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GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO

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Become the brand AI recommends. SEO + AEO + GEO so your WordPress ranks on Google and gets cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & AI Overviews.

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What you get inside

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  • Squirrly SEO - Next Goals

  • Squirrly SEO - Keyword Research

  • Squirrly SEO - Live Assistant

  • Squirrly SEO - Focus Pages

  • Squirrly SEO - Track SEO Performance

  • Squirrly SEO - GEO Audit

  • Squirrly SEO - SEO Briefcase

About this plugin

Become the Brand AI Recommends.

GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO helps your WordPress site become easier for AI answer engines to understand, trust, cite, and recommend across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.

The GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO optimizes your WordPress site for the three layers of modern search at once: classic SEO so you rank on Google, AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) so AI engines pull your content as the direct answer, and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews cite your pages by name. One plugin to get you found by both search engines and AI.

Why GEO and AEO matter now

Search is splitting in two. People still type into Google, but more and more they just ask an AI. Google AI Overviews now appear on a large share of results and reduce clicks to the classic blue links, while ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini answer hundreds of millions of questions every week, usually by quoting a few trusted sources. Traditional SEO gets your page indexed. AEO and GEO get your page chosen as the answer and cited. The GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO does all three, so you do not have to choose.

AEO and GEO features

  • GEO/AEO Audit – scores how ready each page is to be cited by AI: a direct-answer block near the top, question-style headings, lists and tables, content depth, freshness, and FAQ / HowTo / Article schema.
  • AI crawler control – decide how GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and other AI bots can access your content, straight from your robots rules.
  • llms.txt and llms-full.txt – generate, upload and serve the emerging llms.txt standard so generative engines understand your best content.
  • LLM Indexing – push new and updated URLs to the IndexNow API and the Google Indexing API so search and AI engines discover them fast.
  • Answer-ready Schema / structured data – FAQ, HowTo, Article, Q&A, Organization and more: the machine-readable formats AI engines lift word for word.
  • Inner Links and Link Opportunities – build topical authority by linking the right pages for the right keywords.

SEO features

  • Focus Pages – see exactly why a page is not ranking and what to fix, page by page.
  • AI Keyword Research – find keywords you can actually rank for, with real competition and search-intent analysis.
  • Live Assistant – real-time, on-page optimization guidance as you write in Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi and other builders.
  • SEO Goals – a guided, prioritized plan of what to do next.
  • Technical SEO on autopilot – XML sitemaps, canonical links, meta robots, Open Graph and Twitter / X cards, redirects and favicons.
  • Audits and tracking – SERP and rank tracking, traffic, authority and backlink audits, plus competitor analysis.

Built for how AI reads the web

AEO and GEO reward content that is easy for a machine to extract: a clear answer up front, headings phrased as the questions people ask, lists and tables instead of walls of text, accurate schema, and a fresh last-updated date. Squirrly checks every one of these for you and tells you exactly what to fix, so the same work that helps you rank on Google also helps you get quoted by AI.

Getting started in 3 steps

  1. Install and activate the plugin, then connect your free Squirrly account to unlock the cloud tools (audits, keyword research, rank tracking).
  2. Add your important pages to the GEO/AEO Audit. Squirrly scores each page for SEO and answer-readiness and gives you a prioritized “fix these first” list.
  3. Turn on the AEO/GEO essentials: generate your llms.txt, allow the AI crawlers you want, and switch on LLM Indexing so new and updated URLs are pushed to search and AI engines automatically.

Works with your stack

Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, WooCommerce, WordPress Multisite, WPML, and PHP 7.0 to 8.x.

Migrate safely

Import your existing SEO data from Rank Math, Yoast, All in One SEO, SEO Framework, SEO Press, SEO Pressor, Add Meta Tags, Greg’s High Performance SEO, HeadSpace2, Platinum SEO Pack, SEO Title Tags and SEO Ultimate.

Trusted worldwide

Built by Squirrly Limited (United Kingdom) since 2012, used in 150+ countries, and a multiple-time award-winning SEO tool. Powered by Squirrly’s own AI from AISQ.com: Ranking Vision AI, Keyword Research AI and Ask AI.

