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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are large robots.txt files a problem for Google? Here's what the company says about maintaining a limit on the file size. Google addresses the subject of robots.txt files and whether it’s a good SEO ...

Shopify now allows site owners to edit their robots.txt files, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke announced via Twitter on Friday. For Shopify sites, the robots.txt file can be edited through the ...

Google's John Mueller said that since the robots.txt file is cached by Google for about 24-hours, it does not make much sense to dynamically update your robots.txt file throughout the day to control ...

Now the Google-Extended flag in robots.txt can tell Google’s crawlers to include a site in search without using it to train new AI models like the ones powering Bard. Now the Google-Extended flag in ...