How & Why To Prevent Bots From Crawling Your Site

These are a few highly useful robots.txt codes that you can use to block most spiders and bots from your site: Disallow Googlebot From Your ...

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The ultimate guide to bot herding and spider wrangling -- Part Two

In Part One of our three-part series, we learned what bots are and why crawl budgets are important. Let's take a look at how to let the ...

Avoid the SEO Spider Trap: How to Get Out of a Sticky Situation

Limit the extent of the trap by using robots.txt to block pages with too many filters. Be careful to ensure a balance when doing this - block ...

why Google Bot continues to crawl and index a page blocked by a ...

Google won't request and crawl the page, but we can still index it, using the information from the page that links to your blocked page. Because ...

How to Stop Search Engines from Crawling your Website

You can go to WebMaster tools (from Google) and make sure that your site is being searched. Make sure that you do NOT have a Robots.TXT file ...

What are some reasons why a website might not allow Google bots ...

txt file: The website's robots.txt file may disallow crawling of certain or all pages for search engine bots, including Google. Check the robots ...

What Is robots.txt? A Beginner's Guide with Examples - Bruce Clay

Blocking in robots.txt pages that are indexed causes them to be stuck in Google's index. If you exclude pages that are already in the search ...

A Guide to Robots.txt - Everything SEOs Need to Know - Lumar

What is Robots.txt and how should you use it on your website? Our guide provides a complete introduction to Robots.txt to control crawling for search engine ...

Controlling Crawling & Indexing: An SEO's Guide to Robots.txt & Tags

A search engine spider has an “allowance” for how many pages it can and wants to crawl on your site. This is known as “crawl budget”. Find your ...