Show up when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI answer your customers’ questions.
Your content can rank on the first page of Google and still be completely invisible to AI assistants. CiteWP measures exactly why — and shows you what to fix.
It’s the only WordPress plugin with a public, rubric-based AI citation score. Every signal, every weight, fully documented at citewp.com/cite-score. No black box. No API key required. Scores run locally on your server, free forever.
Works alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO — your SEO plugin gets you ranked; CiteWP gets you cited.
The Cite Score
Most AI SEO tools give you a number. CiteWP shows you the number, explains every point, and tells you exactly what to fix.
The Cite Score measures 17 weighted signals across three categories:
- Structure — heading hierarchy, answer-first formatting, passage length, semantic HTML
- Citability — statistics density, named entities, FAQ content, self-contained passages
- Authority — schema markup, author signals, internal linking, content depth
Every signal is documented at citewp.com/cite-score with research citations for every weight. Unlike competitor “AI scores,” there is no black box — SEO professionals can audit, explain, and defend every recommendation to their clients.
What’s Included (Free)
✅ Cite Score — transparent 100-point AI citation readiness score with per-signal breakdown and ranked improvement recommendations. See your top 3 highest-impact fixes right on the dashboard.
✅ AI Crawler Tracking — log visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, DeepSeek, and 80+ other AI bots. See what they request, which content gets attention, and which published pages have never been visited by any AI crawler. Filter by bot, export to CSV.
✅ llms.txt Generation — auto-generate /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt from your most important content with cornerstone prioritization. Respects Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO settings automatically.
✅ Gutenberg Sidebar — Cite Score, category breakdown, and signal-by-signal recommendations live in the editor as you write. Check your score without leaving the page.
✅ Schema Suggestions — one-click Article and FAQPage JSON-LD generation. FAQ detection works with Kadence, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Spectra, and HTML5 accordions.
✅ AI Recommendations — the dashboard surfaces your highest-impact fixes, grouped by signal and post type, ranked by recoverable Cite Score points. No guessing what to work on next.
✅ Post List Column — sortable Cite Score column in All Posts and All Pages. Spot weak content at a glance.
✅ Dashboard Widget — site-wide Cite Score average, top crawled pages, and AI bot activity at a glance.
Why no API key?
Other AI SEO plugins require you to connect an OpenAI or Anthropic API key just to see your score — meaning every analysis costs you money and sends your content to an external server.
CiteWP scores your content locally on your own WordPress server. No API key. No per-analysis cost. No data leaving your site. The full feature set is free, forever.
Who this is for
✅ Bloggers and content publishers — your audience is already asking AI for recommendations. Be the source they cite.
✅ SEO professionals and agencies — measure AI citation readiness across client sites with a transparent, auditable rubric you can explain and defend.
✅ Founders and small-business owners — if you own your WordPress site and want to show up in AI search, this is where you start.
✅ SaaS companies and documentation sites — AI engines cite authoritative reference content. Measure whether yours qualifies.
White-hat by design
Some AI SEO plugins work by serving a different, “optimized” version of your page to AI crawlers — a technique that’s functionally cloaking and carries real risk under Google’s spam policies.
CiteWP takes the opposite approach: measure your actual content, find the gaps, fix them. Your real page gets better for AI and humans alike. No separate version for bots. No CDN dependency. No cloaking risk.
Built by CiteWP
CiteWP is a dedicated AI search optimization tool built specifically for WordPress. Visit citewp.com for documentation, the full scoring rubric, and blog posts on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).
