Shopify stores are now able to edit their robots.txt file, which gives owners more control over how search engines crawl their site. Tobi Lutke, Shopify CEO, broke the news this evening on Twitter ...

Columnist Glenn Gabe shares his troubleshooting process for identifying issues with robots.txt that led to a long, slow drop in traffic over time. I’ve written many times in the past about how ...

Robots.txt files can be centralized on CDNs, not just root domains. Websites can redirect robots.txt from main domain to CDN. This unorthodox approach complies with updated standards. Google's Gary ...

I have run into an interesting robots.txt situation several times over the years that can be tricky for site owners to figure out. After surfacing the problem, and discussing how to tackle the issue ...

I found a very interesting tidbit from a Google Groups thread on unreachable robots.txt files. I always believed that a site does not need a robots.txt file. In fact, this site does not have a ...

John Mueller from Google said in a Stack Exchange thread that although it is good practice to make a dynamically driven XML sitemap file, it is not good practice to make a dynamically driven ...

A website is a good way to promote your small business, as well as showcase your products and unique qualifications. If you manage a large website, you likely use a few subdomains and each subdomain ...

Ed Foudil, a web developer and security researcher, has submitted a draft to the IETF — Internet Engineering Task Force — seeking the standardization of security.txt, a file that webmasters can host ...