{"id":2479,"date":"2025-04-18T12:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:25:14","slug":"google-dismisses-llms-txt-as-ineffective-and-unused-by-ai-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/google-dismisses-llms-txt-as-ineffective-and-unused-by-ai-bots-2479\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Dismisses LLMs.txt as Ineffective and Unused by AI Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mueller has stated that LLMs.txt, a proposed file to guide AI crawlers, is not being used by major AI services and offers no real benefit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Comparing it to the outdated keywords meta tag, Mueller confirmed that AI bots aren\u2019t even checking for the file, making it ineffective for SEO or content control.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-18-2025-02_00_45-PM-1.png\" alt=\"Google Dismisses LLMs.txt as Ineffective and Unused by AI Bots\n\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-18-2025-02_00_45-PM-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-18-2025-02_00_45-PM-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-18-2025-02_00_45-PM-1-1024x683.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\"><\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/google-dismisses-llms-txt-as-ineffective-and-unused-by-ai-bots-2479\/#what-is-llmstxt-and-why-its-not-working\" >What Is LLMs.txt and Why It\u2019s Not Working<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/google-dismisses-llms-txt-as-ineffective-and-unused-by-ai-bots-2479\/#community-feedback-confirms-no-impact-no-use\" >Community Feedback Confirms: No Impact, No Use<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/google-dismisses-llms-txt-as-ineffective-and-unused-by-ai-bots-2479\/#muellers-verdict-like-the-keywords-meta-tag\" >Mueller\u2019s Verdict: Like the Keywords Meta Tag<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/google-dismisses-llms-txt-as-ineffective-and-unused-by-ai-bots-2479\/#another-issue-bad-user-experience\" >Another Issue: Bad User Experience<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/google-dismisses-llms-txt-as-ineffective-and-unused-by-ai-bots-2479\/#what-site-owners-should-focus-on-instead\" >What Site Owners Should Focus On Instead<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/google-dismisses-llms-txt-as-ineffective-and-unused-by-ai-bots-2479\/#key-takeaways\" >Key Takeaways<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"what-is-llmstxt-and-why-its-not-working\"><\/span><b>What Is LLMs.txt and Why It\u2019s Not Working<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>LLMs.txt was introduced as a way to make it easier for LLMs to extract the main content of a website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not designed to block bots like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/blog\/robots-txt-guide\/\">robots.txt<\/a>, but rather to provide a stripped-down version of site content\u2014free of ads, navigation, and other non-essential elements.<\/p>\n<p>The problem? No one is listening.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller confirmed that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic haven\u2019t adopted the standard. AI bots don\u2019t even request the file, making it effectively invisible to the services it was meant to help.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"community-feedback-confirms-no-impact-no-use\"><\/span><b>Community Feedback Confirms: No Impact, No Use<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A Reddit user who had implemented LLMs.txt on their blog noticed zero activity in their logs from AI crawlers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Simone De Palma, the user behind the post, later shared similar observations on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/simodepth96_ai-reddit-activity-7318376670866890753-btG4\">LinkedIn<\/a>. Others joined in, saying bots weren\u2019t accessing the file, and some reported the same results across thousands of domains.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Simone-de-Palma.png\" alt=\"Simone de Palma implemented LLMs.txt on his blog and noticed zero activity in his logs from AI crawlers\" width=\"832\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Simone-de-Palma.png 832w, https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Simone-de-Palma-300x243.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One domain host with over 20,000 websites said only obscure bots like BuiltWith accessed the LLMs.txt file. None of the mainstream AI agents touched it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"muellers-verdict-like-the-keywords-meta-tag\"><\/span><b>Mueller\u2019s Verdict: Like the Keywords Meta Tag<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Mueller compared LLMs.txt to the keywords meta tag, a feature that once let site owners declare what their pages were about. Search engines stopped using that tag years ago because it was easy to manipulate and unreliable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/LLM-reddit.png\" alt=\"Reddit post on LLMs.txt\" width=\"821\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/LLM-reddit.png 821w, https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/LLM-reddit-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He raised a concern that is, if bots already download full web pages and structured data, why should they rely on a separate file? Worse, LLMs.txt could be abused by showing AI bots one version of content and everyone else another\u2014essentially a backdoor for cloaking.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"another-issue-bad-user-experience\"><\/span><b>Another Issue: Bad User Experience<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>De Palma also pointed out a user experience flaw. If AI systems cite LLMs.txt files instead of actual web pages, users might end up on bare text files instead of properly formatted articles. These markdown files don\u2019t support navigation or links back to the source content.<\/p>\n<p>This undermines the usefulness of citations and creates a dead end for users trying to learn more.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"what-site-owners-should-focus-on-instead\"><\/span><b>What Site Owners Should Focus On Instead<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>LLMs.txt doesn\u2019t offer practical benefits today. Here\u2019s where to spend your time instead:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/blog\/structured-data\/\"><b>Structured data<\/b><\/a>: Use schema markup to clearly define your content.<\/p>\n<p><b>Robots.txt<\/b>: Continue using this to manage bot access to your site.<\/p>\n<p><b>Readable, useful content<\/b>: Write for people, not for AI.<\/p>\n<p><b>Monitor logs<\/b>: Keep an eye on what bots are actually crawling.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stay updated<\/b>: Track developments from AI companies and search engines.<\/p>\n<p>Until LLMs.txt gains support\u2014and that\u2019s a big \u201cif\u201d\u2014there\u2019s no incentive to implement it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"key-takeaways\"><\/span><b>Key Takeaways<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">LLMs.txt is being ignored by all major AI services.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">It doesn\u2019t block or manage bots, unlike robots.txt.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">It creates opportunities for abuse, such as cloaking.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">It could damage the user experience if cited directly by AI.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Experts recommend focusing elsewhere, like structured data and content quality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mueller has stated that LLMs.txt, a proposed file to guide AI crawlers, is not being used by major AI services and offers no real benefit.\u00a0 Comparing it to the outdated keywords meta tag, Mueller confirmed that AI bots aren\u2019t even checking for the file, making it ineffective for SEO or content control. 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