Google's John Mueller said that since the robots.txt file is cached by Google for about 24-hours, it does not make much sense to dynamically update your robots.txt file throughout the day to control ...

Google's John Mueller said it may make sense to noindex your LLMs.txt file. This way, the file doesn't get indexed by search engines, and then somehow a user lands on it and is confused. John wrote on ...

Google's John Mueller answers whether llms.txt could be seen as duplicate content and whether it makes sense to use a noindex header with it. Llms.txt is a proposal to create a new content format ...

Google’s Gary Illyes recently said that when it comes to ranking in AI Overviews, all you need to do is normal SEO. He also said that Google won’t be crawling and using the new LLMS.txt files that ...

Google clarifies robots.txt best practices and explains when to use robots.txt directives and noindex tags for SEO. Don't combine robots.txt disallow with noindex tags. Use noindex when you want a ...