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 ...

So many of us may have heard the term sitemap and robots.txt being used in association with a particular platform or a website. Surprisingly, not a lot of business owners know about the sitemap.xml ...

When someone first mentioned to me that reports created by running raw access logs through software such as Analog did not meet the needs of high level management, I was caught off guard. “What could ...

In this example robots.txt file, Googlebot is allowed to crawl all URLs on the website, ChatGPT-User and GPTBot are disallowed from crawling any URLs, and all other crawlers are disallowed from ...

Use robots.txt to block crawlers from "action URLs." This prevents wasted server resources from useless crawler hits. It's an age-old best practice that remains relevant today. Google's Gary Illyes ...

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 ...