Description
This plugin helps optimize your Website for AI-powered discovery tools such as ChatGPT (OpenAI), Perplexity, Claude (Anthropic), Google Gemini, Meta AI, and more. MAIO focuses on AI GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) strategies to ensure your brand is accurately and favorably represented in AI-generated content. The plugin includes advanced analytics and detection for the latest AI bots and LLM crawlers
Privacy Policy
This plugin:
* Does not collect any personal data
* Does not track user behavior
* Does not share data with third parties
* Stores only the information you provide in the settings
Security
- All data is sanitized and validated
- Follows WordPress security best practices
- Regular security updates
- No external API calls without user consent
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/maio-the-new-ai-geo-seo-tooldirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- That’s it! MAIO works out of the box with no configuration needed
FAQ
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What is MAIO?
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MAIO is a WordPress plugin that helps optimize your website for AI-powered discovery tools. It focuses on AI GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) strategies to ensure your content is discoverable and accurately represented by AI systems. The plugin includes advanced analytics and detection for the latest AI and LLM crawlers.
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How does MAIO work?
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MAIO optimizes your website for AI discovery by adding structured signals that help AI tools accurately understand and represent your content. The plugin automatically tracks engagement from major AI systems, including:
* OpenAI ChatGPT
* Anthropic Claude
* Perplexity AI
* Google Gemini
* Meta AIMAIO provides real-time analytics showing which AI systems are discovering your content, what pages they’re indexing, and how your brand appears in AI-generated responses.
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Contributors & Developers
“MAIO – The new AI GEO / SEO tool” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
5.3.13
- Improved Top Performing Content accuracy by consolidating URL variants
5.3.11
- Added AI Analytics submenu for MAIO web dashboard integration
- Analytics Dashboard Access – Direct link to view website analytics on maioai.com
5.2.17
- Added infrastructure for future MAIO smart web dashboard analytics
5.1.39
- Fixed AI Scanner cache-busting
- Added null safety checks for WordPress core function returns
5.1.37
- Added centralized automatic cache purging
- Fixed robots.txt bot allowance bug
- Fixed preg_match regex error in maio_detect_video_indicators
5.1.33
- AI Scanner – Complete website analysis tool with 6 categories (Crawl Intelligence, Answer Surfaces, Semantic Signals, Temporal Grounding, Trust Markers, Multimodal Context)
- Real-time AI Bot Detection – Automatic detection of AI bot visits (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Meta, Microsoft)
- Content Generation – AI-bot only content injection
- Guidance System – Non-action buttons where needed
4.0.16
- Installation improvements
3.4.4
- AI User Activity Analytics Dashboard- Complete analytics system for tracking user-initiated AI requests
- Shows “Total Requests”, “Pages Accessed”, “Active AI Users”, and 7-day trends
- Better separation of AI crawler vs user-initiated activity tracking
- Advanced User-Agent Detection- Comprehensive detection for AI user agents
- Improved Analytics Performance- Enhanced caching and database optimization
3.3.23
- Improved AI bot and user detection logic for all major platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Meta)
- Now accurately distinguishes between crawler and user-initiated fetches for Meta and Google
- Updated detection for new and emerging AI user agents
- Enhanced analytics reliability and future-proofed detection logic
3.2.0
- Added a “Test It” feature allowing users to immediately verify if their website is recognized by major AI LLMs
3.0.29
- Enhanced AI visibility features with improved UI and performance.
- Added AI GEO Academy page with comprehensive documentation and best practices.
- Updated admin dashboard layout for better user experience.
- Fixed minor bugs and improved overall stability.
2.0.5
- Improved LLM and AI bot detection: now supports OpenAI, Claude, Meta, Perplexity and Gemini
- Enhanced analytics dashboard for AI crawler activity
- Improved extensibility for adding new AI bots
- Minor bug fixes and security improvements
1.0.32
- Initial release
