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Free llms.txt generator

Create an llms.txt file for your website in minutes. Enter your domain, edit the pages we find, and download a file that is ready to upload. Free, with no AI model in the loop: the text comes from your own pages.

What does llms.txt do?

llms.txt is a plain text file that sits at the root of your site. It lists your most useful pages, with a one-line description of each, so AI tools can find them without reading everything. It is a small housekeeping step, and no AI platform has confirmed that it changes what gets cited. What earns citations and a steady flow of inbound leads is the content on those pages, built around the questions your buyers ask AI search.

Enter your domainWe read your sitemap and key pages. No sign-in needed.
Edit the listUntick, rename, reorder and describe pages in your own words.
Download the fileUpload it to your site root and you are done.

What is llms.txt?

llms.txt is a plain text file, written in Markdown, that you place at the root of your website, at yourdomain.com/llms.txt. It gives AI tools a short, curated map of your site: who you are, what you do, and which pages are worth reading first.

Jeremy Howard, co-founder of Answer.AI, proposed the idea in September 2024, and the format is documented at llmstxt.org. The problem it targets is simple. A language model reading a website has to dig through navigation, scripts and banners to find the useful parts, and it can only hold so much text at once. A short file of your best pages, each with a one-line description, skips that work.

It is Markdown, not code

Headings and bullet links. Anyone who can write a document can read it and edit it.

It is a shortlist, not an archive

Link the pages that explain what you do. Listing every URL is what your sitemap is for.

It is a proposal, not a standard

No standards body has adopted it, and AI platforms are free to ignore it. More on that below.

What does an llms.txt file look like?

The format is short. The generator above builds every part of it, and you can edit each line before you download.

Part	Required?	What it does
H1 with your site or company name	Yes	Names the site. It is the only required element in the proposal.
Blockquote summary	Recommended	One or two sentences on what you do and who it is for. AI tools read this first.
H2 sections	Recommended	Group links by topic, such as Product, Pricing, Resources and Company.
Link lines	Recommended	One page per line: a title, the URL and a short description.
An "Optional" H2 section	No	Pages a tool can skip when it needs a shorter file.

Here is a small example for a made-up company:

# Example Co

> Example Co makes project planning software for small design studios.

## Product
- [Features](https://example.com/features): What the planner does and who uses it
- [Pricing](https://example.com/pricing): Plans, limits and what each plan includes

## Resources
- [Planning guide](https://example.com/guides/planning): How a studio plans a project from brief to delivery

## Optional
- [Careers](https://example.com/careers): Open roles at Example Co

llms.txt vs robots.txt vs sitemap.xml

Three files, three different jobs. One does not replace another.

File	Its job	Who reads it	Format
robots.txt	Controls which crawlers can access which paths on your site	Search and AI crawlers	Plain text rules
sitemap.xml	Lists every URL you want search engines to index	Search engines	XML
llms.txt	Points AI tools to your best pages, with a short description of each	AI tools that choose to read it	Markdown

Check robots.txt first. If it blocks an AI crawler, a perfect llms.txt will not get that crawler onto your pages. The free AI Visibility Checker tests crawler access, schema, rendering, robots.txt and your sitemap in one run.

Does llms.txt help you show up in AI search?

The honest answer: not on its own, and nobody has shown that it does. In June 2025, John Mueller of Google said that no AI system currently uses llms.txt. Webflow's help center is just as plain: the file does not guarantee that LLMs will read your site.

So why make one? It takes about ten minutes and costs nothing. Some developer tools can read it when you point them at a site. And building it forces a useful decision: which pages on your site best explain what you do?

What does earn citations and inbound leads

AI search answers a buyer's question by pulling from pages that answer that question clearly. The pages that get cited are written around what buyers actually ask: their words, their stage of research, their market. That is buyer and market context, and it is what turns a page into a citation and a citation into a steady flow of inbound pipeline. llms.txt can point to those pages. It cannot make a weak page worth citing.

How to add llms.txt to your website

The file has to load at yourdomain.com/llms.txt, in the same place as robots.txt. How you get it there depends on your platform. Pick yours:

Any host with file access (cPanel, FTP, VPS)

Upload llms.txt to the public web root, the folder that holds your homepage and robots.txt. On cPanel this is usually public_html.

WordPress

Several SEO plugins, including Yoast, Rank Math and All in One SEO, now offer an llms.txt setting. Check your plugin first, and edit the file there if it has one, so you do not end up with two copies.

To upload your own, use your host's File Manager or an FTP client and place llms.txt in the site root, the folder that holds wp-config.php. Do not put it in wp-content.

Shopify

Shopify does not let you place files in the site root, so you use a redirect.

In your Shopify admin, go to Content, then Files, and upload llms.txt. Copy the file's URL.
Go to Content, then Menus, then View URL Redirects, then Create URL redirect.
Set Redirect from to /llms.txt and Redirect to the file URL, then save.
Open yourstore.com/llms.txt and confirm it loads as plain text. Shopify's help page does not describe file URLs as redirect targets, so test it.

Webflow

Go to Site settings, then SEO, then LLMs.txt.
Click Upload file and choose your llms.txt. It must be UTF-8 and under 100 KB.
Save changes, then publish your site. The file does not appear on the Webflow staging domain.

Wix

Wix creates an llms.txt for you once your site has a custom domain and search indexing is on. To use your version, open SEO & GEO in your dashboard, go to Tools and settings, open the llms.txt page, choose Edit file, paste your text and save.

Once you edit the file, Wix stops updating it automatically until you reset it to the default.

