Amplest Autopilot — AEO & AI Search Optimization for WordPress
AI is reading your content. But is it recommending your site?
Every day, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Claude scrape WordPress sites to answer user questions. They use your content to build their answers — but without AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), they cite your competitor instead of you.
Strong Google SEO doesn’t fix this. A #1 ranking means nothing to AI citation. A competitor with weaker SEO can beat you in AI search if their structured data, FAQ schema, and authority signals are better configured than yours. Your content feeds the AI. Someone else gets the customer.
Amplest Autopilot adds the AEO layer that makes AI cite you — without touching your Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or All in One SEO configuration.
It works alongside your existing SEO setup. Never overwrites. Never conflicts. The plugin detects which SEO plugin you’re running and integrates through its official hooks — so you keep one clean <meta name="description"> and no duplicate structured data.
This plugin is the on-site engine of Amplest — an AI search optimization platform. Install it and your WordPress site connects to Amplest’s cloud intelligence: continuous LLM citation monitoring, AI-powered diagnosis, and automated fixes pushed directly to your site. The plugin handles the on-site layer; Amplest handles the strategy.
What works on your site from day one (free, no account needed)
Activate the plugin and your site immediately gets the AEO foundation that makes AI citation possible — no license key, no account, no configuration required.
- Structured Data (JSON-LD) — Automatically generates and injects Organization, WebSite, Article, FAQPage, and BreadcrumbList schemas into
<head>. Works alongside Yoast, Rank Math, and All in One SEO without duplicate tags. - Auto FAQ Detection — Scans post content for question-pattern headings (English and Japanese) and converts them into FAQPage schema automatically. No manual markup needed.
- AEO Metabox — Add an AI summary, target keywords, and custom Q&A in the post editor to guide how AI reads and cites your content.
- llms.txt — Dynamically serves
/llms.txtper the llmstxt.org standard — an always-current map of your key content for AI crawlers. - AI Score Widget — See your AI visibility score directly in the WordPress dashboard.
What the Amplest Cloud Service adds (optional SaaS integration)
Connect a paid plan at amplest.cloud to unlock the cloud platform layer:
- LLM Citation Monitoring — Your site is tested across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Claude to track whether and how they cite you.
- AI-Powered Diagnosis — Amplest scans your site, identifies what’s limiting your AI visibility, and generates a prioritized improvement list.
- Automated Fix Application — Approved improvements are pushed to your site through the plugin’s REST API — structured data, meta tags, and AEO fields updated without touching your theme or post content.
- Snapshot & Rollback — Every applied fix is snapshotted before it runs. Roll back any change at any time from the Amplest dashboard.
- Monthly / Weekly Reports — Track your AI visibility score over time with detailed diagnosis and improvement history.
Plans
Free — No account needed. Structured data injection, AEO metabox, llms.txt, and AI Score widget activate immediately after installing the plugin.
Planner ($35/mo) — Monthly LLM scan, improvement suggestions, and email reports. Connects your site to the Amplest diagnosis engine.
Operator ($110/mo) — Weekly automatic LLM citation scan, full issue list, on-demand manual scan requests, and human-approved automatic fix application. For site owners who want control with less manual work.
Autopilot ($220/mo) — Fully automated optimization with no approval required. Built for agencies and businesses running multiple sites.
External Services
This plugin functions as a fully standalone tool for local schema generation, llms.txt, and the AEO metabox — no external service is required for these features.
Optionally, the plugin integrates with the Amplest cloud platform to provide AI-powered diagnostics, improvement suggestions, and automated fix delivery. When this integration is active, the plugin communicates with Amplest as described below.
- Service: Amplest (https://amplest.cloud)
- Terms of Service: https://amplest.cloud/legal/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://amplest.cloud/legal/privacy
Plugin → Amplest (outbound calls)
- License activation / deactivation — When you click ”Activate License” or ”Deactivate License”, your license key and site domain are sent to
https://amplest.cloud/api/wp-plugin/activateor.../deactivate. Data sent: license key, site domain. - Daily license verification — Once per day via WP-Cron, the plugin sends your license key and site domain to
https://amplest.cloud/api/wp-plugin/verifyto confirm subscription status. Data sent: license key, site domain. - AI Score retrieval — When you click ”Refresh Score”, your site domain is sent to
https://amplest.cloud/api/wp-plugin/scoreto fetch your current AI visibility score. Data sent: license key, site domain. - Scan request — When you click ”Request Scan” (Operator / Autopilot plans only), your site domain is sent to
https://amplest.cloud/api/wp-plugin/scanto trigger an LLM citation scan. Data sent: license key, site domain. - Pending action poll (1.5.0+) — Every 15 minutes via WP-Cron, the plugin polls
https://amplest.cloud/api/wp/pending-actionsfor improvement actions approved on your Amplest dashboard, applies them locally to post meta, and reports the result tohttps://amplest.cloud/api/wp/confirm-action. Data sent: license key; data received: action id, action type, target page URL, after content. No content from your site is transmitted outbound.
Amplest → Plugin (inbound webhook)
- Article drafts (1.4.0+) — When you approve a generated article in the Amplest dashboard, the Amplest service calls
/wp-json/amplest/v1/posts/draftand passes the title, body HTML, meta description, tags, and FAQ. The plugin creates a new post withpost_status='draft'— the post is never published automatically; you review and publish it from your WordPress admin. Meta description is synced to Yoast / Rank Math / All in One SEO meta keys when one of these plugins is detected. - Rollback — When you click rollback on the Amplest dashboard, the Amplest service calls
/wp-json/amplest/v1/rollbackto restore a previously saved snapshot. All operations are local (post meta read/write only).
These inbound endpoints authenticate via the X-Amplest-License-Key header using your installed license key. (Prior to 1.5.0, automated improvement delivery also used inbound /apply-fix — this is removed in 1.5.0 in favor of the pull-based model described above.)
No personal user data is collected or transmitted. Only your site domain and license key are used for outbound calls.