You.com: Make Your Documentation Discoverable by AI
How to fix the problem of ai can't find your documentation specifically for You.com. Platform-specific solutions and prevention strategies.
Why This Happens in You.com
You.com uses YouBot to discover and index content. Documentation behind authentication or paywalls. To fix this, you need to ensure You.com's crawler can access your content and that your pages are structured in a way You.com can understand.
Signs You Have This Problem in You.com
You.com gives generic answers instead of citing your docs
Users report You.com couldn't help them with your product
Technical questions get wrong or incomplete answers
Competitor documentation gets cited instead of yours
How to Fix This in You.com
Follow these You.com-specific solutions:
Make documentation publicly accessible without login
Publish docs as HTML pages, not just PDFs or apps
Implement proper heading hierarchy in docs
Link documentation prominently from your main site
Add TechArticle and HowTo schema to doc pages
Create an llms.txt file pointing to key documentation
You.com Technical Details
Crawler Name
YouBot
User Agent
YouBot
Required robots.txt configuration:
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /Prevent This Problem in You.com
Design documentation for both humans and You.com
Test You.com's ability to answer questions from your docs
Maintain clear documentation structure
Monitor documentation crawling in server logs