Google’s Illyes: Robots.txt Covers Crawling, Not AI Training

Google's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding ...
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The Modern Guide To Robots.txt: How To Use It Avoiding The Pitfalls

Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler alert: It ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google: Using A CDN & Want One Robots.txt File, Redirect Yours To The CDN

Do you use a CDN for some or all of your website and you want to manage just one robots.txt file, instead of both the CDN's robots.txt file and your main site's robots.txt file? Gary Illyes from ...
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An example of a robots.txt file (IMAGE)

In this example robots.txt file, Googlebot is allowed to crawl all URLs on the website, ChatGPT-User and GPTBot are disallowed from crawling any URLs, and all other crawlers are disallowed from ...
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Google's John Mueller Uploads Audio Robots.txt File

John Mueller from Google did it again with his site and this time uploaded an audio file, in wav format, for his robots.txt file. You can go to it and listen to him read out his robots.txt rules in ...