Search engines use a computer program known as a bot to crawl and index the Web. A robots.txt file is an instruction manual that tells a bot what can and ...

Is robots.txt still relevant in the age of AI? Find out why this file is crucial for managing site crawling and avoiding common pitfalls.

The robots.txt file was uploaded in what is called byte-order mark (BOM) encoding, which threw off Google, when trying to retrieve and understand the webmaster's robots.txt file.

Part two of our article on “Robots.txt best practice guide + examples” talks about how to set up your newly created robots.txt file.

The llms.txt file on one of my websites is 115,378 words long, 966 kb file size, and contains the complete flattened website text in a single .txt file, hosted on the domain root.

Are large robots.txt files a problem for Google? Here's what the company says about maintaining a limit on the file size.

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 ...