VigIA (Spanish for “lookout” or “watchman”, incorporating “IA” – Spanish for “AI”) is a comprehensive WordPress plugin that tracks, analyzes, and helps you control AI crawler activity on your website.
What does VigIA do?
- Tracks AI crawlers visiting your site (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 50+ others)
- Provides detailed analytics with charts, statistics, and exportable reports
- Blocks unwanted crawlers via PHP (403 response)
- Manages robots.txt rules for AI crawlers with compliance monitoring
- Sends email alerts about crawler activity (daily, weekly, or monthly)
- Generates llms.txt files to help AI systems understand your site
Key Features
Analytics Dashboard * Total visits, unique crawlers, and pages crawled statistics * Timeline chart with daily breakdown * Category distribution (AI Training, AI Search, AI Assistant, Data Scraper) * Top crawlers and most crawled pages tables * Recent activity log with filters * Period comparison functionality * CSV export
Crawler Blocking * Block crawlers via PHP with 403 Forbidden response * Quick block dropdown in analytics dashboard * Manage blocks from Extras page * Works on any server (Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, etc.)
Robots.txt Management * Add Disallow rules for AI crawlers * Visual preview of your robots.txt * Compliance monitoring: see which crawlers ignore your rules * One-click blocking for non-compliant crawlers * Works with both physical and virtual robots.txt
Email Alerts * Daily, weekly, or monthly reports * Three detail levels: Minimal, Normal, Complete * Non-compliant crawler warnings * Activity comparison with previous period
LLMs.txt Generator * Select content by post type with one click * Filter by taxonomies (categories, tags, custom) * Manual include/exclude with AJAX search * Exclude by URL patterns (wildcards supported) * SEO plugin integration (auto-exclude noindex content) * Auto-regeneration (daily, weekly, monthly) * Robots.txt integration (add llms.txt and llms-full.txt references) * Generate llms.txt and llms-full.txt files * Full content or excerpt mode * Compatible with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, and The SEO Framework
Supported AI Crawlers
VigIA monitors 50+ AI crawlers including:
- OpenAI: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User
- Anthropic: ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Claude-SearchBot
- Google: Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Gemini-Deep-Research
- Perplexity: PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User
- Meta: Meta-ExternalAgent, FacebookBot
- Microsoft: BingBot
- ByteDance: Bytespider
- Amazon: Amazonbot
- Apple: Applebot-Extended
- And many more…
Privacy Focused
VigIA stores visitor data locally in your WordPress database. No data is sent to external servers.
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About AyudaWP
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