White hat SEO
White hat SEO follows search engine and AI platform guidelines: useful content, honest markup, open crawl access and links people choose to give.
Blog · October 13, 2026
Free ways to make your website AI-readable: robots.txt, llms.txt and schema
Three free technical fixes that help AI assistants and agents read your small business website.
These three fixes cost nothing but a little time.
1. robots.txt
Visit yoursite.com/robots.txt. If you see Disallow rules for crawlers such as GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot, decide whether you really want them blocked. Some site builders and security plugins add these rules by default. Search-oriented crawlers like OAI-SearchBot are the ones that matter for being found in answers.
2. llms.txt (optional)
llms.txt is a proposed convention, not an official standard: a plain Markdown file at your site root that summarizes what you do and links to your key pages. Support varies, but it's cheap to add and doubles as a clear summary for any reader.
3. Basic schema
Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with your name, URL, logo, contact details and address if relevant. Keep it identical to what's visible on the page. Google's Rich Results Test will tell you if it parses.
Once these are in place, ask a few assistants about your business and note what changes over the following weeks.
Want this done for you? Start with our free AI discoverability audit. Campaigns are delivered through low-cost AI visibility campaigns at neetbros.