AEO God Mode: Answer Engine Optimization, GEO, AIO and LLM SEO

Want ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews citing your WordPress site? AEO God Mode gives you every signal those engines look for. Free forever for the basics. Pro at https://aeogodmode.io if you want to measure who's actually citing you. This plugin handles Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). Also called Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), AI Optimization (AIO), AI SEO, LLM SEO, Generative AI Optimization (GAIO), AEOSEO, ASEO, AI Search Optimization, ChatGPT SEO. Same job, different acronyms. Get your content structured, accessible, and trusted by the AI engines that are quietly replacing search results. 🚨 Why Your Site Is Invisible to AI Right Now Yoast and Rank Math were built for Google in 2015. They have no idea what an AI answer engine wants. Your site probably has no AI bot allowlist, no schema for AI to parse, no E-E-A-T author signals, no answer-shaped content, no citation tracking. ChatGPT and Perplexity skip you and cite your competitors instead. AEO God Mode fixes that. It runs alongside Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, or All in One SEO. Imports their settings on install. Adds the AI visibility layer none of them cover. Never overwrites your titles, meta, canonicals, or sitemaps. 🆓 What You Get For Free (No Account Required) ✅ AI Crawler Allowlist (18 bots). Choose which AI engines can use your content. Allow ChatGPT and Perplexity, block the rest, do whatever you want. See screenshot 2. ✅ llms.txt Generator. Auto-writes a machine-readable summary of your most important content. Acts as a "welcome mat" for AI agents that read it during inference (a proposed standard, not a hard requirement, but useful when AI agents do honour it). See screenshot 9. ✅ Schema Engine (FAQ, HowTo, Article, Product, Organization, LocalBusiness, Speakable, more). Auto-tags your content so AI knows what each page is. See screenshot 4. ✅ Schema Conflict Detector. Already running Yoast or Rank Math? Never get duplicate or fighting schema. The detector defers to your existing plugin. See screenshot 4. ✅ Schema Validator. Pass, warn, or fail per page. Fix broken structured data before AI engines or Google penalise you. ✅ Content Gap Scanner. Finds pages without FAQs, schema, or answer-shaped content. Action list with one-click fixes. See screenshot 5. ✅ Editor Panel. Edit AEO settings inside the Gutenberg sidebar where you write. No bouncing between editors. ✅ AI Metadata Generator (5 free credits/month). Writes Search and LLM-optimised meta titles, meta descriptions, and product descriptions in 5 styles. Run on a single post or bulk-generate across many. See screenshot 10. ✅ Robots.txt Manager. Generates the AI bot rules some engines need to find you at all. ✅ AI HTTP Headers. Server-level AI directives some engines respect even when they ignore robots.txt. ✅ AI Crawler Log. Every AI bot visit timestamped. Proof ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity are crawling you. Or proof they're not, so you can fix it. ✅ AEO Health Dashboard (also a WordPress widget). One score for AI readiness, right on your wp-admin home. See screenshot 1. ✅ Setup Wizard (5 screens, under 5 minutes). Auto-detects Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, imports settings. See screenshot 8. ✅ Yoast / Rank Math / SEOPress compatibility. Runs alongside whichever SEO plugin you use. Your titles, meta, canonicals, and sitemaps stay untouched. ⭐ What Pro Adds (Get a license at https://aeogodmode.io) ⚡ Citation Tracker. The point of all this. Did ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude cite your site this week? Citation Tracker queries all four AI engines directly with your customer queries and reports who got cited. You or your competitors. Real proof across every major engine, not just two. No other AEO plugin on WordPress measures this. See screenshot 3. ⚡ Citability Score (0 to 100 per page). Predicts how likely AI engines will cite each page. Based on the 10 signals AI engines actually look for. Per-page action list tells you exactly what to fix. ⚡ AI Referral Traffic Analytics. Visitors arriving from chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai, gemini.google.com, claude.ai tracked as a separate traffic source. Now you can prove how much revenue is coming from AI citations. ⚡ E-E-A-T Author Schema. Author credentials, expertise, education, and trust signals. Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT cite sources with these signals. Without them, your authors look anonymous to AI. See screenshot 6. ⚡ Google Search Console Integration. Indexing status, AI Query Explorer, and Fan-Out Cluster detection inside your AEO dashboard. See screenshot 7. ⚡ Internal Link Builder. AI tells you exactly where to add internal links so AI engines see strong topic clusters and cite you as the topic expert. ⚡ Section Index. AI engines cite paragraphs, not whole pages. Section Index analyses every H2 and H3 so you know which sections are quote-worthy and which need rewriting. ⚡ Bulk Actions. Fix AEO across hundreds of posts in minutes from your normal Posts and Pages screens. Bulk-regenerate metadata, bulk-add FAQ schema, bulk-refresh llms.txt entries. ⚡ Unlimited AI Metadata Generation. No 5-credit-per-month cap. Bulk-regenerate titles and descriptions across hundreds of posts. Test multiple styles across categories. ⚡ AI Crawler Intelligence. 30-day activity charts, Top Crawled Pages, and Blind Spots report (the pages AI bots are ignoring). 🤖 AI Engines Supported Every major AI search engine, every major AI crawler: ✅ ChatGPT and ChatGPT Search (OpenAI). GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User ✅ Perplexity AI. PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User ✅ Claude (Anthropic). ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User ✅ Google AI Overviews and Gemini. Google-Extended ✅ Microsoft Copilot and Bing AI. Bingbot ✅ Meta AI (LLaMA). Meta-ExternalAgent ✅ DeepSeek. DeepSeekBot ✅ Apple Intelligence. Applebot-Extended ✅ xAI Grok and every emerging answer engine 18 AI crawler patterns out of the box. New engines added as they launch. 💪 Why AEO God Mode Beats Other AEO Plugins Most AEO plugins for WordPress generate a basic llms.txt URL list and call it a day. AEO God Mode goes further: ✅ Real citation verification (Pro). We ask the actual AI engines who they're citing. Other plugins guess from crawler logs. ✅ Files live on YOUR site (Free). Your llms.txt, schema, and metadata served from your own domain. Not piped through somebody else's cloud. ✅ Free forever, no account (Free). The whole AEO toolkit works without signing up. Other plugins gate basic llms.txt behind a SaaS account. ✅ Citability Score (Pro). Per-page predictive scoring no other AEO plugin offers. ✅ Built-in E-E-A-T author schema (Pro). Proper author authority markup. Other plugins skip this entirely. ✅ Yoast / Rank Math compatibility (Free). Imports your existing settings. Never overwrites your titles or meta. 👥 Who AEO God Mode Is For ✅ SaaS companies wanting ChatGPT to recommend their software ✅ Local businesses wanting to appear in AI location answers ✅ E-commerce stores (WooCommerce + EDD supported) wanting AI shopping visibility ✅ Agencies managing AEO across many client sites ✅ Publishers and media wanting to be quoted as a source ✅ Solo creators and consultants finally getting visible in AI search 🛠️ Want a Team to Just Run This For You? AEO God Mode is the technical layer. Metronyx AI is the team that runs the strategy on top. We're a managed SEO + AEO agency built by the same crew who built this plugin. Not a "we'll set up your llms.txt" service. Full-stack work: AI Visibility Audits, technical SEO, schema engineering, AI crawler config, AEO-BLUF content (Bottom Line Up Front, engineered for AI citation extraction), content rewrites, brand mentions and entity building across Reddit and YouTube, competitor citation tracking, link building, and weekly reporting. What's different: smart onboarding. We start executing day one, not after a month of paperwork. Most clients see citations climbing within 90 days. Typical agencies take 12 months to even start. Every client gets a self-contained dashboard tracking citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude in real time. No guessing what your agency is doing. Get a free AI Visibility Audit at https://metronyxai.com/audit/ to see exactly where you stand. 🚀 How to Get Started

