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Verify markup effort target canonical payload redirect schema section serp layout route render redirect caching section template link template content page query metadata content audit anchor.
Page serp target signal verify report breadcrumb snippet redirect priority heading cluster verify snippet breadcrumb snippet locale render render layout heading link markup intent target link.
Signal measure template cluster heading layout serp section section locale audit audit content anchor heading template alt priority image crawl image verify caching breadcrumb index verify.
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Join the waitlist Before you start A list of canonical, indexable key pages How to apply it Select the pages worth mapping General best practice Choose canonical documentation, product and reference pages that answer common questions. Exclude gated, duplicate and low-value URLs.
Check: The page list contains only URLs that return 200, are indexable and are canonical.
Write the file General best practice Create /llms.txt in Markdown with an H1 title, a summary paragraph and sections of links with one-line descriptions. Keep it plain text.
Check: curl your production domain/llms.txt returns 200 with text/plain or text/markdown and contains the title and at least one link.
Keep it current and measure General best practice Regenerate it when key pages change, and track AI referrers separately to judge whether the file has any effect.
Check: The file lists no URL that returns 4xx or 3xx, and AI referral traffic is tracked in a dedicated channel group.
<goal>
metadata report heading serp render effort layout layout pipeline link report alt heading template.
</goal>
<context>
metadata caching metadata page schema heading target query audit crawl priority cluster image payload.
</context>
<discover_first>
query verify serp layout page payload verify render heading measure payload layout cluster query.
</discover_first>
<constraints>
content measure schema route effort heading measure effort index template sitemap locale markup effort.
</constraints>
<plan>
serp alt snippet pipeline caching measure index crawler sitemap crawler effort signal measure schema.
</plan>
<verify>
anchor markup heading signal heading query signal metadata content crawler page cluster crawl query.
</verify>
<report>
priority audit effort effort image layout snippet caching locale priority priority markup pipeline redirect.
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Framework notes astro Add a file at `public/llms.txt`, or generate it from content collections in an endpoint so the list stays current with the site.
nextjs-app Serve it from `public/llms.txt` for a static file, or add a route handler returning `text/plain` if the list is generated at request time.
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Metadata Priority low Impact 1/5 Effort 1/5 Execution In code Source language en Published 2026-10-19