Robots.txt Syntax Checker finds some common errors within your file by checking for whitespace separated lists, not widely supported standards, wildcard usage, etc.

If you want to dodge responsibility for something you’ve published, the file will partially hide your tracks. The internet’s memory is long, and robots.txt is a forgetting protocol.

Upload the robots.txt file you saved to the root directory of each domain that you want to protect from search engine crawlers. The root directory is the top-level directory.

(2) Upload the file to your domains root. Upload the updated robots.txt to your domains root, then check your updated file is the latest version. (3) Request Bing to update.

Frédéric Dubut, a senior program manager at Microsoft working on Bing Search, said on Twitter Wednesday that when you create a specific section in your robots.txt file for its Bingbot crawler ...

Microsoft will only use your sitemaps file if it is listed in your robots.txt file. You cannot currently ping Microsoft or upload your sitemaps file to Microsoft.

Like many websites, Last.fm’s web server contains a file called robots.txt, whose job it is to instruct the robotic web spiders employed by search engines like Google to ignore certain ...