The Sitemaps and AI screen

1. Open Sitemaps and AI

   In WordPress, open SEO in the menu, then Sitemaps and AI under Search appearance in the plugin's side menu. How search engines and AI assistants find your pages: XML sitemaps, robots.txt, which AI crawlers may read the site, llms.txt and sending new pages to search engines.

   

2. The Sitemaps tab

   Open the Sitemaps tab. Your XML sitemaps: which kinds of page are in them, images, videos and news, and the address to give search engines.

   

3. The robots.txt tab

   Open the robots.txt tab. Edit robots.txt with checks that read it the way search engines do, and test any address against it.

   

4. The AI crawlers tab

   Open the AI crawlers tab. Choose which AI crawlers may read the site — the ones that train models and the ones that answer questions with a link to you.

   

5. The llms.txt tab

   Open the llms.txt tab. Publish llms.txt (and llms-full.txt) so AI assistants know what the site is and which pages matter.

   

6. The Indexing tab

   Open the Indexing tab. Tell Bing and the other IndexNow search engines about new and changed pages the moment they change, and send your sitemap to Google and Bing.

   

Step-by-step guides for this screen

• XML sitemap in WordPress: where yours is and how to check it

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