Robots.txt for Beginners
What robots.txt does (and why it is not a noindex), the User-agent, Disallow, Allow and Sitemap lines, AI crawler names like GPTBot, and common mistakes.
What robots.txt does (and why it is not a noindex), the User-agent, Disallow, Allow and Sitemap lines, AI crawler names like GPTBot, and common mistakes.
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