AI-readiness guides

Practical, copy-paste fixes to make your site readable, findable, and citable by AI agents and LLM crawlers — ranked by how many points they move on your AI-readiness score.

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Add an llms.txt file

The single biggest signal — a Markdown summary LLMs read first. With a template.

+15

Add JSON-LD structured data

schema.org markup so machines know what your content is. Copy-paste examples.

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Set an AI-bot policy in robots.txt

An intentional stance on GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot.

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Serve content without JavaScript

Most AI crawlers don't run JS — make your content visible with SSR/SSG.

The quick wins

A sitemap.xml lists your pages; a <title> and meta description summarize each one; Open Graph tags give rich previews; a canonical link avoids duplicate-content ambiguity; and one clear <h1> states the topic. These are standard SEO hygiene — your CMS or framework usually has a setting for each.