AI Visibility (New) # Decide which AI reads your site. See which AI actually visits. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and other AI tools now answer questions with content from the web. AI Visibility lets you allow or block each AI crawler, logs the AI bots that really reach your pages, and hands AI answer engines your structured data in one clean request. [Get it free in Writrex Lite →](https://writrex.com/free) [Compare plans](https://writrex.com/pricing/) Included in Writrex Lite and every Writrex plan · Writrex → AI Visibility *Diagram: Animated diagram of AI Visibility. Six AI crawlers head for your site. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Amazonbot are allowed and reach your pages, and each visit is logged with the bot name, time and page. CCBot and Bytespider are blocked at robots.txt, where Writrex writes a Disallow rule for each in its own marked block, leaving your existing rules untouched.* In plain facts ## What is AI Visibility? AI Visibility is a screen in the Writrex WordPress plugins for managing how AI crawlers and AI answer engines treat your site. It works alongside your SEO plugin and does not change how Google Search or Bing index your pages. - **Crawler rules:** Allow or block nine AI crawlers, one by one, with plain-English descriptions and recommended defaults. Rules are written into robots.txt for you. - **Bot hit log:** An optional, privacy-safe log of which AI bots visit and which pages they read: bot name, time and page path only. No IP addresses. - **Schema feed:** One JSON-LD endpoint with your organisation, site and every published Writrex page, so AI answer engines can read it all in a single request. - **Caching:** Known AI bots are excluded from WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache and WP Fastest Cache so their visits can be counted. Human visitors still get cached pages. - **Cost:** Included in Writrex Lite and every paid plan. No AI provider calls are involved. - **Requires:** Writrex Lite or Writrex 1.1.0 or later, WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. 01 · AI crawler access ## Allow the AI that sends you visitors. Block the scrapers. Not every AI bot is the same. Some fetch your page when a person asks ChatGPT or Claude about it; others bulk-copy the web for training datasets. Choose Allow or Block for each, or use the recommended defaults in one click. | Bot | Owner | What it does | Recommended | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | GPTBot | OpenAI | Lets ChatGPT read your content to answer questions about your site | (Allow) | | ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Lets ChatGPT visit your pages live when a user asks it to browse | (Allow) | | ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Lets Claude read your content for its answers | (Allow) | | Claude-User | Anthropic | Lets Claude visit your pages live when a user asks it to browse | (Allow) | | PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Lets Perplexity index your content for its search answers | (Allow) | | Google-Extended | Google | Controls whether Google can use your content to train Gemini and power AI Overviews, separate from normal Google Search indexing | (Allow) | | Amazonbot | Amazon | Lets Amazon's AI systems read your content | (Allow) | | CCBot | Common Crawl | Bulk web-scraping crawler used to build datasets that many AI models are later trained on | Block | | Bytespider | ByteDance | Scrapes content for ByteDance's AI training | Block | ### Your robots.txt stays yours Blocked bots are written as a separate, clearly marked block added to robots.txt. Rules from your SEO plugin, or anything you wrote yourself, are left alone. ### Reset any time Changed your mind? One button puts every bot back to the recommended defaults. ### Search indexing unaffected These rules cover AI crawlers only. Googlebot and Bingbot, and your rankings in normal search, are not changed. Rules apply site-wide. Like all robots.txt rules, they rely on crawlers choosing to respect them. 02 · Schema aggregation ## Your whole site's structured data, in one request. AI answer engines work better with clean facts. Writrex combines your organisation, your website and the schema from every published Writrex page into a single JSON-LD response, so an AI system doesn't have to crawl page by page to understand your business. - One endpoint: `/wp-json/…/schema-aggregate` - Discoverable through a link tag in every page head - Rebuilt in the background when a Writrex page is published, updated or removed, and at least every 12 hours, so no visitor or crawler waits on it - No AI provider calls, no extra cost *Diagram: Animated diagram of schema aggregation. Your organisation, your website and every published Writrex page each contribute their structured data. Writrex merges them into one JSON-LD endpoint, so an AI answer engine can read your whole site's schema in a single request. The endpoint is rebuilt in the background and linked from every page head.* 03 · Bot hit logging ## See which AI bots really read your pages. Turn on the bot hit log and AI Visibility shows how often each AI crawler visits, when it last came and which pages it reads. It's the quickest way to tell whether ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity can actually see the content you publish. - Off by default; one toggle to start - Stores the bot name, time and page path only, never IP addresses or personal data - Hit counts per bot plus a last-hit column in the rules table - Caching plugins are detected and AI bots excluded automatically, so visits are counted *Diagram: Bot hit logging and caching: an AI bot request would normally be answered by your caching plugin and never reach WordPress. Writrex excludes known AI bots from WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache and WP Fastest Cache, so the visit reaches WordPress and is logged with the bot name, time and page path, never an IP address. Human visitors still get cached pages.* | Bot hit log | Writrex Lite | Starter and above | | --- | --- | --- | | Hit counts per bot and last hit | Included | Included | | History kept | Last 7 days, up to 500 rows | You choose, up to 180 days and 50,000 rows | | Daily trend chart | - | Included | Smaller logs mean faster queries. We recommend 30 days and 5,000 rows unless you need more. FAQ ## Questions about AI Visibility. ### What is AI Visibility in Writrex? AI Visibility is a screen in Writrex Lite and Writrex that lets you allow or block AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, optionally logs which AI bots visit your pages, and publishes all your structured data in one JSON-LD endpoint for AI answer engines. See [AI Visibility settings](https://writrex.com/docs-settings/#ai-visibility). ### Will blocking AI crawlers affect my Google rankings? No. The rules cover AI crawlers only. Googlebot and Bingbot are not touched. Google-Extended controls whether Google may use your content for Gemini and AI Overviews, separately from normal Google Search indexing. ### Should I block AI crawlers? It depends on your goals. Allowing bots such as GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot lets AI assistants read and cite your pages. The recommended defaults allow those and block CCBot and Bytespider, which collect content in bulk for training datasets. ### Does AI Visibility overwrite my robots.txt? No. Writrex adds its rules as a separate marked block after your existing robots.txt output, including any rules from your SEO plugin, and never replaces or truncates them. If nothing is blocked, no block is added. ### Does the bot hit log store personal data? No. It records the bot name, the time and the page path. It stores no IP addresses, no full user-agent strings and no personal data, and it is off until you turn it on. ### Why do caching plugins matter for bot logging? A caching plugin can answer a bot's request with a stored page before WordPress runs, so the visit is never counted. Writrex excludes known AI bots from WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache and WP Fastest Cache. Human visitors still get cached pages. ### Is AI Visibility free? Yes. Crawler rules, the bot hit log and the schema endpoint are all in Writrex Lite. Starter and above add a daily trend chart and longer log history. Get started ## Your competitors won't know how you did it. Start with Writrex Lite for free. Upgrade to Writrex when you are ready. [Get Writrex →](https://account.writrex.com/downloads/writrex/) [Download Writrex Lite (free)](https://writrex.com/free) [Documentation](https://writrex.com/docs/)