Carlos Rios, Founder and CEO, Tabula Agency

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Carlos Rios

Founder and CEO, Tabula Agency

York University (philosophy) · Master's in Marketing, Schulich School of Business

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GEO

You Don’t Need an llms.txt File (And the Data Explains Why)

Ninety-seven percent of llms.txt files were never fetched by anything at all in May 2026. Google names the file in its own mythbusting guide. If your agency has quoted you for an llms.txt implementation, here is the evidence, the three cases where it does work, and where the budget should go instead.

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SEO

B2B Ecommerce SEO: Why Your Best Pages Are Invisible to Google

Your best B2B ecommerce pages are invisible for five structural reasons: the catalog is gated at page level instead of field level, product copy came from the manufacturer, category pages are bare grids, faceted URLs consume the crawl budget, and nothing exists for the part numbers buyers actually search.

Carlos Rios ·

Strategy

How to Build a Manufacturing Marketing Strategy That Wins Shortlists

By the time a manufacturing buyer contacts you, the decision is mostly made. They built a shortlist of three to five suppliers first, from search results, distributor recommendations and referrals, and everyone outside that group was invisible to the deal. This guide works backwards from that mechanic: five stages, in order, with a completion test at each one, plus the four metrics worth reporting and the activity worth stopping.

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