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 ...

When it comes to SEO, most people understand that a website must have content, “search engine friendly” site architecture/HTML, and meta data (title tags and meta descriptions). Another meta element, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning that Google said if your robots.txt is unreachable, your site might not make it into the Google index. By unreachable, Google means that if your ...