Make your website readable by AI search: robots.txt, llms.txt and schema

DiziGoo Digital — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:48:55 +0000

More people now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity instead of typing into Google. If your site blocks those crawlers or explains itself badly, you will not be mentioned. At DiziGoo, a digital marketing and software company in Bareilly, India, we made our own site AI-friendly and these are the steps that mattered.

1. Let the AI crawlers in

Check your robots.txt. If you want to be cited in AI answers, allow the bots that fetch pages for answers, such as GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended. Also check your CDN: some platforms add their own managed robots.txt that can override yours, so open /robots.txt in a browser after every change.

2. Publish an llms.txt

llms.txt is a plain text file at the root of your site that summarises who you are, what you offer and your best pages, written for machines. Keep it factual: business name, location, services, links to guides, contact details.

3. Add structured data

Use schema.org JSON-LD for Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage and BreadcrumbList. Keep the name, address and phone identical to your Google Business Profile. Machines trust data that matches everywhere.

4. Write plain, specific answers

AI answers quote pages that answer one question clearly. Use short headings that are real questions, answer in the first two sentences, and keep facts like services, locations and timelines in text, not only in images.

5. Build consistent mentions

Claim your Google Business Profile, Bing Places and company directories, and publish helpful articles. OpenAI has also started Businesses in ChatGPT, where a company can claim a verified profile. We have started that process too.

6. Measure

Search your brand and your service plus your city in an AI assistant once a week, and note whether you are mentioned. Fix the page that should have answered.

None of this needs a big budget, only consistency. More on how we approach AI search and SEO: https://dizigoo.com/services/seo/

By Akash Gupta, founder of DiziGoo (digital marketing, websites, software and AI automation), Bareilly and Pilibhit, India.

Building a niche CRM + ERP on plain PHP and MySQL: lessons from DGA CRM

DiziGoo Digital — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:09:24 +0000

We build and sell a CRM + ERP called DGA CRM, and we install it on each client's own domain. It runs on PHP 8 and MySQL, which keeps hosting simple and cheap for small businesses. Here are a few lessons from running it for real clients.

One core, many industry presets

We tried separate products per industry first and it became hard to maintain. Now there is one core (leads, customers, invoices, appointments, deals, staff) and an industry preset that changes labels, modules and dashboards. A school sees admissions and fees, a clinic sees appointments and patients, a gym sees memberships. One codebase, many niches.

Web forms are the real lead source

Most leads arrive from website forms and ad forms, so the CRM generates a public web form with a hash. Our site posts to it from the browser. The CRM does not send CORS headers, so the form uses a no-cors POST and we accept that the response is opaque. The lead still lands in the CRM with its source, the page URL and UTM values in the description, which is all the sales team needs.

Reminders need a boring cron

Follow-up reminders, renewal messages and scheduled tasks run from one cron entry every five minutes. We kept it deliberately simple: one entry, idempotent jobs, and a log table, so a missed run never creates duplicates.

Ship updates to old installs

Our staff mobile app checks a small JSON file on the website for the latest version and APK link. That one file lets us push updates to every install without an app store review.

Install on the client's domain

Clients want their data on their own domain and no per-user fee. A PHP and MySQL stack makes that realistic on ordinary shared hosting, and it lets us customise labels, fields and workflows per client without forking the code.

If you are building something similar, start with the preset idea and the web form flow. They saved us the most time.

About DGA CRM: https://dizigoo.com/software/dga-crm-erp/
By Akash Gupta, founder of DiziGoo, Bareilly, India.

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