Citevera – AI Search Optimization

Your content is not getting cited by AI answer engines. Classic SEO plugins (Yoast, RankMath, AIOSEO) optimize for Google’s blue links. Citevera optimizes for the new layer that sits above them – the one that writes the answer.

Citevera is the WordPress plugin for AI search optimization. It makes your site citable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, with one-click fixes that don’t require editing theme code or touching header templates.

Who this is for

• Site owners who have noticed their brand never appears in AI-generated answers.
• Marketing teams that want to stay ahead of the AI-search shift.
• Agencies supporting clients through the AEO / GEO transition.

Why Citevera

• Written for AI answer engines, not retrofitted from classic SEO.
• Plays nicely with Yoast, RankMath, and AIOSEO – never duplicates schema they already emit.
• Free tier makes zero external HTTP calls. Your data stays on your WordPress server.
• Paid tier connects to the same audit pipeline behind scan.citevera.com, so your WP plugin and your SaaS account share one license.
• Citevera also supports non-WordPress sites through a SKILL.md export for Claude Code. Full documentation at https://citevera.com/docs/claude-code-integration.

Free features

• One-click site audit with the rule-based checklist used by scan.citevera.com.
• llms.txt generator, served dynamically at yoursite.com/llms.txt with a 1-hour cache.
• AI-crawler robots.txt control: per-agent Allow / Disallow for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, YouBot, cohere-ai, Meta-ExternalAgent, and more.
• Schema.org JSON-LD for Organization, WebSite, Article, BreadcrumbList.
• FAQPage schema, auto-detected from FAQ blocks on posts and pages.
• Monthly scheduled audit with email alerts when your AI-search readiness score drops.
• Yoast, RankMath, and AIOSEO compatibility detection.

Premium features (active Citevera license required)

The premium tier connects the plugin to the Citevera cloud service at api.citevera.com. These features call our AI inference pipeline and require an active subscription. See the External services section below for the exact data sent and the Terms / Privacy links.

• AI-powered cloud audit with per-page apply-fix buttons (calls api.citevera.com).
• Gutenberg block toolbar: select any paragraph, click “Optimize for AI”, see a diff, accept or decline (calls our AI rewrite service).
• Sidebar AI-answerability score inside the Gutenberg editor (cloud-scored).
• Competitor tracking and monthly client portfolio reports at app.citevera.com.

External services

Citevera Free does not connect to any external service.

When you paste a license key to unlock premium features, Citevera connects to api.citevera.com (operated by Citevera) to:

• Verify the key and return your tier entitlements (one request on activation; background refresh every 12 hours after).
• Run cloud audits when you explicitly click “Run full audit”.
• Rewrite selected content when you explicitly click “Optimize for AI” in the Gutenberg editor.

The data sent to api.citevera.com during a cloud audit is a summary of your site: post counts, active plugins, active theme, detected schema types, and a sample of up to 10 page contents. The admin previews this exact payload before the first cloud audit runs.

Rewrite requests send only the text you selected plus minimal surrounding context (post title, post type, adjacent paragraphs) for a single AI call.

Terms of service: https://citevera.com/legal/terms
Privacy policy: https://citevera.com/legal/privacy

Development

This plugin ships its full source code inside the deployed zip to comply with WordPress.org Guidelines 1 and 4 (public access to source code and build tools).

PHP source: src/

JavaScript / TypeScript source for the admin React app and the Gutenberg editor integration: assets/admin/src/ and assets/editor/src/

Build configuration: package.json, tsconfig.json, composer.json

To rebuild the compiled JS bundles in assets/admin/build/ and assets/editor/build/:

1. npm install
2. npm run build

The build uses @wordpress/scripts (webpack under the hood). PHP autoloading is generated by Composer with: composer install –no-dev –optimize-autoloader