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Is LLM.TXT useful and beneficial for better AI visibility? I need suggestions from someone who has experience in LLM.TXT
Posted by on December 19, 2025 at 10:50 amMy boss is aksing me to use LLM.TXT but im not that sure about it. Should I use it?
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Absolutely not. NO LLM uses it.
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It’s a strange one, tools have been recommending it, and in theory it’s a good idea, in practice it’s not used yet.
If you’re in Yoast for WordPress I’d click the button to get it deployed, but if you’re on anything that it’ll take effort and energy to do, it’s not worth it yet.
Google deployed them across all properties for a day, then promptly removed them, not sure what that says other than LLMs aren’t being encouraged by Google at the moment.
Short answer, don’t spend time on it.
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It’s Snake oil pal, whoever is selling it walk away
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I asked the same question few weeks ago in this Subreddit
Worth checking it out for answers: [https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1p5l4if/what_are_the_benefits_of_creating_llm_page_for/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1p5l4if/what_are_the_benefits_of_creating_llm_page_for/)
What are the benefits of creating LLM page for your website?
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There is zero benefit provided to your site by using LLMs.txt files. Zero.
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Explain your boss that LLMs are not search engines, they don’t crawl website, they just scrape the websites data form SERP for the given query.
No matter what you txt file you are adding, it won’t get you cited in LLMs.
To get featured in LLMs you need be on the top of SERP for the given query as it just scrapes the top results. And this is just normal seo.
Build topical authority and get your site on the top of SERP for the queries you are targeting and you’d get cited in LLMs
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Bosses always think they’ve picked up some special hint or some “technical advantage” because nobody “else” is doing it.
Its BS. And if you allow magic and mysticism into your strategy today, when does it end?
I can tell you how to get your site visible in AI right here. We have the resources int his sub.
Experience
Yes, we’ve built and removed LLMs.txt and noticed no difference in visiblity.
Adjusting content = appearing in the QFO
u/UpstairsBumblebee446 – let me ask you a question: you/your boss are putting a search query into Google and seeing your site rank but not in LLMs – am I right?
LLMs modify the query, the prompt (what you put in) is not the query they use
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I’d just set up a basic one in 15 minutes or so and then try to monitor the logfiles to see what AI crawlers access it. At a minimum it can be a document to brainstorm how you want your brand to be conveyed by LLMs and what content you’d want surfaced.
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I mean, its not that hard to deploy and AFAIK does no harm at worst, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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It’s very easy: your boss wants it. He’s paying you. Just do it and be a happy camper. What are you going to do? Tell your boss, *“Look, I have no idea, so I asked in a forum and some unknown people told me to tell you NO”*?
And yes, they are completely useless by definition, but let him exercise his right to be wrong.
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It seems to be beneficial for you to keep your job and make the boss happy 😂
I’d add it to shut him up, takes but a few mins in most cases. In a corporate structure, a few hours. So there’s a half day of corporate futility for ya.
Make a gentleman’s bet and prove him wrong in about a month.
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