Does llms.txt actually work? What Google says, who reads it, and when it's worth 10 minutes
it depends on who you want to read it. For Google Search, including AI Overviews and AI Mode, llms.txt does nothing: Google says it ignores…
This hub collects our guides on being found by AI search: ChatGPT search, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. We cover the parts a small business can check and fix itself: which crawlers your robots.txt lets in, whether your CDN or firewall quietly blocks them, what llms.txt does and doesn't do, and how to read your own server logs to see which bots actually visit. Where we make claims about how a crawler or search feature behaves, we link to the company's own documentation, and where we use numbers, they come from data we collected ourselves and publish with the method so you can check it. Nothing here promises rankings or citations; no one can honestly promise those. The aim is narrower and more useful: make sure nothing on your side stops AI search tools from reading your site, then spend your time on content people actually want. We re-check the fast-moving facts in this cluster every quarter, and each guide shows the date we last checked it.
it depends on who you want to read it. For Google Search, including AI Overviews and AI Mode, llms.txt does nothing: Google says it ignores…
probably, but check two things. First, AI companies run separate bots for training and for search, and blocking one doesn't block the other. Second, your…
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