How I Made My Next.js Blog Serve Markdown Files for Agent Experience SEO (AX-SEO)

This guide shows you how to serve raw Markdown files in a blog using Next.js middleware and API routes. It will enable you to optimize your blog for **Agent Experience SEO (AX-SEO)

I’ll show you how to serve raw Markdown files in a Next.js blog using middleware and API routes, enabling Agent Experience SEO (AX-SEO).

AX-SEO focuses on optimizing content for AI agents, LLM-powered search engines, and automated crawlers that now play a major role in content discovery.

By the end of this post, you’ll be able to:

✅ Implement Next.js middleware for .md URL rewriting.

✅ Set up API routes to fetch and serve Markdown content.

✅ Optimize your blog for Agent Experience SEO (AI-driven search).

✅ Provide clean, structured data for AI-powered search engines.

Traditional SEO is no longer enough. AI search engines, LLM-powered assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews, etc ...