A new mechanism has emerged that allows you to tell multiple AI companies at once not to use your content for training simply ...

The crawling standard Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI are backing aims to simplify the process. It would allow ...

Robots.txt files can be centralized on CDNs, not just root domains. Websites can redirect robots.txt from main domain to CDN. This unorthodox approach complies with updated standards. Google's Gary ...

Do you use a CDN for some or all of your website and you want to manage just one robots.txt file, instead of both the CDN's robots.txt file and your main site's robots.txt file? Gary Illyes from ...

One robots.txt entry can block AI training on your website. See the exact two lines, when Microsoft starts honoring them, and ...

Google's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding ...

Starting in 2027, Google will process a cross-provider IETF token for AI training in robots.txt. Google-Extended will remain ...

In this example robots.txt file, Googlebot is allowed to crawl all URLs on the website, ChatGPT-User and GPTBot are disallowed from crawling any URLs, and all other crawlers are disallowed from ...

John Mueller from Google did it again with his site and this time uploaded an audio file, in wav format, for his robots.txt file. You can go to it and listen to him read out his robots.txt rules in ...