Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on LinkedIn to discuss the use of an unsupported noindex directive on the robots.txt of his own personal website. He explained the pros and cons of search ...

Google only supports four specific robots.txt fields. Unsupported directives in robots.txt will be ignored. Consider auditing your robots.txt files in light of this update. Google limits robots.txt ...

There is this interesting conversation on LinkedIn around a robots.txt serves a 503 for two months and the rest of the site is available. Gary Illyes from Google said that when other pages on the site ...

Google has sunset the robots.txt tester. Google has released a new robots.txt report within Google Search Console. Google also made relevant information around robots.txt available from within the ...

John Mueller from Google said that the new Content Signals robots.txt directive invented by Cloudflare last year has "no effects whatsoever for any crawler or LLM." He added that it "just adds bloat ...