Advanced Features: Experimental AI Headers & Plugins Explained - AEO God Mode

Advanced Features: Experimental AI Headers & Plugins Explained

The Edge of AI SEO: Experimental Protocols

While robots.txt and traditional meta tags have dominated SEO for decades, the rapid rise of AI models requires new, machine-readable rules of engagement. Search engines and AI companies are currently drafting new standards for how web content should be crawled, cited, and summarized.

AEO God Mode places you ahead of the curve by implementing two experimental protocols: AI Metadata Headers and the AI Plugin Manifest.

You can manage these from the AI Signals screen in the plugin dashboard.

Experimental AI HTTP Headers

HTTP headers are instructions sent by your server before a bot even downloads the HTML of your page. AEO God Mode uses these headers to declare exactly how AI systems are allowed to use your content.

These headers are active by default (if the AEO Meta Layer module is enabled) and can be toggled from the dashboard. They include:

  • X-AI-Crawl: allowed – Explicitly grants permission for AI agents to crawl the page.
  • X-AI-Citeable: true – Instructs the AI that it may use the content as a source, provided it generates a citation or link back to the site.
  • X-Content-License: free-to-cite-with-attribution – Defines the legal boundaries for model consumption.
  • X-AI-Content-Type: human-authored – Signals that the page is original, human-created content (a highly valued signal in modern AI ranking systems).
  • X-AI-Speakable: true – Added specifically to single articles or pages. This signals to voice assistants and conversational AI that the content is structured well enough to be read aloud securely.