llms.txt generator

Mostly, no. Ahrefs analysed 137,000 sites and found that 97% of published llms.txt files never get read, they receive no AI crawler requests at all, and no major answer engine has committed to reading one. It is a proposed convention that the engines have not adopted. Ahrefs publishes a free llms.txt generator itself, and published that study anyway.

It costs nothing to publish and it is a tidy index of your own site, so we built the generator and made it free and unlimited. But a tool that implied publishing one would get you into ChatGPT would be selling a result it cannot produce.

What does work

Being mentioned somewhere other than your own site. Branded mentions across the web correlate far more strongly with AI visibility than backlinks do, roughly 0.66 against 0.22, and on commercial "best X" questions the engines overwhelmingly cite listicles and comparison pages, frequently on small, young domains. Which listicles, specifically, is a question with an answer: it is whatever the engine cited when it answered your buyer's question.

That list is what CiteRank reports every week, per question, per engine.