Title: Polymetric AI Search Optimizer &#8211; Answer Engine Optimization &amp; GEO for ChatGPT and AI Overviews
Author: Polymetric Labs
Published: <strong>3 juni 2026</strong>
Last modified: 13 september 2026

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# Polymetric AI Search Optimizer – Answer Engine Optimization & GEO for ChatGPT and AI Overviews

 Door [Polymetric Labs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/polymetric/)

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 *  [Installatie](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/polymetric-ai-search-optimizer/#installation)
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## Beschrijving

Your best article is already written. It just isn’t structured the way AI search
engines want to read it.

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude don’t return ten blue
links. They read a page, lift the answer, and cite a source. If your content buries
the answer three paragraphs down, or wanders before it gets to the point, it gets
skipped – no matter how good it is or how well it ranks on Google.

Polymetric AI Search Optimizer fixes that without making you start over. It adds
a panel to the WordPress block editor that restructures the post you’re editing 
for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), so
the engines can find the answer, understand it, and quote you.

It takes your actual words and reorganizes them – clear structure, key-takeaway 
summaries, featured-snippet answer blocks, the formats AI systems pull from – while
preserving your voice, your specifics, and every single link including affiliate
and UTM parameters.

You bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini API key – a typical 1,500-
word rewrite costs roughly 2 to 8 cents. No markup, no middleman: your content goes
straight to the provider you choose, and your key is stored encrypted on your own
site.

#### How it works

 1. Open any post in the WordPress editor.
 2. Open the Polymetric AI Search Optimizer sidebar and pick a preset, or choose individual
    tactics.
 3. Click Rewrite. The plugin sends your content to your chosen AI model and gets back
    an optimized version.
 4. Review the full rewrite in the preview pane. Apply it, or discard it. Nothing changes
    until you say so, and your previous version is saved as a WordPress revision.

No content is published automatically. Ever. You are always the editor.

#### What makes it different

 * It rewrites what you have. Not a content generator. Your research, your numbers,
   your opinions – kept.
 * It protects your voice. The optimizer matches your existing tone, vocabulary 
   and rhythm, so the post still sounds like you wrote it.
 * It guards your keywords. Add the phrases that must survive verbatim, and it reads
   your Yoast SEO or RankMath focus keyword automatically and locks it too – your
   exact target terms come through the rewrite word for word.
 * It never drops a link. Every href, including affiliate links and tracking parameters,
   survives the rewrite verbatim.
 * It shows you everything first. Full preview before anything touches your post.
   One click to undo via revisions.
 * You control the keys. Bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini key.
   No markup on your API usage, no middleman server holding your content.

#### What it does NOT do

 * No content generation from nothing – it only restructures content you already
   have.
 * No fact-invention or claim-fabrication – numbers, percentages, dates, prices,
   and names are preserved, never generalized away.
 * No automatic publishing – you preview and apply.

#### The optimization tactics

Pick a preset or toggle these tactics individually:

 * Optimize the heading hierarchy (your H1 post title is left untouched)
 * Add bullets and lists
 * Add comparison tables where the data supports them
 * Add a key-takeaways summary up top
 * Add a 40-60 word featured-snippet answer block for AI Overviews and position-
   zero
 * Add a linked table of contents
 * Add HowTo steps with HowTo JSON-LD schema for procedural content
 * Tighten paragraphs (remove filler, no meaning lost)

#### Presets

Not sure where to start? Pick a preset:

 * Quick polish – structure only, keeps your voice. The safe default.
 * Custom – check the exact tactics you want, ignore the rest.

#### Built to fit your existing stack

 * Reads your focus keyword straight from Yoast SEO or RankMath and loads it as 
   a protected phrase, preserved verbatim through the rewrite.
 * Detects page builders (Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Oxygen, WPBakery,
   and more) and warns you before touching content it shouldn’t.
 * Pure block-editor sidebar. Vanilla JavaScript, zero jQuery.
 * Long posts are handled in sections automatically, splitting at heading boundaries
   so a few-thousand-word guide optimizes without timing out.
 * Images, figures, and source tables are preserved in place.

#### Free and Pro

Everything is free, on your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini key:

 * All eight structure tactics: headings, bullets, comparison tables, key takeaways,
   featured-snippet block, table of contents, how-to steps with schema, and tighten
   paragraphs
 * Rewrite tactics: lead-with-answer openers, simpler language, full Q&A reformatting,
   FAQ sections with FAQPage schema, and inline key-term definitions
 * Every preset: Quick polish, Full AI optimization, and Rewrite as Q&A
 * AI keyword detection – automatically finds the entities and key terms worth protecting
 * A brand-voice override applied to every rewrite
 * Per-post custom instructions – content briefs, goals, and do-not-edit notes, 
   saved with each post
 * God Mode – bulk optimize posts straight from the posts list
 * Preview-and-apply with full revision safety
 * Protects your Yoast/RankMath focus keyword automatically, plus any keywords you
   add yourself
 * Bring-your-own-key for Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini

A hosted plan is also planned: managed API access (no key of your own needed) and
auto-optimization on publish.

