What a Sitemap Is, in Plain English

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Technical meaning. A sitemap is a file (usually sitemap.xml) that lists the pages on a website so that search engines and crawlers can find them all. It acts as an index, telling automated visitors what exists and where to find it. In plain English. Imagine a library with no catalog. A visitor might stumble onto…

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llms.txt: The Cheat Sheet You Can Hand an AI

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Technical meaning. llms.txt is a plain-text file placed at the root of a website that gives AI language models a concise, curated summary of the site: who or what it is about, the most important pages, and key facts. It is a newer, proposed standard, written specifically for large language models (the “LLM” in the…

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