AI SEO Plugin for WordPress — Asteris SEO + AI Suite

What is an AI SEO plugin for WordPress? An AI SEO plugin is a WordPress SEO plugin that adds AI-era features on top of the classic SEO toolkit (titles, schema, sitemaps, redirects). Those features include: an llms.txt generator (so AI assistants can read your site cleanly), an AI bot blocker (so you can decide which AI crawlers train on your content), an AI traffic tracker (so you know which assistants are sending visitors), and AI content tools (so writers can draft, brief, and outline with an LLM inside the editor). Asteris’s SEO + AI module is one of the first to ship all four in a single WordPress plugin.

Can a WordPress plugin generate llms.txt automatically? Yes — Asteris generates llms.txt (and llms-full.txt) automatically from your site’s content, exposes it at /llms.txt, and refreshes it on a schedule. See the full guide on llms.txt for WordPress →.

How do I block AI bots from training on my WordPress site? Asteris’s AI bot blocker controls GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, and ~20 others — at the robots.txt layer, the per-page meta layer, or both. You can allow some bots for citation while blocking others from training.

The complete feature set

Classic SEO (parity with Yoast / RankMath / AIOSEO)

• Title + description templates per post type with token replacement
• 30+ schema types — Article, Product, FAQ, HowTo, LocalBusiness, Person, Organization, Event, Review, Recipe, VideoObject, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, WebPage, WebSite, AboutPage, ContactPage, and more
• XML sitemaps with image, video, and news extensions
• Redirects manager — bulk import, regex support, 301/302/307/410, hit-count tracking
• Breadcrumbs — schema + visual renderer
• Open Graph + Twitter Card overrides per post
• Canonical URLs with self-canonical detection
• Noindex / nofollow rules per post-type, taxonomy, or individual URL
• robots.txt editor with one-click safe presets

AI layer (the differentiator)

• llms.txt generator — automatic, schema-aware, at /llms.txt
• llms-full.txt with the full content corpus, refreshed on a schedule
• AI bot blocker — toggle per-bot allow/deny; supports GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, ChatGPT-User, Anthropic-AI, OAI-SearchBot, and more
• AI traffic tracker — surfaces which AI assistants linked into your site (via referrer headers + user-agent classification)
• AI content tools — brief generator, outline generator, draft assistant, all running through your choice of model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) with bring-your-own-key
• Headline analyser — score H1s against power-word, length, and emotional-impact axes
• Schema import URL — paste an existing schema JSON-LD URL to import settings
• Author E-E-A-T metadata — author entity, role, credentials, sameAs links

Migration tools

• One-click Yoast importer — titles, meta, schema, redirects, focus keywords, social cards
• RankMath importer (v1.1)
• AIOSEO importer (v1.1)
• SEOPress importer (v1.1)

Editor integrations

The SEO + AI module renders a docked sidebar in every major WordPress editor:

• Gutenberg (Block Editor) — PluginSidebar integration
• Classic Editor — metabox
• Elementor — docked sidebar
• Bricks Builder — docked sidebar
• Beaver Builder — docked sidebar
• Divi — docked sidebar

Same module, six render targets. No “Classic editor not supported” footnote.

Why the AI layer matters now

Search is changing. Google’s AI Overviews (and Bing Copilot, Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, Claude with web search) are increasingly the first place users see your content — often instead of clicking through. The classic SEO model (rank #1, get the click) is being layered on top of with a second model: rank in a way an AI assistant can extract, cite, and link to.

That requires:

1. Clean machine-readable content — schema markup, semantic HTML, llms.txt
2. A position on AI training — allow it (gain citation surface), block it (preserve your IP), or split the difference
3. Visibility into AI-driven traffic — knowing which assistant is sending users
4. Tools to draft for both audiences — humans + machines reading the same content

Yoast and RankMath are excellent at the classic layer. They haven’t yet shipped the AI layer. Asteris ships both — and that’s the strategic reason this module exists.

Does Asteris work inside Elementor, Bricks and Divi?

Yes — and Beaver Builder, Gutenberg, and the classic editor. The SEO sidebar docks inside the builder UI (it’s not a separate page or a tab on the WordPress sidebar). You edit a page in Elementor, the SEO panel sits docked on the right; same in Bricks, Divi, and Beaver Builder. Gutenberg uses the standard PluginSidebar. Classic editor gets a metabox below the content area.

What this module is not

• A 4,500-word AI content generator. Asteris’s AI content tools are briefs, outlines, and assistance for human writers, not a press-the-button-get-an-article SaaS. We won’t ship content spam tools.
• A keyword research tool. Asteris has a keyword explorer that taps an external API (DataForSEO compatible), but it’s not Ahrefs or Semrush. Use it for in-WordPress lookups; use a dedicated tool for portfolio-level keyword research.
• A backlink manager. Backlinks are out of scope.

See what Asteris doesn’t do →

Frequently asked questions

What is an AI SEO plugin for WordPress? An AI SEO plugin handles classic SEO (titles, schema, sitemaps, redirects) plus AI-era features (llms.txt, AI bot management, AI content tools, AI traffic tracking). Asteris’s SEO + AI module is one of the first to ship all four AI features in a single WordPress plugin.

Can a WordPress plugin generate llms.txt automatically? Yes. Asteris generates llms.txt and llms-full.txt automatically from your site’s content, exposes them at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt, and refreshes on a schedule. Full guide →

How do I block AI bots from training on my WordPress site? Asteris’s AI bot blocker toggles per-bot allow/deny for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, and more — at robots.txt, per-page meta, or both. You can allow citation-class crawlers while blocking training-class crawlers.

Does Asteris work inside Elementor, Bricks and Divi? Yes — docked sidebar inside the builder UI for all four (Elementor, Bricks, Beaver Builder, Divi). Plus Gutenberg PluginSidebar and a classic editor metabox.

How does the AI content tool work? Does it cost extra? Bring-your-own-key. You provide an OpenAI / Anthropic / Google API key in Asteris settings. Token costs are paid directly to the provider — we don’t mark up. The module generates briefs, outlines, and draft sections; it does not auto-publish.

Will this replace Yoast? For classic SEO, yes — the one-click Yoast importer carries over your titles, meta, schema, redirects, and focus keywords. Migration walkthrough →. For the AI layer, there’s nothing to replace because Yoast hasn’t shipped it yet.

See the WordPress SEO pillar → · llms.txt guide → · Asteris vs Yoast → · Migrate from Yoast → · Pricing →