Website owners and developers, take note: Google has recently updated its Search Central documentation to provide clearer guidance on robots.txt files. This update specifically addresses the use of unsupported fields within these files. Demystifying Robots.txt For those unfamiliar with robots.txt, it acts as a communication channel between websites and search engine crawlers. This simple text file, typically located in a website’s root directory, instructs crawlers (also known as bots) on how to interact with the site. It essentially dictates which pages and resources the crawler can access and index for search results. Google’s......
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