I have run into an interesting robots.txt situation several times over the years that can be tricky for site owners to figure out. After surfacing the problem, and discussing how to tackle the issue ...
In the latest episode of Ask Google Webmasters, Google’s John Mueller goes over whether or not it’s okay to block special files in robots.txt. Google’s John Mueller answers a question about using ...
In every corner of the SEO world, llms.txt is popping up in conversations, but it is frequently misunderstood and sometimes poorly explained. If you’ve heard someone call it “the new robots.txt,” or ...
In a recent LinkedIn post, Google Analyst Gary Illyes challenged a long-standing belief about the placement of robots.txt files. For years, the conventional wisdom has been that a website’s robots.txt ...