Answer Pilot
| 开发者 | sanderversluys |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年7月23日 15:19 |
| PHP版本: | 8.0 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.0 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
Answer Pilot is the bring-your-own-API-key AI search visibility plugin. Dedicated AI-visibility tools charge €49 to €199 per month — mostly because they bundle the LLM API costs you would otherwise pay directly. Answer Pilot orchestrates the queries; you keep the bill. Typical cost on a small site: under €1/month, paid to Perplexity directly.
Beyond citation tracking, the plugin handles the full AI-readiness checklist most WordPress sites are missing:
- Citation tracking — runs your keywords against Perplexity on a schedule, looks for your brand in the response and the cited sources, stores results locally. Multilingual prompt templates (English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish) so multilingual sites get answers in their actual language.
llms.txtandllms-full.txtgenerators following the proposed standard, rebuilt automatically on content change.- AI-bot crawl analytics — detects 19 known crawlers (OpenAI GPTBot/ChatGPT-User/OAI-SearchBot, Anthropic ClaudeBot/Claude-Web, Perplexity, Apple Applebot-Extended, Meta, ByteDance, Amazon, Common Crawl, Cohere, Mistral and more) and logs each visit with daily pruning.
- Robots.txt analyzer — flags AI bots accidentally blocked by your security plugin, per crawler.
- Per-post extractability scoring — 0–100 grade across 9 LLM-readiness heuristics with concrete suggestions in the editor sidebar.
- FAQ schema auto-emission — detects question-style H2/H3 headings and adds
FAQPageJSON-LD. - Admin dashboard — metric cards, hits-per-bot, top crawled pages, extractability rankings, robots.txt analysis, citation history with sources.
- Citation tracking is core, not promised "soon". The plugin actually queries Perplexity, parses the response, and tells you whether your brand appears — not just a generator with "citation tracking coming soon" stickers.
- Bring your own API key. You pay LLM providers directly. No SaaS markup. No subscription needed for the core experience.
- Multilingual prompts. Citation queries are phrased in the language of your site (en/nl/fr/de/es), so non-English sites get AI answers in their actual language instead of artificially-translated English ones.
llms.txtandllms-full.txtgenerators — AI-readable index of your site, with smart caching that auto-invalidates on content change.- AI-bot crawl analytics — automatic detection of 19 known AI crawlers (OpenAI GPTBot/ChatGPT-User/OAI-SearchBot, Anthropic ClaudeBot/Claude-Web, Perplexity, Apple Applebot-Extended, Meta, ByteDance, Amazon, Common Crawl, Cohere, Mistral and more) with daily pruning.
- Robots.txt analyzer — see at a glance which AI crawlers your robots.txt blocks vs allows.
- Content extractability scoring — per-post score 0–100 with grade A–F across 9 LLM-readiness heuristics, plus actionable suggestions in the editor sidebar.
- FAQ schema auto-emission — detects question-style H2/H3 headings and adds
FAQPageJSON-LD to boost AI-citation likelihood. - AI citation tracking (BYO Perplexity API key) — track whether Perplexity cites your brand for the queries that matter, in your site's language. Your API key never leaves your server.
- Admin dashboard — metric cards, hits-per-bot, top crawled pages, extractability rankings, robots.txt analysis, citation history with sources.
- Settings — retention 7–365 days, per-bot-type logging toggles, post-type whitelist, FAQ toggle, citation language override.
- No human visitor tracking. AI-bot hits are stored locally with no IP addresses.
- No external services called on our behalf. The robots.txt analyzer fetches your own robots.txt. The citation tracker uses your API keys and talks only to the AI engines you enabled (see "External services").
- GDPR-friendly. No PII collected, no cookies set, no telemetry sent.
- All data is stored in your WordPress database in two custom tables (
*_answer_pilot_bot_hits,*_answer_pilot_citations) and dropped if you uninstall.
- Get a Perplexity API key at perplexity.ai/settings/api (a few cents per query at the time of writing).
- Paste the key in the plugin settings along with your brand name and a list of keywords.
- Daily (or on demand), the plugin queries Perplexity in your site's language, parses the response, and records whether your brand appears.
- The dashboard shows citation rate over 30 days, latest result per keyword, sources cited, and the full AI response.
- OpenAI and Anthropic citation engines alongside Perplexity — same BYO-API-key model, you bring the keys.
- Daily automatic citation runs (Free runs weekly + on demand).
