Part two of our article on “Robots.txt best practice guide + examples” talks about how to set up your newly created robots.txt file.

Robots.txt best practice guide + examples The robots.txt file is an often overlooked and sometimes forgotten part of a website and SEO. Here's what it is, examples, how to's, and tips for success.

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), commonly known as robots.txt, has been a web standard since 1994 and remains a key tool for website optimization today. This simple yet powerful file helps ...

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 ...

Columnist Glenn Gabe shares his troubleshooting process for identifying issues with robots.txt that led to a long, slow drop in traffic over time.

It is important to clarify that a robots.txt file is not required in order to be listed with Google. If you don’t have one and Google sees a normal server status response such as a 404 not found ...

You Don’t Need Robots.txt On Root Domain, Says Google Google's Gary Illyes shares an unconventional but valid method for centralizing robots.txt rules on CDNs. Robots.txt files can be ...

Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that it makes most sense to keep the default setting found within your content management system for your robots.txt access control ...

A Search Engine Roundtable Forums thread shows how MSN may not be properly listening to a robots.txt rule that Google set up for api.google.com.