11 July 2019 / by Jason Ferry / Robots.txt
In a recent Google Webmaster Central hangout, a question about “how does Google figure out query relevancy for ranking pages blocked by robots.txt” was asked. This is a good thing to ask, especially for site owners and SEO experts who
Read more
This Is How Google Ranks Pages Blocked By Robots.txt
11 July 2019 / by Jason Ferry / Robots.txt
In a recent Google Webmaster Central hangout, a question about “how does Google figure out query relevancy for ranking pages blocked by robots.txt” was asked. This is a good thing to ask, especially for site owners and SEO experts who
Read more
This Is Why Google Has Decided To Stop Supporting Unsupported Directives In Robots.txt Files
5 July 2019 / by Jason Ferry / Robots.txt
SEO experts and webmasters should take note that starting September 1, Google will not be supporting unpublished and unsupported rules in the robots exclusive protocol anymore. With this change, the search engine giant will not consider robots.txt files that have
Read more
This Is Why Google Aims To Set An Official Standard For Using Robots.txt
2 July 2019 / by Jason Ferry / Robots.txt
SEO experts and webmasters have been following the unofficial rules outlined in the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) for the past 25 years when using robots.txt. With this, the publishers are allowed to pick what they want to be crawled on
Read more