For full details and documentation, visit [polymetriclabs.com/ai-search-optimizer](https://polymetriclabs.com/ai-search-optimizer/).

#### Source code

The editor sidebar’s minified bundle in `assets/sidebar/build/` is compiled with
[@wordpress/scripts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/scripts) from the 
human-readable React and SCSS source in `assets/sidebar/src/`, which is included
in this package. To rebuild it, run `npm install` then `npm run build` from the 
plugin directory.

#### Third-Party Services

To rewrite a post, this plugin sends its content to an external AI provider. This
happens only when you click Rewrite – never in the background, on page load, or 
on a schedule. Content goes directly from your site to the provider you select in
Settings, using your own API key, and is not routed through any intermediary server.

**Anthropic (Claude)**
 Post content is sent to the Anthropic Messages API (api.
anthropic.com) for rewriting.

 * Service: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/)
 * Terms of Service: [https://www.anthropic.com/terms](https://www.anthropic.com/terms)
 * Privacy Policy: [https://www.anthropic.com/privacy](https://www.anthropic.com/privacy)

**OpenAI (GPT)**
 Post content is sent to the OpenAI Chat Completions API (api.openai.
com) for rewriting.

 * Service: [OpenAI](https://openai.com/)
 * Terms of Use: [https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use](https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use)
 * Privacy Policy: [https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy](https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy)

**Google (Gemini)**
 Post content is sent to the Google Gemini API (generativelanguage.
googleapis.com) for rewriting.

 * Service: [Google AI](https://ai.google.dev/)
 * Terms of Service: [https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms)
 * Privacy Policy: [https://policies.google.com/privacy](https://policies.google.com/privacy)

Your API key is stored encrypted in your WordPress database using AES-256-GCM and
is sent only to the provider you selected.

## Schermafbeeldingen

[⌊The sidebar in the block editor - pick a preset and hit Rewrite.⌉⌊The sidebar 
in the block editor - pick a preset and hit Rewrite.⌉[

The sidebar in the block editor – pick a preset and hit Rewrite.

[⌊The rewrite preview - check the optimized version, copy the HTML, or apply it 
straight to the post.⌉⌊The rewrite preview - check the optimized version, copy the
HTML, or apply it straight to the post.⌉[

The rewrite preview – check the optimized version, copy the HTML, or apply it straight
to the post.

[⌊Advanced options - protect exact keywords and pick individual tactics.⌉⌊Advanced
options - protect exact keywords and pick individual tactics.⌉[

Advanced options – protect exact keywords and pick individual tactics.

[⌊Settings - choose your AI provider and store your API key.⌉⌊Settings - choose 
your AI provider and store your API key.⌉[

Settings – choose your AI provider and store your API key.

## Installatie

 1. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Add New and search for “Polymetric AI 
    Search Optimizer”. Click Install, then Activate. (Or upload the plugin zip via 
    Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.)
 2. Go to Settings > Polymetric AI Search Optimizer.
 3. Choose your AI provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini) and paste in your
    API key. The key is encrypted before it’s stored.
 4. Open any post in the editor. The Polymetric AI Search Optimizer panel appears in
    the right sidebar. Pick a preset and click Rewrite.

You’ll need an API key from Anthropic (console.anthropic.com), OpenAI (platform.
openai.com), or Google AI Studio (aistudio.google.com/apikey). You pay them directly
for usage; this plugin adds no markup.

## FAQ

### What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?

GEO is the practice of structuring content so AI-powered search engines – ChatGPT,
Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude – can read it, understand it, and
cite it in their generated answers. It’s the AI-era counterpart to traditional SEO.

### What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?

AEO is the practice of formatting content so answer engines return it directly –
as a featured snippet, a voice answer, or a cited line in an AI Overview. In practice
that means concise answer blocks, clear structure, and machine-readable markup. 
This plugin supports it directly: it adds featured-snippet answer blocks, HowTo 
schema for procedural content, and the scannable structure answer engines lift cleanly.

### How do I get my content cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity?

Lead with the answer, structure clearly, and make the content easy to extract. AI
systems favor pages that state a self-contained answer near the top, use clean heading
hierarchy, and break information into scannable blocks and tables. This plugin applies
these patterns to posts you already have.

