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. It combines the best of traditional SEO and emerging AIO strategies to ensure your brand is accurately and favorably represented in AI-generated content. MAIO now includes advanced analytics and detection for the latest AI bots

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-tool directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
Use the Settings->MAIO screen to configure the plugin

FAQ

What is MAIO?

MAIO is a WordPress plugin that helps optimize your website for AI-powered discovery tools. It combines traditional SEO with AI-specific optimization strategies, and now includes analytics and detection for the latest AI and LLM crawlers and user-initiated fetchers.

How does MAIO work?

MAIO adds structured data and metadata to your website that helps AI tools better understand and represent your content. It also detects and logs visits from major AI bots, including:
* OpenAI
* Anthropic Claude
* Perplexity AI
* Google Gemini
* Meta AI

The plugin is extensible, so you can add detection for new AI bots as they appear.

Reviews

rickthe ເດືອນກໍລະກົດ 19, 2025

I really like the tool, it helps me with gemini. I suggest to add more analytics and notification to make sure I’m aware about change in my ranting so i can take action. Keep up the good work!

Hod ເດືອນກໍລະກົດ 19, 2025

I have a travel blog.I Installed the plugin 1 week ago and already I see results.I can’t show an image here, but my page is being accessed more then before by LLM and AI queries.I would like to request a new feature- Score per page / Post and how to improve each one.Thanks

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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.

HBSS Technologies

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Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

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

MAIO – The new AI GEO / SEO tool