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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.

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AI CRAWLER RULES ROBOTS.TXT YOUR SITE GPTBotALLOW ClaudeBotALLOW PerplexityBotALLOW AmazonbotALLOW CCBotBLOCK BytespiderBLOCK BOT HIT LOG GPTBot/plumber-leeds/ ClaudeBot/ PerplexityBot/blog/ Amazonbot/services/ 4 AI VISITS LOGGED bot · time · page no IP address # your existing robots.txt and SEO plugin rules stay as they are User-agent: CCBotDisallow: / User-agent: BytespiderDisallow: / written as a separate marked block
FIG. 17 - AI CRAWLER RULES AND HIT LOGRecommended defaults in one click
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.

BotOwnerWhat it doesRecommended
GPTBotOpenAILets ChatGPT read your content to answer questions about your siteAllow
ChatGPT-UserOpenAILets ChatGPT visit your pages live when a user asks it to browseAllow
ClaudeBotAnthropicLets Claude read your content for its answersAllow
Claude-UserAnthropicLets Claude visit your pages live when a user asks it to browseAllow
PerplexityBotPerplexityLets Perplexity index your content for its search answersAllow
Google-ExtendedGoogleControls whether Google can use your content to train Gemini and power AI Overviews, separate from normal Google Search indexingAllow
AmazonbotAmazonLets Amazon's AI systems read your contentAllow
CCBotCommon CrawlBulk web-scraping crawler used to build datasets that many AI models are later trained onBlock
BytespiderByteDanceScrapes content for ByteDance's AI trainingBlock

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
SOURCES ONE ENDPOINT AI ENGINES Organizationyour business details WebSitename and address Plumber in LeedsService · FAQPage Boiler Repair LeedsService · FAQPage Blog: boiler tipsArticle · FAQPage { JSON-LD } /wp-json/…/schema-aggregate Organization WebSite Service × 2 Article × 1 FAQPage × 3 1 GRAPH AI answer engine reads it all in 1 REQUEST rebuilt in the background on every change, and at least every 12 hours
FIG. 18 - SCHEMA AGGREGATIONLinked 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
humans stay cached - AI bots reach WordPress and are counted Visitor AI bot Page cache WP RocketLiteSpeed CacheW3 Total CacheWP Super CacheWP Fastest Cache AI bots excluded bypass WordPress bot · time · pageno IP stored cached page LOG LIMITS: 7 DAYS / 500 ROWS · STARTER+ UP TO 180 DAYS / 50,000
FIG. 19 - BOT HIT LOGGINGOff until you turn it on
Bot hit logWritrex LiteStarter and above
Hit counts per bot and last hitIncludedIncluded
History keptLast 7 days, up to 500 rowsYou 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.
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.
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