1. Install AEO God Mode and activate.
2. Run the 5-step Setup Wizard. Auto-imports Yoast or Rank Math, configures schema, enables AI crawler allowlist.
3. Watch your AEO health score climb in the dashboard.
4. Upgrade to Pro at https://aeogodmode.io for Citation Tracker, AI Referrals, Citability Score, E-E-A-T Schema, GSC, Internal Link Builder, Section Index, and Bulk Actions.

Installing the Plugin

1. In WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Click Upload Plugin and select the AEO God Mode zip file.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.

Or upload the aeo-god-mode folder to /wp-content/plugins/ via FTP and activate it from the Plugins screen. First-Run Setup Activation auto-redirects you to the 5-step Setup Wizard. Missed the redirect? Click AEO in the WordPress admin sidebar, then Setup Wizard. The wizard walks you through:

1. Welcome. Quick overview of what AEO God Mode does.
2. Detect Plugins. Scans for Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, All in One SEO. Imports your existing settings if found.
3. Business Info. Site name, URL, business type, location (used for schema). Pre-filled from WordPress settings where possible.
4. Features. Choose which AEO modules to enable. All free modules on by default.
5. Complete. Initial content scan and your starting AEO health score.

Setup takes under 5 minutes on most sites. Where Everything Lives After Setup All features sit under the AEO menu in the WordPress admin sidebar: ✅ Dashboard (Free). Health score, recent activity, module status. ✅ AI Crawlers (Free). Allowlist for 18 AI bots. ✅ Content Gaps (Free). Scan for missing schema, FAQs, answer content. ✅ llms.txt (Free). View and edit the machine-readable site summary. ✅ AI Metadata (Free 5 credits/month, Pro unlimited). Generate Search and LLM-optimised meta titles, descriptions, and product descriptions in 5 styles. Single-post or bulk. ✅ Crawler Log (Free, advanced charts in Pro). Every AI bot visit with timestamps and paths. ✅ Schema (Free). Schema engine, validator, conflict resolution. ⚡ Citation Tracker (Pro) ⚡ AI Referrals (Pro) ⚡ Citability Score (Pro) ⚡ E-E-A-T Schema (Pro) ⚡ Google Search Console (Pro) ✅ Settings. Toggle modules, edit business info, manage Pro license. Activating Pro Pro features (Citation Tracker, AI Referrals, Citability Score, E-E-A-T Schema, GSC, Internal Link Builder, Section Index, Bulk Actions) need a license key from https://aeogodmode.io.

1. Go to AEO → Settings → Integrations.
2. Paste your license key. Click Activate.
3. Pro modules appear in the sidebar straight away.

The free version stays fully functional without a license. No external account needed for free features.

1.6.6

• Setup details panel updates within minutes of any change
• AI Crawler Access: clearer scoring and next-step prompts when crawler rules are not yet configured

1.6.5

• Compatibility update for Salient theme and WPBakery Page Builder

1.6.4

• Schema Engine: FAQPage schema now generated automatically from [faq] shortcode pairs (Easy FAQ, Quick and Easy FAQs, and similar plugins)
• Content Gap Scanner: more accurate FAQ detection across third-party FAQ plugins

1.6.3

• Smart Internal Linking: smarter, more contextual suggestions across the whole site
• GSC dashboard: redesigned with sparklines, delta tiles, and 7 / 30 / 60 / 90 day windows
• GSC dashboard: new Recommendations panel surfaces your highest-opportunity pages
• GSC dashboard: bulk IndexNow, slug search, and why-not-indexed reasons inline
• AI Query Explorer: more accurate query classification
• New: Query Gap Detector. Find queries a page ranks for but does not yet answer, and add the answer in one click
• Answer Density now scores FAQ questions and answers
• Fan-Out Clusters renamed to Topic Clusters

1.6.2

• Citation Tracker: day-over-day citation history per engine
• Citation Tracker: 7 / 30 / 60 / 90 day period filters
• Citation Tracker: more accurate detection across every supported AI engine
• AI Crawler Log: faster dashboard on sites with large histories

1.6.1

• Citation Tracker: refined Run Check behaviour
• Citation Tracker: queries auto-labelled Branded or Non-branded
• Citation Tracker: real-time API key validation with clear status
• AI Generate: tighter conversion-focused query suggestions

