The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) — better known as robots.txt — allows website owners to exclude web crawlers and other automatic clients from accessing a site. “One of the most basic and critical ...

The robots.txt file is an often overlooked and sometimes forgotten part of a website and SEO. Here's what it is, examples, how to's, and tips for success. The robots.txt file is an often overlooked ...

Search engines such as Google and bing can search information on various sites because bots called crawlers automatically crawl the sites. In order for the site administrator to control site crawling ...

Part two of our article on “Robots.txt best practice guide + examples” talks about how to set up your newly created robots.txt file. Part two of our article on “Robots.txt best practice guide + ...

Do you use a CDN for some or all of your website and you want to manage just one robots.txt file, instead of both the CDN's robots.txt file and your main site's robots.txt file? Gary Illyes from ...

Google’s John Mueller recently explained how query relevancy is determined for pages blocked by robots.txt. It has been stated that Google will still index pages that are blocked by robots.txt. But ...

Google LLC is pushing for its decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol to be certified as an official internet standard, so today it open-sourced its robots.txt parser as part of that effort. The REP, as ...

In this example robots.txt file, Googlebot is allowed to crawl all URLs on the website, ChatGPT-User and GPTBot are disallowed from crawling any URLs, and all other crawlers are disallowed from ...

In a recent JavaScript SEO Office Hours, Google’s Martin Splitt answered a question about blocking external JS and CSS resources. The question was whether blocking the resources would cause a site to ...

Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, "We update the ...