SEOBetter - AI SEO, GEO & LLM Citations: Generative Engine Optimization, AEO, AI Article Writer, Schema & llms.txt
| 开发者 | seobetter |
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| 更新时间 | 2026年11月10日 12:32 |
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| PHP版本: | 8.0 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
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详情介绍:
SEOBetter is an AI SEO plugin for WordPress built for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): earning LLM citations from AI answer engines - Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini - while still ranking in classic Google search. It scores every post for AI visibility and citation-readiness, writes AI articles with real, verifiable sources, and adds the structured data and llms.txt file that AI crawlers use to find your best pages.
SEOBetter works alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress. It does not replace them; it syncs its meta and schema into whichever one you already use.
No plugin can guarantee that an AI engine will cite you. SEOBetter measures and improves the signals research links to citation, and SEOBetter Pro shows whether ChatGPT search and Perplexity actually cite your site. The free plugin uses your own AI key; Pro includes the hosted SEOBetter Cloud, so there are no keys to manage.
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AI SEO, GEO, AEO and LLM citations: what they mean
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of making content easy for AI answer engines to understand, trust and cite. Where classic SEO targets a ranking position, GEO targets a citation: your page being named as a source inside an AI-generated answer. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the same goal seen from the question side: structuring pages so an AI engine can lift a direct answer from them. LLM citations are the result: your URL named as a source by a large language model in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity or Gemini. AI SEO is the umbrella term for optimizing for both classic search and AI search at once, and it is what SEOBetter measures and improves. Research on generative engines (Princeton, 2023) found that adding cited sources, quotations and statistics raised a page's visibility in AI answers by up to 40%. SEOBetter measures exactly those signals and tells you which ones each post is missing.
What SEOBetter does for free
- GEO score (0-100) and SEOBetter content score for every post and page, with a prioritized list of concrete fixes: missing citations, statistics, quotes, direct answers, structure and freshness.
- AI article generation with your own AI key. Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, Moonshot AI (Kimi), OpenRouter, a self-hosted Ollama model, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Gemini and Groq offer free-tier keys. Your key stays on your site and you pay your provider directly. The first 30 articles per site are Cloud-assisted: the hosted SEOBetter service supplies the tuned writing prompt and your key writes the article. After that, the plugin's built-in engine writes new articles on your key, and the Generate page tells you when that switch has happened.
- Real references in every article. A free Tavily research key (1,000 searches per month on their free plan) is required for generation; it is what gives every article verifiable source links instead of unsourced AI text.
- Three content types - blog post, how-to and listicle - in English, localized for the US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland.
- On-page SEO meta and JSON-LD schema: Article, FAQ, HowTo, Breadcrumb, ItemList, Product and Organization markup, synced to Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO or SEOPress when present.
- llms.txt and an AI-crawler access audit with a one-click robots.txt fix, so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI crawlers can reach and index your best content.
- Markdown copies of every post for AI crawlers. Every published post and page is also served as plain markdown at its own URL with .md in place of the trailing slash (or ?format=markdown), marked noindex with a canonical link back to the normal URL so Google indexes only the original. Never served for drafts, private, password-protected or noindexed posts, or for content a membership plugin restricts. A setting turns it off.
- AI visits: daily counts of AI crawler visits and visitors referred from AI tools, per post, with no IP addresses, cookies or visitor profiles stored, only daily totals. See the daily totals, by named AI crawler and by referring AI tool, in the post editor, in a column on Posts and Pages, and on the dashboard. The free plan keeps 30 days of history.
- Google Search Console connection for ranking, impression and freshness data inside WordPress.
- Internal-link orphan report and an age-based content-freshness inventory.
- Technical SEO auditor, readability and AI-pattern checks, and a humanizer pass.
- Free stock images from Pexels, with an Openverse fallback.
- Sourced claims. Generated articles cite real, live pages found by keyword-targeted research, and the plugin verifies each link before it ships.
