Write the plain-text summary AI assistants look for at the root of your site. It is an emerging convention, nobody is obliged to honour it, and it costs almost nothing to add.
This one matters more than it looks. An assistant can only recommend you confidently if it knows when not to, and almost nobody provides it.
Upload it to the root of your site so it answers at
yoursite.co.uk/llms.txt. A subfolder does nothing:
only the root file is read.
A plain-text file at the root of your site that tells an AI assistant, in a compact and readable form, what your business is and where the useful pages are. It is an emerging convention rather than a standard, nobody is obliged to honour it, and it costs almost nothing to add.
Honestly, adoption is early. Some tools look for it, most do not yet. We add it for clients because the cost is a few minutes and the file also happens to be a good exercise in stating plainly what you do. If that changes we will say so here.
Because that is the information an assistant needs to recommend you confidently, and almost nobody provides it. A model that knows you do not take jobs outside the North West can recommend you to the right person and skip you for the wrong one. Vagueness gets you left out of both.
No, and they do different jobs. Schema is structured data inside your HTML that machines parse strictly. llms.txt is prose, written for a model to read the way a person would. Do the schema first, it is the one search engines actually use today.
The root of your domain, so it answers at yoursite.co.uk/llms.txt. Check it afterwards with our llms.txt checker.
No. It is generated in your browser.
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If your problem is one you can fix yourself with the free tools, I will say so.
Where I am not certain, I will say so rather than guess, and Imran will follow it up.
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