Shopify deploys llms.txt files across 7 million stores
Lee Woodman has flagged that Shopify has rolled out llms.txt files across its entire 7-million-store portfolio. The llms.txt standard: analogous to robots.txt for traditional crawlers: gives AI crawlers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) a structured signal about which content can be used for AI training and citation purposes.
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