Jake Marsh describes adapting his static blog so AI agents and search engines can retrieve and interpret its content more easily, using generated files and nginx configuration rather than adding a framework. Each post is available as Markdown through a .md URL, and clients requesting text/markdown receive that format from the regular URL through content negotiation. The setup marks responses with Vary: Accept to prevent caches mixing formats; Markdown responses also identify the HTML canonical URL and carry a noindex directive to avoid duplicate indexing. The broader argument is that these improvements are inexpensive and especially useful for a blog whose author wants its work to be found and cited.
The site also adds /llms.txt, which explains the blog and links to every post’s Markdown version, plus a single file containing all posts and a Markdown homepage. Its robots.txt explicitly permits major crawlers and signals that search, AI input, and AI training are allowed - a choice the author contrasts with what a product site might make. Atom and JSON feeds now provide summaries and Markdown links. Metadata was expanded with descriptions, canonical URLs, social preview tags, and structured data; summaries are generated from rendered text to avoid malformed old descriptions. The update also removes a mobile zoom restriction, gives each post a proper preview image, and notifies Bing and related services through IndexNow when new posts are published.
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