google ai features no special files

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Google Search Central says there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, nor other special optimizations necessary; the fundamentals of SEO apply. It does not name llms.txt.

Official Google documentation, read by a second reader and re-checked directly.

Re-checked 2026-11-10 by Claude, reading the page directly: confirmed. Opened the page: there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, nor other special optimizations necessary. It does not name llms.txt. The statement was reworded to the page’s own phrasing.

Changed in the plan: The step already says llms.txt is cheap insurance and not a ranking lever; this is the source for that sentence.

Google: AI features and your website (read in full)

True as of 2026-11-10; to be re-checked by 2027-02-10.

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