How to fix ‘Blocked by robots.txt’ and ‘Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt’ errors in GSC

These two responses from Google Search Console have divided SEO professionals since Google Search Console (GSC) error reports became a thing. It needs to be settled ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Removed The Robots FAQs Document

Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, "We update the ...
Ars Technica

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

As interesting as this is, it seems pretty trivial to overcome. If a site has a robots.txt file, then scrape it into an intermediate location; if the scraping takes "too long", set aside the website ...
Searchenginejournal.com

The Saga Of John Mueller’s Freaky Robots.txt

The robots.txt file of the personal blog of Google’s John Mueller became a focus of interest when someone on Reddit claimed that Mueller’s blog had been hit by the Helpful Content system and ...