Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common ...

Robots.txt files can be centralized on CDNs, not just root domains. Websites can redirect robots.txt from main domain to CDN. This unorthodox approach complies with updated standards. Google's Gary ...

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 ...

Google's John Mueller said that since the robots.txt file is cached by Google for about 24-hours, it does not make much sense to dynamically update your robots.txt file throughout the day to control ...

While Google is opening up the discussion on giving credit and adhering to copyright when training large language models (LLMs) for generative AI products, their focus is on the robots.txt file.