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Google Says Why It May Ignore Robots.txt And Negatively Impact SEO via @sejourna

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17 Jun
Google Explains Why URLs Blocked By Robots.txt Can Still Be Indexed via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Search Console reported 51,000 URLs as "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt," and Google says that's not necessarily a problem.</p> <p>The post <a

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14 Aug
OpenAI Says Robots.txt May Not Apply To ChatGPT’s Fetch Bot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>New data shows ChatGPT's page-fetching bot is reaching sites that have disallowed it, and OpenAI's own documentation explains why the file may not stop it.</p> <p>The post <a

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23 Apr
Google May Expand Unsupported Robots.txt Rules List via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common misspellings of disallow.</p> <p>The post <a

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29 Jul
Google On SEO Impact Of URLs Injected Into HTML By CMS Platforms via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Google's John Mueller explains the SEO impact of random URLs injected into web pages by CMS platforms.</p> <p>The post <a

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7 Jul
Google On Using Markdown For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Google's John Mueller responds to the trend of creating a set of markdown pages to mirror HTML content for AI SEO.</p> <p>The post <a

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2 Sept
Google Responds To Sitemap SEO Technique That Forces Daily Crawling via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Google's Mueller comments on a sitemap SEO method that forces search engines to crawl and index web pages every day.</p> <p>The post <a

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18 Sept
Google Responds To Cross-Domain Canonical De-Indexing Report via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Google's John Mueller explains how publishers can catch site problems before they become an indexing crisis.</p> <p>The post <a

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19 Jul
“Are You A Bot” Screens Can Get Your Pages Dropped By Google via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>Google's Mueller explained how an "are you a bot" screen can push a site's pages out of Google, and get another site picked as canonical.</p> <p>The post <a

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