Google: Robots.txt Files Must Be Smaller Than 500KB Search Engine Roundtable Google's John Mueller reminds webmasters on his Google+ page that Google has a limit of only being able to process up to 500KB of your robots.txt file. This is an important point, if you have a super heavy robots.txt file, and it is beyond 500KB, ...
8 SEO Tips That Take 15 Minutes or Less Search Engine Watch Review Your Robots.txt File; Assess Your Meta Robots Tagging If you have a robots.txt file on your site, check by visiting /robots.txt. You may be surprised to find out you are withholding pages, folders, images, etc. from search engines that can drive ...
SEO tasks that can be carried out in under 15 minutes Internet Marketing News Review your Robots.txt file; assess your Meta Robots tagging – This can be done by checking /robots.txt. In the process of doing this you may find that images, folders and pages on your site are being withheld from search engines – preventing traffic ...
Weighing Up Google+ - What You (& Your Clients) Should Know State of Search As a result, we may fetch and show that page even if it is disallowed in robots.txt.” Given the number of retweets this discovery received I'm guessing there were a lot of people in the industry who were not previously aware of this fact.
Resolving Critical Crawl Errors With Google Webmaster Tools Business 2 Community Restricted by robots.txt: This is usually not an error, but rather a restriction you have placed on the Googlebot in your robots.txt file. You should always confirm, however, that you are intentionally blocking those URLs. While it is rare occasionally ...
LinkAssistant – A Review of Options and Benefits Search Engine Journal LinkAssistant's software robots.txt, JavaScripts, frames, redirects, nofollow tags and other tricks. Monitoring of link popularity and growth. This tool makes it easy to monitor your link growth at any moment. Uses Google, Yahoo! and Bing APIs.
SEO monitoring tools and tips SEOmoz (blog) A major client was rolling out a new website and managed to deploy an old / staging version of robots.txt on a Saturday morning (continuous integration FTW). It was essentially luck that the SEO running the project was all over it, spotted it quickly, ...
Are The Top Ten Websites In Cyprus SEO Friendly? Multilingual Search Sitemaps: Sitemaps help search engines index a website. robots.txt: Search engine robots look for file robots.txt. This file tells them which web pages should be indexed and which pages should be ignored. Custom Error Page: Error pages are shown when a ...
Protest SOPA: Black Out Your Website the Google-Friendly Way Webmonkey (blog) Assuming you're using PHP, something like this will do the trick: For more details, be sure to read up on the HTTP 503 header and see the rest of Far's Google+ post to learn how to handle robots.txt and a few things you should definitely not do (like ...