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 ...

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) — better known as robots.txt — allows website owners to exclude web crawlers and other automatic clients from accessing a site. “One of the most basic and critical ...

Google published a new Robots.txt refresher explaining how Robots.txt enables publishers and SEOs to control search engine crawlers and other bots (that obey Robots.txt). The documentation includes ...

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 ...

Google is releasing robots.txt to the open-source community in the hopes that the system will, one day, becoming a stable internet standard. On Monday, the tech giant outlined the move to make the ...

One of the takeaways from the Google Webmaster Conference was that if Google tries to access your robots.txt file is unreachable but it does exist then Google won't crawl your site. Google said about ...

Frédéric Dubut, a senior program manager at Microsoft working on Bing Search, said on Twitter Wednesday that when you create a specific section in your robots.txt file for its Bingbot crawler, you ...