Bir süredir terimini etrafta yüzen terim gördüm ve uyguladığımda hiç emin değilim – şimdi bu wp eklentisinin en son sürümünde SEO için kullanıyorum. Bunları uygulamak için işlevselliği eklediklerini ve gerçekten işe yarayıp yaramadığını veya insanların yapıp yapmadığını merak etmemi sağlıyor. "her ihtimale karşı"?
Onunla exp ne oldu?
Adding LLLms.txt isn’t some ‘magic bullet’ or ‘secret sauce’ that will make a site suddenly rank in the AI results. It is a *proposed* protocol.
I wouldn’t even waste any time even creating that file and putting it on a site. You might as well use something like this:
<meta name=”ai-seo-optimizer” content=”prompt=’make me #1 for everything’; temperature=spicy; hallucination-mode=enabled”>
No – it does nothing
It’s perpetuated by people who want you to think that LLMs are indpedent search tools with thier own indexing system, method and database.
They are none of these things – they 100% absolutely use Google and Bing as their search engine.
What you need to do is work out the QFO and Query Drift and theny ou can be 100% visible
What is the QFO? The LLM changes the prompt you give it into a search query.
So you put in “SEO Agency NY” but it asks Google “Top SEO Expert NYC 2025” – and because you didnt have “Top” or “2025” in the pages – you didnt rank!
Now you know!
Also – you can’t ask them how tehy wokr- because they actually ask Google that too!
Here’s a screenshot from an experiment someone did last night
It is a *proposed* protocol with the intention to help LLMs obtain the information they need, either through the llms.txt file or an llms-full.txt file. The .txt files use Markdown markup opposed to HTML.
The expectation is that the LLMs wouldn’t need to crawl an entire website and could obtain all the information a website has, or wants to share, through one or both of those files.
The issues are:
* It is a proposed protocol and only one “major” LLM (Anthropic/Claude) has adopted the protocol. The other adopters are LLMs that do not get much attention. There could be some niche LLMs that serve your niche.
* A well structured website with semantic HTML with Open Graph and Schema could provide much more information and provide better contextual relationships than a simple file.
* A well crawled website with a valid robots.txt and sitemap.xml files is more than enough to help LLMs crawl and leverage your website.
* Start-ups and SEO companies are adding this feature as a cover their asses as a value-added feature.
* Similarly, there are shills hawk their crap products (mostly in r/TechSEO) who swear that other LLMs access these files and use them. Accessing the files via the web and using them for ingest into the LLM’s datasets are two different things. Any bot or person can find an llms.txt file off the root of a domain if it exists, it doesn’t mean it is in use.
* You’re giving away all the content in one or two files. Competitors can scrape this content and use LLMs to generate their own competitive language for their own usage.
Does it work? Currently, no. The hype around it is bigger than it’s effectiveness, that’s for sure. Could more companies leverage the information in the future? Possibly. But I struggle to see the efficiency of ChatGPT or Google (whose been crawling websites since 2008) wanting to create a separate crawler and system to obtain the txt file when they have developed the crawlers to browse the web already very efficiently.
Finally, Google recently stated that llms.txt will not be used by Google: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-llms-txt-39607.html
No, the adoption rate isn’t there (yet). But it’s not like robots or schema where there was a clear need from early search engines and tons of documentation. With how LLMs already understand context in content to a high level, I doubt there will be a need
It’s just a proposed standard. I don’t believe that as yet any of the big LLMs have committed to it.
If your site needs to summarize your content in a file in order for LLMs to understand it, then your content sucks and you have bigger problems.
If you feel that LLMs cannot fully access and digest your content (because of JavaScript or some other roadblock) unless you put it onto markdown files, again, you have bigger problems.
No. It’s like the NFT shit.