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ZetaRank AI Agent Access Control

by zetarank

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Description

Most “AI SEO” plugins guess. ZetaRank AI Agent Access Control gives you direct control.

It manages per-bot Allow/Disallow rules injected straight into your site’s robots.txt,
serves a dynamic /llms.txt summarizing your site for AI agents, and outputs baseline
JSON-LD structured data (WebSite + Article/WebPage) — all from one settings screen,
with no separate server or API key required.

What it does:

  • Per-bot Allow/Disallow control for 20 known AI crawlers and agents, including GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, DuckAssistBot, MistralAI-User, CCBot, Bytespider, cohere-ai, anthropic-ai, and Diffbot
  • Sensible defaults out of the box: training crawlers default to blocked, live “answer engine” crawlers default to allowed — edit any of them individually
  • A dynamic /llms.txt listing your pages and recent posts, with an editable site summary
  • JSON-LD structured data on every page, describing your site and content for AI consumption
  • Works entirely through WordPress’s native robots_txt filter and rewrite rules — no physical files written, no separate server

What this plugin won’t do: promise to “submit your site to ChatGPT.” No such public
mechanism exists. This plugin controls crawler access and machine-readable context —
which is the lever site owners actually have.

Want more?

MetaRankSEO Pro adds scheduled monitoring with alerts, site-wide schema audits (every
post/page, not just the homepage), IndexNow auto-submission on publish, and white-label
client reports for agencies. Learn more

  1. Upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/zetarank-ai-agent-access-control/, or install directly through the WordPress admin.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen.
  3. Go to Settings ZetaRank AI Agent Access Control to review bot rules and enable llms.txt.
Does this submit my site to ChatGPT or Claude?

No — there’s no public API for that. This plugin controls whether your site is
reachable by AI crawlers and gives them a clean, structured entry point.

I already have a physical robots.txt file — will this still work?

The plugin edits WordPress’s dynamic robots.txt via the robots_txt filter. If a
physical robots.txt file exists on your server, your webserver serves that file
directly instead, and this plugin’s rules never take effect. The admin page detects
this and gives you a ready-to-paste rules block to add to your physical file manually.

Does /llms.txt work with “Plain” permalinks?

No — it relies on WordPress rewrite rules, which Plain permalinks don’t use. Switch to
any other permalink structure under Settings Permalinks.

Will this conflict with Yoast SEO or Rank Math?

No, it runs independently. If you already output WebSite/Article schema via another
plugin, you may want to disable the schema output here to avoid duplicate JSON-LD.

Does it slow down my site?

No meaningful impact — robots.txt and llms.txt are generated on request via core
WordPress hooks, and the schema output is a single small script tag.

1.1.0

  • Added 4 AI bots to the registry: anthropic-ai, Meta-ExternalFetcher, DuckAssistBot, MistralAI-User.
  • Added a warning when Plain permalinks are active, since /llms.txt requires pretty permalinks to resolve.
  • Added full translation-string wrapping across the admin screen (text domain was declared but unused).
  • Added uninstall.php to remove plugin settings on deletion.

1.0.0

  • Initial release: per-bot robots.txt rules, dynamic llms.txt, JSON-LD schema output.
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