AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot send their own crawlers to read websites. If your robots.txt, a security plugin or a firewall turns them away, your site cannot be quoted in answers.
Open
Tools > AI-Search Check and press the button. The plugin shows:
- Whether WordPress itself asks search engines to stay away (Settings > Reading).
- Whether robots.txt closes your whole site to ten named crawlers: OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot and Bingbot.
- Whether you have a sitemap and an llms.txt.
- A page check run from outside by citedby.eu: is your home page text in the HTML a crawler receives, and does it carry Organization structured data.
Then it links to the full CitedBy audit, which crawls up to your plan's page limit and gives you the exact fix per page.
What the plugin does not do
- It does not change any setting, file or content on your site.
- It does not add anything to your visitors' pages. No front-end code, no cookies, no tracking.
- It sends nothing until you press the button, and it stores nothing in your database.