Best Practices

Rollout order, refresh rates, validation tips.

Geordy works best when you roll out deliberately. These patterns come from real usage.

Start with the Top 5

Before importing your , structure these five pages first. This gives AI a complete picture fast.

  • Homepage - the first thing AI systems check. Sets the baseline.
  • Pricing - high-intent page. Revenue-critical for AI retrieval.
  • Top category page - anchors your taxonomy for AI understanding.
  • Best product page - concrete proof of what you offer.
  • About / credibility page - trust and authority signals for AI.

Then scale with sitemap

Once the pipeline works for 5 pages, import your XML sitemap and process in batches. Prioritize money pages first. Validate one page, confirm the output, then import. Not the other way around.

Refresh strategy

  • Keep a refresh cadence on pages that change: products, categories, frequently edited marketing pages.
  • Set a page's Frequency to Off if you edited one of its formats by hand and want it to hold.
  • Use weekly scans unless the page changes daily. Most marketing pages don't.

Enable what you deploy

3 formats instead of 8 cuts your file usage by more than half. Start with Schema JSON, Markdown, and (homepage only). Add OG.json, , RSS, manifest, and humans.txt when you're ready to deploy them.

When output looks off

TipIf a generated format feels wrong, the original page is usually unclear to machines. Fix the page, regenerate. The structured output follows the source.

Validation checklist

  1. Open ai.yourdomain.com/llms.txt in browser - does it load?
  2. Check schema.json output - does the entity type match the page?
  3. Verify link tags in page source - are <link rel="alternate"> tags present?
  4. Dashboard shows recent scan activity - not stale timestamps.
  5. File usage matches expectations for your page count and refresh rate.
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