Glossary

What is robots.txt?

Robots.txt gives crawler instructions about which areas to request. It is not access protection.

In practice

Check that production content is not accidentally blocked after a staging migration.

Important limitations

Known blocked URLs may still appear in results. Use authentication for private content and appropriate indexing controls for public pages.

Further reading: official background information

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