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Articles on agentic SEO, connecting AI with Claude, llms.txt and machine-readable infrastructure.

What I write about here

This blog documents measurements and projects: how readable websites are for AI agents, what llms.txt, structured data and crawler rules actually do, how I connect AI to my own tools via MCP, and what a case study with real numbers shows. Some posts come from the SOVP research. I stopped developing the protocol in October 2026; those posts stay online as an archive.

Every post is a log entry with a running number, date and reading time. Each one opens with a short summary for readers and machines. When I correct a published post, the correction appears in the text with its date instead of disappearing quietly. Use the categories to filter by topic.

Case Study

Claude MCP in Practice: How I Connected My SEO Tools

What an MCP server is and how I connected two in-house SEO tools to Claude: guardrails inside the tool, one evening from 49 to 68 keywords for about USD 0.23, and two bugs in my own code that surfaced along the way.

Reading time
~11 min.
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Case Study
[READ]
Sovereign Validation Protocol

From Claim to Proof: SOVP Now Speaks AgenTrust TRACE

A new open-source bridge translates a SOVP attestation result into a signed AgenTrust TRACE v0.2 Trust Record. Ed25519-signed, Level 0 TRACE conformant, with a documented tamper-and-reject test in CI.

Reading time
~6 min.
Category
Sovereign Validation Protocol
[READ]
Agentic Infrastructure

Five Signals That Tell You Whether a Domain Is Ready for Machines

42% of 400 measurable domains returned zero valid JSON-LD; 82% of 559 measurements served no llms.txt. InfraCheck is an open-source CLI that checks any domain for five machine-readable signals — JSON-LD, llms.txt, robots.txt, HTTP headers, SSL/TLS — and returns a binary PASS/FAIL in seconds.

Reading time
~6 min.
Category
Agentic Infrastructure
[READ]
Agentic Infrastructure

What Is llms.txt? Format, Example, and How to Validate It

llms.txt is a curated Markdown file at your domain root that gives LLMs a machine-readable map of your key content. The format under specification v2, a full example, how it differs from robots.txt and sitemap.xml, and how to validate that it actually works.

Reading time
~7 min.
Category
Agentic Infrastructure
[READ]
Case Study

teleschmie.de: Baseline on June 1, 2026

The starting position of teleschmie.de on June 1, 2026: SOVP scan with Sovereign Score 60 (NOT_CONFORMANT) and a GSC baseline of 37,871 impressions, 310 clicks and 0.82% CTR. The sprint ended on August 18, 2026. An evaluation has not been published.

Reading time
~4 min.
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Case Study
[READ]
Agentic Infrastructure

llms.txt Is Not an SEO Signal. It Is an Agent-Readiness Parameter.

Google I/O 2026 confirmed what deterministic infrastructure validation already measured: llms.txt belongs at Layer 0. SOVP now scores it as a verified bonus parameter in the new agenticReadiness cluster.

Reading time
~6 min.
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Agentic Infrastructure
[READ]
Sovereign Validation Protocol

SOVP Is Now an IETF Informational Draft

draft-litzki-sovp is live on the IETF Datatracker. The protocol specifies decentralized validation of entity integrity for the agentic web. Python reference implementation is public on GitHub under Apache 2.0.

Reading time
~3 min.
Category
Sovereign Validation Protocol
[READ]
Agentic Infrastructure

llms.txt Is a Declaration, Not Proof

An llms.txt file signals intent. SOVP validates actual infrastructure integrity. The difference is CERTIFIED versus invisible.

Reading time
~6 min.
Category
Agentic Infrastructure
[READ]

Guest articles in other publications

For other editors I write, among other things, about briefs, expert articles, technical infrastructure and AI agents. The list with publication, date and topic is on my profile page under Publications.