Fill in your site, list your key pages, and get a spec-correct llms.txt to copy or download. Runs 100% in your browser. And because we read the log data: this file is cheap to add and possibly helpful, not a magic bullet — here is our honest take.
01 · YOUR SITE
02 · SECTIONS
Group your key pages the way a human would explain them: Docs, Blog, Products, Case Studies. Each link gets a title, a URL, and an optional note the AI reads after the colon.
03 · "OPTIONAL" SECTION
The spec's ## Optional section: secondary URLs an AI can skip when context is tight. Think contact, careers, older archives.
Where to put it
01
Upload it to your site root
The file must resolve at yoursite.com/llms.txt — the root, next to robots.txt, not in a subfolder. On most hosts that is the top-level web directory; on Netlify or Vercel, drop it in /public.
02
Verify it loads
Open the URL in a browser. You should see plain Markdown text — not a 404, a redirect, or your site's HTML shell wrapped around it.
03
Keep it updated
Treat it like a tiny curated sitemap: regenerate it when key pages launch, move, or die. A stale map pointing at dead URLs is worse than no map at all.
// THE HONEST PART
Will any AI engine actually read this file? Mostly, no — at least not yet. No major engine has committed to the convention, Google has said in writing that it ignores it, and log studies show most llms.txt files get close to zero bot requests. We published the full, sourced teardown in llms.txt Is Dead.
So why offer the generator? Because the file costs five minutes, cannot hurt, and doubles as a genuinely useful exercise: deciding which ten pages define your site. Just do not stop here. What moves AI visibility is whether crawlers can reach you and whether engines cite you — check the second one with our AI Visibility Checker, and if you want it fixed rather than measured, that is our AI SEO service.
llms.txt FAQ
What is an llms.txt file?
A proposed convention from llmstxt.org (September 2024): a plain Markdown file at your site root that hands AI systems a curated map of your most important pages — an H1 with your site name, a one-line summary in a blockquote, and sections of annotated links. It is a content suggestion for LLMs, not an access-control file like robots.txt: it grants nothing, blocks nothing, and no crawler is obliged to read it.
Does llms.txt actually help AI visibility?
Honest answer: probably not much today. Google has said it does not use the file, no major AI vendor documents reading it, and log studies show the overwhelming majority of llms.txt files get zero bot requests. It is a cheap, harmless bet — five minutes, might age well — but crawler access, entity signals, and earned citations move AI visibility far more. Our full sourced take: llms.txt Is Dead.
Where does the llms.txt file go?
At the root of your domain, so it loads at https://yoursite.com/llms.txt — the same place robots.txt lives. Upload it as plain UTF-8 text, open the URL in a browser to confirm it renders as Markdown text, and regenerate it whenever your key pages change.
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