How-To

How to get cited by Claude?

Answer

Allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt, ship full schema markup (Organization, WebSite, Article, FAQPage), publish llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and publish an AI Instructions page footer-linked across the site. Claude is especially responsive to clean markdown sources, so brands that ship llms-full.txt typically see fast inclusion in Claude responses with browse enabled.

What Claude prefers

Clean structured content. Strong markdown alternatives. Explicit canonical sources (AI Instructions pages, llms-full.txt). Author attribution. Schema markup. Claude is comparatively aggressive about preferring high-trust structured sources over rendered HTML.

Where to focus

AI Instructions page is the highest-leverage single asset. llms.txt and llms-full.txt are foundational. Organization and Article schema are non-negotiable. ClaudeBot must be allowed in robots.txt.

Spacemen Digital approach

Every AEO retainer covers Claude alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. The work is one. The AEO Agency page describes the full methodology.

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