Robots.txt is a useful and powerful tool to instruct search engine crawlers on how you want them to crawl your website. Managing this file is a key component of good technical SEO. It is not ...

This standard was created by the RSL Collective, an organization co-founded by Doug Leeds, former CEO of Ask.com, and Eckart Walther, former Vice President of Product at Yahoo and co-creator of the ...

Shopify stores are now able to edit their robots.txt file, which gives owners more control over how search engines crawl their site. Tobi Lutke, Shopify CEO, broke the news this evening on Twitter ...

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 ...

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think ...

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 ...

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 ...