Is the new wave of internet acronyms twisting your melon?
Don’t panic, Evil Empire is here, with a handy guide to those handy little fellows: Llms.txt files.
AI technologies such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Google are taking over the internet. They promise to take the grunt work out of internet searches by aggregating and processing information to give us faster, more precise, better contextualised answers to our questions.
But sometimes they hit road-blocks like superfluous code and complicated HTML structures that prevent them from accessing the information they really need from your website. And if AI and LLMs can’t read the stuff you want them to read, then your business won’t be prioritised in their results.
That’s where Llms.txt files come in. Quite literally these are ‘Large Language Model Text Files’ ie. special text files that make your website more easily understood by AI and large language models.
When you add Llms.txt files to your website, you present your most important content in a simple and clear format that allows AI to better understand and more efficiently process what you want it to see. The result: AI and LLM optimisation and knowledge presentation for your site and business.
So Llms.txt files are clearly vital to ensure your website’s visibility, but how do you implement them? Here are Evil Empire’s top tips:
- Llms.txt files should be clear, simple and created prepared in Markdown format so that they can be easily read by both humans and machines.
- Avoid HTML or JavaScript which are complicated and hard to read and make sure your content doesn’t conflict with robots.txt files.
- Avoid unnecessary details and focus on your most important content.
- If you need to present secondary content, then do so in a separate section.
- Make sure all content is up-to-date and accurate.
- Keep your Llms.txt files up to date by refreshing them whenever you update your website.
Still confused? Then the good news is that Evil Empire can do all this for you. Get in touch to see how we can add Llms.txt files to your website to provide AI models with the simple, clear, and processable data they need to make sure your business comes out on top.
