--- title: "Best Practices" description: "Rollout order, refresh rates, validation tips." section: "Manage" canonical: "https://geordy.ai/docs/best-practices" --- # 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 sitemap, 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 auto-updates on for pages that change: products, categories, frequently edited marketing pages. - Pause auto-updates if you manually edited a format and want to lock it. - Use weekly scans unless the page changes daily. Most marketing pages don't. ## Enable what you deploy 3 formats instead of 8 cuts credits by more than half. Start with Schema JSON, Markdown, and llms.txt (homepage only). Add OG.json, YAML, RSS, manifest, and humans.txt when you're ready to deploy them. ## When output looks off > If 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 tags present? 4. Dashboard shows recent scan activity - not stale timestamps. 5. Credits usage matches expectations for your URL count and refresh rate. --- Source: https://geordy.ai/docs/best-practices This is a machine-readable markdown version of that page, generated by Geordy.