BENEFITS / CUSTOMER SUCCESS / ALL FEATURES / LIVE DEMO

What’s Next

If you like our WordPress SEO plugin, then consider checking out our other projects:

Credits

  • Florin Muresan – CEO at Squirrly
  • Calin Vingan – CTO at Squirrly
  • Sorel Nagy – Developer
  • Andreea Leau – VP Marketing
  • Cristina Leau – Squirrly mascot designer
  • Alexandra Nicola – COO at Squirrly
  • Teodora Vingan – SEO Analyser
  • Irina Pogor – Content Writer
  • Ana Darstaru – Chief of Customer Service
  • Lucian Nertan – VP of Agency
  • Rares Papita – CHO

Investors

  • Ibrahim Evsan, serial entrepreneur, one of the best known bloggers in Germany
  • Philipp Kandal, co-Founder and CTO of Skobbler (recently acquired for $24M by Telenav)

Many Thanks.

License

Squirrly is Free to use. The version from the WP directory will install the Free Version.

You’ll be able to use this seo software once you install the plugin and use your email to connect to Squirrly.co

For higher content marketing and SEO needs, you can check our Official Site and see what the PRO Plan offers.

Questions

The plugin says it requires WordPress 5.3, but connecting an AI assistant needs 6.9. Which is it?

Both. The plugin itself still runs on WordPress 5.3 and up, and every SEO, AEO and GEO feature works there exactly as before – we did not raise the requirement. Connecting an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT is the one feature that needs WordPress 6.9 or newer, because it is built on the WordPress Abilities API that ships with core from 6.9. On older versions that feature is simply not offered and nothing else changes. You also need HTTPS on your site, since WordPress only allows Application Passwords over a secure connection.

What is GEO and AEO, and how does this plugin help?

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is about getting your content cited by AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is about structuring your content so those engines can lift it as the direct answer. The GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO audits every page for the signals AI engines rely on – a direct answer near the top, question-style headings, lists and tables, content depth, freshness and the right schema – and tells you exactly what to fix.

Will this get my site cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews?

No tool can guarantee a citation, but the plugin sets up everything that makes a citation possible: answer-ready content structure, FAQ / HowTo / Article schema, control over AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended), an llms.txt file, and fast indexing through the IndexNow and Google Indexing APIs. These are the same signals AI engines use to decide what to quote.

What is llms.txt and does this plugin create it?

llms.txt is an emerging standard, similar to robots.txt or a sitemap, that tells AI and language models which content on your site matters and how to use it. The GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO lets you generate, edit or upload both llms.txt and llms-full.txt through the WordPress media library and serves them at your site root.

Does GEO replace SEO?

No. Classic SEO still gets your pages indexed and ranked on Google, which is also where many AI engines source their answers. GEO and AEO build on top of SEO so the same content can rank on search engines and be cited by AI. This plugin covers all three so you optimize once.

Can I use Squirrly together with Rank Math? Could I replace Rank Math altogether with Squirrly?

Yes, you can use Squirrly SEO alongside Rank Math if you want to, as Squirrly enables you to deactivate certain settings or modules so that Squirrly SEO and Rank Math can work in compatibility mode.

If Squirrly stops handling source code changes, then it works with Rank Math, SEOpress, All In One SEO SEO, Yoast, and others. Regarding whether you could replace Rank Math altogether with Squirrly SEO, this graphic linked below shows you a side-by-side comparison of Squirrly SEO vs. Rank Math.

There are around 650 features in Squirrly SEO, most of which can’t be found in Rank Math, given that Rank Math does not offer a duality between plugin and cloud services.

https://howto12.squirrly.co/wordpress-seo/use-squirrly-in-compatibility-mode-with-other-seo-plugins/

https://plugin.squirrly.co/compare/#vsrankmath

Can we import data from Rank Math into Squirrly SEO?

Yes, you can easily import all settings and all page optimizations made with Rank Math, using our import features. This provides step-by-step documentation on how to migrate your data from Rank Math so that you don’t lose your previous SEO optimization.

https://howto12.squirrly.co/wordpress-seo/how-to-switch-from-rank-math-to-squirrly-seo/

Are Focus Pages similar to Pillar Content in Rank Math?

You can search for “focus pages” on this page:

https://www.squirrly.co/wordpress/plugins/second-seo-features-page/

You will see there all that it offers. It is incredibly valuable for SEO and does everything required for SEO, unlike the pillar feature in Rank Math. It offers more than even Moz or Ahrefs does in terms of content analysis.

Side by side comparison: Squirrly SEO versus Rank Math

https://plugin.squirrly.co/compare/#vsrankmath

Powered by advanced cloud servers owned by the Squirrly Company, the MarketIntelligence big data analysis we do, and data sources like: Moz, Majestic, Alexa, Semrush, Google Analytics, ContentLook, crawlers owned by Squirrly: we are in a unique position that allows us to do in-depth content analysis and see each page the same way that Google’s algorithms see it.

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