What search engines respect robots.txt?
We know that all major search engines below respect the robots.txt file:
- Google (documentation )
- Bing and Yahoo (documentation )
- Yandex (documentation )
- Baidu (documentation )
- DuckDuckGo (documentation )
Keep in mind though, each search engine interprets robots.txt files differently!
Audit your robots.txt and find out right away!
Read the full Academy article to learn everything about Robots.txt Guide: Essential Rules & Disallow Best Practices
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Steven van Vessum
Steven is the VP of Organic Marketing at FamilyCare. This means he's involved in everything SEO, Content Marketing and Community related. Right where he wants to be. He gets a huge kick out of letting websites rank and loves to talk SEO, Content Marketing, and Growth.
