Robots.txt
AI Crawlers 2026: Should You Block GPTBot?
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot — should you block them or welcome them? A practical 2026 guide to AI crawler strategy, with copy-paste robots.txt configurations and verification steps.
Robots.txt, Meta Robots, and Noindex Done Right in 2026
Crawling is not indexing, and mixing them up costs rankings. A practitioner's 2026 playbook for robots.txt, meta robots, X-Robots-Tag, and noindex, with a clear decision matrix for removing pages the right way.
Naver SEO 2026: Rank in Korean Search
Korea is the one major market where Google does not stand alone. Here is what Naver documents about its crawler, its webmaster tools and its robots.txt handling, and what that means for a Western SEO team.
Crawl Stats Report: How to Read It in 2026
Read every panel of the Search Console Crawl Stats report, from host status to Googlebot type, and learn how to act on crawl spikes and drops.
Staging Site SEO: Keep Dev Sites Out of Google
Robots.txt will not keep a staging site out of Google. Here is the lock that works, how to clean up, and how to stop leaks at launch.