Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler alert: It ...

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), better known as robots.txt, has been around since 1994. Even though it was only officially adopted as a standard in 2022, using a robots.txt file has been a core ...

Most llms.txt files came from templates, and many contain no links. Some sites write crawler restrictions into llms.txt. A block written only in llms.txt does nothing. Common Crawl analyzed 584,107 ...

Google may have a bug or issue with using the request indexing or recrawling your robots.txt files within Google Search Console. Supposedly, the feature is not working properly for all sites, but it ...