Press & blogger kitHack The SEO

Detection reads the User-Agent header on template_redirect, server-side, before any script runs. If it does not work on your install, tell us: that is a bug, not an argument.

Each one stands on its own and checks out without taking our word for it. Pick one, not six.

• SEO media · data blogs "Your analytics cannot see AI crawlers, and that is structural" The strongest angle, because the reader verifies it in ten seconds on their own site. What not to conclude from it: that the site will be quoted by ChatGPT. We measure hits, we do not sell an outcome.
• Integrators · agencies "A second SEO plugin, without breaking the first" On activation the plugin detects Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO or SEOPress and stops emitting, module by module, whatever the other one handles. It never deactivates it and never touches its settings. Unusual, testable in a minute, and it is every integrator's first objection.
• Client site portfolios "The SEO plugin that still runs on PHP 7.4" WordPress 5.9 and PHP 7.4 are enough. An agency running thirty client sites does not have thirty up-to-date sites. Competing requirements move with every release: check them on the day you write, on their own directory pages.
• Developers · AI media "Connect Claude to your WordPress, read-only" 1.1.0 ships an MCP server. Twelve capabilities, and all twelve read. Every call is made by a logged-in WordPress user and checks a capability. The connection is inbound. The counter-argument, worth giving yourself: ThinkRank has an MCP too, and theirs writes.
• Opinion pieces "What this plugin refuses to promise" The public readme states in plain words that no llms.txt makes a site "visible in ChatGPT", that the claim has no evidence behind it, and that no ranking is promised. In a market saturated with unverifiable promises, that is the one angle competitors cannot copy without contradicting themselves.
• Data stories "62% of one site's crawl already comes from AI" The figure is real but it holds for one site, ours, over 90 days, on a topic AI crawlers over-visit. It does not generalise, and that is precisely the story: nobody publishes this measurement, although any site can run it at home.

Use them as they are or rewrite them. You are under no obligation to use our wording, and there is nothing to clear with us.

Taken on a real site, not on an empty install. Crop them however you like, no permission needed. For high-resolution originals or other screens, write to us.

One phrasing not to shorten. We do not write "zero external calls" flat, but "no call to a third party, with one exception, IndexNow, disabled by default". The option is 0 on install, and while it is 0 no hook is even registered. Shortening the sentence hands an attentive reader proof that we exaggerate.

The four established plugins cover classic SEO better and have done so for longer: replacing them is not the point. ThinkRank sits on the same positioning as us, MCP included, so leaving it out would be dishonest, and you would find it anyway.

Yes, fewer than ten installs. The plugin has been published since 31 August 2026. Hiding that would not survive thirty seconds, the directory listing shows it. A blogger testing a brand new plugin already knows, and it is often what makes it interesting.

Will it conflict with Yoast on my client sites?

No. The plugin steps aside on every module Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO or SEOPress already handles. That is the default behaviour, not a checkbox, and it never deactivates the other plugin. On an isolated staging site it checks out in thirty seconds through the "Overlaps" screen.

What does the plugin send back to you?

Nothing. The crawler log is written server-side, in the site's own database. No account, no API key, no external service. The only possible outbound connection is IndexNow, disabled on install: while the option is zero, no hook is registered.

Is it really free, or is it a trial?

Free, under GPLv2+, with no account and no time limit. The paid version is a different plugin, not an unlock of this one: the free plugin does not expire and does not degrade.

Why have I never heard of you?

Because the plugin has been published since 31 August 2026 and has fewer than ten active installs. The directory listing shows it, so we may as well say it ourselves. A blogger testing a brand new plugin already knows, and it is often what makes it interesting.

Does an llms.txt make a site visible in ChatGPT?

No, and nobody knows how to demonstrate it. We will not write that, and the plugin's public readme says so explicitly. What the plugin measures is crawler hits: who came, on which page, at what time.

Can I reuse your screenshots and your name without permission?

Yes, to write about the plugin: screenshots, name and banner may be reproduced and cropped without asking us for anything. The exact name is "Hack The SEO – AI Bot Tracker, GEO Score, JSON-LD Schema & Cannibalization"; in running text, Hack The SEO is enough.

How do I check your figures without trusting you?

The 18 agents and the 6 GEO score criteria are listed by name in the public readme on wordpress.org. The crawler log is testable with a single curl command (see above). The 62% figure is from our own site over 90 days and does not generalise: always give it with its scope.

Which PHP and WordPress versions does it run on?

WordPress 5.9 minimum, PHP 7.4 minimum, tested up to WordPress 7.1. That floor is deliberately low: client site portfolios are never all up to date.

• We do not pay for coverageNo sponsored post, no paid link insertion, no promo code in exchange for a mention. If someone offers you that in our name, it is not us.
• We do not ask for reviews in exchange for anythingGuideline 9 on wordpress.org forbids it, and enforcement is brutal: a plugin has already been pulled from the directory for offering a discount in exchange for a review, with two years of reviews deleted.
• We do not review your articleTest it, and mention it only if it holds up. A negative test published is worth more to us than a friendly write-up: it tells us what to fix.
• We promise no rankingNot in Google, not in an AI answer. Dropping an llms.txt does not make a site visible in ChatGPT: that claim has no evidence behind it.

Figures recorded on 8 September 2026, plugin at version 1.1.0. Screenshots and counters are dated: if you are writing several weeks later, check the directory listing, it is authoritative. The screenshots and the banner on this page may be reproduced to write about the plugin, with no permission to ask for.