Implementation guide

LLM SEO Checklist

Operational checklist to make large language models understand and cite your content.

Give your engineering and content teams a shared checklist for LLM visibility.

9/5/20251 min read

Updated 9/18/2025

Allow the right crawlers

  • robots.txt allows GPTBot, PerplexityBot, CCBot, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot.
  • ✅ Rate-limit policies reviewed with security and legal.

Publish llms.txt

  • ✅ Lists canonical sources, APIs, datasets, contact, freshness cadence.
  • ✅ Mirrors entries in trust center and documentation.

Structure high-impact content types

  • ✅ FAQPage, HowTo, Product/SoftwareApplication templates validated.
  • ✅ Dataset schema applied to benchmark reports with provenance.

Track freshness & accuracy

  • ✅ Change logs emitted via RSS/JSON feeds.
  • ✅ Alerts fire when pricing, availability, or policy updates occur.
  • ✅ Knowledge graph entities reviewed monthly.

Measure citations & conversions

  • ✅ LLM citation monitoring in place with geo + intent filters.
  • ✅ Assisted conversions attributed in analytics dashboards.
  • ✅ Quarterly business review includes AEO KPI rollup.