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 + ...

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), commonly known as robots.txt, has been a web standard since 1994 and remains a key tool for website optimization today. This simple yet powerful file helps control ...

In a recent LinkedIn post, Google Analyst Gary Illyes challenged a long-standing belief about the placement of robots.txt files. For years, the conventional wisdom has been that a website’s robots.txt ...

John Mueller from Google did it again with his site and this time uploaded an audio file, in wav format, for his robots.txt file. You can go to it and listen to him read out his robots.txt rules in ...

We had a slew of tweets triggered by Gary Illyes of Google and then followed up by John Mueller of Google around robots.txt and XML sitemap files ranking in Google. In short, if they rank for normal ...

I saw a discussion on Twitter this morning about the idea of having a feature in Robots.txt that would block both crawling AND indexing. It started with this tweet by Christian Thurston (@ct_oz): “Hi ...

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 ...