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Does your site need an llms.txt file? What the data actually shows

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If you're adding llms.txt hoping to get cited more often by ChatGPT or Google's AI answers, the evidence says it won't do that. But the file isn't useless either — it just does a different job than most people think, and a few major AI companies genuinely use it for that job. Here's what I found wh…

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  1. 2026-09-02 13:45 · DEV Community — AI
    Does your site need an llms.txt file? What the data actually shows

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