- Quotable structure. Direct answers under question-shaped headings, key takeaways, FAQ blocks and definitions - the shapes AI engines extract from.
- Structured data. JSON-LD schema that tells machines what the page is, who wrote it and what questions it answers.
- Discoverability. An llms.txt file and a crawler audit that flags when robots.txt or a firewall is blocking AI crawlers.
- Freshness. Search Console decay signals show which pages are losing citations and need a refresh.
- AI Citations: see whether ChatGPT search and Perplexity cite your site for the questions your buyers ask, who they cite instead, and a writing brief for each gap. Questions are included on every paid plan, with an add-on for more.
- GEO Optimizer: adds statistics, quotations and cited sources to posts you have already published.
- llms-full.txt with the full text of every article (Pro+).
- 21 content types in total, including comparison, buying guide, review, pillar guide, recipe, case study, news article, press release and white paper.
- 29 languages and localization for 78 countries.
- Advanced schema: LocalBusiness, Recipe, Review, Event, Course, JobPosting, VideoObject, SoftwareApplication, QAPage and more, plus Gutenberg schema blocks.
- AI featured images in your brand colours, Brand Voice profiles, deep SERP research, GSC-driven freshness diagnostics, an internal-link suggester in the editor, and bulk CSV generation on the Agency plan.
安装:
- Install SEOBetter from the WordPress Plugins screen, or upload the
seobetterfolder to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" menu in WordPress.
- Open the SEOBetter menu in the admin sidebar and follow the setup wizard.
- Add your AI provider API key and a free Tavily research key under SEOBetter → Settings to enable article generation.
- (Optional) Connect Google Search Console from SEOBetter → Settings to import ranking data.
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常见问题:
Can SEOBetter guarantee that ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews will cite my site?
No plugin can. AI engines choose their sources themselves. SEOBetter improves the signals that research links to being cited (sources, statistics, quotations, direct answers, structure, freshness and crawler access), and SEOBetter Pro's AI Citations page shows whether ChatGPT search and Perplexity actually cite you, so you can see what changed.
What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?
GEO is optimizing content to be cited by AI answer engines such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. It rewards verifiable sources, statistics, quotations, direct answers and structured data. SEOBetter scores each post against those signals and lists what is missing.
How is AI SEO different from traditional SEO?
Traditional SEO earns a ranking position on a results page; AI SEO earns a citation inside a generated answer. The two overlap - crawlability, structure and authority matter to both - but AI engines weigh verifiability far more heavily. SEOBetter covers both: on-page meta and schema for rankings, and citation signals for AI answers.
What are LLM citations, and how do I get cited by ChatGPT?
An LLM citation is your page being named as a source inside an answer from a large language model: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity or Gemini. Those engines cite pages they can verify and quote: sourced claims, statistics, direct answers under clear headings, structured data and a site that lets AI crawlers in. SEOBetter's GEO score measures exactly those signals on every post and lists what is missing, and its article writer builds them in from the start.
Is SEOBetter an AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) plugin?
Yes. AEO and GEO are two names for the same goal. SEOBetter shapes content so an answer engine can lift a direct answer from it: question-shaped headings, key takeaways, FAQ blocks, definitions and FAQ/HowTo schema, then checks every post for them.
Can I use SEOBetter as an AI content writer for WordPress?
Yes. Connect your own AI provider key (Gemini and Groq have free tiers) and a free Tavily research key, and SEOBetter writes blog posts, how-tos and listicles with verified source links, schema and a GEO score, ready to publish from your WordPress admin. Pro adds 21 content types and 29 languages.
What is llms.txt and does SEOBetter create it?
llms.txt is a plain-text file at the root of a site that tells large language models which pages matter most and how the site is organized, similar in spirit to robots.txt. SEOBetter generates and serves it automatically, and the AI-crawler audit checks that AI crawlers are not being blocked.
Is SEOBetter free?