1.6.0

• Pro / Citation Tracker: redesigned dashboard with three-tab layout, per-engine filtering, and a 30-day hit-rate chart
• Pro / Citation Tracker: bring your own queries, paste a list, or generate buyer-intent suggestions
• Pro / Citation Tracker: real-time API key validation
• Pro / Smart Internal Linking: side-by-side BEFORE/AFTER preview during approval
• Reliability and polish across the dashboard

1.5.98

• Pro / Smart Internal Linking: stronger suggestions on comparison-style and long-form posts

1.5.97

• Pro / Smart Internal Linking: better suggestion quality on long posts and category pages
• Pro / Smart Internal Linking: clearer empty-state messages with recovery actions
• Pro / Smart Internal Linking: credits protected against empty results
• Site Health: more accurate Organization schema detection

1.5.96

• Cleaner Free build, with License UI shown only where applicable

1.5.94

• llms.txt: clearer feedback after Regenerate

1.5.93

• llms.txt: ready to serve on activation

1.5.92

• Branding update for Metronyx AI

1.5.91

• Polished admin layout

1.5.90

• Setup Wizard auto-launches on activation
• Smoother onboarding flow

1.5.88

• Admin menu position update
• GSC: more accurate internal links and Not Indexed counters

1.5.86

• Schema output hardening

1.5.84

• Code quality and security improvements

1.5.83

• AI prompts now use the current year automatically

1.5.82

• AI Metadata: reliable title generation on the free tier

1.5.81

• Free credit tracking refinements

1.5.5

• AI Metadata: WooCommerce and EDD product support
• AI Metadata: bulk generation reliability
• AI Metadata: better prompts for products

1.5.4

• Editor Panel: layout and tag visibility
• Content Gap Scanner: more accurate meta description detection

1.5.3

• AI Metadata: product context support

1.5.2

• Update mechanism reliability improvements

1.5.1

• Content Gap Scanner: FAQ preview and undo
• Meta description preview
• Google Analytics gtag support

1.5.0

• New: AI Metadata Generator with 5 description styles
• New: credit system
• SEO plugin compatibility with Yoast, Rank Math, and native WordPress
• Server-side AI proxy

1.4.1

• AI Signals page: interactive dashboard with status cards and configurable headers
• Honest "No known crawler support" badges on experimental HTTP headers
• IETF AIPref standards roadmap card

1.4.0

• New: AI Crawler Intelligence dashboard with 30-day activity chart
• Pro: Top Crawled Pages and Blind Spots tabs

1.3.5

• New: AEO Site Health dashboard widget

1.3.4

• 4 new AI crawlers: OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Perplexity-User
• Meta-ExternalAgent (LLaMA) and DeepSeekBot support
• 18 total AI crawlers recognised
• Sidebar reordered: Free features first, Pro features below

1.3.3

• Setup Wizard: documentation link added
• Pro toggle improvements

1.3.2

• Complete Setup Wizard for both Free and Pro tiers
• Smoother dashboard navigation

1.3.0

• New: Google Search Console integration (Pro): query analytics, page performance, sitemap management, index coverage, manual URL inspection
• GSC OAuth proxy for secure API communication
• Site sync with batch processing and progress indicators
• llms.txt: spec-compliant sections and editable context area

1.2.1

• Schema page now includes Speakable toggle and CSS selector editor (consolidated from AEO Layer)
• Settings: tooltips on every module toggle
• AEO Meta Layer renamed to Meta Description Fallback

1.2.0

• New: Search Console page with AI query classification and fan-out detection
• Improved health score scoring

1.1.0

• E-E-A-T per-field display toggles with live preview
• Author avatars

1.0.5

• Initial public release
• Setup Wizard with Yoast and Rank Math import
• AI Crawler Allowlist and Visit Log
• llms.txt generation
• Schema Engine with auto-detection
• Content Gap Scanner with one-click fixes
• Schema Validator
• Citation Tracker (Pro)
• AI Referral Traffic (Pro)
• Citability Score (Pro)
• E-E-A-T Schema Enrichment (Pro)
• Google Search Console Integration (Pro)