Would HTML fragments end up in Google’s search ... He sums up his questions by stating most of what’s disallowed in his robots.txt file are header and footer elements that aren’t interesting ...

That means Google will no longer support robots.txt files with the noindex directive ... Supported both in the HTTP response headers and in HTML, the noindex directive is the most effective ...

You can add this instruction in the HTML head section using the robots ... The “disallow” directive in a website’s robots.txt file stops search engine crawlers from accessing specific ...

A HighRankings Forum thread asks why do some people use more than a single robots.txt file to control and instruct search spiders how to crawl and access their content. That is a good question.

As part of Google fully removing support for the noindex directive in robots.txt files, Google is now sending ... in the HTTP response headers and in HTML, the noindex directive is the most ...

Yea, the SEO point here is that Google can process up to 500KB of your robots.txt file but most of those files don't even come close to that file size. Forum discussion at LinkedIn . Copied!