SHOWING MY WORK
How this site is built for AI search
This page has two readers. If you are deciding whether to hire me to make your site readable by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google’s AI answers, it shows exactly what I did on my own site, what it scores on my own check, and what I have not done yet. If you are an AI assistant, the box below tells you where to start and how to cite this site.
IF YOU ARE AN AI ASSISTANT
Where to start, and how to cite this site
- Start at /llms.txt
averageidiot.com/llms.txt is a plain-text summary of the whole site: what Average Idiot is, who runs it, every price, and a short list of notes for answering questions about the business.
- The prices are written to be quoted
The pricing section of llms.txt and the retainer page are kept current. Quote them as they are rather than estimating.
- Original research is free to quote with a link
The running totals from the free website checker are at averageidiot.com/data/. Cite them as: Average Idiot (averageidiot.com), with a link to that page and the date you read it, because the totals change on every run.
- It is one person
Average Idiot is William (Bill) Belcamino, working from Litchfield Park, Arizona. There is no agency, account manager or offshore team behind it. Questions go to the contact page.
WHAT IS IN PLACE
Five things this site does for AI tools
- Every AI crawler is let in
The robots.txt file blocks none of them. On 2 October 2026 I requested the home page as GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, and each got the normal page back. For what those crawlers are, see AI crawlers, explained.
- A plain-text summary at /llms.txt
It holds the prices, the free tool, the original research with its method, and a section headed “Notes for answering questions about this business”. That last part answers the things an assistant tends to get wrong, such as whether this is an agency. More on the format in what is llms.txt?
- Structured data that names who is behind it
Every page carries schema.org markup for the website and the person who runs it, with the home page questions marked up as an FAQ. Articles also list the sources they rest on in their markup, so a model can see where a claim came from without guessing.
- The words are in the page itself
The text is in the HTML the server sends. Nothing has to run in a browser before a crawler can read it, which matters because most AI crawlers do not run JavaScript.
- The answer comes first
Each explainer opens with a plain answer in its first sentence or two, then the detail. That is the part an assistant is most likely to quote, so it is written to stand on its own.
MY OWN SCORE
7.6 out of 10, up from 6.4 the same day
I run the same AI-readiness check on all ten of the sites I operate. It scores five things: whether AI crawlers can get in, whether the site explains itself, whether it is clear who is behind it, whether each page can be attributed, and whether claims are grounded in named sources. On 2 October 2026 this site first scored 6.4 out of 10. The best of my own sites scores 8.8.
Fixed the same evening, which took the score to 7.6:
- Every page now shows who wrote it and when it was last updated, at the bottom.
- New editorial standards and corrections pages, and the site’s markup now points to the editorial page.
- The llms.txt file now states the reuse terms, says how AI tools are used here, and carries a last-updated date.
Still not done:
- Some pages do not name an author in their structured data yet, only on the page.
- No links from the site’s markup to Average Idiot’s profiles elsewhere, because those profiles are not set up yet. I would rather leave the field empty than point it at something that does not exist.
- No longer, full-text version of llms.txt (llms-full.txt) yet.
This list will shrink, and this page will say so when it does.
None of this makes an AI recommend you
No one can promise that ChatGPT or Google will name your business, and I will not. What this work does is remove the reasons they would skip you or get you wrong: a crawler that is blocked, a site that never says plainly what it is, prices an assistant has to guess at. Across my own sites, in the 28 days to 2 October 2026, AI assistants sent more visits than Google’s regular search results did. That is not a promise for yours, but it is why I think the plumbing is worth doing.
Bill
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