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 ...

When Google’s John Mueller compared llms.txt to the old meta keywords tag, some corners of the SEO world interpreted the comment as a dismissal of the concept and took it as confirmation that llms.txt ...

A practical look at modern robots.txt use, from allow and disallow logic to wildcards, crawl-rate control and avoiding common pitfalls. The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), better known as robots.txt, ...

For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. is editor-at-large ...