Media Tech Brief By HackerNoon
What Is llms.txt, and Should You Add It to Your Website?
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min · 4 segments
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at…
Media Tech Brief By HackerNoon
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min · 4 segments
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at…
I assistance now answer questions like, who is the best plumber near me, by reading websites.
And file is a small, plain text page at the root of your site that tells them who you are and which pages to read first.
It is an emerging convention, not a standard, and no engine has promised to use it.
It takes about 10 minutes, so I add one to every site I build.
What goes in it? The format is marked down with four parts, in this order.
1. an h1 with the name of the business or site two a block quote with a one line description three one or more h2 sections four under each section a list of links each with a short note rules i follow use absolute urls a crawler reading the file on its own has no base url to resolve against Write each note as a fact, not a slogan.
Same day repairs for gas boilers, tells a model something.
Best in class solutions, tells it nothing.
List the pages a customer would ask about.
Services, prices, service area and contact.
Leave out legal pages and tag archives.
Keep it short.
20 good links beat 200.
Serve it as plain text it, with a 200 status.
Check your robots.txt at the same time.
and llms.txt is no use if the crawlers are blocked.
Look for rules that disallow, or some security plugins and CDN settings add these for you, so it is worth reading the file your site actually serves.
What it does not do.
A good llms.txt helps an engine read your site.
It does not make the engine recommend you.
The only way to know whether you were mentioned is to ask the engines the questions your customers ask, and read the answers.
I assistance now answer questions like, who is the best plumber near me, by reading websites.
And file is a small, plain text page at the root of your site that tells them who you are and which pages to read first.
It is an emerging convention, not a standard, and no engine has promised to use it.
It takes about 10 minutes, so I add one to every site I build.
What goes in it? The format is marked down with four parts, in this order.
1. an h1 with the name of the business or site two a block quote with a one line description three one or more h2 sections four under each section a list of links each with a short note rules i follow use absolute urls a crawler reading the file on its own has no base url to resolve against Write each note as a fact, not a slogan.
Same day repairs for gas boilers, tells a model something.
Best in class solutions, tells it nothing.
List the pages a customer would ask about.
Services, prices, service area and contact.
Leave out legal pages and tag archives.
Keep it short.
20 good links beat 200.
Serve it as plain text it, with a 200 status.
Check your robots.txt at the same time.
and llms.txt is no use if the crawlers are blocked.
Look for rules that disallow, or some security plugins and CDN settings add these for you, so it is worth reading the file your site actually serves.
What it does not do.
A good llms.txt helps an engine read your site.
It does not make the engine recommend you.
The only way to know whether you were mentioned is to ask the engines the questions your customers ask, and read the answers.
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