How to make money from AI crawlers without hurting your users
AI crawlers aren’t regular visitors. They’re software agents built to read pages, pull data, and even buy things on their own. Humans browse for fun or research, but bots scan full pages, extract structured details, feed AI models, and answer questions directly. This isn’t old-school indexing of snippets. It’s a new kind of digital…
What Problem Does PayLayer Solve?
Websites aren’t just getting human visitors anymore. AI agents are crawling pages and grabbing snippets too. That shift creates a real dilemma for site owners. AI crawlers pull valuable content without paying. Traditional paywalls depend on logins or credit cards, which bots don’t use. Some agents even try to buy like real customers, then…
How to Implement an AI payment API on a WordPress website
Picture a shopper on a WordPress store, adding items to a cart, filling out a form, and clicking through checkout with buttons, cookies, CAPTCHAs, and 3D Secure. It’s all built for people. Now picture an AI agent trying to buy the same way. No eyes, no clicks, no puzzles. No browser at all. It…
How to Set Up x402 Payments in WordPress
Picture a WordPress site where AI agents act like quiet, paying visitors. They browse, buy, and pull data without interrupting anyone else on the page. Paired with PayLayer, x402 makes that happen. It enables AI-driven commerce on WordPress and runs the payments in the background. Monetizing AI bot traffic has been a headache. Bots…
Why Programmatic Payments Make Sense for WordPress Websites
AI agents now crawl many WordPress stores. They read pages, compare prices, and add items to carts, but then they hit a wall at checkout, since most flows still assume a human clicks and types. A significant portion of automated traffic, sometimes up to 80%, ends there without paying. Open a path for these…
The Future of AI Payments
Picture a travel bot building a trip at 2 a.m. It finds flights, hotels, and cars in seconds. Then checkout hits. Carts fail to load. CAPTCHAs demand proof. Card forms ask for details no machine owns. The purchase flow was made for people, so the agent stalls. Most checkouts revolve around screens full of…
How to Add Programmatic Payment Integration in WordPress
I’ve been watching a quiet shift on WordPress sites. AI agents aren’t just crawling pages – they’re buying, reading, and interacting like real visitors. They pay for articles or products without any manual work on your end. That creates new revenue streams and clearer data on automated traffic. It also reduces scrapers that chew…
Meet X402, the payment protocol built for AI commerce
AI-driven commerce often feels awkward. I’ve watched smart agents bump into old checkout flows that were built for people clicking buttons, not software making decisions. x402 fixes that. It’s an HTTP-native payment protocol designed for software agents to pay and get access without a checkout screen. No pop-ups, no prompts – just standard web…
Programmatic Payments For AI Agents Explained
Picture an AI assistant trying to read a paywalled article. No credit cards. No forms. It just pays on its own, instantly, and gets in. That’s programmatic payments in action: software sending money directly to other software, without a person clicking “buy” or typing details. With programmatic payments, software checks the price, pays, and…
