Track the AI bots crawling your site, control their access, score pages for AI answer engines, and optionally connect Claude/ChatGPT via MCP.
Search is changing. AI answer engines – ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude – now answer questions directly and cite sources, and AI bots crawl your content constantly. Search Signal is a free plugin built for this new reality, alongside all the classic SEO essentials.
See and control AI crawlers
- AI crawler log – which AI bots visited (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider and more), when, and on which pages. Runs entirely on your site.
- Bot classification – every bot is sorted into Training (takes content to train models), AI-Search (can cite you and send traffic) and Agent (a real person’s AI visiting now), so you know who to allow or block.
- AI Access Control – one click writes the right robots.txt rules to allow or block any AI bot, by type.
- AI referral traffic – see visitors who arrived from an AI answer (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot).
- Dead-link finder for AI – spot the 404s AI bots hit so you can fix them.
Score your content for AI answer engines (AEO / GEO)
- AI SEO Score – a site-wide scorecard across On-Page, Technical, AEO (answer-engine) and GEO (AI-citation), measured from your own published content.
- Per-post AEO Analyzer – checks each post for a direct answer, FAQ block, citation-readiness, a clear entity definition and freshness.
- Brand Visibility – see how an AI assistant describes your brand and what to improve (optional, uses the wptaskify service – see External services).
Classic SEO, done right
- SEO title & meta description with a live Google-style snippet preview
- Focus keyword with a real-time SEO score
- Open Graph (Facebook) and Twitter Card tags
- Canonical URLs and noindex control
- JSON-LD structured data: Organization, WebSite, Breadcrumb, Article, Product, FAQPage, HowTo
- Automatic XML sitemap and llms.txt
- On-the-fly image WebP for faster pages (originals kept – SEO-safe)
- robots.txt editor
Optional: connect to AI (Claude & ChatGPT)
You can optionally connect your site to wptaskify so an AI assistant (Claude or ChatGPT) can read and update your SEO for you through a secure connector. This is entirely optional – every feature above works on its own without connecting.
External services
This plugin can OPTIONALLY connect to the third-party service wptaskify (https://wptaskify.com). It contacts wptaskify only when YOU take an action – never automatically in the background. If you never click Connect or run a Brand check, this plugin makes no external requests.
- Connect to AI: When you click “Connect to AI”, the plugin creates a WordPress Application Password and sends your site URL, WordPress username, account email, and that Application Password to wptaskify so an AI assistant you authorize can manage your SEO. Clicking “Disconnect” sends your site URL to wptaskify to remove the connection. While connected, the plugin checks your connection/plan status by sending your site URL to wptaskify.
- Brand Visibility: When you click “Check what AI says about my brand”, the plugin sends your site URL and brand/site name to wptaskify, which asks an AI model and returns the answer. Requires an active connection.
- Why: So an AI assistant you authorize can read and write your SEO on your instruction, and so we can show how AI describes your brand.
- Service provider: wptaskify – Terms of Use: https://wptaskify.com/terms – Privacy Policy: https://wptaskify.com/privacy
Google Analytics (only if YOU enable it): If you enter a Google Analytics 4 Measurement ID in the plugin’s settings, the plugin loads Google’s analytics script (https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js) on your public pages so Google can measure your traffic. This happens only when you have set a GA4 ID; leave it blank and no Google script is loaded. Data (page views and visitor information) is sent to Google under your own Analytics account.
- Service provider: Google – Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms – Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
