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Your Website Exists. AI Doesn't Know That.

Your Website Exists. AI Doesn't Know That.

via Dev.toJoshua Gutierrez

Someone just asked ChatGPT for a recommendation in your industry. Your competitor was in the answer. You weren't. Not because they're better. Because the AI knew what they do. It didn't know what you do. That gap is growing every day. And it has a very simple fix. The Problem No One Is Talking About Google crawls your site. It reads your HTML, follows your links, indexes your pages. That system is 25 years old and it works. AI assistants don't do that. When Perplexity, ChatGPT, or Claude constructs an answer, it pulls from whatever structured context it can find. If your site is a JavaScript-heavy single-page app with no clear text about what you offer, where you operate, or what you charge -- the AI has nothing. It skips you. Or worse, it gets your details wrong and recommends someone else. This is not theoretical. It is happening right now. Across every industry. The Fix: One File, 10 Minutes The solution is called llms.txt . Think of it as robots.txt for AI. Where robots.txt tells s

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