Robots.txt pitfalls: what I learned the hard way
This applies to sites indexed on Google that hope to gain organic traffic. As an indie blogger and SEO enthusiast, I foolishly updated my robots.txt file to prevent indexing of certain unwanted parts of my site, leading to subtle repercussions that I couldn't have foreseen.A few days ago, while reading about SEO, I came across the concept of a "crawl budget." Apparently, Google allocates a specific crawl budget to your indexed site, and the more useless content it has to index and store on its s...
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