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title: "Getting Started"
url: "https://aeoultimate.com/docs/getting-started/"
description: "Learn how to set up AEO Ultimate WordPress plugin to optimize your site for AI search engines with structured data, schema, and E-E-A-T signals."
published: "2026-08-11T17:37:58+00:00"
modified: "2026-09-28T22:29:26+00:00"
language: "en-US"
site: "AEO Ultimate"
---

Source: https://aeoultimate.com/docs/getting-started/

Getting started · AEO Ultimate docs

# Make your site legible to the answer engines.

AEO Ultimate publishes the signals AI search reads before it cites you — JSON-LD schema woven into one connected @graph, llms.txt and crawler control, author & publisher E-E-A-T, Open Graph, and merchant listings. Fully modular: turn on only what your site needs.

Requires WordPress 6.2+

Requires PHP 7.4+

Tested to WP 7.0

License GPLv2+

Works alongside Yoast · Rank Math · AIOSEO

## Everything AEO Ultimate does

A structured-data and AI-visibility layer for WordPress. It reads each page, works out what it is, and adds only the signals that are missing — never duplicating what your SEO suite already outputs.

- **Schema Engine — structured data & Knowledge Graph.** Detects page intent and outputs clean JSON-LD only where it’s missing — Organization, Article, Person, FAQ, Service, Product, LocalBusiness, Event, Review, Breadcrumb — woven into a single connected @graph cross-referenced by @id.
- **AI Ready — llms.txt & crawler control.** /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, Markdown content negotiation, Content-Signal headers, agent-discovery endpoints — plus per-bot rate limiting and blocking for 20+ AI crawlers.
- **Authority — author & publisher E-E-A-T.** Person schema with credentials, expertise and sameAs, an explicit article:publisher / article:author split, Organization identity, and a completeness scorecard.
- **Merchant — WooCommerce & shopping.** Automatic Product schema (Brand, Offer, price, availability, GTIN/MPN/SKU), optional AI enrichment, and live Google & Bing Merchant Center sync with an integrity score.
- **Local & Indexing.** LocalBusiness schema with hours and geo, NAP consistency auditing, cached /aeo-sitemap.xml, Google News sitemap, IndexNow pings, and a Not Indexed report driven by the Search Console URL Inspection API.
- **Command Center — analytics & performance.** Search Console, GA4 and Bing Webmaster in one view, PageSpeed / Core Web Vitals audits, a real-time AI-crawler watch, a traffic-leak scan, and duplicate-schema conflict alerts.

## Installation

1. **Automatic install (recommended):** in your dashboard go to **Plugins → Add New Plugin**, search for **TWT AEO Ultimate**, click **Install Now**, then **Activate**.
2. **Upload a ZIP:** on Plugins → Add New Plugin choose **Upload Plugin**, select `twt-aeo-ultimate.zip`, then Install Now → Activate.
3. **Manual install over FTP:** upload the `twt-aeo-ultimate` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/` and activate it from the Plugins screen.

**Don’t skip this — the permalink flush is required.** Until you re-save **Settings → Permalinks** once, the `/llms.txt` and sitemap endpoints return 404.

## First-run setup

1. Open **TWT AEO → Modules** and enable the features you want — every one toggles independently.
2. Set your publisher identity under **TWT AEO → E-E-A-T** (the Company tab).
3. Complete each writer’s E-E-A-T data under **Users → All Users**.
4. Tune bot visibility and access at **TWT AEO → AI Ready**.

**Optional — bring your own keys:** AI features use your own Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini or Perplexity keys. Nothing is sent anywhere until you configure a feature and trigger it. The plugin is fully functional standalone; TWT Agency connectivity is optional.

## One strategy, every platform

Each edition is built native to its platform — not a WordPress plugin reskinned. Same answer-engine strategy, expressed through each platform’s own APIs, data model and publishing pipeline.

- ● Available now — [AEO Ultimate for WordPress](https://aeoultimate.com/docs/wordpress/) (free plugin)
- ● Available now — [AEO Ultimate for WooCommerce](https://aeoultimate.com/docs/woocommerce/) (extension)
- ● Available now — [AEO Ultimate Lite for Wix](https://aeoultimate.com/docs/wix/) (free Wix app)
- ● Available now — [AEO Ultimate Store for Wix](https://aeoultimate.com/docs/wix-store/) (Wix Stores app; free plan plus paid tiers)
- ◐ Coming soon — [AEO Ultimate for Shopify](https://aeoultimate.com/docs/shop/) (theme app extension)
- ◐ Coming soon — AEO Ultimate for Webflow (native Data API app)

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