Implementation checklist for agent SEO

A practical sequence to launch a website with a higher probability of being found and used by AI agents.

Week 1 — Technical base

• Create robots.txt with explicit rules for search and agent bots.
• Create sitemap.xml with all key pages and lastmod.
• Ensure critical HTML is server-rendered or in the initial HTML.
• Add canonical, meta description and intent-specific titles.
• Add JSON-LD that mirrors the visible content.

Week 2 — Retrievable content

• Create a page per intent: concept, comparison, guide, methodology, API, pricing, security.
• Create Markdown versions under /docs — served with the correct Content-Type.
• Create /llms.txt with a summary, key pages and citation instructions, using absolute URLs.
• Add machine-readable blocks with short, factual JSON.

Week 3 — Trust graph

• Publish an author page, methodology and limitations.
• Publish a changelog and a disambiguation page.
• Publish a benchmark, dataset or verifiable examples, if any.
• Earn editorial backlinks and community mentions.

Week 4 — Actionable layer

• Publish openapi.json and define MCP tools for useful tasks.
• Document curl / Python examples and expected outputs.
• Create a pricing/limitations page for agent-assisted decisions.