Robots.txt files can be centralized on CDNs, not just root domains. Websites can redirect robots.txt from main domain to CDN. This unorthodox approach complies with updated standards. Google's Gary ...

It’s Monday and that means it’s time to get fired up about the week. What better way to kick things off than with a quick conversation about robots?! Yes, ROBOTS! Not our friendly bot in the picture ...

I have run into an interesting robots.txt situation several times over the years that can be tricky for site owners to figure out. After surfacing the problem, and discussing how to tackle the issue ...

So many of us may have heard the term sitemap and robots.txt being used in association with a particular platform or a website. Surprisingly, not a lot of business owners know about the sitemap.xml ...

Do you use a CDN for some or all of your website and you want to manage just one robots.txt file, instead of both the CDN's robots.txt file and your main site's robots.txt file? Gary Illyes from ...

This session allows the search teams at Ask, Live, Google, and Yahoo to provide input about various robots.txt files and asks the audience about how to improve upon the robots.txt standard. It is very ...

Columnist Glenn Gabe shares his troubleshooting process for identifying issues with robots.txt that led to a long, slow drop in traffic over time. I’ve written many times in the past about how ...

Ed Foudil, a web developer and security researcher, has submitted a draft to the IETF — Internet Engineering Task Force — seeking the standardization of security.txt, a file that webmasters can host ...

I have already shared my opinion on the variety of various Robots.txt checkers and verifiers: be aware of them but use those with caution. They are full of errors and misinterpretations. However I ...

When someone first mentioned to me that reports created by running raw access logs through software such as Analog did not meet the needs of high level management, I was caught off guard. “What could ...