Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler alert: It ...

Shopify stores are now able to edit their robots.txt file, which gives owners more control over how search engines crawl their site. Tobi Lutke, Shopify CEO, broke the news this evening on Twitter ...

Google announced a new robots.txt report within Google Search Console and at the same time said it will sunset the old robots.txt tester tool. The new tool shows which robots.txt files Google found ...

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 ...

Using robots.txt for managing data usage in LLMs is the wrong approach in this new age of generative AI products. Here's why. While Google is opening up the discussion on giving credit and adhering to ...

Google's John Mueller said it may make sense to noindex your LLMs.txt file. This way, the file doesn't get indexed by search engines, and then somehow a user lands on it and is confused. John wrote on ...