Google's John Mueller says llms.txt files cannot help AI systems choose between websites, comparing them to the dead meta ...

Mueller argues LLM systems can't use llms.txt to differentiate between websites for discovery. He sees a narrow role once an ...

When Google’s John Mueller compared llms.txt to the old meta keywords tag, some corners of the SEO world interpreted the comment as a dismissal of the concept and took it as confirmation that llms.txt ...

We analyzed llms.txt across 10 websites. Only two saw AI traffic increases — and it wasn't because of the file. The debate around llms.txt has become one of the most polarized topics in web ...

Ahrefs analyzed 137K domains and found 97% of llms.txt files received zero requests. AI retrieval bots accounted for 1% of ...