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.

Translate Robots.txt File Easily The tool does a good job “translating” the Robots.txt file in easy-to-understand language. Here’s an example of it explaining the default Robots.txt file: ...

A robots.txt file is key component of your website’s SEO, but sometimes these files do more harm than good. For example, your robots.txt file may be blocking search engine spiders from crawling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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