About this plugin
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. 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
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, Forever
✅ Cite Score — a transparent 100-point AI citation readiness score across 17 documented signals (Structure, Citability, Authority). See the score, the per-signal breakdown, and your top 3 highest-impact fixes — right in the editor and on the dashboard. com/cite-score.
No black box.
✅ 86 AI crawlers tracked — log visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, DeepSeek, and 80+ other verified AI bots across 19 vendors. See what they fetch, which pages get attention, and which published pages no AI bot has ever touched. Filter by bot, filter by date, export to CSV.
Most plugins track a handful — CiteWP tracks 86.
✅ AI Blind Spots — instantly surface published content that AI crawlers have never visited, so you know exactly where your coverage gaps are.
✅ Cite Score Over Time — watch your site-wide and per-post citation readiness trend across your chosen window. Confirm your fixes are actually moving the number.
txt from your most important content, with cornerstone prioritization. Respects Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO settings automatically, and updates as you publish.
✅ Cite Score in every editor — Gutenberg sidebar plus a universal meta box that brings the score, category breakdown, recommendations, and bot activity to Classic Editor, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and Bricks. Check your score without leaving the page.
✅ Schema suggestions + scoring — one-click Article and FAQPage JSON-LD, injected cleanly into the page head (never pasted into your content). Scoring also credits authority-entity schema — Product, Organization, Person, SoftwareApplication, LocalBusiness — so service, product, and landing pages aren’t penalized for not being blog posts. FAQ detection works with Kadence, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Spectra, and HTML5 accordions.
✅ AI recommendations, ranked by points — 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 + dashboard widget — a sortable Cite Score column in All Posts and All Pages, plus an at-a-glance widget for your site-wide average, top crawled pages, and AI bot activity.
Everything above is free, forever — no API key, no external account, no per-analysis cost.
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. com for documentation, the full scoring rubric, and blog posts on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).