I built a website with AI in 20 minutes using Lovable. Felt like a proper tech genius. Launched it. Sat back. Waited for the traffic to roll in. 3 weeks later: 4 visitors. All me. Turns out Lovable forgot a few critical things:
No sitemap.xml, No robots.txt, No meta tags, Basically invisible to Google. It’s like opening a shop, putting up no sign, no lights, locking the door, and then wondering why nobody’s coming in.
The Problem With AI Website Builders
Here’s the thing about AI website builders like Lovable, Framer AI, and the rest, They’re brilliant at making sites that look the business. Clean design. Nice fonts. Smooth animations. Proper professional. But they’re absolute rubbish at telling you: Mate, Google can’t actually see this yet.
If you don’t know what a sitemap is and why would you?, you’d never know it’s missing. You’d just sit there thinking your business idea was shit and nobody cares about your thing.
Chutzpah, innit?
AI tools will confidently build you a beautiful, completely invisible website and act like they’ve done you a massive favour. Look what I made you!. Yeah, cheers. Nobody can find it.
What I Built (And Why You Might Actually Want It)
The site’s called One Yiddish Word. One Yiddish word delivered to your inbox every day. That’s it. Short email. One sharp word. Zero schmutz.
Why Yiddish?
Because English is missing half the words you actually need in daily life. Ever tried to describe:
- TSURIS – That specific anxiety about something that hasn’t happened yet and probably won’t
- CHUTZPAH – The audacity to ask for a raise while you’re late to the meeting
- SCHLEP – To carry something you deeply resent carrying
- SCHLEMIEL vs SCHLIMAZEL – The unlucky type who spills soup vs the person who gets it spilled on them
You can’t. English doesn’t have them. Yiddish does. Plus, dropping a well timed Yiddish word in conversation makes you sound 40% more interesting. Science fact.*…. *Not a science fact.
The Real Lesson About AI Website Builders
AI is brilliant at building stuff quickly. AI is terrible at telling you what’s missing. If I didn’t know to manually check for sitemaps, meta descriptions, robots.txt files, and all that SEO basics stuff, that site would still be sitting there like a mensch at a party nobody invited him to. Perfectly dressed. Nowhere to go.
So If You’re Using AI to Build Anything…
Websites, automations, marketing funnels, whatever – don’t assume it thought of everything. It didn’t. It never does. It’s like asking your mate Dave to build you a house and he forgets the front door but the wallpaper looks absolutely lovely. Check it thought of the boring stuff. Because it probably didn’t.
Here’s what AI website builders commonly forget:
- Sitemap.xml – tells Google what pages exist
- Robots.txt – tells Google what it’s allowed to crawl
- Meta descriptions – what shows up in search results
- Alt text on images – accessibility and SEO
- Open Graph tags – how it looks when shared on social media
- Structured data – helps Google understand your content
- Analytics setup – you know, so you can actually see if anyone’s visiting
All the unsexy stuff that makes a website actually findable and usable.
What To Do If This Happened To You
If you’ve built a site with AI and wondered why nobody’s visiting:
- Check if you have a sitemap – go to yoursite.com/sitemap.xml – if you get an error, you don’t have one
- Check your robots.txt – go to yoursite.com/robots.txt – should exist and not be blocking everything
- Check your meta tags – view page source, search for “meta description” – if it’s missing or says “Generated by [AI tool]”, sort it
- Submit your sitemap to Google Search Console – this tells Google your site exists
- Actually write proper page titles and descriptions – AI’s suggestions are usually generic rubbish
Or, you know, just assume AI nailed it and wonder why your brilliant business idea got 4 visitors in a month. Your call.
The Happy Ending
The site’s fixed now. Sitemap’s there. Robots.txt sorted. Meta tags done properly. Google can actually see it. Traffic’s coming in. People are signing up. Mazel tov.
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P.S. If you built a site with AI and nobody’s visiting – check your sitemap. Seriously. You’re welcome.. P.P.S. Still not sure if AI will actually help your business? Try this tool – tells you straight in 2 minutes. No sales pitch.