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Google May Expand Unsupported Robots.txt Rules List via @sejournal, @MattGSouthe

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24 Apr
Google’s Robots.txt Docs Expand, Deep Links Get Rules, EU Steps In – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>Google documents deep link best practices and signals robots.txt doc expansion. The EU proposes Google share search data with rivals and AI chatbots.</p> <p>The post <a

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25 Jul
Google Says Why It May Ignore Robots.txt And Negatively Impact SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Google's John Mueller explains a robots.txt quirk that can cause Googlebot to ignore robots.txt rules.</p> <p>The post <a

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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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2 Jul
Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training.</p> <p>The post <a

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