The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), commonly known as robots.txt, has been a web standard since 1994 and remains a key tool for website optimization today. This simple yet powerful file helps control ...

In the early 2000s, webmasters learned to use a simple text file, robots.txt, to tell search engines which pages they could ...

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 ...

Cloudflare expands robots.txt with new AI content signals, giving publishers control over search, AI input, and AI training.

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. Review your robots.txt ...

Google has released a new robots.txt report within Google Search Console. Google also made relevant information around robots.txt available from within the Page indexing report in Search Console.

Google's Gary Illyes recommends using robots.txt to block crawlers from "add to cart" URLs, preventing wasted server resources. Use robots.txt to block crawlers from "action URLs." This prevents ...

For years, websites included information about what kind of crawlers were not allowed on their site with a robots.txt file. Adobe, which wants to create a similar standard for images, has added a tool ...

Search engines such as Google and Bing, and generative AI such as ChatGPT, use programs called crawlers to collect huge amounts of information from the Internet and use it for search results and AI ...