Google’s Mueller Says llms.txt Can’t Help LLMs Differentiate Sites via @sejourna

<p>Google's John Mueller responded to an SEO using LLMs-Author.txt to separate themself from others with the same name.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Google Search says llms.txt isn't needed for AI features, while Lighthouse now checks the file for agentic browsing readiness in an experimental audit.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Common Crawl analyzed 584,107 llms.txt files and found most came from templates, many had no links, and some carried crawler rules the format can't enforce.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Google says a core assumption driving LLMs.txt adoption conflicts with the purpose its creators originally intended.</p> <p>The post <a

Google has updated its guide for optimizing for generative AI search help document to clarify that (1) LLMS.txt files don't help or hurt with search rankings and (2) AI files,