These two responses from Google Search Console have divided SEO professionals since Google Search Console (GSC) error reports became a thing. It needs to be settled ...

Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, "We update the ...

As interesting as this is, it seems pretty trivial to overcome. If a site has a robots.txt file, then scrape it into an intermediate location; if the scraping takes "too long", set aside the website ...

If there’s one thing that every commercial Web site wants, it is for the search engine spiders to crawl their sites and make them findable. But sites don’t always want to have their entire contents ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...