AI Store Signals for WooCommerce

Description

A shift is happening in how people shop online.

More and more buyers are starting their purchase journey by asking an AI — “What’s a good waterproof hiking boot under $150?” or “Find me a standing desk with cable management.” The AI doesn’t scroll Google. It reads product pages, parses structured data, and recommends what it finds most trustworthy and complete.

If your store isn’t structured for that, you’re invisible to it.

AI Store Signals for WooCommerce fixes that. It analyses every product in your store and gives it a concrete Agent Trust Score (0–100) based on eight readiness dimensions — then tells you exactly what to fix per product. It also makes your store machine-readable by generating the files and endpoints AI crawlers actually use, and tracks which AI bots are visiting.

Unlike plugins that only generate an llms.txt file, this plugin’s core value is the per-product scoring engine and the actionable Quick Wins panel — a ranked fix list based on your actual catalog gaps.

What it does

Agent Trust Score — per product, 0 to 100

Every product gets an Agent Trust Score based on eight dimensions: product identity (SKU, GTIN, brand), content quality, schema markup, policies, AI-ready content, media, inventory clarity, and technical accessibility. The score tells you where you stand and what to fix first.

It’s not a vague “optimise your store” suggestion. It’s a concrete list — “47 products are missing a return policy schema” or “89 products have no GTIN” — so you know exactly what to do next.

llms.txt — the file AI models use to understand your site

Similar to robots.txt but for large language models, llms.txt is an emerging standard that tells AI agents what your store sells, where your key pages are, and how to navigate your catalog. AI Store Signals generates and serves this file automatically at yourstore.com/llms.txt.

agent-feed.json — a clean product catalog for AI agents

This isn’t a shopping feed. It’s a structured JSON file designed specifically for AI consumption — clean product names, prices, stock status, SKUs, categories, and URLs in a format that AI crawlers can actually parse without fighting through HTML. Served at yourstore.com/agent-feed.json, paginated for large catalogs.

Schema markup audit

This plugin scans your product pages and flags missing or incomplete structured data — Product, Offer, Review, Brand, MerchantReturnPolicy. You see exactly which products have gaps and what those gaps are, without having to check Google Search Console or run manual tests.

AI crawler tracking

When GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Gemini, or Bingbot crawls your store, the plugin logs it. When someone lands on your store from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Gemini, that referral is tracked too. You get a running count of AI-driven traffic so you can see whether your store is being found.

All tracking is GDPR-safe — only hashed IPs are stored, never raw addresses.

ai-plugin.json and anthropic.txt

Two more files that are becoming standard for AI agent discovery. AI Store Signals generates both automatically. Small detail, but AI agents expect them and check for them.

Quick Wins panel

The dashboard shows you the highest-impact things to fix first. Not a generic checklist — an actual ranked list based on your products. “73 products missing GTIN — fix this for the biggest score jump” is a lot more useful than “make sure your products have identifiers.”

Who this is for

If you run a WooCommerce store with real products and you care about where traffic comes from, AI Store Signals is worth installing. It takes about two minutes to set up and the first scan tells you immediately where you stand.

It’s especially useful if you:

• Sell physical products where identifiers (GTIN, EAN, UPC, MPN) matter
• Have a large catalog and have never audited your schema markup
• Want to understand if AI crawlers are already visiting your store
• Are thinking about AI referral traffic the same way you think about SEO traffic

Technical notes

• Scores are calculated in the background via WP-Cron in batches of 50 — no timeout risk on large catalogs
• Products are automatically re-scored when you update them in WooCommerce
• All generated feeds are cached and served with appropriate headers for crawlers
• The plugin adds three database tables on activation and removes them cleanly on uninstall (with your confirmation)
• HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) compatible