Yes. The GEO and SEO scoring, on-page meta, schema, technical audit, llms.txt, Search Console connection, image search and AI generation with your own provider key are free and never expire. Pro adds the hosted SEOBetter Cloud, more content types, languages and schema types.
Do I need an API key to generate articles?
Yes, two: an AI provider key (Gemini and Groq have free tiers; OpenAI, Anthropic, Moonshot AI, OpenRouter and Ollama also work) and a free Tavily research key, which supplies the verified source links every article includes. Pro users can use SEOBetter Cloud instead and skip both.
Which AI providers can I use?
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, Moonshot AI (Kimi), OpenRouter, a self-hosted Ollama model, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Keys are stored on your own site and sent only to the provider they belong to.
Does it conflict with Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SEOPress?
No. SEOBetter is designed to work alongside them and syncs its meta and schema into whichever one is active.
How do I upgrade to Pro?
Buy a plan at seobetter.com/pricing, paste the license key under SEOBetter → Settings → License, and click the Download Pro button that appears. Install the Pro plugin over the free one; your settings, keys and Search Console connection carry across.
I already have SEOBetter Pro. Should I install this free plugin?
No: do not install this free plugin over SEOBetter Pro. Both use the same folder (seobetter), so uploading the free zip, or choosing Replace current with uploaded, replaces Pro and its Pro tools stop working. To get Pro back, download your Pro zip from your SEOBetter account and upload it the same way. Your settings and licence key are kept either way.
What does Pro include?
The hosted SEOBetter Cloud with no API keys to manage, 21 content types, 29 languages, 78 country localizations, advanced schema types and Gutenberg schema blocks, AI featured images, Brand Voice, deep research, GSC-driven freshness diagnostics and the in-editor internal-link suggester. Higher tiers add more sites, team seats and bulk generation.
What data does SEOBetter send to external services?
See the External services section for a per-service breakdown of what is sent, when, and the relevant terms and privacy policies. Nothing is sent until you take an action that requires it.
Where do I get support?
Free support is available in the WordPress.org support forum for this plugin. Pro customers get priority support at help.seobetter.com.
更新日志:
1.0.131
- New: the WooCommerce product score shows an information-only check, "Key details for shoppers". It passes when the description lists 3 or more of the details shoppers look for (type, flavour, size, life stage, colour, material). It has no points, so the score does not change, and the box shows "Info" instead of points.
- Changed: uninstall also clears the scheduled tasks of the Pro product ratings feed.
- Changed: on WooCommerce shops, Settings shows a card for the Google Merchant Center product feed that SEOBetter Pro adds. Nothing else changes in the free plugin.
- Changed: uninstall also clears the product feed's scheduled tasks.
- Improved: the "Specific Questions About" section of an article now answers only from the research gathered for that article. Its questions are the long, specific questions people ask AI assistants, and a question that repeats one from the FAQ is left out. A sentence with a number, a year, a price or a named organisation or study that the research does not contain is removed, so the section no longer invents statistics.
- Improved: groundwork for short check calls on your own AI key. Such a call can use a cheaper model from the same provider, and only a model in that provider's current list is ever used. Your saved model is unchanged for everything else.
- Changed: the limited-time launch offer is no longer shown on the dashboard or beside the article generator. The upgrade box now links to the plans page. Licences you already hold keep working as before.
- Improved: groundwork for structured pack sizes on products. A pack size can now be stored as numbers (packs, units in each pack, the unit, and its weights), with the sums checked: the total must be packs times units, and the weights must add up within 2%. Your WooCommerce weight and dimensions are never changed.
- Fixed: replies from AI models that think before they answer are now read from the answer, not the thinking, when you use your own AI key.
- Improved: SEOBetter knows the output limit of each model you can pick, and asks reasoning models to keep their thinking short for structured replies.
