Search Console reported "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt" for 51,000 URLs, and Google says that's not necessarily a ...

Google published a new Robots.txt refresher explaining how Robots.txt enables publishers and SEOs to control search engine crawlers and other bots (that obey Robots.txt). The documentation includes ...

A practical look at modern robots.txt use, from allow and disallow logic to wildcards, crawl-rate control and avoiding common pitfalls. The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), better known as robots.txt, ...

The world's top two AI startups are ignoring requests by media publishers to stop scraping their web content for free model training data, Business Insider has learned. OpenAI and Anthropic have been ...