- Competitor tracking — up to 5 competitor brands with a share-of-voice table on the AI Citations page.
- Email alerts when a keyword starts or stops citing your brand.
- Agency tier with multi-site licensing.
- Gutenberg sidebar with live extractability scoring
安装:
- Upload the
answer-pilotfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install via the Plugins screen. - Activate the plugin.
- Visit Settings → Permalinks and click Save (this flushes the rewrite rules for
/llms.txt). - Open
https://yourdomain.com/llms.txtto verify the generator works. - To enable citation tracking, go to Answer Pilot → Settings, add your Perplexity API key, brand name, and 1-25 keywords. Then click Run citations now under Answer Pilot → AI Citations.
常见问题:
Does this replace Yoast or RankMath?
No. Answer Pilot focuses on AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) and runs alongside your existing SEO plugin. The FAQ schema emitter can be disabled if your SEO plugin already produces FAQ markup.
Why "bring your own API key" instead of including one?
Three reasons. (1) Privacy: your queries never pass through our servers. (2) Cost transparency: you see exactly what you're paying — typically under €1/month at modest usage instead of €49-199/month with bundled-cost competitors. (3) Sustainability: we don't have to charge a subscription to cover provider costs.
Which AI engines are supported for citation tracking?
Free supports Perplexity (which provides citation URLs natively in API responses). Pro adds OpenAI (ChatGPT with web search) and Anthropic (Claude with web search) — all three with your own API keys.
How accurate is citation detection?
The plugin reports a citation when your brand name (or one of its aliases) appears in the AI response text or in any of the source URLs cited by the engine. The "matched excerpt" column shows you exactly where the match was found so you can verify.
Does this work with multilingual sites?
Yes. Citation queries are phrased in your site's locale by default. The plugin includes templates for English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish; other languages fall back to English. You can override the locale in Settings.
How much storage does this use?
Bot-hit logs default to a 90-day retention window (configurable 7-365 days). Citation results have a 365-day retention window. Both tables are pruned daily by WP-Cron.
Will AI engines actually read llms.txt?
The standard is being adopted incrementally. Major AI labs are running pilots. Having llms.txt costs nothing to generate, can't hurt, and positions your site ahead of the curve as adoption grows.
更新日志:
1.1.0
- Pro: OpenAI and Anthropic citation engines. Track ChatGPT (Responses API + web search) and Claude (Messages API + web search tool) alongside Perplexity, each with your own API key. Engine models are filterable via
answer_pilot_engine_model. - Pro: competitor tracking. Up to 5 competitor brands/domains; a new share-of-voice table on the AI Citations page shows how often each one appears in the latest AI answers vs your brand.
- Pro: email alerts. Get an email when a keyword starts or stops citing your brand (configurable recipient, defaults to the admin email).
- Pro licensing is live. Stripe checkout from the Pro page; licenses are Ed25519-signed keys verified fully offline — the plugin makes zero calls to our servers.
- readme: added External services disclosures for the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs.
- Documentation: clarified plugin description (no more legacy "LLM SEO" references), added an explicit "External services" section disclosing how Perplexity API is called.
- Refactor: moved inline admin CSS to
wp_enqueue_style+wp_add_inline_styleper WordPress best practices. - readme: fixed Contributors username.
- AI citation tracking (BYO API key): paste your Perplexity API key, add keywords and a brand, and the plugin tracks whether AI answer engines cite you — without any third-party SaaS in between.
- Locale-aware prompt templates (en, nl, fr, de, es) so multilingual sites get answers in their own language.
- New
*_answer_pilot_citationstable with 365-day retention and daily pruning. - New AI Citations submenu showing citation rate (30d), latest result per keyword, source URLs, and the full AI response.
- New settings: Perplexity API key (masked in UI), brand name + aliases, keywords list, citation locale override.
- All previous features (llms.txt, bot tracking, robots.txt analyzer, extractability scoring, FAQ schema, meta box) carried over unchanged.
- Settings page (retention, bot-type filter, post-type whitelist, FAQ toggle).
- Per-post extractability meta box in the editor.
- FAQ schema auto-emission with
FAQPageJSON-LD onwp_head.
- Content extractability scoring (9 heuristics, grade A-F, suggestions).
- Robots.txt analyzer.
- Lowest-scoring posts table on dashboard.
- AI-bot detection across 19 crawlers / 12 vendors.
- Custom bot-hits table with daily pruning, dashboard, CSV export.
- Initial release with llms.txt and llms-full.txt generators.