robot.txt

From my experience, not really. Robots.txt only tells search engines not to crawl certain pages, but it doesn't stop google to from indexing them if they are linked from other websites. For stronger control, I have found that using a noindex meta tag or password protecting the page is a better...

Robots.txt is useful from my perspective as a website owner. It helps to instruct Google and other search engines on what to crawl and what not to crawl. Additionally, it's effective for hiding- Admin pages. Login pages

Hey i have a site and its sitmap is not indexing i use yoast plugin and my robot txt file is also right can anyone tell me how to fix my sitemap issue plzz!

Hey guys upon updates on the site that was indexed on Bing and not indexed on Google. after checking coverage on search console i. i did check coverage and i got i message saying "linked crawled but not indexed" so i did checking robots.txt file blocking but this is what it shows User-agent...

Do you guys know anything about medium.com changing the robots.txt file? I know that articles from medium regular members (those with @ before user ID) used to rank. For example a regular user's URL https:// medium.com/ @username/ the-story-title-here But by checking their robots file...

Hi, Yesterday, one of my friend asked this question. I have a website example.com, which is created using Drupal CMS with a sub domain blog "www.example.com/blog" which has Wordpress CMS. I would like to block few posts in "www.example.com/blog/examplepost/ from search engine index by using...

I have a Word press Website. I want search engine robots not to follow the Footer part of the site. Where and what to write in the robot.txt file? Do I need to write anything on the footer.php file? - Please Help

If I want index my page in google for specifically avoid bing, how to do that? Don't want to index in bing? tell me..

Hi, I've been thinking about doing some reciprocal links and then putting on my robot's file to "nofollow" and "noindex" the page where I am supposed to be giving links. That way it will look as they are 1-way links instead of reciprocal links. Could I get penalized for this? Or there...

I cant ignore the constant output from google about clamping down on automatically generated content. They mentioned it again on their adsense email update today. So with that in mind I wondered if some of the Wp-Robot pros's would mind sharing there strategies for camoflaging WP-robots...