Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and ...

In every corner of the SEO world, llms.txt is popping up in conversations, but it is frequently misunderstood and sometimes poorly explained. If you’ve heard someone call it “the new robots.txt,” or ...

It happens all the time: Organizations get hacked because there isn’t an obvious way for security researchers to let them know about security vulnerabilities or data leaks. Or maybe it isn’t entirely ...

We analyzed llms.txt across 10 websites. Only two saw AI traffic increases — and it wasn't because of the file.

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 ...

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 ...