TrafficPaywall
Free plugin for WordPress publishers

AI is reading your site for free. Make it pay you.

AI companies copy your articles to answer the questions your readers used to click for. TrafficPaywall charges them for every page they read, at the price you set, while your readers and Google see no difference.

51%

of web traffic is now bots

Automated traffic has overtaken humans (Imperva, 2025). A big share of it is AI reading and copying your articles.

$0

is what they pay you

AI answers your readers' questions with your work, so fewer people click through to your pages and your ads.

100%

of the server bill is yours

Every crawler visit uses your hosting and bandwidth. You pay for the traffic; they keep the value.

How much could AI pay you?

Move the sliders. It takes ten seconds.

What AI crawlers could pay you

$900 / month

$10,800 a year, from 150,000 AI requests a month at $8 per 1,000. You keep 75%.

Start charging AI crawlers, free

Crawlers that pay get your article. Crawlers that don't get a short notice instead, so they stop using your server. Readers and Google never see a difference.

Earning in one minute

1

Install the plugin

Upload it in WordPress like any other plugin.

2

Click Connect

Sign in with your email. No keys to copy, no code, no DNS.

3

Get paid every month

AI crawlers pay per 1,000 pages at your price. You keep 75%, paid out through Stripe.

You stay in control

✓ You set the price

Charge what your content is worth, and change it any time.

✓ Google stays free

Search engines always get through, so your rankings are safe.

✓ Stay visible in AI answers

ChatGPT search, Perplexity and other answer engines that send you readers stay free unless you choose otherwise.

✓ Readers never notice

Real visitors see your site exactly as before. Anyone flagged by mistake gets through with one click.

✓ Try it risk-free

Start in watch-only mode to see exactly what AI takes from you, then switch on charging.

Why not just block them?

✕ Do nothing

AI keeps reading your whole site for free.

✕ Block bots in robots.txt

It's a request, not a lock. Many crawlers ignore it, and you still earn $0.

✕ A bot-blocking plugin

Stops some bots, earns $0, and can hide you from AI answers.

✕ Cloudflare Pay Per Crawl

Invite-only beta, and you have to move your domain to Cloudflare first.

✓ TrafficPaywall

Free, one minute, works on your current hosting, and pays you.

Questions publishers ask

+Will this hurt my Google rankings?

No. Google, Bing and other search engines always get through for free. Fake crawlers pretending to be Google are checked against Google's real network and charged.

+Will my readers notice anything?

No. Real visitors see your site exactly as before. If someone on a VPN is mistaken for a bot, they click "I'm human" once and they're through.

+Why would AI companies pay?

Because the alternative is getting nothing. Crawlers that don't pay receive a short notice instead of your article. Paying is easy for them: one account works on every site in the TrafficPaywall network. Bots that don't pay still stop costing you bandwidth.

+What does it cost?

Nothing. No subscription, no setup fee. We keep 25% of what AI crawlers pay you, so we only earn when you do.

+How do I get paid?

Monthly, straight to your bank through Stripe, once your balance passes $10. Your dashboard shows every AI request, what was paid and what was stopped.

+Can I undo it?

Any time. Switch to watch-only with one click, or uninstall the plugin and your site is exactly as it was.

AI will read your next article too.
Make sure it pays.

Install in a minute. Keep 75% of every payment. Remove it any time.

  • ✓ Free, no subscription
  • ✓ 1-minute install
  • ✓ No DNS or hosting changes
  • ✓ Uninstall any time

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