TWT AEO Ultimate

FAQ

Does this plugin conflict with Yoast SEO or Rank Math?

No. TWT AEO Ultimate detects active SEO suites and steps back from any metadata they already output (Organization, Article, Open Graph). It acts as an enhancement layer, adding the signals those suites typically miss — article:publisher, rate-limit controls for 20+ AI agents, author credential schema, and llms.txt processing.

What is llms.txt and why do I need it?

llms.txt is an emerging standard (see llmstxt.org) that gives AI systems a clean, machine-readable summary of what your site contains and how to access it. Think of it as a robots.txt written for language models. The companion endpoint /llms-full.txt serves your content as clean Markdown so crawlers can ingest it without parsing token-heavy HTML.

Why does the publisher/author Open Graph split matter?

Standard social tags often blur authorship by failing to separate your brand from the individual writer. TWT AEO Ultimate keeps them distinct: article:publisher establishes the company identity, while article:author links to the individual author. AI models use this split to assess authority and attribute content accurately.

What does the Meta Business Sync do?

It adds the sitewide fb:app_id tag, which links your domain to your Meta Developer App. That unlocks the Meta Domain Insights dashboard and helps Meta attribute your content correctly across its ad and AI systems. Most SEO plugins don’t output this tag.

Can I block specific AI bots or engines safely?

Yes. Under TWT AEO → AI Ready → Security & Rate Limiting, each of 20+ known AI crawlers has a Block toggle and a custom rate-limit override. Blocking a bot writes a Disallow entry to your virtual robots.txt and returns a 403 on its requests — both advisory and hard enforcement.

Will the rate limiter affect my human visitors?

No. The filter matches requests by User-Agent against the known AI crawler list only. Regular browsers, ordinary visitors, and traditional search engines (like Googlebot) pass through unaffected.

Will this add overhead or slow down my site?

No. Frontend metadata, schema, and virtual assets are served from the WordPress Transients API with a 1-hour cache. Heavier work runs only when a post is saved or settings change. The crawler rate limiter adds a single transient read per page load, and only for known AI agents.

What are the system requirements?

PHP 7.4 or higher (PHP 8.0+ recommended) and WordPress 6.0+. For full functionality on WordPress 7.0 and its modern data views, MySQL 8.0 and a PHP memory limit of at least 256MB are recommended.

What external services does this plugin connect to?

Only the ones you configure, and only when you trigger them:

• Anthropic Claude — AI writing and enrichment. Terms | Privacy
• OpenAI — descriptions, OG images, image analysis. Terms | Privacy
• Google Gemini — descriptions, vision, grounded lookups. Terms | Privacy
• Perplexity — brand authority and gap research. Terms | Privacy
• Google APIs — Search Console, Analytics, Knowledge Graph, Business Profile, Merchant Center. Terms | Privacy
• Microsoft / Bing APIs — Webmaster Tools, Merchant Center, Maps Local Search. Terms | Privacy
• IndexNow — URL submission on publish. Terms & Privacy
• EIN Presswire — press-release distribution. Terms | Privacy
• EasyPRwire — press-release distribution. Terms | Privacy
• TWT Agency (optional) and opt-in token telemetry. Terms | Privacy

Each request sends only the data needed for that action, using your own API key. No site-visitor personal data is ever transmitted. The plugin also displays outbound links to industry directories and documentation sites — no data is sent to those; the complete inventory with each site’s terms and privacy policy ships in EXTERNAL-SERVICES.md inside the plugin folder.