llms.txt for SEO and GEO: Does It Help You Rank or Get Cited?
Replaced in November 2026: this answer now sits in a longer, current page on the same question. Linked here.
By Andrej Ruckij · · 1 min read
llms.txt for SEO and GEO: Does It Help You Rank or Get Cited?
This article has been replaced. The answer hasn’t changed: llms.txt doesn’t help Google rankings, and there’s no evidence it gets you cited by AI search. The evidence, and the one place it does work (documentation read by coding agents), is in the article linked below.
Read the current version: Does llms.txt actually work? What the server logs show