Robots.txt tells search engines what to crawl—or skip. Learn how to create, test, and optimize robots.txt for better SEO and site management. Robots.txt is a text file that tells search engine ...

Google clarifies robots.txt best practices and explains when to use robots.txt directives and noindex tags for SEO. Don't combine robots.txt disallow with noindex tags. Use noindex when you want a ...

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 ...