- Fixed: the product score's "Delivery and returns visible" check now counts the visible delivery and returns details in the saved product description, including the Delivery and returns section in a collapsed product tab, so a cached copy of the page or a template that leaves the description out no longer hides them. Text hidden from shoppers still earns nothing.
- Fixed: when the product page does not show the Delivery and returns section the saved description has, the result is kept for 10 minutes instead of fetching the page on every score, and the page check asks caches for a fresh copy.
- Fixed: more store wordings count as delivery and returns details, such as "Shipping: Flat rate $9.95", "Postage: 3-7 working days" and "Returns: 30 days".
- Fixed: the product score's "how to use it" check now counts serving and feeding instructions, such as "give 1-2 sticks a day" or a feeding guide, and never counts a question.
- Fixed: after a product description is saved, the next product score reads the page again instead of a copy cached before the change.
- New: the product score box on the WooCommerce product editor now shows a score ring with the grade, Agent-ready and Shopper-ready bars, blockers first with a link to where each is fixed, "Your next 3 improvements" ranked by the points they can add, and the score the product can reach.
- New: an Add facts form in the product score box saves how the product is used, who it is for, its material and its size as product attributes, then rescores the product.
- New: the Products list shows the score as a coloured chip, like the posts list, and has a "Needs attention" view for products scored under 70.
- Changed: when the shipping or delivery checks fail and Store policies are empty, the fix points to SEOBetter > Settings > Store policies.
- Fixed: the product score is computed the same way everywhere (with the live page when the product is published), so the numbers no longer differ by a few points.
- Changed: a product page score now says plainly when the page was not rendered (drafts and private products are scored from their data until published) and which checks it could not read.
- Fixed: products no longer show the article composite score (0/F) next to the product score.
- New: if this free plugin replaced SEOBetter Pro on a site that has a Pro licence, an admin notice explains how to restore Pro. The FAQ and the Settings licence card say not to install the free plugin over Pro: both use the same folder.
- New: product page score. Every WooCommerce product gets a 0 to 100 score for AI shopping agents (agent-ready, up to 60) and for shoppers (shopper-ready, up to 40), in a box on the product editor and a sortable SEOBetter column on the Products list. Each check gives a reason and a plain fix. Blockers (no price, not indexable, conflicting or mismatched schema, a backorder with no date, ratings with no visible reviews, hidden text aimed at AI) cap the score at 40. The score is rule-based: no AI call, and nothing that can be faked earns points.
- Published products are scored from their own live page (one request from your site to itself; only a short summary of the page is kept, for 10 minutes); drafts, private and password-protected products from their data only. Rescoring runs in the background through Action Scheduler when it is available.
- New: Store policies under Settings, General (shipping summary, delivery time, returns page, contact page) and a Back in stock date on the product Inventory tab.
- New: a dashboard notice when more than 1 in 5 product descriptions read like copies of each other.
- Changed: removed unsourced percentage claims about tables from the article checks and the checklist.
- Security: when article generation fails, the error details are now shown only to administrators, and the technical trace goes only to the debug log (when debugging is on). Other users see a plain message.
- New: markdown copies. Every published post and page is also served as plain markdown at its own URL (.md in place of the trailing slash, or ?format=markdown), marked noindex with a canonical link back to the normal URL, for AI crawlers. Off for drafts, private, password-protected or noindexed posts and for content a membership plugin restricts. A setting under SEOBetter, then Settings, turns it off.
- New: AI visits. Daily counts of named AI crawler visits and of visitors referred from AI tools, per post, in the editor, in a column on Posts and Pages, and on the dashboard. Only a daily total is stored, never an IP address, user agent string, cookie or visitor id. Free keeps 30 days.
- The AI crawler access audit now checks for 18 AI bots (up from the original 8); the one-click robots.txt fix still allows the same original 8.
