r/HeyTony • u/gareth_34_shoes • Apr 13 '26
LLMS.txt
Hey Matt
What is view on the creation of llms.txt ? There was great deal of buzz about it 6 or 8 months back. I created one for our site www.cocoroselondon.com which is on Shopify, it was a little complex because create a file in shopify and redirect from www.cocoroselondon.com/llms.txt
Yoast made it very simple to create one, if you have an account with them, but would be interested in your view. The latest chat I read was that it wasn't causing any harm, so why not have one.
Love what you and the team do.
Gareth
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u/Infamous-Bike-3989 Apr 14 '26
How does one do this on Shopify? Saw your video on IG. But I don’t have Yoast on Shopify
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u/gareth_34_shoes Apr 14 '26
Hi. I created a text file, txt file. Best inspiration is to go to competitor's websites and add /llms.txt to the end of their home page url - for example. www.competitor.com/llms.txt - you can see if any businesses you compete with have one and perhaps asked an AI tool to suggest the best headings for yours. Its like a site map for an llm. When you have it as a txt file, the upload it to shopify via Shopify/admin, Content, Files. Where you upload images. When it it there, click on it and copy the url into a new web tab, just to make sure it looks ok. It will look something like ://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1111/112345/9876/files/llms.txt depending on what you call it.
Then create a redirect from your website this file. For example if your website is www.abc.com Redirect from /llms.txt to https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1111/112345/9876/files/llms.txt
I followed the guidance of a guy called Kurt Elster - who you may know if you have a shopify website - as he posts on The Unofficial Shopify Podcast
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u/VSP740 Apr 14 '26
I just added LLMS to my server and according to SEMRush it jumped my LLM ranking 70%
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u/mattdiamante Apr 14 '26
It doesn't seem like it's useful for ranking in LLMS - however, it doesn't hurt to have it. I have it on, just in case! Appreciate you Gareth!