Must Read: Google Robots.txt Parsing Weirdness

Must Read: Google Robots.txt Parsing Weirdness

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Google search bot (Googlebot) parses robots.txt file to find excluded sections of the site like any good webbots. However unlike the other bots, Google bot behaves differently when you have a section for all bots (*) as well as a section specifically for Googlebot.

Let’s say you have a section in robots.txt for all bots beginning [...]

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