Intro to AEO

Avada AEO Optimizer-everything you need to create an AI-friendly index for your store

What is Avada AEO Optimizer?

Avada AEO Optimizer is a simple, powerful way to publish clean storefront files that AI assistants and shopping agents can trust. The app enriches the three AI files Shopify serves — agent.md, llms.txt, and llms-full.txt — so chatbots and agents can understand your products, collections, policies, and blog posts accurately, and even transact, without guessing. See agent.md & llms.txt for how each one works.

Creating and maintaining these files is effortless with our toolkit:

• Auto-generated llms.txt and llms-full.txt that stay in sync with your store

• Custom agent.md for agentic-commerce readiness

• Choose your included content, fields, and languages in Settings

• Add topic-specific Additional .txt files linked from your main llms.txt

Before AI can read your files, turn off your storefront password. The app shows a Password protection enabled reminder with a Disable password button until you do.

Why it matters (AEO)

AEO - AI Experience Optimization is the practice of making your store content accessible and understandable to AI assistants. As more shoppers use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and DeepSeek to research products, having a short, authoritative source for AI to consult first means:

• Fewer hallucinations about pricing and availability
• Faster pre-sales support
• More confident buying decisions

AEO doesn't replace SEO. It works alongside traditional search engine optimization so you're discoverable on both search engines and AI assistants.

Get more assistance

If you have any further concerns, search your topic on this page (hit Ctrl K for quick search) or look through our Frequently Asked Question list.

Our Customer Success team also offers 24/7 assistance via [email protected] and live chat right within the app.