What Is an llms.txt File and Does My Website Need One?

llms.txt file website AI optimization

The llms.txt standard was proposed in 2024 as a practical response to a growing problem: AI language models were increasingly crawling and summarizing websites, but with no standardized way for website owners to provide context or guidance to those models. Robots.txt controls what traditional crawlers can index. Sitemaps help search engines find content. But neither […]