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llms.txt adoption by major engines remains unconfirmed
Vendor marketing increasingly treats llms.txt as a ranking factor. No major engine provider has publicly confirmed using it as a retrieval input.
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Cloudflare and the Astro team launch EmDash CMS
An Astro-native, Cloudflare-deployed CMS with sandboxed plugins and a built-in MCP server. Relevant to AEO for a specific reason: server-rendered content by default.
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Technical AEO for AI Crawlers
The least glamorous part of AEO and reliably the highest-yield. If an AI crawler cannot fetch and read your page, nothing else you do matters.
guides
llms.txt Explained: What It Does and What It Doesn't
A small file with a large amount of hype attached. Here is what it is for, which engines appear to use it, and why it is not a ranking lever.