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 ...

choose default / global commands (e.g. allow/disallow all robots); choose files or directories blocked for all robots; choose user-agent specific commands: choose action; choose a specific robot to be ...

The humble robots.txt file often sits quietly in the background of a WordPress site, but the default is somewhat basic out of the box and, of course, doesn’t contribute towards any customized ...

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, you ...

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 directories on ...