### Does this help with Google AI Overviews?

Yes. The same structural signals that help you get cited by chatbots help you appear
in Google AI Overviews: clear answer blocks, proper headings, HowTo schema, and 
concise summary sections. The plugin’s tactics target exactly these.

### Do I need an API key?

Yes. Get a key from [Anthropic](https://console.anthropic.com/) (Claude), [OpenAI](https://platform.openai.com/api-keys)(
GPT), or [Google AI Studio](https://aistudio.google.com/apikey) (Gemini) and paste
it into Settings. The key is stored encrypted on your site. A hosted version that
includes API access – no key of your own required – is on the way.

### How much do the API calls cost?

A typical rewrite of a 1,500-word post costs roughly $0.02-0.05 with Anthropic, 
$0.03-0.08 with OpenAI, or under a cent with Google Gemini. You pay the provider
directly.

### What AI models does it use?

It uses current high-quality models from Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (GPT), and Google(
Gemini) for rewrites. You pick the provider in Settings.

### Will it change my writing voice?

No, that’s the point. The optimizer is instructed to match your existing tone, vocabulary,
and rhythm. The Quick polish preset sticks to structure – it tightens and reorganizes
but won’t reword your sentences into different language.

### Will it overwrite my post?

Only when you click “Apply to post” in the preview modal. The previous content is
preserved as a WordPress revision (Editor > Revisions), so you can roll back any
time. You can also enable “Skip preview” in Settings to apply directly.

### What happens to affiliate links and tracking parameters?

They pass through verbatim. Preserving every link, including utm_*, ref, and affiliate
IDs, is a hard rule in the optimization prompt. Links come back exactly as they 
went in.

### Does it work with Yoast or RankMath?

Yes. It reads focus keywords from Yoast SEO and RankMath and loads them as protected
phrases automatically, so your exact target terms survive the rewrite verbatim.

### Can it break my page-builder layouts?

The plugin detects common page builders (Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks,
Oxygen, WPBakery, Brizy, and more) and warns you before optimizing content built
with them. It’s designed for the WordPress block and classic editors.

### Does it work on long posts?

Yes. Long posts are split into sections at heading boundaries and optimized piece
by piece, then stitched back together, so even a few-thousand-word guide processes
without timing out.

## Beoordelingen

Er zijn geen beoordelingen voor deze plugin.

## Bijdragers & ontwikkelaars

“Polymetric AI Search Optimizer – Answer Engine Optimization & GEO for ChatGPT and
AI Overviews” is open source software. De volgende personen hebben bijgedragen aan
deze plugin.

Bijdragers

 *   [ Polymetric Labs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/polymetric/)

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## Changelog

#### 1.1.1

 * Settings page: shorter free-report offer, contact address is now chris@polymetriclabs.
   com.

#### 1.1.0

 * The separate Pro add-on is retired. Every rewrite tactic, preset, AI keyword 
   detection, brand voice, per-post custom instructions, and God Mode are now built
   into this one free plugin – no license, no add-on to install.
 * If you still have “Polymetric AI Search Optimizer Pro” active, you’ll see a notice:
   deactivate and delete it, everything it did is already here.
 * Settings page now shows a plain “What’s included” list instead of a Free vs Pro
   comparison.

