LLM.TXT Tutorial

Learn how to add LLM.TXT easily to your website

Step 1: Download & Fill Out Your Brand Questionnaire.

Before creating your llm.txt file, you’ll want to gather the right information about your business.

Download the brand questionnaire and fill it out as thoroughly as possible. This helps ensure your llm.txt file accurately reflects:

  • Your services

  • Your ideal audience

  • Your brand voice

  • Your locations served

  • Important offerings

  • Unique selling points

Think of this as giving AI platforms a “cheat sheet” about your business.

The more detailed and clear your answers are, the better your AI visibility foundation will be.

Step 2: Use Questionnaire to Create your llm.txt file

Highly recommended but not required: Use AI (like ChatGPT) to clean up and structure your answers into a polished llm.txt format before moving onto the next step of creating your file.

Use this prompt: “Format this information so I can easily turn it into an llm.txt file for AI search”.

This cleaner organization and reduced clutter supports stronger AI readability.

Directions for Mac:

Step 1: Open TextEdit (it’s in the Launch Pad)

Step 2: Create a plain text file.

By default, TextEdit may create a rich text document, which you do not want.

In the top menu: Format → Make Plain Text

Step 3: Paste your llm.txt content (or the information generated from your questionnaire, if you didn’t have it formatted by AI).

Step 4: Save the File

File → Save

Name the file exactly: llm.txt

Make sure the file is not saved as: llm.txt.rtf

Step 5: Verify the File

Locate the file on your computer and confirm the filename is:

llm.txt

Not: llm.txt.rtf , llm.rtf, llm.docx

Directions for PC

Step 1: Open Notepad

Step 2: Create a plain text file.

By default, TextEdit may create a rich text document, which you do not want.

In the top menu: Format → Make Plain Text

Step 3: Paste your llm.txt content (or the information generated from your questionnaire, if you didn’t have it formatted by AI).

Step 4: Name the file correctly

File → Save as: llm.txt

Change “Save as type” to: All Files

Encoding can remain: UTF-8

Step 5: Verify the File

Locate the file on your computer and confirm the filename is:

llm.txt

Not: .docx , .pages. or .rtf

Step 3: Add this information to your website.

Method 1: Add as an Orphan Page (Easiest)

  1. Create a new page

  2. Add your llm.txt content

  3. Hide the page from navigation

  4. Publish the page

Advanced Method

If your hosting setup allows access to site files or custom developer tools, you may be able to upload directly to the root domain.

Nice work!!

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