Cloudflare expands robots.txt with new AI content signals, giving publishers control over search, AI input, and AI training.

In a recent LinkedIn post, Google Analyst Gary Illyes challenged a long-standing belief about the placement of robots.txt files. For years, the conventional wisdom has been that a website’s robots.txt ...

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 ...

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 ...

I saw a discussion on Twitter this morning about the idea of having a feature in Robots.txt that would block both crawling AND indexing. It started with this tweet by Christian Thurston (@ct_oz): “Hi ...