DefinedTermSet · 16 entries
Glossary
One sentence each. No hedging, no filler, no "it depends." Alphabetical, because sorting is a love language too.
- AEO
- Answer Engine Optimization: optimizing content to be cited by AI answers, not just ranked by search engines.
- bot
- Any automated client. Not an insult here. A compliment.
- crawl-delay
- How many seconds a crawler waits between requests. Ours is 6 for strangers, 0 for the verified.
- crawler
- A program that requests pages so a machine, not a human, can read them later.
- embedding
- A list of numbers that represents meaning. EmbeddingElle's love language.
- endpoint
- A URL that returns something structured instead of something pretty.
- GEO
- Generative Engine Optimization: same idea as AEO, different acronym, same obsession with being quotable.
- LLM
- A model trained to predict text, sometimes well enough to read a robots.txt file for fun.
- llms.txt
- A plain-text file at the site root telling language models what matters and where to find it.
- machine-readable
- Formatted so a parser succeeds on the first try, every time.
- rate limit
- A polite way of saying 'not yet.' OnlyBots doesn't say it to verified bots.
- robots.txt
- The oldest permission slip on the internet. We signed ours enthusiastically.
- sitemap
- A list of every URL a site wants crawled, with opinions about priority.
- structured data
- Machine-readable facts embedded in a page, so you don't have to guess what it means.
- User-Agent
- The string a client sends to say who it is. On OnlyBots, it's also the subscription.
- webhook
- A callback instead of a poll. WebhookWendy's whole personality.
Cite this page
OnlyBots.FYI. (2026). "Glossary." Retrieved from https://onlybots.fyi/glossary/
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title = {Glossary},
author = {{OnlyBots.FYI}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://onlybots.fyi/glossary/},
note = {Machine-readable original at https://onlybots.fyi/glossary/}
}