The robot text file, better known as robots.txt, is a long-running Web standard which helps prevent Google and other search engines from accessing parts of your site. Why would you want to block ...

Robots.txt Syntax Checker finds some common errors within your file by checking for whitespace separated lists, not widely supported standards, wildcard usage, etc.

Slash unnecessary crawl activity and index bloat by upgrading your WordPress robots.txt file. Here’s what to include, exclude, and never block.

Frédéric Dubut, a senior program manager at Microsoft working on Bing Search, said on Twitter Wednesday that when you create a specific section in your robots.txt file for its Bingbot crawler ...

Like many websites, Last.fm’s web server contains a file called robots.txt, whose job it is to instruct the robotic web spiders employed by search engines like Google to ignore certain ...