#### 1.0.7

 * Fixed: a rewrite could splice raw JSON into the end of your post, or turn every
   curly apostrophe into stray characters, when the model returned slightly malformed
   output. Both are gone.
 * Fixed: code blocks in long posts were cut in half at the split point, breaking
   the fence and scrambling the sample. Code blocks now stay whole.
 * Fixed: on long posts the first section could be sent for rewriting almost empty,
   so the summary, key takeaways and table of contents were written from a few dozen
   words. Sections are now balanced before they go out.
 * Fixed: long posts are now split once and the split is reused for every section,
   so a plugin that changes the page on each load (view counters, rotating ads, “
   updated N minutes ago”) can no longer shift the boundaries and drop a section
   from the finished post.
 * Fixed: posts with how-to steps turned on no longer get a separate HowTo schema
   block per section – one post, one block.
 * Fixed: a rewrite that timed out was retried automatically, which pushed the request
   past the PHP time limit and ended in a confusing parse error. A timeout now reports
   back straight away.
 * New: posts containing shortcodes, embed blocks or custom HTML blocks are refused
   up front, with a message explaining what a rewrite would remove. Contact forms
   and video embeds no longer disappear. Developers who accept the trade-off can
   override the refusal with the `pmaso_refuse_lossy_content` filter.
 * Improved: the rewrite now renders the post the way the front end does, so galleries
   and related-content blocks read from the right post.
 * New: Google Gemini joins Anthropic and OpenAI as a provider. Google AI Overviews
   are the biggest answer engine there is, and now you can run your rewrites on 
   a Google key. Pick it in Settings and paste a key from Google AI Studio. Both
   the AIza and AQ. key formats Google issues are accepted.
 * Fixed: rewrites through Anthropic failed with a provider error on every attempt.
   Current Claude models reason before they answer, and the plugin was reading the
   reasoning slot as though it held the rewrite. Anthropic is the default provider,
   so if your rewrites stopped working, this is why.
 * Improved: the OpenAI engine now uses GPT-5.6 Terra – newer and cheaper than the
   previous model.
 * Improved: the settings page now tells you when a saved API key can no longer 
   be read, which happens if the site’s security salts are changed. Before, the 
   plugin quietly behaved as though no key was set.
 * Improved: error messages from the AI provider no longer include the raw provider
   response. The detail goes to the debug log.
 * Improved: much less work on every admin page load – the plugin-conflict check
   is cached and the notices only run on the screens that need them.
 * Fixed: uninstalling now cleans up every site on a multisite network, not just
   the main one.
 * New: every rewrite is checked before you apply it. Links, images and protected
   keywords are compared against the original, and anything that went missing is
   listed by URL.
 * New: dropping a link or an image now takes a second click to confirm, so an affiliate
   link or a UTM tag never disappears by accident.
 * New: copy the rewrite as Markdown or plain text, next to Copy HTML.
 * Fixed: the post is always saved before a rewrite runs, including while an autosave
   is in flight. An autosave could previously make the rewrite read an older version
   and overwrite your newest edits.
 * Fixed: a rewrite that could not be turned into blocks now says so. It used to
   look like it applied and do nothing.
 * Updated the editor build for WordPress 6.6 and newer.

#### 1.0.6

 * Improved: the OpenAI rewrite engine now uses GPT-5.4 for higher-quality restructuring.

#### 1.0.5

 * Improved: rewrites now use Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 for higher-quality restructuring.

#### 1.0.4

 * New: a “How to use” quick-start on the settings page, with a link to the full
   online guide and support.

#### 1.0.3

 * Fixed: “Apply to post” could silently do nothing if the editor had pending block
   edits. Applying now swaps the editor content reliably and converts the rewrite
   into proper blocks (paragraphs, headings, lists) instead of raw HTML.
 * Improved: rewrites now keep paragraphs short – 2 to 4 sentences, one idea each–
   instead of merging source paragraphs into longer ones.
 * New: Free vs Pro comparison on the settings page.
 * New extension point: per-post custom instructions (used by the Pro add-on for
   content briefs, goals, and do-not-edit notes).

#### 1.0.2

 * Fixed a fatal error on sites running PHP 8.0 (the declared minimum) the first
   time a provider was used – a class property used PHP 8.1-only syntax.

#### 1.0.1

 * Tactics are now grouped in the sidebar: Structure (keeps your words) vs Rewrite(
   changes wording).
 * Add-on support: tactics, presets, and sidebar data are now extendable by add-
   on plugins (used by the Pro version).
 * No behavior changes for existing free features.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.
 * Eight optimization tactics: heading hierarchy, bullets and lists, comparison 
   tables, key-takeaways summary, featured-snippet answer block, table of contents,
   HowTo steps with schema, and tighten paragraphs.
 * Quick polish and Custom presets.
 * Anthropic (Claude) and OpenAI (GPT) providers, bring-your-own-key, AES-256-GCM
   encrypted key storage.
 * Preview-and-apply workflow with full WordPress revision safety, plus optional
   skip-preview.
 * Quotable-lead and preserve-specifics rewriting rules for stronger AI citation
   quality.
 * Voice fidelity: rewrites match the source author’s voice across vocabulary, rhythm,
   formality, humor, and asides.
 * Chunked rewriting for long posts – splits at heading boundaries to stay under
   server timeouts.
 * Reads Yoast SEO and RankMath focus keywords as protected phrases automatically.
 * Page-builder detection (Elementor, Divi, Oxygen, and more) warns before rewriting.
 * Image and table preservation through the rewrite pipeline.

## Meta

 *  Versie **1.1.1**
 *  Laatst geüpdatet **4 weken geleden**
 *  Actieve installaties **10+**
 *  WordPress versie ** 6.6 of nieuwer **
 *  Getest t/m **7.1.3**
 *  PHP versie ** 8.0 of nieuwer **
 *  Taal
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polymetric-ai-search-optimizer/)
 * Tags
 * [ai overviews](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai-overviews/)[ai search optimization](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai-search-optimization/)
   [answer engine optimization](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/answer-engine-optimization/)
   [chatgpt seo](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/chatgpt-seo/)[Generative Engine Optimization](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/generative-engine-optimization/)
 *  [Geavanceerde weergave](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/polymetric-ai-search-optimizer/advanced/)

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