- Updated: the bring-your-own-key model lists now offer each provider's current models: Claude Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5, Haiku 5.5 and Fable 5.1; GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Terra and GPT-6 Luna; Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini 3.8 Flash; Kimi K3.1 Pro; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on OpenRouter; and the gemma4 and qwen3.8 Ollama tags. Models a provider has shut down, deprecated or closed to new keys were removed, and defaults moved to current models, including OpenRouter's recommended default (Claude Haiku 4.5 to Claude Haiku 5.5, about a tenth of the cost). A setup you already saved keeps its model.
- Longer writing budget for models that think before they write, so sections are not cut short.
- If a saved model is no longer offered, SEOBetter uses the provider's default and tells you in the dashboard.
- Security: citation and link checks now refuse a redirect to a private or internal address, and re-check the address right before connecting, so a source link cannot be used to reach the site's own network.
- Security: the recipe research diagnostic log (seobetter-tests/recipe-research.json in uploads) is no longer written, and an old copy is deleted once on update. It is written only when SEOBETTER_RECIPE_DEBUG_LOG is set in wp-config.php.
- Security: the one-click internal link only links to published posts that are not password protected and that you can read.
- Security: password-protected posts and pages are no longer listed in llms.txt, and their structured data (FAQ and HowTo schema) is no longer printed on the post until the password is entered. Previously the llms.txt file could show the title, link and opening words of a protected post. Cached llms.txt files are cleared once on update.
- The Generate page now tells you when this site's Cloud-assisted allowance has been used. Free generation is Cloud-assisted for the first 30 articles per site: the hosted SEOBetter service supplies the tuned writing prompt and your own AI key writes the article. After that, new articles are written by the plugin's built-in engine on your key, and a notice on the Generate page says so. Nothing stops and the notice is informational; previously the switch to the built-in engine happened silently.
- Private and local hostnames (localhost, .local, .test and private IP addresses) are written by the built-in engine from the first article, and the Generate page says so.
- The External services section of this readme now lists Moonshot AI (the Kimi provider added in 1.0.112) with links to its terms of service and privacy policy, and states that any optional places-data API keys you save in Settings are sent to the SEOBetter Cloud API so it can query those providers on your behalf. Documentation-only release; no code changes.
- Any number of AI providers can now be saved (one active at a time, switch whenever you like) - the previous one-provider limit is removed.
- Pasting a key that belongs to a different provider is now caught at save time with a message naming the mismatch, instead of being accepted and failing later during generation. Keys are checked against each provider's documented prefix.
- The internal paid-tier feature catalog is removed from the package entirely. It was never consulted by anything in this plugin, but its presence could read as license gating of local functionality; now the licensing code contains no feature map at all, and the one capability check always answers yes. License checks that remain gate only the hosted cloud service.
- AI provider catalog refreshed to the current model generation: Claude Opus 5 and Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Gemini 3.7 Flash, and a new Kimi (Moonshot AI) provider with the K3 and K2.6 models. Deprecated Groq Llama models removed per Groq's migration guidance, and every OpenRouter model id was re-verified against the live OpenRouter catalog. Provider defaults moved off deprecated models.
- Every JavaScript global the plugin creates now carries the seobetter prefix. The admin data objects are renamed (seobetterGenMain, seobetterGenCountry, seobetterDiag, seobetterGsc), the content-generator scripts run inside closed scopes instead of the page's global scope, and the few functions HTML attributes call are exported explicitly as seobetter-prefixed names. No behaviour changes; this removes any chance of a name collision with another plugin or theme.
- Free generation no longer stops with an upgrade message. When the prompt service declines a request, generation continues on the built-in local engine instead of aborting the article, and the message machinery behind that stop is removed from the package at build time. The Features screen lead line no longer implies any listed module is locked. The dashboard header carries no paid-tier button handling. Entering a purchased Pro key now shows the Download SEOBetter Pro button in the success notice - previously the notice described a download the page never showed. The translation template file is no longer bundled; wordpress.org builds language packs from the plugin source directly.
