What a Sitemap Is, in Plain English
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…
Read Morellms.txt: The Cheat Sheet You Can Hand an AI
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…
Read MoreWhat “AI Crawler Access” Means (and Why robots.txt Decides It)
Technical meaning. A web crawler (also called a bot or spider) is an automated program that visits web pages and reads their content. A small file called robots.txt, kept at the root of a website, tells those crawlers which parts of the site they are allowed to read. “AI crawler access” means crawlers run by…
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