Agent readiness on WooCommerce

New stores start in Coming soon mode, and WordPress's "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" adds a noindex tag. Check WooCommerce › Settings › Site visibility says Live, and that the Reading setting is unticked.

AgentScore checks: AI agents can open your product, pricing and cart pages

WordPress generates robots.txt, and SEO plugins often take it over. Open /robots.txt and look for rules naming AI assistants; a plugin may have added them without anyone noticing.

AgentScore checks: robots.txt lets AI assistants and search agents in

Security plugins and host firewalls often block or challenge traffic by user agent or country, which catches AI assistants fetching a page for a real person. Allow verified agents, keep CAPTCHAs to login and comment forms, and make sure the cart and checkout aren't cached.

AgentScore checks: Bot protection lets AI agents through, No CAPTCHA or challenge on arrival, AI agents aren't blocked or shown a CAPTCHA at the cart and checkout

WooCommerce outputs a Product block as JSON-LD. SEO plugins often add their own, which can leave two blocks that disagree. View a product page's source and check there's one block with price, currency and availability.

AgentScore checks: Structured data describes your business and products, Product pages give price and stock in a form agents can read, Price, stock and name agree everywhere agents read them

Currency switchers and dynamic pricing plugins sometimes fill prices in with JavaScript, which most AI assistants never run. Check prices are in the HTML your server sends.

AgentScore checks: Prices are in the page HTML, Content loads without JavaScript

Turn on "Enable guest checkout" in Accounts and Privacy unless you truly need accounts. Then check every checkout field is labelled, whichever checkout (block or classic) you run.

AgentScore checks: Shoppers can check out without an account, Cart and checkout fields are labelled for agents