Thinking about your robots.txt file? It might seem counterintuitive, but disallowing RSS feeds and certain pagination paths can be a smart SEO move.

This technique helps search engines focus crawl budgets on your most important pages to avoid potential duplicate content.

This post on WebHeads United looks at the technical reasons behind this strategy and whether it's right for your site.

Read the SEO deep dive: https://webheadsunited.com/why-disallow-rss-feeds-and-pagination/

#SEO #TechnicalSEO #CrawlBudget #WebDev #robots_txt

robots.txtを取得しクロール拒否されていないかチェック①
https://qiita.com/ishi720/items/d985bb711744ce9864fb?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items

#qiita #PHP #robots_txt #クローラー

Please notice that I've upvoted that comment. I want upvotes for my comment, too.

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/non-google-search-engines-blocked-from-showing-recent-reddit-results.1501990/page-3#post-43018868

#reddit #robots_txt #degoogle #SearchEngines

Are you using a CDN and don't want to manage two robots.txt files? You can redirect your www version to the CDN and manage it all there says Google's @methode https://www.seroundtable.com/robots-txt-cdn-37678.html

#robots_txt #cdn #google #search #seo

No.

#robots_txt

I’ve made a little something, so I thought I'd share.

Gort is a robots.txt parser and evaluator. It implements RFC 9309.

More details in the ReadMe: https://github.com/pointlessone/gort

#Ruby #rubygem #release #robotstxt #robots_txt #rfc9309

My local government just launched a site redesign, changing CMSes and permalink structures.

They didn't set up redirects for old URLs.

Half the site is still blocked in robots.txt.

I'm professionally flabbergasted.

#webdev #redirects #robots_txt

#Development #Initiatives
Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt · Generative AI would require new machine-readable methods https://ilo.im/13z0t1

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#AI #GenerativeAI #ChatBots #BotAccess #Website #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Community #Discussion #Protocol #Robots_txt