AI Readability Guide

How AI agents read your website

Search is shifting from links to answers. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI summaries read pages directly and quote a few sources. Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) is how you make sure your business is one of them.

Why AI visibility matters

Traditional SEO optimises for a ranked list of blue links. Agents don't show a list — they read a handful of pages and synthesise one answer. If an agent cannot parse your page, you are invisible at the exact moment a buyer is deciding. As agent traffic grows, this becomes the difference between being cited and being skipped.

The 11 signals we score

Your AI Readability Score is built from the signals agents rely on to understand a page.

What is llms.txt?

llms.txt is a plain-text file at the root of your site (like robots.txt) that points AI agents to your most important content in a clean, readable form. It removes the noise of navigation, ads and scripts, so agents spend their limited context on what matters. Adding one is a quick win for your score.

How to improve your score

  1. Write a clear title and meta description for every page.
  2. Use one H1 and a logical heading structure.
  3. Put real text in the HTML, not only in images or scripts.
  4. Add Schema.org JSON-LD for your key entities.
  5. Publish an llms.txt and check your robots.txt allows AI bots.

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