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CrawlWatch shows you the invisible traffic: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and 40+ AI crawlers visiting your WordPress site.<\/p>\n\n
Read the llms.txt guide<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 what llms.txt is, the exact format that works, and the mistakes that make one useless \u00b7 AI bot traffic in WordPress<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 how to see it, measure it, and decide what to do about it \u00b7 Plugin page<\/a><\/strong> \u00b7 Development on GitHub<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 report issues or contribute.<\/p>\n\n No API key. No external service in V1. Lightweight: normal visitors cause zero extra queries.<\/p>\n\n None. CrawlWatch talks to no third-party service \u2014 the only HTTP requests it makes are loopback fetches of your own posts for the on-demand schema scan. Everything is stored and computed on your own server.<\/p>\n\n CrawlWatch logs AI crawler visits locally: time, bot name, visited URL, referrer domain, truncated user-agent, and SHA-256 hashed IP (IPv4 last octet and IPv6 \/64 anonymized before hashing). Raw IPs are never stored. Retention is configurable (default 30 days) and all data is deleted on uninstall if enabled in Settings. No visitor data leaves your site.<\/p>\n\n\n No. Everything is stored locally in one table ( No. Normal human visits do zero extra queries. Only detected AI hits do one dedupe check plus one insert. No CSS\/JS on the frontend.<\/p><\/dd>\n Default 30 days (7\/14\/30\/90\/180 selectable). Daily WP-Cron auto-deletes older rows.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. It only detects whether an SEO plugin is active (for the schema part of the score). No integration needed.<\/p><\/dd>\n Blocking AI training bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot) does not affect Google search. Never block regular Googlebot \u2014 CrawlWatch only manages AI bots, and Google-Extended asks for confirmation first.<\/p><\/dd>\n Tracking runs in PHP. Full-page caches (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3 Total Cache, Cloudflare APO) serve cached pages without running PHP, so those visits are never logged. CrawlWatch shows a notice on its own pages when a known cache is active.<\/p><\/dd>\n Add a No \u2014 that is a different bot. GPTBot governs training; OAI-SearchBot governs ChatGPT Search citability. Blocking GPTBot hides you from training while leaving you citable. The same split exists at Anthropic (ClaudeBot vs Claude-SearchBot). Google-Extended only affects Gemini training, never AI Overviews.<\/p><\/dd>\n At the domain root ( Some read it, some do not \u2014 adoption is limited and Google does not use it for search. It costs nothing to have, and it makes the assistants that do read it describe you accurately.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n\n
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\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> or install from Plugins > Add New.<\/li>\nyoursite.com\/llms.txt<\/code> to verify (plain permalinks or subdirectory installs: use yoursite.com\/?crawlwatch_file=llms.txt<\/code>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Does this send data outside my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
wp_crawlwatch_logs<\/code>). IPs are SHA-256 hashed (IPv4 last octet and IPv6 \/64 anonymized first). No third-party calls \u2014 the only HTTP requests CrawlWatch ever makes are loopback fetches of your own posts for the on-demand schema scan.<\/p><\/dd>\nWill it slow my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How long are logs kept?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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Will blocking a bot hurt my SEO?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Why do I see few or zero hits with a cache plugin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do I block GPTBot in WordPress?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Disallow<\/code> rule for GPTBot in robots.txt \u2014 CrawlWatch writes it for you with preview. That keeps your content out of OpenAI training data. It does not remove anything already trained on.<\/p><\/dd>\nDoes blocking GPTBot stop ChatGPT from citing my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Where does llms.txt go on a WordPress site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
yoursite.com\/llms.txt<\/code>). CrawlWatch generates and serves it with no file writes. Anything deeper and most consumers never look.<\/p><\/dd>\nIs llms.txt actually read by AI assistants?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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