Do the order of "Disallow" and "Sitemap" lines in robots.txt matter?
1 Answer 1 ยท "What does matter is where you put Allow vs Disallow ... the best practice is to put Allow first" - For maximum compatibility; yes.
Why there are lots of Disallow rule in robots.txt? - Discourse Meta
Actually, it is respecting robots.txt. It is not crawling the pages that are denied. It is including the page in its index, but the robots.txt ...
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Stack Overflow's robots.txt is completely useless
So the Allow: / directive overrides all the following disallows rendering robots.txt effectively useless. This is the reason all major search ...
What happens if a website does not have a robots.txt file?
The purpose of a robots.txt file is to keep crawlers out of certain parts of your website. Not having one should result in all your content ...
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The bigger question: Now Stack Overflow's traffic is down by 50%. Which data ChatGPT will use for future training and what will be the quality ...
The Fall of Stack Overflow - Hacker News
Eh, Google choose to be identifiable as googlebot and to obey robots.txt for other reasons of "good citizenship", because not everybody wants to be crawled ...
Is Stack Overflow overrun by trolls? : r/programming - Reddit
Well, should it really matter? I mean, the answer could be "there's no way to prevent people from copying JavaScript, but if you use this ...
Ask HN: Has anyone else noticed Stack Overflow clones in Google ...
Has anyone else noticed Stack Overflow clones in Google search results? They come up frequently for me. I can't help but wonder who's behind ...