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

Columnist Patrick Stox provides some dos and don'ts for creating your robots.txt file -- along with examples of companies who have gotten creative with their files.

Managing Your Robots.txt File Effectively Robots.txt, when used correctly, can help you aid search engines with site crawling. But simple mistakes may stop search engines from crawling your site. Here ...

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 ...

One of the cornerstones of Google's business (and really, the web at large) is the robots.txt file that sites use to exclude some of their content from the search engine's web crawler, Googlebot ...

Columnist Glenn Gabe shares his troubleshooting process for identifying issues with robots.txt that led to a long, slow drop in traffic over time.

For example, if you make your robots.txt file block crawling during business hours, it's possible that it's cached then, and followed for a day -- meaning nothing gets crawled (or alternately ...

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

Interestingly, however, the job advert itself in fact appears in the newspaper's website robots.txt file, which isn't usually designed to be read by humans but is targeted at search engines bots ...