Rank Math plus llms.txt versus an AEO-first stack
Rank Math is the best WordPress SEO plugin in 2026. We're not going to argue with that - they earned their 4 million installs.
But Rank Math is an SEO plugin with an llms.txt feature and Google Analytics bolted on. EZY is purpose-built for AEO or AI SEO. Here's what that difference looks like in practice.
Round 1: llms.txt - Configuration versus Content
Rank Math's llms.txt feature is a configuration screen. You select which post types to include, set a links-per-section limit, optionally paste in some additional text. It generates a markdown file listing your URLs.
| Rank Math | EZY.ai |
|---|---|
| That's the entire feature. The output is a URL list grouped by post type with no AI intelligence used to create content on your site to really help surface on LLMs. | EZY's llms.txt is generated by scraping your live site, running LLM analysis on the rendered content, and producing a structured file with site context, business summaries, and factual grounding: |
We asked Claude to score both files for AI citation quality. Rank Math scored 31. EZY scored 96.
We pasted both files into Claude with the prompt: "Rate this llms.txt out of 100 for AI citation quality, considering structure, business context, factual grounding, and content depth." Run the test yourself.
Rank Math's file scored 31.
EZY's scored 96.
The gap is what gets cited when someone asks an AI about your business.
Round 2: What's Actually In The AEO Toolkit
Rank Math has an impressive feature list for SEO. For AEO specifically, here's what each tool ships:
Round 3: The Analytics Gap
Here's where the categories really separate. Rank Math's Analytics connects to Google Search Console and pipes the data into your WordPress admin:
This is a viewer for Google's data. Rankings, impressions, CTR. Same data Yoast shows. Same data Google Search Console already gives you for free.
Rank Math is not measuring anything proprietary - they're a viewer for Google's data.
EZY's analytics measures things Google can't:
- Which AI bots visited your site this week - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing AI, broken down per page
- Prompt visibility tracking - we test your domain against real AI prompts weekly and show whether you're cited
- Competitor cite tracking - when your rivals get cited in AI responses and you don't
- Reddit mentions - AI tools heavily reference Reddit, so we track your brand presence there
- AI-referred human visits - users who found you through ChatGPT versus organic search
If you're trying to understand your AI visibility, GSC data won't tell you anything useful. You need analytics built for AEO. Here is the EZY.ai Analytics dashboard:
When Rank Math Is The Right Choice
If you need:
- A complete WordPress SEO solution
- Schema for traditional Google rich snippets
- Redirect management
- Local SEO optimisation
- 404 monitoring
- All of this in one plugin, mostly free
Rank Math is the right tool. We use it ourselves on internal sites for traditional SEO.
Rank Math is built for Google. EZY is built for AI. If you want both, run them together.
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