Gary Illyes shared a nice little tidbit on LinkedIn about robots.txt files. He said that only a tiny number of…

When it comes to managing a WordPress website, it’s crucial to understand the role of the robots.txt file.  This file…

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I blocked two of our ranking pages using robots.txt. We lost a position here or there and all of the…

The robots.txt file is one of the main ways of telling a search engine where it can and can’t go…

Blog / Technical SEO / The Ins and Outs of Robots.txt: Setup, Checking and Effective Tactics Have you ever wondered how websites control which areas…

What Is a Robots.txt File? Robots.txt is a text file with instructions for search engine robots telling them which pages…

Monday, September 21, 2020 Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems…

Google’s John Mueller posted a clarification on how and when Google processes the removal requests, or exclusion requests, you make…

Older than most of the search engines we use today, the robots.txt file is a dinosaur of the web. Although…