AEOmatic — Answer Engine Optimization, GEO, AIO, LLM SEO

AEO means structuring your content so AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Gemini) can find it, understand it, and cite it. Also called GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), AIO (AI Optimization), LLM SEO, AI SEO, or ChatGPT SEO. Same shift, different acronyms — from optimising for search result links to optimising for AI-generated answers.

AEOmatic ships a broad free toolkit — 22 schema types, 8 page-builder integrations, 16 AI crawler controls, 5 AI HTTP headers, content audit, and /llms-full.txt — all generated on your own server with no external API calls on the front-end. Some paid alternatives offer Citation Trackers that poll ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini to verify whether they cited you; AEOmatic does not have that feature today. Pick the plugin that matches the outcome you need most.

It can, if both plugins output the same schema types. AEOmatic detects active SEO plugins and shows a warning notice. The "Fix it for me" button disables only the overlapping schema types in AEOmatic — your Yoast or Rank Math settings are not changed. AEOmatic's AEO-specific features (llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, AI crawler control, AEO audit, AI HTTP headers, visual schema editor) sit alongside classic SEO plugins without conflict.

Go to Settings → Permalinks and click Save Changes. This flushes WordPress rewrite rules and registers the virtual endpoints. If the 404 persists, check that your hosting is not serving a physical robots.txt, llms.txt, or llms-full.txt file from your server root — a physical file will override WordPress's virtual endpoint.

A virtual URL AEOmatic serves at /llms-full.txt that returns the full markdown body of every published page and post in a single HTTP response. AI crawlers can ingest your whole site in one fetch instead of following 50 links. AEOmatic shipped /llms-full.txt in version 1.1.0 (June 2026) as part of the free tier, packaged alongside schema, crawler control, audit, and AI HTTP headers.

Yes. AEOmatic has a content extractor for every major page builder: Gutenberg, Classic Editor, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Oxygen, and WPBakery. It reads each builder's native data format to extract text content. ACF text, textarea, wysiwyg, and repeater fields are also scanned automatically.

No. Schema is generated once per post and cached in post meta with a content fingerprint. The cache is invalidated automatically when you save the post, change meta, switch categories, or edit a field override. There are no external API calls on the front-end. The audit engine and verification tool only run in the WordPress admin.

22 types: Article, BlogPosting, NewsArticle, TechArticle, Recipe, HowTo, FAQPage, QAPage, Review, Product, Service, LocalBusiness, Event, JobPosting, Course, Book, WebPage, AboutPage, ContactPage, CollectionPage, ProfilePage, and Movie. The type is auto-detected from your content. You can override it per-post from the editor sidebar.

Yes. WooCommerce products automatically receive Product schema with price, availability, SKU, brand (from product attributes), aggregate rating, and review count. Variable products get AggregateOffer schema with min/max price range. All fields are editable in the visual editor.

Go to AEOmatic → What did we do?. The verification panel makes live HTTP requests to your site and shows status for llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, robots.txt AI directives, JSON-LD blocks on your latest post, content coverage, and AEO scores. Click "Validate with Google" to open Google's Rich Results Test pre-loaded with your post URL.

No. AEOmatic makes zero external API calls on the front-end. Schema is generated server-side and cached. The verification panel only makes HTTP requests to your own site to confirm the public output. No content, no analytics, no telemetry is sent off-site.

Yes. AEOmatic produces standards-compliant schema, llms.txt, robots.txt directives, and HTTP headers. Nothing cloaked, no doorway pages, no manipulation. Just the structured signals AI engines and Google's guidelines explicitly recommend.

Yes, that's the whole point. AEOmatic generates the structured signals (schema, llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, AI HTTP headers, answer-shaped content scoring) that AI engines use to identify and cite trustworthy sources. We can't guarantee placement (no plugin can), but we give you every signal those engines look for.

A local, rules-based analyser that runs 16 checks on every post and page and flags the specific reasons a page is unlikely to be cited by AI engines — orphan pages, missing opening answers, FAQ content without FAQPage schema, low-confidence schema types, missing meta descriptions, missing from llms.txt, and more. Each gap comes with a one-line fix hint and — for structurally fixable gaps — a one-click quick-fix button. Available in the block editor sidebar per-post and as a site-wide AEOmatic → Citation Gaps table sorted worst-first. No external API calls; no keys, no account. Deeper LLM-powered gap analysis is planned for the Pro tier separately.

Deactivating the plugin stops the AI crawler visit log, unregisters the /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt endpoints, and removes the injected schema, HTTP headers, and robots.txt AI directives. Your posts, pages, WooCommerce products, and any content you authored remain untouched. Uninstalling (deleting via Plugins → Delete) additionally removes AEOmatic's own options and per-post schema cache. It does not remove your Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, or SEOPress settings — those were never modified.