How do AI crawlers find pages?
Quick Summary
AI crawlers discover pages by reading robots.txt, checking sitemaps, following page links, and loading llms.txt files.
Detailed Explanation
Bots find pages using standard web index conventions. They start at robots.txt to verify access rules, fetch sitemaps to get lists of URLs, and read llms.txt files (a plain-text business guide) to build a structured map of your site's structure.
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