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Google quietly signals that NotebookLM will not obey the robots.txt protocol. This how to block it. The post Google Quietly Signals NotebookLM Ignores Robots.txt appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google removes robots.txt guidance for blocking auto-translated pages. This change aligns Google’s technical documents with its spam policies. The post Google Removes Robots.txt Guidance For Blocking Auto-Translated Pages appeared first…
A smarter robots.txt can stop SEO issues before they start. Clean up WordPress crawl paths, block noise, and point bots to what matters. The post WordPress Robots.txt: What Should You…
Google publishes new Robots.txt documentation that provide SEOs and publishers with a refresher on how to control search crawler behavior The post Google Publishes New Robots.txt Explainer appeared first on…
Google’s John Mueller said that since the robots.txt file is cached by Google for about 24-hours, it does not make much sense to dynamically update your robots.txt file throughout the…
Learn all about the robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag, including their distinctions, functionality, and impact on indexing. Explore how to use both correctly.
Google clarifies robots.txt best practices and explains when to use robots.txt directives and noindex tags for SEO. The post Google On Robots.txt: When To Use Noindex vs. Disallow appeared first…
Robots.txt just turned 30! Discover how this simple file still plays a crucial role in controlling how search engines crawl your site. The post The Modern Guide To Robots.txt: How…
After beta testing SearchGPT for a few months, OpenAI is now rolling out Search within ChatGPT for ChatGPT Plus and Team users, which will come to free users in the…
Get a comprehensive guide on using meta robots tags and robots.txt to control how search engine crawlers interact with your website. The post A Guide To Robots.txt: Best Practices For…
There is this interesting conversation on LinkedIn around a robots.txt serves a 503 for two months and the rest of the site is available. Gary Illyes from Google said that…
Google added eight or so words between brackets to clarify that fields that aren’t explicitly listed in the robots.txt documentation aren’t supported. Why did they do this? Because sometimes Google…
Google limits robots.txt support to four fields, clarifying its stance on unsupported directives. The post Google Updates Robots.txt Policy: Unsupported Fields Are Ignored appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Robots.txt files tell search engine crawlers which website pages to access or avoid. Learn how they work, how to create one correctly, and avoid the unexpected.
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…
Meta robots tags tell search engine bots how to crawl, index, and serve your site‘s pages in search results.
Google’s Gary Illyes confirms that robots.txt is ineffective at stopping unauthorized access The post Google Confirms Robots.txt Can’t Prevent Unauthorized Access appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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…
Google’s Gary Illyes shares an unconventional but valid method for centralizing robots.txt rules on CDNs. The post You Don’t Need Robots.txt On Root Domain, Says Google appeared first on Search…
Google’s Gary Illyes highlights robots.txt file’s error tolerance and unexpected features as it marks 30 years of aiding web crawling and SEO. The post Robots.txt Turns 30: Google Highlights Hidden…
A robots.txt file tells search engine bots which pages they should and shouldn’t crawl. Learn more.
Google’s Gary Illyes recommends using robots.txt to block crawlers from “add to cart” URLs, preventing wasted server resources. The post Google Reminds Websites To Use Robots.txt To Block Action URLs…
Google has updated its open source robots.txt parser code on GitHub the other day. Gary Illyes from Google pushed the update yesterday morning to the repository there.
John Mueller revealed that Google had considered respecting the noindex directive in the robots.txt The post Google Had Discussed Allowing Noindex In Robots.txt appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
The weird robots.txt file of Google’s John Mueller’s personal site became an object of curiosity after the site was deindexed The post The Saga Of John Mueller’s Freaky Robots.txt appeared…
Where robots.txt errors are concerned, prevention is definitely better than cure. Here’s how to fix the most common mistakes. The post 8 Common Robots.txt Issues And How To Fix Them…
Where robots.txt errors are concerned, prevention is definitely better than cure. Here’s how to fix the most common mistakes. The post 8 Common Robots.txt Issues And How To Fix Them…
Did you know that Google Search checks about four billion host names each and every day for robots.txt purposes? Gary Illyes said in the December Search Off The Record podcast…
Google announced a new robots.txt report within Google Search Console and at the same time said it will sunset the old robots.txt tester tool. The new tool shows which robots.txt…
OpenAI has relaunched the browse with Bing feature in ChatGPT which lets users use ChatGPT leveraging the index of Bing Search. This was after Open AI turned off the feature…
Gary Illyes shared a nice little tidbit on LinkedIn about robots.txt files. He said that only a tiny number of robots.txt files are over 500 kilobytes. I mean, most robots.txt…
I was trying to see the impact on rankings and traffic that the removal of content would have. My theory was that if we blocked the pages from being crawled,…
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 AI technologies Google and…
Robots meta tags tell search engine bots how to crawl, index, and serve your site’s pages in the SERPs.
Google’s John Mueller posted a clarification on how and when Google processes the removal requests, or exclusion requests, you make in your robots.txt. The action is not taken when Google…
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 the rules you have…
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 that he is not…
The power of the X-Robots-Tag is that it is much more flexible than the meta robots tag. The post Everything You Need To Know About The X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header appeared…
Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if your server returns a 500/503 HTTP status code for an extended period of time for your robots.txt file, then Google may…
A robots.txt is a file that tells search engine robots which pages they can access on your site. Read to learn why they‘re important and how to create your own!
Google Search Advocate John Mueller explains whether the use of meta robots tags can affect webpage rankings in search results. The post Google Answers If Meta Robots Tags Affect Search…
500 response to a robots.txt fetch causes loss of rich results and while a bug in search console fails to diagnose the issue The post 500 Response on Robots.txt Fetch…
Google addresses the subject of robots.txt files and whether it’s a good SEO practice to keep them within a reasonable size. The post Does Google Have A Problem With Big…