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AI and SEO

Search engines and AI tools read your site as well as people do. This section shows you what they get from it, how to tell AI crawlers what they may use, how to see which ones visit and how many visitors they send back, how to let an AI agent of your own work on your content, and how to keep your page addresses, sitemap and structured data right. All of it is built in and needs no plugin.

The guides are written for site owners and take you through one task each, in the admin. The reference pages are for developers and list the exact behaviour: every file Hatamoto generates, every setting, limit and error.

Guides

  • Overview

    Look at the files and screens that decide what search engines and AI tools get from your site, and learn where each one is controlled.

  • Control AI crawlers

    Tell AI training crawlers and other kinds of bots to stay away, and keep single posts out of the index AI tools read.

  • See crawler visits

    Find out which AI crawlers read your pages, which pages they skip, and how many people reach you from an AI assistant.

  • Connect an AI agent

    Give an AI assistant its own key so it can read your content and reports, then connect it and make a first request.

  • Set page addresses

    Choose where a kind of content lives on your site, publish an entry there, and change an address later without breaking old links.

  • Check sitemap and data

    Make sure search engines get the right list of pages and a correct description of each one, before launch and after changing addresses.

Reference

  • MCP server

    Every tool, scope, limit and audit record of the endpoint AI agents use to read, draft and publish on your site.

  • Crawler analytics

    How AI crawler visits and AI assistant referrals are recorded, checked, kept and reported in the admin, the API, plugins and the command line.

  • robots and llms.txt

    The exact robots.txt and llms.txt your site serves, the crawler policy per purpose, the per-page opt-outs and the knowledge-graph feed.

  • Access-log ingest

    Every setting, field, limit and answer of the optional feed that adds AI crawler fetches of your images and files from a web server or CDN log.

  • JSON-LD

    Which structured data each page carries, which schema.org type each content type gets, how plugins extend it and what the checker tests.

  • Sitemaps

    How the sitemap index and its child files are built, what each entry holds, what is left out, how caching works and how plugins add addresses.

  • URL patterns

    Every rule that decides a page's address: the pattern tokens, nested and dated addresses, content type settings, defaults, precedence and redirects.