How many small business websites actually have an llms.txt?
We checked 44 US small business sites. Ten had a usable llms.txt, one served an empty file. What we found inside them, and whether it is worth your time.
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Worked examples and plain answers.
How AI decides who to name, what actually moves it, and what the work costs. Written for owners rather than marketers, so no acronyms and no jargon you would have to look up. Worked examples are run on our own properties, never on somebody else’s business.
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Do I own my website? Website ownership, asset by asset
We read 30 website providers’ terms and checked 44 local businesses. The fourteen assets in a website, who holds each one, and how to check yours today.
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How to get your business recommended by AI assistants
You cannot submit or pay for placement. What actually works, in order, grounded in a study of 44 small business sites and what they were failing.
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How to measure brand visibility in ChatGPT, free, without a tool
The full protocol we run monthly: 15 prompts, five runs, four engines, logged out. What to record, and when a paid tracker is actually worth it.
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Do you have to pay monthly for a website? From $60 a year
Not for the site itself, but yes for hosting and a domain. The real floor, the two kinds of monthly fee, and the exit questions to ask before you sign.
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Website maintenance cost in 2026: 100 real plans compared
We read the published prices of 100 maintenance plans from 34 US providers. The median is $169 a month. What each price buys, and the fine print to check.