Google’s John Mueller answers a question about using robots.txt to block special files, including .css and .htacess. This topic was discussed in some detail in the latest edition of the Ask Google ...

The robot exclusion standard is nearly 25 years old, but the security risks created by improper use of the standard are not widely understood. Confusion remains about the purpose of the robot ...

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), better known as robots.txt, has been around since 1994. Even though it was only officially adopted as a standard in 2022, using a robots.txt file has been a core ...