In a recent YouTube video, Google’s Martin Splitt explained the differences between the “noindex” tag in robots meta tags and…
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Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still…
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Understanding how to use the robots.txt file is crucial for any website’s SEO strategy. Mistakes in this file can impact…
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There is this interesting conversation on LinkedIn around a robots.txt serves a 503 for two months and the rest of…
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Google added eight or so words between brackets to clarify that fields that aren’t explicitly listed in the robots.txt documentation…
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Google limits robots.txt support to four fields, clarifying its stance on unsupported directives. Google only supports four specific robots.txt fields. …
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John Mueller from Google did it again with his site and this time uploaded an audio file, in wav format,…
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Robots.txt is a file located in your website’s root folder. It lets you control which pages or parts of your…
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Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed a common observation that robots.txt has limited control over unauthorized access by crawlers. Gary then offered…
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Do you use a CDN for some or all of your website and you want to manage just one robots.txt…
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