SEO, AEO, and GEO in plain language
SEO concerns discovery through search engines. AEO focuses on content that can help answer questions clearly. GEO considers how content may be retrieved and represented by generative systems. These perspectives overlap; WPLifted concentrates on content structure, discovery resources, and review tools.
LLMS: an organized index
LLMS is a text file that lists your content and links to its original pages. It is a proposed convention, not a universal requirement that AI systems must follow. In WPLifted, it belongs to the site-level discovery resources.
LLMS Full: a fuller resource
LLMS Full is a text file that brings your readable content together in one place, alongside the LLMS index. Review the actual generated file to understand its coverage. Its existence does not mean every AI provider will retrieve or use it.
AI guidance and Crawler rules: guidance and access
WPLifted provides AI guidance and crawler controls. Crawler rules is crawler guidance rather than an access-security system. AI guidance is a text file expressing how you would like AI tools to use your content; it is an additional convention; neither file guarantees compliance by every automated client. Private information requires proper authentication and access controls.
Site information: describe the website
Site information is a JSON-format file describing your website and its content resources. It complements individual content files and helps keep source context organized. The plugin generates this resource alongside its discovery text files.
Measure the work you control
Track published-content coverage, missing files, output freshness, and usage. These metrics describe work completed in your content pipeline. Do not confuse them with traffic, search rankings, AI mentions, or citation counts.