Discover the most common robots.txt issues, the impact they can have on your website and your search presence, and how to fix them.
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Robots.txt is a useful and relatively powerful tool to instruct search engine crawlers on how you want them to crawl your website.
It is not all-powerful (in Google’s own words, “it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google”) but it can help to prevent your site or server from being overloaded by crawler requests.
If you have this crawl block in place on your site, you need to be certain it’s being used properly.
This is particularly important if you use dynamic URLs or other methods that generate a theoretically infinite number of pages.
In this guide, we will look at some of the most common issues with the robots.txt file, the impact they can have on your website and your search presence, and how to fix these issues if you think they have occurred.
But first, let’s take a quick look at robots.txt and its alternatives.
What Is Robots.txt?
Robots.txt uses a plain text file format and is placed in the root directory of your website.
It must be in the topmost directory of your site; if you place it in a subdirectory, search engines will simply ignore it.
Despite its great power, robots.txt is often a relatively simple document, and a basic robots.txt file...
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