View as Markdown links for AI SEO Bots

Prasanna Kumar

Prasanna Kumar

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This is Stripe's documentation. View as Markdown link for LLM bots

On Stripe's documentation page, you will notice there are two different links. One is a Copy for LLM, and the other is view as markdown.

If you click on both of these links, you will actually see the entire page rendered in a simple Markdown format.

I know Stripe has an MCP server that allows any LLM models to access these documentation pages, which makes it easier for developers to work with the Stripe API.

The Stripe Model Context Protocol (MCP) server defines a set of tools that AI agents can use to interact with the Stripe API and search our knowledge base (including documentation and support articles).

It clearly marks, "Hey, this page contains good old HTML for human readability." And then, they also include two separate links specifically designed for LLM bots to read and understand.

So, I was just thinking, what if this is the case for your blog post? Should all the blog posts contain a "view as markdown" link, just like the good old author boxes, which were once in fashion?

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