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.

+12

Set an AI-bot policy in robots.txt

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

+10

Serve content without JavaScript

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

The quick wins

Standard SEO hygiene that AI crawlers rely on too — your CMS or framework usually has a setting for each:

+8

Add a sitemap.xml

List every URL so crawlers discover all your pages. Copy-paste example.

+8

Write a good page title

A unique, descriptive <title> — the first thing a crawler reads.

+8

Add a meta description

The one-sentence summary search results and previews show.

+8

Add Open Graph tags

Rich previews when your link is shared. Copy-paste the full set.

+3

Add a canonical link

Name the one official URL so variants don't compete.

+3

Use one clear h1

State the page's topic in the body, where machines parse structure.