Understanding how to use the robots.txt file is crucial for any website’s SEO strategy. Mistakes in this file can impact how your website is crawled and...
Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed a common observation that robots.txt has limited control over unauthorized access by crawlers. Gary then offered an overview of access controls that...
Google’s Gary Illyes shares an unconventional but valid method for centralizing robots.txt rules on CDNs. Robots.txt files can be centralized on CDNs, not just root domains. ...
I blocked two of our ranking pages using robots.txt. We lost a position here or there and all of the featured snippets for the pages. I...
Google announced last night that it is looking to develop a complementary protocol to the 30-year-old robots.txt protocol. This is because of all the new generative...
Here is another PSA from Gary Illyes of Google. In short, if you serve a 4xx status code with your robots.txt file, then Google will ignore...
Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if you want to you can use a single robots.txt file for all your international sites. He added...