBot, Timpibot, BrightBot External Services This plugin sends data to Unsourced (https://unsourced.app), an external service that logs and displays AI bot activity and citation intelligence for your site. A connection to this service is required for the plugin to function. What data is transmitted: Your site URL The URL of the page being visited by the bot The detected bot name and raw User-Agent string The visitor IP address When data is sent: Only when a valid Unsourced API key has been configured in the plugin settings. Bot event reporting fires only when a request matches a known AI bot signature, sending the details above. The plugin also contacts Unsourced when you connect and verify your account, sending your site URL and API key. Human visitors are not affected by bot reporting. Service links: Website: https://unsourced.app Terms of Service: https://unsourced.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://unsourced.app/privacy