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When ChatGPT, Claude,\nGrok, Perplexity or Gemini crawl your site, a handful of signals decide whether\nthey can <strong>read, understand and cite<\/strong> your content. NINJA AI SEO scores those\nsignals and shows you exactly what to fix.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>AI visibility (site-level):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AI crawler access<\/strong> \u2014 checks whether your robots.txt lets GPTBot, ClaudeBot,\nGoogle-Extended, PerplexityBot and Common Crawl in. Block them and you can\nnever be quoted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Structured data<\/strong> \u2014 emits schema.org JSON-LD (Article\/WebPage) on every post\nand page, turning your prose into facts a model can extract and trust.<\/li>\n<li><strong>llms.txt<\/strong> \u2014 detects the site-root file that tells LLMs what your best\ncontent is (Pro generates it for you).<\/li>\n<li><strong>XML sitemap<\/strong> \u2014 confirms crawlers can discover every page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>On-page audit (per post\/page, scored 0\u2013100):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Meta description<\/strong> \u2014 the summary engines read first and often quote<\/li>\n<li><strong>SEO title length<\/strong> \u2014 how your page is titled and attributed<\/li>\n<li><strong>Image alt text<\/strong> \u2014 the only thing a text model \"sees\" in an image<\/li>\n<li><strong>Content length<\/strong>, <strong>subheadings<\/strong>, <strong>internal links<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The Overview tab gives you a site SEO-health score, an AI-visibility panel, and\nyour top opportunities. For every page you can set the SEO title and meta\ndescription by hand; NINJA AI SEO outputs them (and the JSON-LD) on the front\nend immediately. <strong>The free plugin is fully functional on its own and makes no\nexternal connections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h3>NINJA AI SEO Pro (optional add-on)<\/h3>\n\n<p>NINJA AI SEO Pro is a separate add-on (available from https:\/\/ninja.si \u2014 not from\nthe WordPress.org directory) that adds a one-click auto-fix engine: it generates\nmeta descriptions and SEO titles from each page's own content and backfills\nmissing image alt text, per page or across the whole site. Pro is the only part\nthat connects to ninja.si, and only after you choose to activate it.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Privacy<\/h3>\n\n<p>The free plugin sends no data anywhere \u2014 all auditing happens locally in your\nWordPress install. (The optional Pro add-on contacts ninja.si only when you\nregister it; see the Pro readme.)<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>In your WordPress admin go to <strong>Plugins \u2192 Add New<\/strong>, search for \"NINJA AI SEO\" and click <strong>Install Now<\/strong> \u2014 or upload the plugin ZIP under <strong>Plugins \u2192 Add New \u2192 Upload Plugin<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Activate<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Open <strong>NINJA AI SEO<\/strong> in the admin menu. 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