Why your website should be readable by AI assistants
People now ask ChatGPT and friends for a local florist or physio. Here is what those assistants read, and how a small business site can help them.
When someone asks an AI assistant for a childcare centre near Schofields, the assistant reads websites to answer. If your site is a heavy page builder with your hours inside an image, it may simply skip you.
What assistants look for
- A plain-text (Markdown) version of each page
- An llms.txt file listing the pages that matter
- Structured business details: name, address, hours and services
Every site we build publishes all three automatically, including every blog post you add later, like this one.
Try it: add .md to the end of this page's address.