- Meta descriptions can no longer end mid-sentence. When the model writes past its length budget and trails off, the description is repaired to its last complete sentence, or to a clean word boundary with dangling connector words removed - the defensive treatment meta titles have had since 1.0.68.
- The free package now contains only what the free plan offers. Removed: the Brand Voice settings card, the Author Bio tab (its form was already absent), the AI-image-only branding fields (business name, description, things to avoid, provider and API key selectors, logo upload), the Pro+ upsell panels on the Internal Links, Freshness and Search Statistics screens, the locked rows on the Features screen, and the Bulk Generate links to a screen this package does not include. Brand colors, the image style preset and the article-title overlay stay - they drive the styling and featured-image composition on free stock images. Free generation runs on your own AI key; the settings screens no longer state a per-site article allowance.
- WordPress.org review compliance release. The free package no longer contains the features it does not offer, rather than disabling them. The content-type selector ships three types, the country selector six, and the language selector English only, with the handling for everything else removed at build time; the 29-language string tables, the Brand Voice field and the long-form word-count options go with them. The per-post freshness diagnostic and the internal-link suggestions panel are gone too, along with their editor sidebar panels, metabox tab and drawer, so no padlock badge, locked option or upgrade prompt for an absent feature remains on any screen, and no local licence check survives in the package. The exported HTML document no longer carries a style block. The branding logo preview is now built through the DOM API instead of string concatenation, so an uploaded file name containing a quote character can no longer inject markup into the Settings screen. All admin JavaScript now loads from enqueued .js files with server values passed through wp_localize_script instead of being assembled in PHP; that change surfaced and fixed a bug where two truncated script blocks stopped the Generate screen's JavaScript from running at all.
- WordPress.org review compliance release. Pro-only local features are now physically absent from the free package (removed at build time, not disabled by a license check): the AI Assistant block, the bulk generator, cannibalization and citation-tracker screens, and the llms-full.txt / multilingual llms.txt endpoints. All admin output is escaped at the point of output, output buffers open and close in the same scope, internal case-conversion constants are prefixed, and generated-article styling now loads via wp_enqueue_style instead of inline style blocks. The fal image provider is not part of the free plugin and its External services entry was removed. Selecting a content type no longer moves the word-count selector above the free 1,500-word limit; the recommended Pro length is shown as a hint instead.
- The free Tavily research key is now required to generate articles on the Free tier, and the setup wizard walks you through adding it. This closes the silent failure where articles generated with an AI key alone contained no reference links - references are what make articles rank and earn AI citations. Tavily's free plan (1,000 searches/month) covers 100+ articles.
- Compliance and security release for the WordPress.org review. Pro-only local features are no longer included in the free package (the internal-linking suggester engine, author bio Person schema, freshness diagnostic, AI featured-image providers, citation tracker, and the llms.txt Pro variants); the free orphan-pages report, basic llms.txt and Pexels images are unchanged. The plugin no longer deactivates other plugin copies. All admin scripts and styles now load through the WordPress enqueue APIs, output escaping and nonce coverage were tightened across the plugin, REST endpoints gained stricter capability checks, and the remote font download was removed. The Tavily key field is now available on the free tier, the intro video loads only when you press play, and the External services documentation was completed.
- WordPress Plugin Check compliance: switched to wp_strip_all_tags(), scoped the internal-link custom-table queries (prepared values, identifier-safe table names), and annotated a read-only admin-screen check.
- Free article generation is now bring-your-own-key: connect your own AI provider (Gemini, Groq and Qwen have free tiers, plus OpenAI, OpenRouter and Ollama) for up to 30 articles per site, or use the built-in local engine with no key. SEOBetter Cloud generation is now a Pro feature.
- Onboarding, dashboard and settings copy updated to match; assorted housekeeping.
- Maintenance release: WordPress Plugin Check compliance fixes and housekeeping.
- Initial WordPress.org release of the free SEOBetter edition.