Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler alert: It ...

With that, Google expanded how Google products are affected by each crawler and gave robots.txt examples for each crawler. Google made a series of updates to its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers ...

The content economy is in trouble. AI crawlers read websites, summarize information, and offer answers without sending users to the original source. The result? A dramatic drop in traffic from AI ...

Robots.txt tells search engines what to crawl—or skip. Learn how to create, test, and optimize robots.txt for better SEO and site management. Robots.txt is a text file that tells search engine ...

I'd say it's what we always knew would happen, but the reality is that it's been true for a couple of decades: Bots, be they crawlers, fetchers, or posters, are the bane of the internet. This was true ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly suggests AI crawlers made up almost 80% of all AI bot traffic in recent months – with crawlers from Meta making up more than half of total traffic ...