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 + ...

It’s Monday and that means it’s time to get fired up about the week. What better way to kick things off than with a quick conversation about robots?! Yes, ROBOTS! Not our friendly bot in the picture ...

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 ...

Robots.txt, when used correctly, can help you aid search engines with site crawling. But simple mistakes may stop search engines from crawling your site. Here's how to use robots.txt, and some tools ...

A robots.txt file is key component of your website’s SEO, but sometimes these files do more harm than good. For example, your robots.txt file may be blocking search engine spiders from crawling ...

Columnist Glenn Gabe shares his troubleshooting process for identifying issues with robots.txt that led to a long, slow drop in traffic over time. I’ve written many times in the past about how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...