The robots.txt file is an often overlooked and sometimes forgotten part of a website and SEO. Here's what it is, examples, how to's, and tips for success. The robots.txt file is an often overlooked ...

One of the most boring topics in technical SEO is robots.txt. Rarely is there an interesting problem needing to be solved in the file, and most errors come from not understanding the directives or ...

Do you use a CDN for some or all of your website and you want to manage just one robots.txt file, instead of both the CDN's robots.txt file and your main site's robots.txt file? Gary Illyes from ...

One of the cornerstones of Google's business (and really, the web at large) is the robots.txt file that sites use to exclude some of their content from the search engine's web crawler, Googlebot. It ...

Are large robots.txt files a problem for Google? Here's what the company says about maintaining a limit on the file size. Google addresses the subject of robots.txt files and whether it’s a good SEO ...

Search Engine Land » Google SEO » Irony: If Google Can’t Reach Your Robots.txt File, It Might Not List Your Site Chat with SearchBot Please note that your conversations will be recorded. I reported at ...

Google LLC is pushing for its decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol to be certified as an official internet standard, so today it open-sourced its robots.txt parser as part of that effort. The REP, as ...