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 ...

AI agents often ignore robots.txt and can be manipulated via prompts—exposing real risks to content, privacy, and site security. DataDome gives you visibility and control over AI traffic.

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 ...

The robots.txt file of the personal blog of Google’s John Mueller became a focus of interest when someone on Reddit claimed that Mueller’s blog had been hit by the Helpful Content system and ...

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 files have a few lines ...

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 ...

While Google is opening up the discussion on giving credit and adhering to copyright when training large language models (LLMs) for generative AI products, their focus is on the robots.txt file.

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 ...

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 ...