Topic hub: AI search visibility and crawler control

Guides for llms.txt, AI crawler policy, and proof-based SEO

This hub groups every practical guide in the LLMs.txt Kit funnel. Start with the generator if you need an output today, then use the platform, crawler, and proof guides to make the site easier to crawl, understand, and measure.

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Create the public files

Generate a concise llms.txt file and learn how to publish it safely without turning it into a keyword-stuffed doorway page.

How to create an llms.txt file

Check crawler access

Understand how robots.txt controls Googlebot, OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, Google-Extended, Applebot, PerplexityBot, and CCBot.

AI crawler robots.txt rules

Tools and templates

All free tools

Browse the generator, checker, validator, log analyzer, sitemap converter, and policy badge tools from one crawlable hub.

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AI robots.txt generator

Create separate search, training-use, and broad crawler policies without blocking the wrong bot by accident.

Open the generator

AI crawler checker

Paste a robots.txt file and see whether important search and AI crawlers are allowed, blocked, or partially restricted.

Run the checker

AI crawler log analyzer

Paste access logs and prove whether Googlebot, OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, Applebot, PerplexityBot, and CCBot reached key files.

Analyze crawler logs

llms.txt validator

Paste a draft and check structure, public links, safety notes, concise scope, and obvious private-data risks.

Validate llms.txt

Sitemap to llms.txt

Paste sitemap XML or a URL list and generate a review-ready llms.txt draft from public canonical pages.

Convert sitemap to llms.txt

AI crawler policy badge

Generate a nofollow trust badge for reviewed crawler policies without turning it into a link scheme.

Generate a badge

llms.txt examples

Copy starter examples for SaaS, ecommerce, local service businesses, docs sites, and publishers.

Browse examples

AI crawler robots.txt examples

Copy policy templates for search visibility, training-use opt-outs, private docs, publishers, and staging sites.

Copy robots.txt examples

Platform guides

Shopify

Pick collection, product, shipping, return, sizing, and policy pages for a clean ecommerce map.

llms.txt for Shopify

WordPress

Choose cornerstone posts, service pages, author pages, editorial policy, and contact pages instead of noisy archives.

llms.txt for WordPress

SaaS docs

Map quickstarts, API references, changelogs, integrations, security pages, and versioned docs.

llms.txt for SaaS docs

Help centers

Map knowledge base categories, FAQs, troubleshooting hubs, status pages, and support escalation paths.

llms.txt for help centers

Framer

Map Framer marketing pages, CMS collections, help content, case studies, policies, and safe publishing options.

llms.txt for Framer

Webflow

Build a concise AI-readable map for marketing sites, case studies, pricing, help centers, and security pages.

llms.txt for Webflow

Wix

Map local service, booking, FAQ, review, and policy pages without exposing private member or cart URLs.

llms.txt for Wix

Crawler policy and proof

GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot

Separate OpenAI training-use crawling from ChatGPT search visibility decisions.

Compare OpenAI crawlers

Google-Extended vs Googlebot

Understand the difference between Google Search crawling and Google AI-use controls.

Compare Google crawlers

AI crawler benchmark

Use source-backed crawler policy notes and downloadable JSON/CSV data for OpenAI, Google, Apple, Perplexity, and Common Crawl.

Open the benchmark

User-agent list

Scan AI crawler tokens by operator, category, robots.txt behavior, and practical policy note.

Open the user-agent list

Copy-ready robots.txt examples

Use source-backed examples when you need to keep search crawlers open but opt out of selected AI data-use crawlers.

Open AI crawler robots.txt examples

Audit checklist

Verify robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt, indexability, internal links, and funnel tracking before launch.

Run the audit checklist

Log analysis

Use server logs to prove crawlers and real users reached the pages and activation events that matter.

Analyze crawler logs

Free traffic research

Use source-backed rules to separate legal free traffic tactics from fake search loops, doorway pages, and spammy link drops.

Read the traffic study

Community answer templates

Copy white-hat answers for relevant Reddit, GitHub, CMS, and webmaster discussions with direct tracked links.

Open answer templates

GitHub README snippets

Copy README, issue, PR, and docs snippets for projects that need llms.txt, crawler policy, and log-proof documentation.

Open GitHub snippets

AI tool directory submission kit

Copy safe descriptions and curator pitches for relevant AI tools, SEO tools, Product Hunt-style launches, newsletters, and directories.

Open directory kit

Directory target queue

Review verified and manual-review launch, AI tool directory, software directory, and developer community targets before final-domain distribution.

Open target queue

New domain SEO launch checklist

Use DNS, HTTPS, Search Console, sitemap, IndexNow, proof files, and first-distribution checks to move a new domain from preview to production.

Open launch checklist

AI crawler policy changelog

Track source-backed policy checks for OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, Googlebot, Google-Extended, Applebot, PerplexityBot, CCBot, llms.txt, and IndexNow.

Open the changelog

Monthly updates

Keep crawler rules and AI-search advice fresh without changing dates on unchanged content.

Read the July update
Proof principle: every guide should be discoverable from this hub, listed in the sitemap, and included in the public live checks before final-domain Search Console submission.