Squarespace

Recent 7.1 sites may have an llms.txt option in SEO settings. Check there first. If you do not see it, use a redirect:

Go to Pages, click + next to Main Navigation, choose Link, open the gear icon and set the link type to File. Upload llms.txt, then close the editor without saving. The file is now at /s/llms.txt.
That address redirects to a CDN address. Run /s/llms.txt through a redirect tracer and copy the final URL.
Go to Settings, then Developer Tools, then URL Mappings, and add a line that sends /llms.txt to the final URL with a 301.
Open yourdomain.com/llms.txt to confirm it loads.

HubSpot CMS

HubSpot's File Manager hosts files under /hubfs/, not at your domain root, and HubSpot has said in the HubSpot Community that it is holding off on native llms.txt support. The workaround HubSpot staff suggested is a redirect.

Upload llms.txt in the File Manager and copy the file's URL.
Create a URL redirect from /llms.txt to that file URL.
Open yourdomain.com/llms.txt and confirm it loads as plain text.

Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, React and static sites

Put llms.txt in your public folder, so the path is public/llms.txt. It is served from the root when you deploy. On Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages and GitHub Pages, commit it to the folder your build publishes as static files.

How to check that your llms.txt works

Open it in a browser. Go to yourdomain.com/llms.txt. You should see plain text, not a download prompt, a styled page or a 404.
Use the right host. Check the exact version of your domain that you use, with or without www, and make sure it loads over https.
Click the links. Every link should open the right page, with no redirect to a login. Broken links defeat the point of the file.
Check robots.txt. It should not block /llms.txt or the pages the file links to.
Confirm the encoding. Save the file as plain text in UTF-8.
Recheck after site changes. When you launch or retire a key page, update the file.

llms.txt best practices

Curate the list

List the pages that explain what you do, who it is for and what it costs. Leave out login, checkout, legal and tag pages. The generator skips these for you.

Describe each page plainly

One sentence that tells a stranger what they will learn on the page. Write it the way a buyer would phrase the question.

Group by what buyers look for

Product, Pricing, Resources and Company work for most sites. Rename the groups to match how your own buyers think.

Write a real summary

Two sentences at the top: what you do and who it is for. Skip slogans and adjectives.

Keep it current

Update the file when you launch, rename or remove a key page. A file that lists dead pages is worse than no file.

Fix the pages, not only the file

A tidy llms.txt that points to thin pages earns nothing. Pages that answer buyer questions with specifics are the ones that get cited.

From a file to pipeline

Drive inbound pipeline through AI search

An llms.txt file tells AI tools where your pages are. Omnibound works on the pages themselves. It maps the questions your buyers ask in AI search, adds your buyer and market context, and helps your team create content that gets cited and brings in consistent inbound leads.

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llms.txt FAQ

What is an llms.txt file?

An llms.txt file is a plain text file, written in Markdown, that sits at the root of your website. It lists your most useful pages with a one-line description of each, so AI tools can find them without reading your whole site. It was proposed in September 2024 and is documented at llmstxt.org.

What does this llms.txt generator do, and is it free?

Enter your domain and the generator reads your robots.txt, sitemap and homepage navigation, picks the pages most worth listing, and writes a title and description for each from the page's own tags. You edit everything, then download the file. It is free, and it does not use an AI model to write the text. You enter your email to download the file.

Is llms.txt an official standard?

No. It is a proposal, not a ratified web standard. It has not been adopted by a standards body such as the W3C or the IETF, and AI platforms are free to ignore it.

Does Google use llms.txt?

Google has not said that Search uses it. In June 2025, John Mueller of Google said that no AI system currently uses llms.txt. Treat the file as low-cost housekeeping, not a ranking lever.

Will llms.txt get my site cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini?

There is no guarantee, and no AI platform has confirmed that the file changes what gets cited. What earns citations is the content on your pages: clear answers to the questions your buyers ask, written with specifics. llms.txt only points to those pages.

Do I still need robots.txt and a sitemap if I have llms.txt?

Yes. They do different jobs. robots.txt controls which crawlers can access which paths, sitemap.xml lists every URL you want indexed, and llms.txt is a short, curated list of your best pages for AI tools. If robots.txt blocks an AI crawler, llms.txt will not get that crawler onto your pages.

Where do I put the llms.txt file?

At the root of your domain, in the same place as robots.txt, so it loads at yourdomain.com/llms.txt. A subdomain has its own root, so a file on www.yourdomain.com does not cover blog.yourdomain.com. The install section above has steps for common platforms.

How long should an llms.txt file be?

Short. List the pages that explain what you do, who it is for and what it costs, usually a few dozen links at most. A full dump of every URL is what your sitemap is for. Webflow, for example, accepts uploads up to 100 KB.

What is llms-full.txt?

llms-full.txt is a companion file that some documentation platforms publish. It puts the full text of key pages into one Markdown file so a tool can read everything in a single request. It is a convention, not part of the core llms.txt proposal. This generator creates llms.txt only.

How often should I update my llms.txt file?

Update it whenever you launch, rename or remove a key page, and review it at least once a quarter. A file that lists pages that no longer exist is worse than no file.

What if my site has thousands of pages, or no sitemap?

The generator picks about 30 key pages, with a handful of blog posts at most, and you can add other pages one at a time. If your site has no sitemap, it falls back to robots.txt and the links in your homepage navigation.

What happens to my email and website address?

When you download your file, we save your email and website address so we can send occasional emails about AI search, as the line under the download button says. You can unsubscribe at any time. The pages we read to build your file are the public pages on your site.