Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, “We update the documentation from time to time. Feel free to submit feedback if you feel something’s missing. Robots.txt is definitely still a thing.” The Robots FAQ document lived … Read more
A couple of weeks ago Google released a new robots.txt directive to tell Google not to use your content for Bard or other AI Google projects – Google-Extended. The Google Search Generative Experience does not currently use Google-Extended, Google told me. That means SGE’s AI-generated answers can and will continue to show unless you block … Read more
A meta robots tag is HTML code that tells search engine robots how to crawl, index, and display a page’s content. It goes in the <head> section of the page and can look like this: <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”> The meta robot tag in the example above tells all robots not to index the page. Let’s discuss what … Read more
Blog / Technical SEO / The ultimate guide to the robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag The robots meta tag and the X-Robots Tag are used to instruct crawlers on how to index the pages of a website. The former is indicated in the HTML code of a web page, and the latter is included in … Read more
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