Google Explains Why URLs Blocked By Robots.txt Can Still Be Indexed via @sejourn

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

<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

<p>Shared Claude chats showed up in Google. We checked the pages and found a noindex header sitting behind a robots.txt block that keeps Google out.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Google admits a "couldn't fetch" sitemap error may have nothing to do with whether Google can actually fetch it.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Google explains why HTML sitemaps may still be useful even though the XML standard has largely replaced it.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Google's John Mueller says that overall site quality is more than just text. How users experience the page can define quality, too.</p> <p>The post <a

<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

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