Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common ...

Google has updated its open source robots.txt parser code on GitHub the other day. Gary Illyes from Google pushed the update yesterday morning to the repository there. Google originally released the ...

Google only supports four specific robots.txt fields. Unsupported directives in robots.txt will be ignored. Consider auditing your robots.txt files in light of this update. Google limits robots.txt ...

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 ...

Google's John Mueller said that since the robots.txt file is cached by Google for about 24-hours, it does not make much sense to dynamically update your robots.txt file throughout the day to control ...