Posts tagged “llms.txt”
The llms.txt convention: what the file is, how many sites actually serve one, and how to ship it on Next.js and WordPress without reaching for a plugin.
llms.txt is a plain text file at the root of a site that points language models at the pages worth reading, in the order worth reading them. It is a convention, not a standard: no crawler is obliged to fetch it, and the ones that do treat it as a hint rather than an instruction. That makes the useful question an empirical one, which is how both posts here approach it.
The first measures adoption instead of arguing about it: 52.7% of the pages ranking for AEO and GEO queries now serve a file, and it ships two ways to add one to a Next.js blog, hand-written and generated from the content tree. The second folds llms.txt into a wider audit you run by hand, next to robots.txt and JSON-LD, with 2026 baselines to compare your own result against.
3 articles
llms.txt WordPress Plugins: Yoast vs Rank Math vs AIOSEO
We tested Yoast, Rank Math and AIOSEO on identical WordPress sites and compared what each writes to llms.txt, from caps to freshness.
· 15 min read
Skip the AI Visibility Checker: Audit Your Site by Hand
Run the same eight checks a paid AI visibility checker runs, for free: llms.txt, robots.txt, JSON-LD, and real 2026 baselines to compare your site against.
· 13 min read
How I Added llms.txt to My Next.js Blog in 15 Minutes
How llms.txt works, why 52.7% of pages ranking for AEO and GEO queries now serve one, and two ways to ship it on a Next.js blog in 15 minutes.
· 13 min read