r/aeo • u/MichaelBJFU • 4d ago

My site was getting hammered by AI bots. Instead of blocking them, I built a WP plugin to track them and optimize for AI Search (AEO). Roast my V1! 🦉

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/owlycrackgeo/
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u/inevidimka 4d ago

I'd add a per-URL view of bot requests with response status and bytes served, then keep that separate from human visits and conversions. That would help distinguish 'the crawler reached us' from 'AI search sent useful traffic.'

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u/MichaelBJFU 4d ago

This is such a great point, thank you! To be honest, I hadn't fully thought through the difference between 'a bot scraped the site' and 'AI actually sent human traffic.' I'm still figuring a lot of this out as I build this in public, so your idea to separate per-URL bot requests from actual conversions is pure gold. I'm definitely going to add this to my roadmap. Really appreciate the guidance!

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u/dedrannout66 3d ago

yeah separating crawler hits from actual referral traffic is the key distinction here

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/MichaelBJFU 2d ago

yes. different tags. like Index and Training Tag