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HiveEO — AI Search Visibility Suite

Name: HiveEO — AI Search Visibility Suite
Author: Clifford Williams

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HiveEO is an Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) toolkit for WordPress. It helps you get your business, products, and services cited and recommended by AI assistants including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Claude.

Add [hiveeo] to any WordPress page. The full tool renders immediately — no complex setup required.

Free features (WP.org):

AEO Checklist — Setup, Entity, and Presence categories
Organisation, Product, and FAQ schema builder — copy/paste ready
Schema auto-inject into site <head> — no copy/paste needed
Unlimited products with FAQs
AI comment generator — unlimited (Gemini BYOK)
AI thread creator — unlimited (Gemini BYOK)
AI Visibility Tracker — probe ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini (BYOK)
Infrastructure panel — llms.txt editor, AI bot allowlist, crawler log, entity strength score
Action Guide — Module 1 (4 lessons)
Settings — business entity, social profiles, Gemini / OpenAI / Perplexity API keys
Dashboard — progress metrics

Additional features available at haiv3.com/hiveeo:

Brand Defence comment mode
Reverse Discovery — find who AI cites in your space
URL scraper and AI product description generator
Sitemap batch importer
Full AEO checklist — all 13 categories including per-engine strategies
Action Guide — all 18 lessons (Modules 2–4)
Agency white-label and multi-client dashboard

Bring Your Own API Key (BYOK)

HiveEO uses your own API keys (Gemini, OpenAI, Perplexity). Keys are stored in your WordPress database. AI generation requests are routed through the haiv3.com relay service (see External Services below) which fetches the prompt template and returns it to your server — your API key is then used on your server to call the AI provider directly.

Get a free Gemini key at aistudio.google.com — no billing required.

Privacy

External Services

This plugin connects to the following external services:

1. Google Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
Used to generate community comments, seed threads, AI product descriptions, and visibility probe responses. Requests are made only when you click a generate button — never automatically. Your Gemini API key is sent directly from your WordPress server to Google. Data sent includes your prompt text (business context, product details, thread content). See Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

2. OpenAI API (api.openai.com)
Used optionally in the Visibility Tracker to probe ChatGPT responses. Only used if you add an OpenAI API key in Settings. See OpenAI’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

3. Perplexity API (api.perplexity.ai)
Used optionally in the Visibility Tracker to probe Perplexity responses. Only used if you add a Perplexity API key in Settings. See Perplexity’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

4. Reddit API (reddit.com)
Used in the Threads tab to fetch live trending threads from relevant subreddits. Requests are made only when you click “Refresh live threads” — never automatically. No personal data is sent. Data received includes public post titles, scores, and URLs. See Reddit’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

5. Hacker News API (hacker-news.firebaseio.com)
Used in the Threads tab to fetch live trending Hacker News stories. Requests are made only when you click “Refresh live threads” — never automatically. No personal data is sent. Data received includes public story titles, scores, and URLs. See Y Combinator’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Local Data Storage

AI Bot Visit Log
The plugin optionally logs visits from known AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.) to your site. This data is stored entirely within your own WordPress database — no data is sent to any external service. Each log entry stores: the bot name, the URL visited, the timestamp, and a 12-character hash of the visitor IP address (derived using your site’s WordPress salt — the original IP is never stored). This log is used only to display AI crawler activity in the Infrastructure panel.

Third-Party Libraries

This plugin bundles the following open-source libraries locally (no CDN):

Alpine.js v3.15.12 — MIT License. Source: https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine
Tailwind CSS v3.4.19 — MIT License. Source: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss
Tabler Icons v2.47.0 — MIT License. Source: https://github.com/tabler/tabler-icons

License

HiveEO is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Details

Plugin code:

hiveeo

Plugin version:

4.1.97

Author:

Clifford Williams

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WP version:

6.0 or higher

PHP version:

7.4 or higher

Test up to WP version:

7.0

Total installations:

Last updated:

2026-06-04

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